Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Usually that error occurs because you ran out of memory. I'm not aware of any other cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTable(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseSection(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseIntermediate(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.Load(XmlReader reader, String path, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage-tf2774539.html#a7753597 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Well.. We build a package. Made some development, but nothing changed in the Wix source files. After this Wix used at least double of the memory it usually uses, and we got this error. A file change or something like this can cause wix to eat the memory? Did anybody see this kind of error? Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Usually that error occurs because you ran out of memory. I'm not aware of any other cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTable(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseSection(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseIntermediate(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.Load(XmlReader reader, String path, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage-tf2774539.html#a7753597 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
I'm not aware of any changes. You could stick a profiler on it and see where the memory is blowing up. I'm a little surprised though because there are teams that have MSI files double this size doing just fine inside Microsoft. -Original Message- From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:45 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Well.. We build a package. Made some development, but nothing changed in the Wix source files. After this Wix used at least double of the memory it usually uses, and we got this error. A file change or something like this can cause wix to eat the memory? Did anybody see this kind of error? Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Usually that error occurs because you ran out of memory. I'm not aware of any other cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTable(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseSection(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseIntermediate(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.Load(XmlReader reader, String path, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage-tf2774539.html#a7753597 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
What kind of profiler do you mean? I'm surprised too, one of my collegues wants me to solve this issue. :) Rob Mensching wrote: I'm not aware of any changes. You could stick a profiler on it and see where the memory is blowing up. I'm a little surprised though because there are teams that have MSI files double this size doing just fine inside Microsoft. -Original Message- From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:45 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Well.. We build a package. Made some development, but nothing changed in the Wix source files. After this Wix used at least double of the memory it usually uses, and we got this error. A file change or something like this can cause wix to eat the memory? Did anybody see this kind of error? Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Usually that error occurs because you ran out of memory. I'm not aware of any other cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTable(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseSection(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseIntermediate(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.Load(XmlReader reader, String path, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage-tf2774539.html#a7753597 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Any profiler, the one in VS2005 would probably work. You can also do a kind of poor man's profiling by using a debugger and PerfMon to watch the allocated memory. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:21 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage What kind of profiler do you mean? I'm surprised too, one of my collegues wants me to solve this issue. :) Rob Mensching wrote: I'm not aware of any changes. You could stick a profiler on it and see where the memory is blowing up. I'm a little surprised though because there are teams that have MSI files double this size doing just fine inside Microsoft. -Original Message- From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:45 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Well.. We build a package. Made some development, but nothing changed in the Wix source files. After this Wix used at least double of the memory it usually uses, and we got this error. A file change or something like this can cause wix to eat the memory? Did anybody see this kind of error? Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Usually that error occurs because you ran out of memory. I'm not aware of any other cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTable(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseSection(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseIntermediate(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.Load(XmlReader reader, String path, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Ok, We'll do it on Monday, And I'll come back to you with the result then. :) Until... have a nice Weekend. :) Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Any profiler, the one in VS2005 would probably work. You can also do a kind of poor man's profiling by using a debugger and PerfMon to watch the allocated memory. *From:* TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, December 08, 2006 12:21 *To:* Rob Mensching *Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] memory usage What kind of profiler do you mean? I'm surprised too, one of my collegues wants me to solve this issue. :) Rob Mensching wrote: I'm not aware of any changes. You could stick a profiler on it and see where the memory is blowing up. I'm a little surprised though because there are teams that have MSI files double this size doing just fine inside Microsoft. -Original Message- From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:45 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Well.. We build a package. Made some development, but nothing changed in the Wix source files. After this Wix used at least double of the memory it usually uses, and we got this error. A file change or something like this can cause wix to eat the memory? Did anybody see this kind of error? Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Usually that error occurs because you ran out of memory. I'm not aware of any other cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 23:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef
