[LI] wine and word and its mem usage.

["L.V.Gandhi" <lvgandhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have run wine with word and noticed free data at various stages.
I have given the same below.

After starting linux in console mode
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lvgandhi@lvghomepc] ~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      33076      29920      25264       3528     
18860
-/+ buffers/cache:      10688      52308
Swap:        72252          0      72252

Before wine with word started.
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             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      55988       7008      27488       3332     
14152
-/+ buffers/cache:      38504      24492
Swap:        72252      11248      61004

wine and word started
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[root@lvghomepc] ~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      61864       1132       7604       1312      
8300
-/+ buffers/cache:      52252      10744
Swap:        72252      45768      26484

word windows size normalised from maximum
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[root@lvghomepc] ~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      61824       1172      12292       1308     
10972
-/+ buffers/cache:      49544      13452
Swap:        72252      48848      23404

after joe text file is opened in other console
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[root@lvghomepc] ~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      59536       3460      14488       1332     
11220
-/+ buffers/cache:      46984      16012
Swap:        72252      52308      19944

After a text file is opened in word
-----------------------------------
[root@lvghomepc] ~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      59444       3552      15940       1308     
11992
-/+ buffers/cache:      46144      16852
Swap:        72252      66704       5548

after text file is saved as doc file
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             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:         62996      59720       3276      16240       1308     
12768
-/+ buffers/cache:      45644      17352
Swap:        72252      67496       4756
after this word hangs.
If I kill wine, and comeback to X, it crashes.
Then I cannot restart X. If I restart nothing happens and all console
turns blank.
I have to reboot.
-- 
L.V.Gandhi
MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA
http://www.poboxes.com/lvgandhi  lvgandhi@xxxxxxxxxxx, 
lvgandhi@xxxxxxxx,  31882656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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