http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2609
------- Additional Comments From joel.schaerer@insa-lyon.fr 2006-23-05 15:26 ------- I have the problem when using ulimit too:
[schaerer@joel bin]$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16381 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 max rt priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 10000 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 900000 file locks (-x) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited [schaerer@joel bin]$ wine MRIConvert.exe wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory [schaerer@joel bin]$
I don't see any reason why wine would reasonably require more than 10000 processes or 900Mo of RAM :)