[WiX-users] memory usage
Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage-tf2774539.html#a7739632 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Please, keep the mailing list on all replies. I assume all your seeing the memory hit in the linker (light.exe), right? I haven't checked the memory usage in a while but your project is very large so that might be a very reasonable number right now. I don't think Office, VS, or SQL complain about the memory usage for their products because they probably all have at least a GB in all the machines and I'm not sure you'd immediately notice how much memory is being used. That said, if you wanted to profile the WiX toolset and found places where we could optimize our memory usage, that'd be really cool. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:02 To: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Package Id=---- Keywords=Installer Description=Software installer Comments=Copyright mycompany Manufacturer=mycompany InstallerVersion=100 Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252/ Media Id=1 Cabinet=Files.cab EmbedCab=no DiskPrompt=DVD-ROM #1/ But the working scenario is the same if i set the compressed to No. (I do not know where can i check the compression level. :( ) Rob Mensching wrote: Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
off topic: Sorry, i pressed Reply instaed of Reply All... on: You are right, light uses lot of memory. About 300-350 MB normally, but some said that on his machine it uses more than 500 MB. This sounds a bit strange to me, because he uses the same files and method to create the msi. Is this posibble? But out bigger problem is the CPU usage, what is made by candle.exe. Light uses about the same memory size that candle uses(bit more), but light does not use the CPU at 100% for all the time. Could you please help me to understand why candle uses the CPU at 100% for long minutes? (10-15-20 mins, depending on the machine) And what can we do to reduce this? (I mean to reduce the time while candle uses the CPU.) If i'll have time, i'll check the code for optimization, but i can't promise anything. :) Thanks Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Please, keep the mailing list on all replies. I assume all your seeing the memory hit in the linker (light.exe), right? I haven't checked the memory usage in a while but your project is very large so that might be a very reasonable number right now. I don't think Office, VS, or SQL complain about the memory usage for their products because they probably all have at least a GB in all the machines and I'm not sure you'd immediately notice how much memory is being used. That said, if you wanted to profile the WiX toolset and found places where we could optimize our memory usage, that'd be really cool. *From:* TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:02 *To:* Rob Mensching *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Package Id=---- Keywords=Installer Description=Software installer Comments=Copyright mycompany Manufacturer=mycompany InstallerVersion=100 Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252/ Media Id=1 Cabinet=Files.cab EmbedCab=no DiskPrompt=DVD-ROM #1/ But the working scenario is the same if i set the compressed to No. (I do not know where can i check the compression level. :( ) Rob Mensching wrote: Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Do you have just one gigantic XML file or are you splitting your product into many smaller .wxs files and letting the linker bring them back together? There is nothing special in the compiler. Normally it completes in seconds because there is very little IO. However, if you make one gigantic XML file then candle is probably spending all of its time slogging through the XmlDocument. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:21 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage off topic: Sorry, i pressed Reply instaed of Reply All... on: You are right, light uses lot of memory. About 300-350 MB normally, but some said that on his machine it uses more than 500 MB. This sounds a bit strange to me, because he uses the same files and method to create the msi. Is this posibble? But out bigger problem is the CPU usage, what is made by candle.exe. Light uses about the same memory size that candle uses(bit more), but light does not use the CPU at 100% for all the time. Could you please help me to understand why candle uses the CPU at 100% for long minutes? (10-15-20 mins, depending on the machine) And what can we do to reduce this? (I mean to reduce the time while candle uses the CPU.) If i'll have time, i'll check the code for optimization, but i can't promise anything. :) Thanks Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Please, keep the mailing list on all replies. I assume all your seeing the memory hit in the linker (light.exe), right? I haven't checked the memory usage in a while but your project is very large so that might be a very reasonable number right now. I don't think Office, VS, or SQL complain about the memory usage for their products because they probably all have at least a GB in all the machines and I'm not sure you'd immediately notice how much memory is being used. That said, if you wanted to profile the WiX toolset and found places where we could optimize our memory usage, that'd be really cool. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:02 To: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Package Id=---- Keywords=Installer Description=Software installer Comments=Copyright mycompany Manufacturer=mycompany InstallerVersion=100 Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252/ Media Id=1 Cabinet=Files.cab EmbedCab=no DiskPrompt=DVD-ROM #1/ But the working scenario is the same if i set the compressed to No. (I do not know where can i check the compression level. :( ) Rob Mensching wrote: Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
