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
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