>Hi Jeff,
>
>VFP needs 554 bytes per stacksize to save some STACKINFO data, for example,
>stacksize=65000,
>it needs 554 * 65000 = 36010000, it's about 36MB.
>
>Please refer to:
>http://baiyujia.com/vfpdocuments/f_vfp9fix234.asp
>[NEW.....] VFP 9.0 FIX - SYS(9116) RETURNS THE STRUCTURE NESTING LEVEL
>
> In Visual FoxPro 9.0 and earlier versions, the default value is 128 for the STACKSIZE term in the configuration file,
> so the Maximum # of nested structured programming commands is 384 (0x42 * 0x80 / 0x16 = 0x180 = 384).
> In Visual FoxPro Advanced, the default value is 2048 for the STACKSIZE term in the configuration file,
> so the Maximum # of nested structured programming commands is 6144 (0x42 * 0x800 / 0x16 = 0x1800 = 6144).
>
>Best regards,
>Chen

Chen, if I use the maximum of 64,000 will it immediately allocate the 36MB of memory or is that a limit of what it will use?

Is there more harm to have not enough stack or is it worse to have too much? We want to stop these stack errors.

Thank you for your response.