"not enough space in GDI heap" / forking vstlib programs

[Uwe Bonnes]

>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil S Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> writes:

    Kjetil> Hello, as I just announced I'm developing a vst-server, that
    Kjetil> loads and runs windows vst plugins.  But after loading and
    Kjetil> unloading a lot of plugins, I get lots of
    Kjetil> "err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 01f7 for
    Kjetil> 24 bytes" errors.

    Kjetil> I understand that the cause of this error is caused by a memory
    Kjetil> leak in a windows program. However, in the vst-server, there is
    Kjetil> no way to control memory leaks in the plug-ins, as those are
    Kjetil> made by various groups and persons.

    Kjetil> So is there a way around this error. Doing a fork for each new
    Kjetil> plug-in perhaps? Is that safe? I want to do that also to avoid
    Kjetil> having a plug-in crash the vst-server.

Did you get this error with a recent wine version? I hadn't had this errors
for some time now.

Bye
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