https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49615
--- Comment #10 from jswinebz@kanargh.org.uk --- Just for a sense of scale here:
My dmesg buffer currently contains 2890 lines, which right now go back to the last system boot.
The boot process itself takes 1083 lines, at which point on most machines dmesg goes pretty quiet unless something is actually going wrong, or some noteworthy hardware change occurs.
Of the remainder, 278 lines come from the nvidia binary driver which I consider spammy as hell. *1427* lines come from this issue alone. That leaves just 102 lines for "normal system operation", which is mostly USB device insertion/removal notifications which are expected, some systemd journal rotation notification (which I think is misguided of them but still small volume) and a couple of application segfaults.
Now you might say that's not a large number of lines, but the dmesg ring buffer is a limited resource and eventually old records get pushed out which it would be nice to avoid if it's not necessary (which in this case it definitely isn't), and wine is still accounting for nearly 4 times everything else on my hardware, and 14 times everything else on a system without the nvidia driver and a user who isn't constantly re-inserting USB devices.