[Wine] Re: Wine memory limitation for malloc?

Adept wineforum-user at winehq.org
Tue Jul 22 02:35:59 CDT 2008


Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:18 AM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Adept wrote:
> > 
> > > Why win32 application under Wine can allocate only 2000 MB of memory,
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Correct, that's all you get with 32-bit windows. Everything else reserved for the system.
> > 
> 
> Actually up to 3GB in certain cases under Windows NT 5.x...
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
> 
> Gert van den Berg


BTW, PAE options supported and Windows XP.

I think, it's bad idea for Wine, to emulate Windows limitations.
If Wine+linux can give more memory to my application, it's good reason (for me, as Windows user) to format Windows and install Linux+Wine.







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