A friend of mine asked this question.
If I remember right, the stack size is fixed and determined by the Lisp
subsystem. I have the problem that I cannot compute some complicated
metrics because Maxima hangs and eats up 99% of CPU time. Probably the
stack size is exhausted. Is a way to increase the stack? Maybe by
recompilation with a higher stack size?
His setup is
<> Maxima 5.16.3, Windows distribution
running on Windows XP, SP 3
CPU: Pentium 4, 2.66 GHz
Memory: 1 GB