wine users - Apr 2009 - Memory allocation

I have recently installed Fedora 10 and have found that I can run all of my
Windows applications in Wine...
and in general they work perfectly.

Even MS Publisher works...however when I recently tried to open a *huge*
document (one gig) the application ran out of memory.

Though my machine has 3 gigs of RAM...
when I start to open the document I see that total
memory usage on the machine just goes from
180 megs up to 212 megs...so very little memory
is being assigned to the app.

I was wondering if there is a way to configure Wine
to utilize more of the memory

philo565 wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to configure Wine to utilize more of the
memory
Not really. Wine already will use as much memory as it can, staying within the
limits of win32 memory layout and 32-bit app.

You should check memory limits (ulimit -a) on your box. Fedora is known to have
too low limits which been a source of problems in the past.

thanks for the reply.

according to ulimit -a

the amounts are set to either "unlimited"

or up at 1 gig or more.

Tried other distros such as Debian
and the same thing happened