We have one wxs and many xmls with include. These xmls contain the folders/files/registries. We have the UI in a different xml too. If we can manage the xml files to be smaller, that can speed up the candle? Rob Mensching wrote: Do you have just one gigantic XML file or are you splitting your product into many smaller .wxs files and letting the linker bring them back together? There is nothing special in the compiler. Normally it completes in seconds because there is very little IO. However, if you make one gigantic XML file then candle is probably spending all of its time slogging through the XmlDocument. *From:* TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:21 *To:* Rob Mensching *Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] memory usage off topic: Sorry, i pressed Reply instaed of Reply All... on: You are right, light uses lot of memory. About 300-350 MB normally, but some said that on his machine it uses more than 500 MB. This sounds a bit strange to me, because he uses the same files and method to create the msi. Is this posibble? But out bigger problem is the CPU usage, what is made by candle.exe. Light uses about the same memory size that candle uses(bit more), but light does not use the CPU at 100% for all the time. Could you please help me to understand why candle uses the CPU at 100% for long minutes? (10-15-20 mins, depending on the machine) And what can we do to reduce this? (I mean to reduce the time while candle uses the CPU.) If i'll have time, i'll check the code for optimization, but i can't promise anything. :) Thanks Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Please, keep the mailing list on all replies. I assume all your seeing the memory hit in the linker (light.exe), right? I haven't checked the memory usage in a while but your project is very large so that might be a very reasonable number right now. I don't think Office, VS, or SQL complain about the memory usage for their products because they probably all have at least a GB in all the machines and I'm not sure you'd immediately notice how much memory is being used. That said, if you wanted to profile the WiX toolset and found places where we could optimize our memory usage, that'd be really cool. *From:* TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:02 *To:* Rob Mensching *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Package Id=---- Keywords=Installer Description=Software installer Comments=Copyright mycompany Manufacturer=mycompany InstallerVersion=100 Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252/ Media Id=1 Cabinet=Files.cab EmbedCab=no DiskPrompt=DVD-ROM #1/ But the working scenario is the same if i set the compressed to No. (I do not know where can i check the compression level. :( ) Rob Mensching wrote: Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Eeek! Don't do that! Organize your product into many different Fragments and let the linker do the work of hooking the parts back together. Include files are really only intended to make it easy to share things like ?defines? and such. IMHO, software projects should have 0 - 1 Include files (i.e. *extremely* few). When you organize like this, I expect you'll find that candle will use very little memory and *fly* through the processing. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:35 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage We have one wxs and many xmls with include. These xmls contain the folders/files/registries. We have the UI in a different xml too. If we can manage the xml files to be smaller, that can speed up the candle? Rob Mensching wrote: Do you have just one gigantic XML file or are you splitting your product into many smaller .wxs files and letting the linker bring them back together? There is nothing special in the compiler. Normally it completes in seconds because there is very little IO. However, if you make one gigantic XML file then candle is probably spending all of its time slogging through the XmlDocument. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:21 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage off topic: Sorry, i pressed Reply instaed of Reply All... on: You are right, light uses lot of memory. About 300-350 MB normally, but some said that on his machine it uses more than 500 MB. This sounds a bit strange to me, because he uses the same files and method to create the msi. Is this posibble? But out bigger problem is the CPU usage, what is made by candle.exe. Light uses about the same memory size that candle uses(bit more), but light does not use the CPU at 100% for all the time. Could you please help me to understand why candle uses the CPU at 100% for long minutes? (10-15-20 mins, depending on the machine) And what can we do to reduce this? (I mean to reduce the time while candle uses the CPU.) If i'll have time, i'll check the code for optimization, but i can't promise anything. :) Thanks Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Please, keep the mailing list on all replies. I assume all your seeing the memory hit in the linker (light.exe), right? I haven't checked the memory usage in a while but your project is very large so that might be a very reasonable number right now. I don't think Office, VS, or SQL complain about the memory usage for their products because they probably all have at least a GB in all the machines and I'm not sure you'd immediately notice how much memory is being used. That said, if you wanted to profile the WiX toolset and found places where we could optimize our memory usage, that'd be really cool. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:02 To: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Package Id=---- Keywords=Installer Description=Software installer Comments=Copyright mycompany Manufacturer=mycompany InstallerVersion=100 Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252/ Media Id=1 Cabinet=Files.cab EmbedCab=no DiskPrompt=DVD-ROM #1/ But the working scenario is the same if i set the compressed to No. (I do not know where can i check the compression level. :( ) Rob Mensching wrote: Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
