[Wine] Over 4GB RAM issue

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 13:30:04 CST 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, tparker <tparker at etherstorm.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:17 -0600, Austin English wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:11 AM, tparker <tparker at etherstorm.net> wrote:
>> > For the Wine 'too much RAM' issue, I found two possible fixes:
>> >
>> > 1)add the mem=3072 (for 3GB) or mem=2048 (For 2GB) flag to your kernel
>> > boot parameters (from
>> > http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14154 )
>>
>> Easier/quicker.
>
> Okay, I'm going to go with easy/quick since I'm not completely sure this
> is the problem yet.
>
> In grub.conf I have two lines that start with kernel, one in this:
>
> title Fedora (2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>
> and one in this:
>
> title Fedora (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=1d89eae5-278b-4fed-b1b5-08ffa039ffd8 rhgb quiet
>
> Do I add mem=3072 to the end of both?

Whichever one you boot from (likely 2.6.27.15).



-- 
-Austin



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