Re: SIGSEGV for stack growth failure on HP-UX

[Freddy Jensen]

   >From: Lutz Jaenicke <address@hidden>
   >Date: Thu Mar 22 2001  4:43pm
   >To:   address@hidden
   >Subj: Re: SIGSEGV for stack growth failure on HP-UX
   >
   >On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:06:07PM -0800, Freddy Jensen wrote:
   >> Does anyone know what the possible problem could 
   >> be when I get this error on HP-UX:
   >> 
   >> Pid 29493 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
   >> Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space,
   >> or stack size exceeded maxssiz.
   >> 
   >> It happens when I launch ddd-3.3 on HP-UX 10.20
   >> 
   >> It sounds like there is some environemnt variable
   >> that I need to set to increase the stacksize, or
   >> could it be something I need to set when I build
   >> the program?
   >...
   >> The machine should have plenty of memory and swapspace,
   >> I think it has 256 MBytes of ram and 500MB of swapspace.
   >
   >The HP-UX kernel has a default stack size of 8MB(?) per process.
   >You need to extend maxssiz and recompile the kernel (and reboot).
   >You can use SAM to do this.
   >(While at it, check out the maxdsiz parameter for the maximum amount
   >of data a program can use. It depends on your applications, if the
   >default of 64MB is enough or not.)
   >
   >Best regards,
   >    Lutz
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It turned out that I just needed to link Motif and libcurses
statically. Then the problem went away.

Thanks

Freddy