If you make your project use multiple .wxs files, rather than a single .wxs with a bunch of .wxi (which all get added in to the main file), then candle should seem faster, and the processing would show as spikes, rather than constant usage. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:35 AM To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage We have one wxs and many xmls with include. These xmls contain the folders/files/registries. We have the UI in a different xml too. If we can manage the xml files to be smaller, that can speed up the candle? Rob Mensching wrote: Do you have just one gigantic XML file or are you splitting your product into many smaller .wxs files and letting the linker bring them back together? There is nothing special in the compiler. Normally it completes in seconds because there is very little IO. However, if you make one gigantic XML file then candle is probably spending all of its time slogging through the XmlDocument. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:21 To: Rob Mensching Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage off topic: Sorry, i pressed Reply instaed of Reply All... on: You are right, light uses lot of memory. About 300-350 MB normally, but some said that on his machine it uses more than 500 MB. This sounds a bit strange to me, because he uses the same files and method to create the msi. Is this posibble? But out bigger problem is the CPU usage, what is made by candle.exe. Light uses about the same memory size that candle uses(bit more), but light does not use the CPU at 100% for all the time. Could you please help me to understand why candle uses the CPU at 100% for long minutes? (10-15-20 mins, depending on the machine) And what can we do to reduce this? (I mean to reduce the time while candle uses the CPU.) If i'll have time, i'll check the code for optimization, but i can't promise anything. :) Thanks Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Please, keep the mailing list on all replies. I assume all your seeing the memory hit in the linker (light.exe), right? I haven't checked the memory usage in a while but your project is very large so that might be a very reasonable number right now. I don't think Office, VS, or SQL complain about the memory usage for their products because they probably all have at least a GB in all the machines and I'm not sure you'd immediately notice how much memory is being used. That said, if you wanted to profile the WiX toolset and found places where we could optimize our memory usage, that'd be really cool. From: TibTam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:02 To: Rob Mensching Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage Package Id=---- Keywords=Installer Description=Software installer Comments=Copyright mycompany Manufacturer=mycompany InstallerVersion=100 Languages=1033 Compressed=yes SummaryCodepage=1252/ Media Id=1 Cabinet=Files.cab EmbedCab=no DiskPrompt=DVD-ROM #1/ But the working scenario is the same if i set the compressed to No. (I do not know where can i check the compression level. :( ) Rob Mensching wrote: Are you compressing your files? If so, what compression level are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TibTam Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 09:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] memory usage The result msi is 250MB. About 2500 files are being installed and more then 20 000 registry keys. We split the wix files into many parts. We have one wxs containing the projects and main folders, and many xmls. These xmls are included into the main wxs. Regards, Tamas Rob Mensching wrote: Uhh, maybe but you'd need to be a lot more specific about what in your project is quite big. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamas Tiboldi Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 05:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] memory usage Hi! We have a quite big project and wix uses huge amount of memory. (more than 500 MBs) Is there any possibility to maximize the memory usage? How does the package generation works? Thanks a lot Tamas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Ok, but please help me in on doing that We decided to use includes because we have huge directory tree and some parts of the tree are in the main wxs file, and some are in the included xmls. We need to refer to the folders from the xmls to the wxs (for example at shortcut creation). And it is possible that in two different xml files we use the same directory. Maybe undersandable if i show you a sample. I'm sure that there can be lot of problems with the design, but we are not fully familiar with all parts of the wix. :( Still learning. Please tell me all problems that you find. First of all. We have different xmls for ComponentRefs and different for the Folders/Components. We needed this to be able to manage the files easily by scripts. We have more different users on the target PC, and we have to be able to install different shortcuts and permissions for the users. You can find some sample code below. Sorry for the long post, but i can not make is shorter. I'm waiting for all helps and comments. Thanks in advance Tamas The main wxs looks like this: Feature Id=Complete Title=Full progam Description=The complete program release. Display=expand ConfigurableDirectory=TARGETDIR Level=1 ComponentRef Id=COMPONENT_DRIVER1/ ?include ..\packagefiles\comprefs\anotherDriver_comprefs.xml? Feature Id=HOSTFiles Title=HostFiles Level=1 ?include ..\packagefiles\comprefs\HOST_head.xml? /Feature Feature Id=Manpower Title=Manpower Level=0 Condition Level=1POWER=MAN/Condition ?include ..