New subject: Excessive Swap with MSVC++ and Wine

28 Apr 2003


      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
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Re: Excessive Swap with MSVC++ and Wine