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Date:      Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:14:41 +0400
From:      Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
To:        Edward West <edward-west@uiowa.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wine: HEAP_CreateSystemHeap Error
Message-ID:  <b7052e1e0506142314653362c3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <42AF4930.7060504@uiowa.edu>
References:  <42AF4930.7060504@uiowa.edu>

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On 6/15/05, Edward West <edward-west@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> Whenever I use Wine to run a Windows executable, the following error
> shows up:
>=20
> err:heap:HEAP_CreateSystemHeap system heap base address 0x80000000 not
> available
>=20
> Some programs will then hang, though others will execute normally.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> The bug report (which talks about the 2GB issue ) for this error is:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D2741
>=20
> I would be satisfied just to know if there is an earlier version without
> this problem that runs on 5.3.
>=20
> 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?

--=20
Dmitry

"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"



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