I have VS 2013 and Microsoft Windows 8.1
The issue appeared at the ending of last week. Without any updating or important changing, when I do somethings in VS, disk usage reaches 100%. For example, when I click on "Check In" button in the "Team Explorer" window, disk usage raises up to 100%. Sometimes by a simple right-click in text editor this problems happens.
I googled about 100% disk usage problem but there are some things about this problem on windows 8.1 but on my computer, all applications are running without any problem, just VS2013 has a "full disk usage" problem.
Some information about my system:
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro
OS Version: 6.3.9600 N/A Build 9600
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3GenuineIntel ~3500 Mhz
Total Physical Memory: 8,131 MB
Available Physical Memory: 3,836 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 10,947 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 5,275 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 5,672 MB
Page File Location(s): C:\pagefile.sys
(Comment for others landing here as #Marta explains that the problem no longer persists on their machine.)
In general, any performance issue in Visual Studio should be reported to Microsoft. It's easy to do this directly from VS using the Report a Problem tool. That feature will automatically attach logs/traces which are shared privately with Microsoft. Internally, tooling will analyse those attachments to assign a ticket to the relevant team. With such attachments, there is a high likelihood that the problem can be diagnosed and fixed in a future release of Visual Studio.
Instructions on the Report a Problem tool:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-report-a-problem-with-visual-studio?view=vs-2019
If you prefer to diagnose high disk IO yourself, FileMon can be a useful tool:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/filemon
I am using Visual Code 1.71.2 as well as Visual Studio 2022 (Community Edition) on Windows 10. I am also facing the same issue.
After lot of checking, found disabling superfetch mitigates this issue. But again, Windows, applications startup take lot of time.
As a workaround, I found that by clearing %temp% folder after using visual studio or code eliminates this issue and disk activity is normal.
But every time, I may not remember this cleanup and hate it for forgetting :(
Hope this helps someone in similar situation.
It could be related to Visual Studio updates - which would show under C:\ProgramData\Package Cache.
A disk space management tool like TreeSize Pro will help figure it out though ... it will show which directory is using the most space. You can then target what aspect of Visual Studio is eating up your drive space.
There is a free trial at https://www.jam-software.com/treesize/
You can also use this tool to export and post a screenshot / export of the usage here and it may help identify what is going on.
I had a similar issue that turned out to be the built-in git provider having issues with large codebases containing a moderate-to-large amount of changes before a commit.
Changing to a third-party one fixed the issue.
The operating system manages the resources (CPU cores, disk drives, GPU) to deliver what you have asked of it.
Ideally (what the OS designers are hoping for), when you perform an action, all the resources spin up into action and due to a well balanced system, they all go to 100% utilization, for a brief length of time, then go back to idle.
This form of utilization is, in practice impossible to achieve, as the PC builders would have to know what your system is going to be used for.
When the task manager describes the CPU as 100% utilized, it means that all the cores on the box, are busy running code, and are the bottleneck.
When the task manager describes the disk as 100% utilized, it (as far as I can tell), means that there is always a queue of items to be read, or written to/from the disk. Even with 100% utilization, it may be that the metric is the only reason you are concerned, and the system is otherwise responsive.
In either of these cases, it shows that for a given workload, the CPU or the disk drive has become the rate determining step.
In practice, it should not matter, unless the length of time the system is at 100% is longer than a few minutes, or that your machine feels otherwise sluggish.
Further diagnosis can be performed by using the tool Sys internals : procmon, or the Microsoft : ADK
I would look using the procmon, at what files are being accessed during the 100%disk usage period, and decide whether
The behavior is sensible (if not raise a bug with Microsoft)
The machine is working usably (if not consider a hybrid or ssd disk)
I've had some exasperating problems with disk usage and source control explorer.
What fixed the issue for me was making sure that I never opened Source Control Explorer in more than one project at a time, keep it closed when I could and limit the amount of VS instances you have open.
An SSD may can solve this... Are you sure this is caused by visual studio? when I was using Windows 8.1, the Windows Defender get to 100% disk usage from time to time. If you're sure it occurs when you use Visual Studio, you can try to repair it using the installer. Hope these would help you.
Try moving the source code to SSD drive.
HDDs have much slower disk I/O performance compared to SSD drives.
Generally in windows C drive comes as SSD drive.
Related
In an application I'm working on, under certain conditions the memory usage will shoot through the roof, effectively locking up my computer. I don't think it's a memory leak, and there are no errors, it just needs too much memory. The memory usage jumps to 99% in Task Manager and Windows stops working, forcing me to reboot.
Is it possible to set a maximum amount of memory VS can use while debugging? I'm not looking for a way to make it run out of memory faster, I just want to keep some memory free so Windows can keep working.
Visual Studio 2010
Windows 7 64b
8GB RAM
C# .NET
Edit:
I'm not asking how to fix a memory leak. I'm trying to limit the memory used by the VS debugger. For example, my PC has 8GB RAM, but my application has to run on a PC with 2GB RAM. So I want to configure VS to only use 2GB. If the application tries to allocate 2.0001GB I want VS to tell it there is no more memory (probably causing a crash).
This isn't exactly the answer you were looking for, but it might help others, so I'm posting:
I would try the following:
1) Download Oracle Virtualbox
2) Download Disk2VHD.exefrom Microsoft Sysinternals
3) Clone your system using Disk2VHD
4) Configure a VM with the memory restrictions you want.
In this way you can restrict the RAM and CPUs used by your task, and possibly recover easier from the case you describe.
Im using ReSharper 6 in a Vs 2010 Pro environment and are doing some pretty large scale projects. Development box includes 2 x quadcore xeon with 24 GB ram. Project's are running on a PCI-E x4 SSD drive with 1GB/s read and write (for real). So, i suppose there is not much I can do to give the development machine more power.
