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faulthandler: only allocate the signal handler stack when faulthandler is used #82032

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vstinner opened this issue Aug 14, 2019 · 3 comments
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faulthandler: only allocate the signal handler stack when faulthandler is used #82032

vstinner opened this issue Aug 14, 2019 · 3 comments
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BPO 37851
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  • bpo-37851: faulthandler allocates its stack on demand #15358
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    Currently at startup, Python always call _PyFaulthandler_Init() which allocates a stack of SIGSTKSZ bytes, even if faulthandler is never used. That's a waste of memory: the stack should be allocated the first time faulthandler is used.

    bpo-21131 requires to enlarge this stack size.

    @vstinner vstinner added 3.9 only security fixes stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir labels Aug 14, 2019
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    New changeset d8c5adf by Victor Stinner in branch 'master':
    bpo-37851: faulthandler allocates its stack on demand (GH-15358)
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    Note: faulthandler stack size is 16 KiB on my Fedora Linux 30 x86-64.

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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