most@museresearch.com wrote: So, is there an environment variable that can adjust the memory allocated to any particular program? I am a new user and have an old copy of chessmaster that aborts the install with: No drive with adequate space to begin installation, Any ideas??? Thanks>> I've got a simple (32bit) windows application (compiled in Borland c++ >> builder): >> >> int *p; >> while(1) { >> p = new int[10000000]; //allocates 40 MB of memory >> } > > We did the same thing on our older wine (20050419) and found that we could > up the amount to very close to 2GB by playing with WINEPRELOADRESERVE. > > - Michael Ost
Unless the program actually needs more space than is available on your hard drive, this sounds like a Wine bug. On 6/26/06, Russell D. Bryant <russell.bryant@comcast.net> wrote:> most@museresearch.com wrote: > > So, is there an environment variable that can adjust the memory allocated to > any particular program? I am a new user and have an old copy of > chessmaster that aborts the install with: > No drive with adequate space to begin installation, > > Any ideas??? > Thanks-- Vincent Povirk