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

The only way to control the size of stack within process is start a new Thread. But you can also control by creating a self-calling sub Java process with the -Xss parameter.

public class TT {
    private static int level = 0;

    public static long fact(int n) {
        level++;
        return n < 2 ? n : n * fact(n - 1);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        Thread t = new Thread(null, null, "TT", 1000000) {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    level = 0;
                    System.out.println(fact(1 << 15));
                } catch (StackOverflowError e) {
                    System.err.println("true recursion level was " + level);
                    System.err.println("reported recursion level was "
                            + e.getStackTrace().length);
                }
            }

        };
        t.start();
        t.join();
        try {
            level = 0;
            System.out.println(fact(1 << 15));
        } catch (StackOverflowError e) {
            System.err.println("true recursion level was " + level);
            System.err.println("reported recursion level was "
                    + e.getStackTrace().length);
        }
    }

}