How to increase the Java stack size?

Question

I asked this question to get to know how to increase the runtime call stack size in the JVM. I\'ve got an answer to this, and I\'ve also got many useful answers and comments

Answer 1

Hmm... it works for me and with far less than 999MB of stack:

> java -Xss4m Test
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(Windows JDK 7, build 17.0-b05 client VM, and Linux JDK 6 - same version information as you posted)