Hi sounds like a memory leak in the code sould be addressed to wine-devel@winehq.com and you should probably open a bug on this ..... wine-devel, can someone comment/help on that? (I think there wore more details on the original message) Hatky. --- Stephen Mollett <molletts@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sunday 27 Apr 2003 14:51, Phil Thompson wrote: > > The problem is the amount of memory used by > link.exe. At the moment, with > > 256M of real memory and 1G of swap I quickly run > out. Under Windows2000, on > > the same machine, the link takes a long time > (30mins - 1 hour) but does > > complete. > > That sounds very similar to a problem I used to have > with another program. I > used to run NewsXpress under Wine (quite a nice, and > somewhat non-traditional > in design, newsreader) but I found that, even with > 1GB of RAM, I had to add > lots of swap in order to download large numbers of > headers. When I used to > run it on Windows, I was able to get tens or > hundreds of thousands of headers > in 128MB RAM without even approaching the point > where swapping would be > needed. > > I think it may be some inefficiency in Wine's memory > allocation subsystem - > perhaps it consistently allocates too much which > mounts up each time the > program requests more. (When I exited NewsXpress, > only about half of the > memory it had claimed was freed; the rest had to be > reclaimed with 'killall > wine'.) > > Doesn't help you very much, but perhaps it might > help someone to track down > the problem. > > Stephen > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users ===== Hatky äôèøåù÷éãä: http://www.hatky.myz.info __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
