Is it possible to monitor or measure the stack size of a process

[C.O'Shea]

We have problem with an Ingres 2.6 database on a HP-UX 11.11 model 9000/800/N4000-55
ulimit output shows:

time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 1048576
stack(kbytes) 131072
memory(kbytes) unlimited
coredump(blocks) 4194303

Is it possible to monitor or measure the stack size of an ingres process?

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
glance would be probably your best option to monitor stack size growth.

If systems maxssiz is too small, change with SAM and reboot.

Sometimes the problem is an indication of coding problem.

[Don Morris_1]

Glance, or if you wish to do it programatically, you can use the pstat interfaces (in this case pstat_getprocvm() called until you get the one for PS_STACK and that's all of your information).

[Dennis Handly]

What is the problem you have? A stack overflow message? Your 128 MB stack should be plenty big.

[Peter Godron]

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