[Wine] memory limit?

[drescher0110-lists at yahoo.com]

> As a windows programmer who designs medical imaging graphics workstations, this is
> a
> problem I have had do deal with under windows for close to 10 years... This is
> caused by the split between user space and kernel space which limits an
> application
> to 2GB kernel / 2GB user. The problem with this is once you factor in that every
> windows application needs to map dlls to its user application space and these dlls
> do not load in a manner that conserves application space (they actually load in a
> scattered manner in the high user space area) the largest array that you can
> allocate in 32 windows (without the 3GB switch) is about 1.2GB. Since windows 2000
> advanced server there is a new switch in your boot.ini file that enables a 3GB /
> 1GB
> split so it will be possible to load dlls a little higher in memory thus giving
> you
> a larger available address space. Now how does this all apply to wine. I believe
> wine properly emulates  windows design feature and I think there is also a way for
> it to emulate the 3GB feature as well but I do not know the details of this on
> wine.
> Sorry.
> 
> John
> 
Oops, sorry I did not read your post clearly enough. Darn multitasking...

John