Non-working patch for 3GB of memory allocation

[Shachar Shemesh]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> writes:
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>>Alexandre Julliard wrote:
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>>>That's why we don't use malloc in Wine...
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>>http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/ntdll/virtual.c#L373 says otherwise.
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>Yes there are a few exceptions, because we obviously can't allocate
>from the process heap in the code that creates it.
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I'm not sure about that. After all, that's what malloc does `-). Still, 
it's not crucial.

> Also Unix libraries
>will sometimes call malloc.
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Yes, I guess they do. That means that malloc is fighting with us on the 
2GB space we have :-(

>>>1Gb we need to manage this ourselves, or fix the kernel memory
>>>allocation algorithm. Fixing the kernel is a lot easier.
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>>Surely you mean "technologically easier", right?
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>Well, yes, but it's also the right place to do it.
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A friend found me http://lwn.net/Articles/90087/. There is hope yet :-)

             Shachar

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