Weird messages in F12 when using some programs: "used the greatest stack depth ..."

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 12:20:52 UTC 2009


On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:20:17AM -0400, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Joachim Backes
><joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
>> On 09/13/2009 10:12 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm wondering about weird messages in F12 if some programes are finished:
>>>
>>> for example: "du used greatest stack depth: 4772 bytes used"
>>
>> Sorry for typo: should be:
>>
>>               "du used greatest stack depth: 4772 bytes left"
>>
>> Remark: The message does not always appear for such a program (du for
>> example).
>>>
>>> Who is the issuer of such messages? How can I get rid of them?
>
>I'm guessing it's some debugging functionality in glibc, and it'd be
>turned off for the final release.

I'm fairly sure that is coming from the kernel, and it is reporting kernel
stack usage, not application.  It just happens that whatever that application
reported was triggered the greatest stack depth usage on boot I think.

josh




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