--- a/testing2/knight3_test.sh	Mon Jan 15 23:15:34 2018 +0000
+++ b/testing2/knight3_test.sh	Tue Jan 16 10:47:29 2018 +0000
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@
 
 # functional tests
 
+# not sure yet what the right kind of stack should be
+
 function scala_assert {
-    (ulimit -t 20 ; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -i "$1" "$2" -e "" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
+    (ulimit -t 20 ; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g -Xss200m" scala -i "$1" "$2" -e "" 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
 }
 
 # purity test