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| author | Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> | 2013-09-12 23:28:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> | 2013-10-25 09:14:29 -0500 |
| commit | f65473bc4fa8c9664af829629d9d4fb5653154e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b781ea1ab33e31e3dced081386c6b51b5031549 /docs/users_guide | |
| parent | edbf51ab0ca99ceb6c42bc61b71f876e31fc6b30 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-f65473bc4fa8c9664af829629d9d4fb5653154e2.tar.gz | |
users_guide: Update default maximum stack size
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/users_guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/runtime_control.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.xml b/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.xml index 32edc3faec..d26dd96e8c 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.xml @@ -676,11 +676,12 @@ $ ./prog -f +RTS -H32m -S -RTS -h foo bar <indexterm><primary>stack, maximum size</primary></indexterm> </term> <listitem> - <para>[Default: 8M] Set the maximum stack size for - an individual thread to <replaceable>size</replaceable> - bytes. If the thread attempts to exceed this limit, it will - be sent the <literal>StackOverflow</literal> exception. The - limit can be disabled entiredly by specifying a size of zero. + <para>[Default: 80% physical memory size] Set the + maximum stack size for an individual thread to + <replaceable>size</replaceable> bytes. If the thread + attempts to exceed this limit, it will be sent the + <literal>StackOverflow</literal> exception. The + limit can be disabled entirely by specifying a size of zero. </para> <para> This option is there mainly to stop the program eating up |