From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 06:42:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA17937 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 06:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-7.mail.demon.net (relay-7.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA17930 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 06:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from prds-grn.demon.co.uk ([158.152.232.106]) by relay-6.mail.demon.net id aa609771; 3 Dec 96 13:57 GMT Received: (from tdgsandf@localhost) by prds-grn (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA09566; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:12:54 GMT From: "Thomas D.G. Sandford" Message-Id: <199612031312.NAA09566@prds-grn> Subject: FreeBSD / Wine / MSOffice To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:12:54 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk During a discussion on comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine about running MS Office applications under FreeBSD/Wine, Linus Torvalds sent me the following email. I am posting it here (with his permission) in the hopes that someone may be able to do something about it (if it is not already in 2.2 / -current - I am still using 2.1.5-R). Please note - I don't subscribe to -hackers, so if you want me to see a reply, please cc it to me. ----- Forwarded message from Linus Torvalds ----- From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:51:01 +0200 Message-Id: <199611291051.MAA03824@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> To: t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD - MS Office Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine In-Reply-To: <57il2h$in@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> References: <3298ED79.41C67EA6@nz.eds.com> <57diu3$8t@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> <329B9FEB.41C67EA6@nz.eds.com> In article <57il2h$in@prds-grn.demon.co.uk> you write: > >FreeBSD only makes a limited number of user LDT's available. You get this >message when they run out (as well as if you have failed to build an >appropriate kernel). Exhausting the LDT's has however, in my experience, >always been the result of a memory leak in wine. Note that Linux used to do that too. Then the Wabi people told me that real applications need more LDT's. So if FreeBSD wants to serve all real applications, it needs eventually to expand the LDT. Right now the problems _may_ be due to leaks in Wine, but one day they are going to be real.. Linus ----- End of forwarded message from Linus Torvalds ----- -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@prds-grn.demon.co.uk