Well then, there you go. I really hope that I remembered to apply <stddisclaimer.h> to what I said. /Fredrik > > From: Kevin DeKorte <kdekorte@yahoo.com> > Date: 2002/09/11 Wed PM 04:14:27 CEST > To: Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de>, wine-users@winehq.com > Subject: Re: Is wine *always* mapping threads onto processes? (Was: Re: multiple instances . . . ) > > 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 > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
