How can I deal with stack overflows?

Although the system automatically expands the stack before it overflows, there are certain cases in which the stack does overflow (e.g., too many agents are activated at a time). You can specify the amount of space that is allocated to a stack when you start the system. For example,

       bp -s 4000000

allocates 4 mega words, i.e., 16 megabytes, to the control stack. You can use the parameter -b in order to specify the amount that is allocated to the trail stack, -p in order to specify that amount that is allocated to the program area, and -t in order to specify the amount that is allocated to the table area. See Section 10.1 for the details.