wine users - Nov 2011 - Wine "pausing" applications ?!

Hello,

first of all, thanks for that great program! It made me change from Windows to
Linux on
my main pc :)

But since several days I experience a strange behave: The emulated application
(all!) pause
for some seconds, and then go on like nothing was wrong. This pausing happens
occasionally,
without any acting by me. 

I run mIRC, Steam and Diablo II at the same time mostly, and tried to exclude
one of those,
but it brought me to the same behaviour. It happens just a few seconds after the
launch
of one of those 3 Windows applications. 

OS is Debian Wheezy, Kernel 3.0 - 8GB RAM, Dualcore CPU, GFX is Nvidia 450 GTS, 
about 70% free HD space.... and really no idea. It didnt happen the weeks
before. Ah
yes, I use the latest wine packages.

Any idea where to look for the pausing problem?


Thanks in advance!

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12114

Try it with wine 12-rc3

Hello James,

your post was most useful! When I tried to run Diablo II executable from shell,
it reports
as following:

~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/Diablo II$ wine game.exe -window
fixme:advapi:GetCurrentHwProfileA (0x33fba8) semi-stub
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x134a58,
filter=0xf7e9b4,flags=0x00000001) returns a fake device notification handle!
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels

While playing I had the system monitor open next to the game window: When it
freezes,
the "wineserver.exe" consumes 100% CPU (is it normal that it uses
around 250 MiB ?)

The same happens when running mIRC.exe:

~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/mIRC$ wine mirc.exe
fixme:advapi:GetCurrentHwProfileA (0x33fba8) semi-stub
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x134a28,
filter=0xf7e9b4,flags=0x00000001) returns a fake device notification handle!
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {d45fd2fc-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {d45fd2fc-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {d45fd2fc-5c6e-11d1-9ec1-00c04fd7081f}
could be created for context 0x5
fixme:winsock:WSACancelAsyncRequest (0xdeaf),stub
fixme:winsock:WSACancelAsyncRequest (0xdeaf),stub
fixme:winsock:WSACancelAsyncRequest (0xdeb1),stub
fixme:winsock:WSACancelAsyncRequest (0xdeb1),stub
fixme:winsock:WSACancelAsyncRequest (0xdeb2),stub
fixme:winsock:WSACancelAsyncRequest (0xdeb2),stub
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_FMTLINES: stub
fixme:richedit:ME_HandleMessage EM_FMTLINES: stub
 
For Steam.exe:

~/.wine/drive_c/Programme/Steam$ wine Steam.exe
fixme:advapi:GetCurrentHwProfileA (0x33fba8) semi-stub
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x134a58,
filter=0xf7e9b4,flags=0x00000001) returns a fake device notification handle!
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure
that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path.
err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of
your distribution.
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {77f10cf0-3db5-4966-b520-b7c54fd35ed6}
could be created for context 0x1
fixme:wbemprox:wbem_locator_ConnectServer 0x1d14b0, L"ROOT\\CIMV2",
(null), (null), (null), 0x00000080, (null), (nil), 0x4b5c638)
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {dff32fea-3331-48da-a272-ccfc238695be} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {dff32fea-3331-48da-a272-ccfc238695be} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {dff32fea-3331-48da-a272-ccfc238695be} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {dff32fea-3331-48da-a272-ccfc238695be}
could be created for context 0x17
Assert( Assertion Failed: Steam2Caches().UpdateCaches failed to update cache
45770
):e:\buildslave\steam_rel_client_win32\build\src\steamui\SteamCache.cpp:393

fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
fixme:winhttp:WinHttpGetIEProxyConfigForCurrentUser returning no proxy used
fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationA (hwnd=0x100c8,
filter=0x32d5b4,flags=0x00000004) returns a fake device notification handle!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32cff8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR,
hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR,
hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR,
hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub
fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR,
hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub

So, this is whats happening in the terminal....

As I'm not the nr. 1 programmer / developer, I dont know how to get rid of
those
(surely) not-useful messages ;)

Regards!

I think I forgot to say, that ALL applications themselves run without any
problems, as if they
were run in real Windows. There are no crashes or failures within them. Its
really just the
total slowdown of wineserver.exe that pauses them it seems.

Thanks for your help!

Regards!

Hello,

I was just trying around when I wondered about a 480MB user.reg - for just 3 or
4 programs
that I use regularly?! So, I deleted it, and no more hanging around.

I tried the debugging option, but only the fixme messages were visible. After
removing
the user.reg it works fine now, same constellation as in my first post, but no
more freezing
it.

Its really only Steam (with its games), mIRC.exe and Diablo II that I run with
wine. I have
absolutely no idea how a 480MB user.reg can build up...

Still, the 

fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000
channels, pretending there's only 2 channels

message appears again, as always...

Regards!

Thanks to all helpers! I think I finally worked it out with the big user.reg
file that caused
my wine to pause.

So, theres only the sound issue left - does this need any special attention, as
my programs
work?!

Regards!