[Wine] memory limit? (adjustable?)

Russell D. Bryant russell.bryant at comcast.net
Mon Jun 26 19:05:21 CDT 2006


most at museresearch.com wrote:

So, is there an environment variable that can adjust the memory allocated to
any particular program?  I am a new user and have an old copy of
chessmaster that aborts the install with:
No drive with adequate space to begin installation,

Any ideas???
Thanks

>> I've got a simple (32bit) windows application (compiled in Borland c++
>> builder):
>>
>> int *p;
>> while(1) {
>>     p = new int[10000000]; //allocates 40 MB of memory
>> }
> 
> We did the same thing on our older wine (20050419) and found that we could
> up the amount to very close to 2GB by playing with WINEPRELOADRESERVE.
> 
> - Michael Ost



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