Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: <7512@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Jan 91 23:45:07 GMT References: <1991Jan10.151816.13893@rice.edu> <1991Jan11.071410.16032@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <37883@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan12.092901.6922@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <37927@cup.portal.com> <7502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <37977@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 15 In article <37977@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: > Another point Mike overlooked was the requirement for STACK under AmigaOS. > Under UNIX, it's never a problem, it grows as needed "automagically." On all > my Amigas, I have a default stack size of 70000 just to avoid any possibility > of a guru given some unforeseen program or memory requirements; that stack > setting is totally wasteful for 99.9% of what I do, but if I don't do it I'm > guaranteed a guru in no time; even though it takes only about 15 or so seconds > to reboot, I don't relish the thought of losing something that might be going > on in another (background) process. Yeh, but just think. We could be using Multifinder or Windows and have to allocate 2 Meg to "Microsoft Word" even when we're only editing a 10K file. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .