-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I believe that this memory is shared between the processes, so that the total usage for the 5 processes is 32 MB. (I am simply repeating what was said previously about a similar situation, so don't ask many details ;) Nick Capik On Wednesday 11 September 2002 06:47 am, Frank Joerdens wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:43:12AM +0200, Fredrik Persson wrote: > > > > it's probably a unique instance of the app with 5 threads in it. > > > > each windows thread matches a unix-like process. > > > > > > Is that the general way wine translates windows threads, mapping them > > > onto processes? Would that really be a good idea? Usually the argument > > > goes that designing an app in a multithreaded rather than multiprocess > > > fashion is better, more resource friendly, albeit harder to do (e.g. > > > because inter-thread communication is much easier to do than > > > inter-process communication). > > > > Guys, are you *sure* that this is how Wine does it? You know, Linux > > always lists threads as separate processes in the ps listing. > > Then it probably doesn't. That Linux lists threads like processes would > explain it, kind of. What still bothers me a little though is that if I > start the application under Windows 2000, in the Task-Manager I see > exactly one instance consuming 32 MB of RAM, whereas top under Linux > shows 5, consuming 32 MB each, or so it seems. Would top give false > information here about RAM consumption? > > Regards, Frank > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9fykqP1TgTrKOOgsRAqQTAJwKX7iT8BK8xdCrz74ipWXqVyqUCACgwjwP edyfGq9LVajlKXzcQmCdoh4= =/uio -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
