wine users - Oct 2008 - Available Memory Mapping Space (PC Study Bible 5)

I'm running PC Study Bible 5 through Wine. It works pretty fine, only need
to install Gecko, which I did through winetricks, and change the windows version
to Windows ME or earlier (98, 95, etc.).

However, due to the large number of references used in the program (and the fact
that ALL of them are loaded to memory on startup), the program gives me this
warning:-

"Exhausted Available Memory Mapping Space - program may run slowly"

And it does run slowly. I'm happy it runs, though, registered here just to
give a big thank you to all the devs working on this wonderful project. Am just
wondering whether there's any way to allocate more of my memory (I have 3 GB
on this laptop) to Wine itself or to the executable run using Wine. Google and
forum search haven't turned up anything much (except stuff on REDUCING the
amount of memory showed to the apps).

Thanks for your time, and once again thanks for this terrific example of FOSS
coding.

lostandfound wrote:
> I'm running PC Study Bible 5 through Wine. It works pretty fine, only
need to install Gecko, which I did through winetricks, and change the windows
version to Windows ME or earlier (98, 95, etc.).
> 
> However, due to the large number of references used in the program (and the
fact that ALL of them are loaded to memory on startup), the program gives me
this warning:-
> 
> "Exhausted Available Memory Mapping Space - program may run
slowly"
> 
> And it does run slowly. I'm happy it runs, though, registered here just
to give a big thank you to all the devs working on this wonderful project. Am
just wondering whether there's any way to allocate more of my memory (I have
3 GB on this laptop) to Wine itself or to the executable run using Wine. Google
and forum search haven't turned up anything much (except stuff on REDUCING
the amount of memory showed to the apps).
> 
> Thanks for your time, and once again thanks for this terrific example of
FOSS coding.

how much memory does it use on Windows, is it using more than normal under Wine?

If it's using much more than normal then something is wrong and it's not
just a case of "allocating more memory"

Hi James,

I've booted into Vista and run the program without any error messages. The
amount of memory used shows in the task manager as 48 MB only. I also started
the program up in Wine again and it used maybe 74 MB of memory. However if I
right-click the process and go to memory-maps, it shows hundreds of MB being
used for various references (each reference is stored in my system as a file,
and the size of the file is listed in the memory-maps window).

One possible reason is that I'm running as a Win98 system, this program
won't run under Win 2000 or later (if I'm not wrong windows changed
drastically to .Net or something at this point). It shows an unknown error
loading some program-specific DLL. I have not yet tried running this program in
windows in compatibility mode with Win95/98.

I'm still wondering why the program complains about lack of memory when my
system monitor shows about 2GB of free memory though... and a totally untouched
swap drive.

Ah, I'm so sorry. Went for a conference and stuff, only now catching up with
things. Anyway, no, I don't think there's any trials available, their
website doesn't turn anything up. And I know none of your team would want to
have anything to do with pirated software. Any ideas on anything else I should
try?