linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:23:59 -0700
From:	"Ollie Wild" <aaw@...gle.com>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, parisc-linux@...ts.parisc-linux.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2

On 6/13/07, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
> Above 5Mbytes, I started seeing problems.  The line/word/char
> counts from "wc" started being "0 0 0".  Not sure if this is
> a problem in "wc" dealing with a single line >5MBytes, or some
> other problem (possibly I was exceeding the per-process stack
> limit which is only 8MB on that machine).

Interesting.  If you're exceeding your stack ulimit, you should be
seeing either an "argument list too long" message or getting a
SIGSEGV.  Have you tried bypassing wc and piping the output straight
to a file?

Ollie
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