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Odiseo70
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Virtual Memory Installation Problem

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Hi Forum !!

I'm trying to install Oracle Designer 10g via Wine in my Mandriva Linux distro. During the installation process, the setup program send me the following Message:

Setup have found a problem trying to verify values for virtual memory. Check that the sum of your swap space have at least 256 Mb free.

I have enough disk space in my home directory and enough RAM available (4 Gb total RAM). How can I tweak wine for applications see enough swap space ?

Thanks for your help !!
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Re: Virtual Memory Installation Problem

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Odiseo70 wrote:Hi Forum !!

I'm trying to install Oracle Designer 10g via Wine in my Mandriva Linux distro. During the installation process, the setup program send me the following Message:

Setup have found a problem trying to verify values for virtual memory. Check that the sum of your swap space have at least 256 Mb free.

I have enough disk space in my home directory and enough RAM available (4 Gb total RAM). How can I tweak wine for applications see enough swap space ?

Thanks for your help !!
How much swap do you have?
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Post by Odiseo70 »

If you mean the swap space for linux it looks like 3992 Mb according to the free command. And that is precisely my confusion. How the programs running in the wine environment determines the amount of swap available ?
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Post by vitamin »

Odiseo70 wrote:If you mean the swap space for linux it looks like 3992 Mb according to the free command. And that is precisely my confusion. How the programs running in the wine environment determines the amount of swap available ?
Might be too much for some poor windows programs to comprehend. Wine returns true sizes when it can. But some win programs don't ready to see those numbers. Win 32-bit doesn't support that much.

Of course it could be Wine bug too. I guess open a bug report in bugzilla.
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Post by jeffz »

might be bug 10844, the avail pagefile value returned by GlobalMemoryStatus could be too large

a workaround is modifying the pe header to change the subsystem version to 3 and wine will report smaller values.

either look at what's happening with winedbg or try the workaround to confirm it is the same issue.
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Post by Odiseo70 »

Well, I'm using Wine 1.0-rc3. Somebody knows if this error is related to this particular wine's version ?
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Post by jeffz »

all versions, do you have a link to the download for this program? I will check to see if its the same issue
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Post by Odiseo70 »

Sure... here's the link:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/softwa ... nsoft.html

Oracle Designer is part of Oracle Developer Suite 10g (10.1.2.0.2). You must download the Windows version. There is a linux version but it does not contain oracle designer, which is the software I'm interested. Perhaps you must suscribe for free at Oracle Technology Network to make the download. Oracle let you download all the software you want for study purposes, so go ahead.
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