Frank, Linux does not have a lightweight thread model in the stable kernels. I believe that the dev kernels have implemented it but wine or glibc would have to be changed to take advantage of it I believe. Actually the memory you are seeing is probably NOT 32MB per process. The memory probably overlaps somewhat in that the code that is not being changed is not being copied only the data would be written again. So of that 32MB probably 30MB of it is shared across all the processes with only about 2MB being unique to each process. The memory in use being reported is a side affect of the Linux thread=pid model. This is pretty normal behavior for a Linux box. Look at a java program that has multiple threads and you will see the same behavior. --- Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:59:35AM +0200, Sylvain > Petreolle 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). > > In my particular case, if the application were to > spawn a few more > threads, I would run out of physical memory pretty > quick, with each > one of those threads/processes consuming 32 megs. > > Regards, Frank > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users ===== --------------------------------- Kevin DeKorte kdekorte@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
