On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote: > I tried to change as much as possible (with ulimit and sysctl) but the > issue is still there :( The maximum stack size is arch dependend - and for obscure reasons (this has to be changed!) on sparc64 limited to 8 MB. So, unfortunately, there is not much at this level that you can easily change right now. The real question, however, is *why* the application needs such a huge stack. This is probably an application bug. Martin