Problem with virtual memory rlimits

[Alexandre Julliard]

Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> writes:

> If you limit the virtual memory size using "ulimit -v 1400000" for
> instance, wine will only crash.
>
> The problem is, that VIRTUAL_alloc_teb() tries to allocate a memory
> area within the acceptable userspace ... but it does so much mmap()s
> that it runs out of available mmap space before.
>
> I was only able to reproduce this on AMD64 machines up to now, 
> which pass out memory starting from 0xf7fffffff somewhere.
>
> Any clue how to solve this?

I don't think you can. We are using MAP_NORESERVE, which could be
argued should not count against the limit, but if it does then we need
a limit high enough to reserve everything above 0x80000000.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org