Re: Mem usage in Mac OSX

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Shearman  writes:
> Nick Burns wrote:
> > Does Linux have the same mem problem? -- does top show like 4GB of
> > VSIZE on app start?
>
> The numbers seem bogus since 32-bit apps can only take up 4Gb of
> VM. Wine does reserve 1.5Gb of VM on startup to ensure no system
> libraries are present in the area needed for Win32 apps and libraries.

Actually Wine also reserves the high memory addresses, so the total is
more like 3.5Gb. The real question is why do the Apple libraries need
to allocate another 500Mb or so after startup.