\packagefiles\comprefs\manpower_comprefs.xml? /Feature /Feature Property Id=TARGETDIR Value=c:\/ Directory Id=TARGETDIR Name=SourceDir Directory Id=Win Name=WINDOWS Directory Id=system32 Name=System32 ?include ..\packagefiles\anotherDriver.xml? Component Id=COMPONENT_DRIVER1 Guid=... File Id=driver1dll Name=driver1.dll Source=SourceDir\... DiskId=1 Vital=yes/ /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory Directory Id=docAndSetting Name=docs LongName=Documents And Settings Directory Id=User1Dir Name=User1 Directory Id=User1StartMenu Name=startmen LongName=Start Menu Directory Id=User1Programs Name=Programs Directory Id=User1Tools Name=Tools /Directory /Directory /Directory /Directory Directory Id=User2Dir Name=User2 Directory Id=User2Desktop Name=Desktop /Directory Directory Id=User2StartMenu Name=startmen LongName=Start Menu Directory Id=User2Programs Name=Programs Directory Id=User2Startup Name=Startup Component Id=COMPONENT_User2Startup Guid=... File Id=Scheduler Name=SCHEDU~1.BAT LongName=Scheduler.bat src=SourceDir\.. DiskId=1 Vital=yes/ File Id=poller Name=poller.bat LongName=poller.bat src=SourceDir\.. DiskId=1 Vital=yes/ /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory /Directory /Directory Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Name=PFiles!-- Program Files-- ?include ..\packagefiles\HOST.xml? ?include ..\packagefiles\manpower.xml? /Directory!-- Program Files-- /Directory UI ?include Dialogs.wxs? ?include Errors.wxs? InstallUISequence Show Dialog=FatalError OnExit=error/ Show Dialog=UserExit OnExit=cancel/ Show Dialog=ExitDialog OnExit=success/ Show Dialog=StartDlg Before=LaunchConditions/ /InstallUISequence /UI *HOST.xml:* Include Directory Id=Company Name=Compy LongName=Our Company Component Id=Comp1 DiskId=1 Guid=... File Id=file1 Name=file1.exe Source=SourceDir\exe/ File Id=file2 Name=file2.exe LongName=file2.exe Source=.../ Registry Id=InstalledReg Action=write Root=HKLM Key=... KeyPath=no Name=Installed Value=Installed Type=string/ Shortcut Id=ShortCut01 Directory=User1Tools Name=Tool1.lnk LongName=Good Tool.lnk Target=c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe WorkingDirectory=c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer / CreateFolder Directory=Company Permission User=USER1 GenericAll=yes/ Permission User=USER2 GenericAll=yes/ /CreateFolder /Component Directory Id=CompanySub Name=Compy2 LongName=Subfolder Component Id=COMP2 Guid=... CreateFolder/ RemoveFile Id=DelFiles2 Name=* On=uninstall/ RemoveFolder Id=DelFolder2 On=uninstall/ File Id=FILE3 Name=USER~2.EXE LongName=Userblabla.exe src=SourceDir\... DiskId=1 Vital=yes/ File Id=FILE4 Name=User~3.EXE LongName=Userlonganemee.exe src=SourceDir\... DiskId=1 Vital=yes Shortcut Id=ShortCut04
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
TibTam wrote: Ok, but please help me in on doing that We decided to use includes because we have huge directory tree and some parts of the tree are in the main wxs file, and some are in the included xmls. We need to refer to the folders from the xmls to the wxs (for example at shortcut creation). And it is possible that in two different xml files we use the same directory. All that's possible with separate source files. I'd suggest taking a look at the src/Setup directory in a recent WiX v3 build. It has the source for the WiX v3 installer and demonstrates a good way to organize your setup sources. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] memory usage
Thanks, i'll take a look. What can be the cause of this error (still the same, big, problematic package)?: candle.exe : error CNDL0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.GetStringForStringBuilder(String value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Int32 capacity) at System.Text.StringBuilder.GetNewString(String currentString, Int32 requiredLength) at System.Text.StringBuilder.Append(String value) at System.IO.StringWriter.Write(String value) at System.Xml.XmlTextEncoder.Write(String text) at System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.WriteString(String text) at System.Xml.XmlWriter.WriteAttributeString(String localName, String value) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessInclude(String includePath, XmlWriter writer) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.PreprocessReader(Boolean include, XmlReader reader, XmlWriter writer, Int32 offset) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Preprocessor.Process(String sourcePath) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Candle.Run(String[] args) light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown. Exception Type: System.OutOfMemoryException Stack Trace: at System.String.CtorCharArrayStartLength(Char[] value, Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.NodeData.get_StringValue() at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.get_Value() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.get_Value() at System.Xml.Schema.BaseValidator.ValidateText() at System.Xml.Schema.XsdValidator.Validate() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.ProcessCoreReaderEvent() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReaderImpl.Read() at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read() at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Field.Parse(XmlReader reader) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTuple(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinition tableDef) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseTable(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, Section section, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseSection(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.ParseIntermediate(Intermediate intermediate, XmlReader reader, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Intermediate.Load(XmlReader reader, String path, TableDefinitionCollection tableDefinitions, Boolean suppressVersionCheck) at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/memory-usage-tf2774539.html#a7753597 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
