1 #! /usr/bin/env python 2 """Find the maximum recursion limit that prevents interpreter termination. 3 4 This script finds the maximum safe recursion limit on a particular 5 platform. If you need to change the recursion limit on your system, 6 this script will tell you a safe upper bound. To use the new limit, 7 call sys.setrecursionlimit(). 8 9 This module implements several ways to create infinite recursion in 10 Python. Different implementations end up pushing different numbers of 11 C stack frames, depending on how many calls through Python's abstract 12 C API occur. 13 14 After each round of tests, it prints a message: 15 "Limit of NNNN is fine". 16 17 The highest printed value of "NNNN" is therefore the highest potentially 18 safe limit for your system (which depends on the OS, architecture, but also 19 the compilation flags). Please note that it is practically impossible to 20 test all possible recursion paths in the interpreter, so the results of 21 this test should not be trusted blindly -- although they give a good hint 22 of which values are reasonable. 23 24 NOTE: When the C stack space allocated by your system is exceeded due 25 to excessive recursion, exact behaviour depends on the platform, although 26 the interpreter will always fail in a likely brutal way: either a 27 segmentation fault, a MemoryError, or just a silent abort. 28 29 NB: A program that does not use __methods__ can set a higher limit. 30 """ 31 32 import sys 33 import itertools 34 35 class RecursiveBlowup1: 36 def __init__(self): 37 self.__init__() 38 39 def test_init(): 40 return RecursiveBlowup1() 41 42 class RecursiveBlowup2: 43 def __repr__(self): 44 return repr(self) 45 46 def test_repr(): 47 return repr(RecursiveBlowup2()) 48 49 class RecursiveBlowup4: 50 def __add__(self, x): 51 return x + self 52 53 def test_add(): 54 return RecursiveBlowup4() + RecursiveBlowup4() 55 56 class RecursiveBlowup5: 57 def __getattr__(self, attr): 58 return getattr(self, attr) 59 60 def test_getattr(): 61 return RecursiveBlowup5().attr 62 63 class RecursiveBlowup6: 64 def __getitem__(self, item): 65 return self[item - 2] + self[item - 1] 66 67 def test_getitem(): 68 return RecursiveBlowup6()[5] 69 70 def test_recurse(): 71 return test_recurse() 72 73 def test_cpickle(_cache={}): 74 try: 75 import cPickle 76 except ImportError: 77 print "cannot import cPickle, skipped!" 78 return 79 l = None 80 for n in itertools.count(): 81 try: 82 l = _cache[n] 83 continue # Already tried and it works, let's save some time 84 except KeyError: 85 for i in range(100): 86 l = [l] 87 cPickle.dumps(l, protocol=-1) 88 _cache[n] = l 89 90 def check_limit(n, test_func_name): 91 sys.setrecursionlimit(n) 92 if test_func_name.startswith("test_"): 93 print test_func_name[5:] 94 else: 95 print test_func_name 96 test_func = globals()[test_func_name] 97 try: 98 test_func() 99 # AttributeError can be raised because of the way e.g. PyDict_GetItem() 100 # silences all exceptions and returns NULL, which is usually interpreted 101 # as "missing attribute". 102 except (RuntimeError, AttributeError): 103 pass 104 else: 105 print "Yikes!" 106 107 limit = 1000 108 while 1: 109 check_limit(limit, "test_recurse") 110 check_limit(limit, "test_add") 111 check_limit(limit, "test_repr") 112 check_limit(limit, "test_init") 113 check_limit(limit, "test_getattr") 114 check_limit(limit, "test_getitem") 115 check_limit(limit, "test_cpickle") 116 print "Limit of %d is fine" % limit 117 limit = limit + 100 118