On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 11:32:54AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > I have recently noticed an unusual side-effect of running Wine. When I > first start up my system, /proc/meminfo reports MemTotal as 256892 kb. > After running Wine for awhile, /proc/meminfo reports MemTotal as 32680 > kb. The system performs as if it only had 32 MB of RAM. A reboot of > the system resets total memory to the proper value. > > My question is: > > 1) Has anybody else encountered this? > 2) Does anyone know what causes this, or better yet how to avoid it? > 3) Is there anyway to recover the lost RAM short of a reboot? Huh ? This is very, very, VERY strange ! Something like this should never happen. Are you sure it's caused by Wine only, or maybe it is due to faulty memory instead ? (and thus the board/Linux notices that only 32MB are useable and resorts to accessing 32MB only). Again, I'm utterly puzzled when hearing such a story. Or maybe Wine accesses some Linux memory management function in some way that causes Linux to tamper with the value for some reason ? This wouldn't be the first time that Wine is the only program to reveal some severe bug in Linux memory management... Definitely try upgrading your kernel, too. -- The Declaration of Software Freedom: http://freedevelopers.net/freedomdec/index.php _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
