[wix-users] heat.exe System.OutOfMemoryException help

Phill Hogland phill.hogland at rimage.com
Wed Jul 13 09:40:57 PDT 2016


>>What would be the best approach to harvest in smaller sections?

I have seen before the recommendations to create a bundle and drive multiple MSI packages.  I don't have the expertise to say that is the "best" but it has worked very well for my projects.  I have also seen the recommendation to be careful when using heat.exe and check the resulting output carefully.  So I do have several MSI projects that make use of HarvestDirectory target, which I greatly prefer over any command line call to heat.


http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/HarvestDirectory-target-for-multiple-directories-td7596917.html


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From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Shintaro Takechi <devst119 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 11:27:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] heat.exe System.OutOfMemoryException help

> Phill
What would be the best approach to harvest in smaller sections?
I still would like to enjoy the automatic file gathering of heat.exe.
I currently have 32GB of memory, but would getting bigger memory help?
I feel like as files are getting larger, the problem will persist.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
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> >>The size of whole folder that I am trying to include comes out to be
> 8.56GB
> with 17220 files and 1589 folders.
> >>Would anybody know the solution for this?
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> Harvest smaller sections.
> Get more memory.
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> How many files are you trying to harvest?  Heat can handle an awful lot.
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> Could you share the heat command in your next post to this list?
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> Of Shintaro Takechi
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> Right. It is network drive. Hence in the second example I first execute
> the robocopy to copy to my local drive and tried the heat. But got same out
> of memory exception...
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> Get Outlook for iOS
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> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:20 PM -0700, "Farrukh Waheed" <
> farrukh1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What do you mean by "files on the network" ?
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> On 13 July 2016 at 04:37, Shintaro Takechi  wrote:
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> > files on the network
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