Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:10:34 +0200

Am 24.06.19 um 03:49 schrieb kevin james:
> I have a question concerning the EPICS SNL Stack Size. What information can
> be used to determine if the small default stack size isn't sufficient?
> 
> What would be a sign that the large stack size should be set?

Hi Kevin

I took the freedom to forward your question to the EPICS tech-talk
mailing list; this question must be considered in a wider context of how
threads behave on your particular system.

Generally I'd say that stack consumption is related to two factors: the
nesting depths of function calls; and whether you allocate large blocks
of data on the stack i.e. as local variables. The former is usually only
a problem if you use recursion. The latter may become a problem
depending on

The sequencer's runtime system runs with a small and constant stack
usage. Any extra requirements would come either from C functions you
call from SNL, or from declaring /very/ large local variables (e.g.
inside an action block).

An indication that your stack is too small would be that your program or
sequencer thread crashes. This depends very much on the OS and architecture.

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System