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.net<mailto: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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