[Wine] Wine program resource usage question

[Martin Gregorie]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 19:03 -0600, cnbiz850 wrote:
> "top" shows that this particular program (called special.exe) taking a
> lot of CPU and memory during change of focus as I mentioned
> originally.
>
>   It doesn't use much swap space as my 4GB RAM is not depleted.
> 
Your RAM will be full because Linux uses any spare RAM for disk buffers.
Any swapping can slow things down a lot. 

> I will try to use sysstat, but I am not to sure what to look for.
> 
man sarq
man pidstat

Use pidstat to look for any processes that are generating major faults
when paging (these are disk accesses - minor faults are not a problem).
Use "-p ALL -r" options to see paging for all active processes.

Be sure to turn on thread monitoring for pidstat (use the "-t -u"
options to see CPU usage for all threads in all active processes).

> I suspect more that it has to do with Wine's handling of GUI and
> graphics.  Anyone please advise some specifics about it.
> 
If its a problem in wine this may show up as additional processes that
burn CPU. pidstat will show that.


Martin