Wine: HEAP_CreateSystemHeap Error

Edward West edward-west at uiowa.edu
Wed Jun 15 14:08:33 GMT 2005


Dmitry Mityugov wrote:

>On 6/15/05, Edward West <edward-west at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>Whenever I use Wine to run a Windows executable, the following error
>>shows up:
>>
>>err:heap:HEAP_CreateSystemHeap system heap base address 0x80000000 not
>>available
>>
>>Some programs will then hang, though others will execute normally.
>>
>>I am running FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE.  The Wine version is 20050524.  I
>>cvsup'ed my ports tree before building and installing the Wine port, but
>>I didn't portupgrade.
>>
>>Some Linux users have gotten the same error and were able to fix it by
>>recompiling their kernels to support processes that need more than 2GB
>>of memory.  I didn't think this should be necessary for FreeBSD.
>>
>>The bug report (which talks about the 2GB issue ) for this error is:
>>http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2741
>>
>>I would be satisfied just to know if there is an earlier version without
>>this problem that runs on 5.3.
>>
>>Thank you for any help you can provide.
>>    
>>
>
>Wondering if specifying MAXDSIZ in your kernel and/or "limit memoryuse
>unlimited" may be of any help?
>
>  
>
I couldn't find any information on those options relating to the 5.3 kernel.
Are they still supported?


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