Talk about silly byte-shaving ... the "stock" value does not work on s390x, and probably not on some other platforms either. Knock it up to twice the pre-5.0.33 value to have some margin for future changes in compiler, glibc, etc. Suspect this number if "execution_constants" regression test fails. As of 5.0.45 and F9, it seems 16384 isn't enough anymore (ppc fails); while 24576 is too much as it makes other regression tests fail. diff -Naur mysql-5.0.38.orig/sql/mysql_priv.h mysql-5.0.38/sql/mysql_priv.h --- mysql-5.0.38.orig/sql/mysql_priv.h 2007-03-20 15:12:46.000000000 -0400 +++ mysql-5.0.38/sql/mysql_priv.h 2007-04-16 16:09:39.000000000 -0400 @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Feel free to raise this by the smallest amount you can to get the "execution_constants" test to pass. */ -#define STACK_MIN_SIZE 12000 // Abort if less stack during eval. +#define STACK_MIN_SIZE 20000 // Abort if less stack during eval. #define STACK_MIN_SIZE_FOR_OPEN 1024*80 #define STACK_BUFF_ALLOC 256 // For stack overrun checks