I am working on Ubuntu 11.04. How do I find out the maximum call stack size of a process and also the size of each frame of the stack?
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I am working on Ubuntu 11.04. How do I find out the maximum call stack size of a process and also the size of each frame of the stack?
You can query the maximum process and stack sizes using
getrlimit. Stack frames don’t have a fixed size; it depends on how much local data (i.e., local variables) each frame needs.To do this on the command-line, you can use ulimit.
If you want to read these values for a running process, I don’t know of any tool that does this, but it’s easy enough to query the /proc filesystem: