Re: assign more RAM to apps in Wine

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:19:26 -0600, philo wrote:

Lionel B wrote:
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:06:42 -0600, philo wrote:

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
philo schrieb:

I have not seen anywhere in the configuration where more RAM can be
assigned.
You cannot assign more RAM than physically available.

Your problem most probably arises from the virtual address space,
limited to 4GB for 32 bit applications, which is occupied by both the
OS and the Wine emulator, and only the remaining space is available
to the application itself. It might help to use a 64 bit OS, Wine,
and a 64 bit version of the Windows application, i.e. a matter of
availability of such 64 bit components.

DoDi
Thank you for the reply.

Yes I am fully aware of the RAM limitations of a 32bit OS

but that does not answer the question I asked...

I need to know how to get Wine to assign more RAM to the
application...

I assure you that Wine is *not* assigning more than some pre-set fixed
amount...with 3 gigs of RAM in the machine there is more than double
the amount the application requires.

In a virtual machine, there is a setting for how much RAM you desire
the virtual machine uses...but I cannot find any such setting in
Wine... but i'm sure it's there somewhere

Have you read this (or was it in fact you...?)

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=659

Not my thread
not did I see any answer there

Well the "answer" there seems to be negative... as I understood that
thread (possibly incorrectly) the upshot is that the only way you could do
what you want to do would be to hack Wine - and that this would quite
likely break it in other ways.

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Lionel B
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