Hi Friends,

I need to set the stack size for a thread (by invoking "pthread_attr_setstacksize", but my question is not about this function as such, but how to fix the Stack Size in general). I have been using this for a while. But all the time I had been giving few KBs. And if the program crashes with some memory corruption, I increase the stack size and test. But I feel this is not an effective way of doing.

Is there a way to effectively calculate the stack size thats required for a thread (created using "pthread_create").

Thanks in advance.

./Ebin.

I guess it depeds on what your process is doing. Each method call uses a few bytes, (ie, arguments passed to the function, return address and so on), temporary variables are created on the stack, etc.

Maybe a tool like valgrind can help. You may check cachegrind. (it's included in valgrind)