topic Re: stack size exceeded maxssiz in Operating System - HP-UX

stack size exceeded maxssiz

Bernard Bravo — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:03:23 GMT

Hi,

How do you think I could resolve this? can I just increase my maxssize?
Below are the messages I appeared in my terminal.

"Pid 4513 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space,
or stack size exceeded maxssiz "

thanks in advance.
bern

Re: stack size exceeded maxssiz

Deepak Extross — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:11:05 GMT

How much swap space do you have? Roughly, it should be 1.5 to 2 times the amount of RAM.

Re: stack size exceeded maxssiz

Michael Tully — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:11:17 GMT

Hi,

Yes increase 'maxssiz' value, compile a
new kernel. 'maxssiz' is not usually
part of a formula. To generate a new kernel
you can do this if it is HP-UX 11

# cd /stand/build
# /usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -s system
# vi system (and make your changes)
save file

# /usr/sbin/mk_kernel -s system
# /usr/sbin/kmupdate
# cd /
# /sbin/shutdown -r -y 0

HTH
-Michael

Re: stack size exceeded maxssiz

Tom Geudens — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:12:59 GMT

Hi,
I would first take a look whether or not the program is running normally. I got the same problem recently with an extract that couldn't take the fact that the system time had been turned back (daylight saving) and got into a
loop, taking more and more memory ...
So this might be a signal there's something wrong with the program.
Did you also get a core dump ?

Tom Geudens

Re: stack size exceeded maxssiz

Deepak Extross — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 06:14:55 GMT

Also, check what this process is.
Could be a user application that is indiscriminately grabbing memory or has a memory leak. In suce case, you may want to get the application tended to.