[Bug 33858] Multiple 32-bit applications crash due to virtual address space exhaustion (Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33858

--- Comment #20 from Paul Gofman <gofmanp at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #19)

> I'm not sure I see how it's useful, given what I said above—ways to relieve
> address space pressure, if they even exist, may be specific to each
> application affected by exhaustion. 

I don't see how the ways to relieve address space pressure are specific to
applications, at least the ones gathered here now. The common problem is that
Wine needs more virtual address space than Windows, mostly due to native
libraries often eating more address space (with pulseaudio and opengl somewhere
on top). Maybe some Wine components could use optimization in that regards too.

It is not a single localized issue in Wine, yes, but what specifics do you see
with regards to applications gathered here? And if is anyone going to do
something in Wine or some libraries to attempt to relief memory pressure a bit,
isn't it easier that the information is linked to the single place, so it is
easier to test with different applications? 

> A bug titled something like "multiple
> applications exhaust address space" can't really be closed, not even as
> WONTFIX.

Probably a lot of the multiple individual bugs for this cannot be ever closed
the same way, as whatever can be done will reduce the probability of the
specific app crash, but will likely not eliminate it completely. If there are
convincing enough reasons to think that the issue is about the same, why having
distinct records?

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