Apparently there is a hard limit on the stack size for mac os x, taken from http://lists.apple.com/archives/scitech/2004/Oct/msg00124.html granted this is quite old, and Im not sure if its still true anymore, but to set it simply call ulimit -s hard, its 65532. or about 65 megs. I did some tests on snow leopard, 10.6.8, and … Read more
When you call a function, a new “namespace” is allocated on the stack. That’s how functions can have local variables. As functions call functions, which in turn call functions, we keep allocating more and more space on the stack to maintain this deep hierarchy of namespaces. To curb programs using massive amounts of stack space, … Read more
The latest docker supports setting ulimits through the command line and the API. For instance, docker run takes –ulimit <type>=<soft>:<hard> and there can be as many of these as you like. So, for your nofile, an example would be –ulimit nofile=262144:262144
You can’t. Apple can (using the ledger() system call, which is private), but you can’t. I’m not entirely sure whether launchd’s options work or not – certainly if it was still using the code visible in the last open source version (from 10.9.5), it wouldn’t, because it calls setrlimit(), but it’s been substantially rewritten since … Read more
What you are doing will not work for root user. Maybe you are running your services as root and hence you don’t get to see the change. To increase the ulimit for root user you should replace the * by root. * does not apply for root user. Rest is the same as you did. … Read more
The stack is normally limited by a resource limit. You can see what the default settings are on your installation using ulimit -a: stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 (this shows that mine is 8MB, which is huge). If you remove or increase that limit, you still won’t be able to use all the RAM in … Read more