Comment 5 for bug 1332001

Hi Chris,

I've been at a conference during the last week, and tried to reproduce this at the weekend, but was unable to do so (no significant amount of memory leaked). I would really like to know some more details: How fast / how much is the amount of memory increasing over time?

You have to take into account that Wine and Windows works a bit different with respect to some things: whereas Windows kernel objects for example don't consume any memory at all (or only a very small amount), such objects are in userspace in Wine and thus consume memory in both wineserver and pluginloader. Moreover Wine tries to cache some memory to speed up things a bit. This memory is not really "leaked", because the cached information is reused later when possible.

It might be possible that the leak you experience is just caused by the differences between Wine and running on Windows - but difficult to say without some more more details.

Regards,
Sebastian