The worst project is an Umbraco site with roughly 14000 files and folders and some pretty nasty css. I got everything from second long freezes to 30 sec VS freezout.
I've optimized VS2010 according to every guide available in VS optimization. Even enabled the 64bit memory enhancement but the problems continue.
I've even added the media library folder to the skip list.
Are there any other magic tricks someone would know of, please let me know!
gorohoroh's comment lead me to the solution, the 6.1 nightly dec 13 rocks!
Thanks
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+6.1+Nightly+Builds
I am using 7.0.1 and I find that it's killing my machine too.
However, it normally happens if I have more than one VS2010 open.
If it happens then the only way of fixing it I have found is to close VS, delete the DotSettings.user and the suo, and then reopen.
I'm using 6.1, and find that it slows down over time, and typing becomes really laggy. I've just discovered that when it starts to chug, if I go to "Tools..Options..ReSharper..General", then click on Suspend, then Resume - it goes back to it's initial speed.
Environment:
Visual Studio Ultimate 2010
Windows XP
WPF Desktop Application using .NET 4.0
We have a desktop application which plays a video. This video is part of a project and the project is packaged into the installer. Every once in a while building the installer project shows this error message:
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation
If I restart Visual Studio it works.
Is there a way to avoid this? Is there a better way to package videos in an installer?
This usually happens when the build process needs a lot of RAM memory and cannot get it. Since restarting Visual Studio fixes the problem, most likely it also your case.
Try closing some of the running applications. You can also try adding more RAM to your machine or increasing the page file.
I came across this question when trying to compile my C# solution in Visual Studio 2010 in Windows XP. One project had a fair number of embedded resources in (the size of the resultant assembly was ~140MiB) and I couldn't compile the solution because I was getting the
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation
error in my build output.
None of the answers on this question helped, but I did find an answer to "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" by ScottBurton42 on social.msdn.microsoft.com. It suggests adding the 3GB switch to the Boot.ini file, and making devenv.exe large-address aware. Adding the 3GB switch to my Boot.ini file was what worked for me (I think devenv.exe for Visual Studio 2010 and above is already large-address aware).
My answer is based on that answer.
Solution 1: Set the /3GB Boot.ini switch
The page Memory Support and Windows Operating Systems on MSDN says:
The virtual address space of processes and applications is still limited to 2 GB unless the /3GB switch is used in the Boot.ini file.
The /3GB switch allocates 3 GB of virtual address space to an application that uses IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE in the process header. This switch allows applications to address 1 GB of additional virtual address space above 2 GB.
The virtual address space of processes and applications is still limited to 2 GB, unless the /3GB switch is used in the Boot.ini file. The following example shows how to add the /3GB parameter in the Boot.ini file to enable application memory tuning:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="????" /3GB
Note "????" in the previous example is be the programmatic name of the operating system.
In Windows XP, the Boot.ini file can be modified by going to
System Properties → Advanced → Startup and Recovery → Settings → System Startup → Edit
The page on the /3GB switch on MSDN says:
On 32-bit versions of Windows, the /3GB parameter enables 4 GT RAM Tuning, a feature that enlarges the user-mode virtual address space to 3 GB and restricts the kernel-mode components to the remaining 1 GB.
The /3GB parameter is supported on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000. On Windows Vista and later versions of Windows, use the IncreaseUserVA element in BCDEdit.
Restarting the machine will then cause the setting to take effect.
Solution 2: Make devenv.exe large address aware:
Open up a Visual Studio Command Prompt (or a Developer Command Prompt, depending on the version of Visual Studio)
Type and execute the following command line:
editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE {path}\devenv.exe`
where {path} is the path to devenv.exe (you can find this by going to the properties of the Visual Studio shortcut).
This will allow devenv.exe to access 3GB of memory instead of 2GB.
Problem
In my case, the problem was with a test project containing a very large (1.5GB) test file as an embedded resource. I have 16GB RAM in my machine with 8GB free when this occurred, so RAM was not the issue.
It is possible that we are hitting the 2 GB limit that the CLR has on any single object. Without delving into what MSBuild is doing under the hood, I can only speculate that during compile time, the embedded resource is loaded into an object graph that is hitting this limit.
The Error message is very unhelpful. My first thought when I saw it was, "Have I run out of disk space?"
Solution
It is a file validation test project. One of the requirements is to be able to handle files of this size, so on face value my team thought it reasonable to embed it for use in test cases.
We fixed the error by moving the file onto the network (in the same way that it would be accessed by the validator in production) and marking the test as an integration test instead of a unit test. After-all, aren't unit tests supposed to be fast-running?
Cleaning And rebuilding the solution worked for me
For Visual Studio, you can try to do the following:
Close All Visual Studio instances.
Open Visual Studio Developer tool in Administrator mode.
Navigate to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE.
Type following:
editbin /LARGEADDRESSAWARE devenv.exe.
It's worth also to restart PC.
Hope this helps )
In my case, I had very less memory left in C drive. I cleared few items from C drive and tried again. It worked.
I might be late to answer but for future reference, you might want to check the Windows dump file settings (and probably set it to none).
In my case the server I was executing the code on couldn't handle my parallelized code.
Normally I'm running a setup like the following
new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = Math.Max(1, Environment.ProcessorCount / 2) }
Introducing a variable and allowing lockdown of cores used to 1 (resulting in code like the following), resolved this issue for me.
new ParallelOptions { MaxDegreeOfParallelism = 1 }
The key for me:
We had embedded a huge database template (testing had filled it with lots of data) into the application. I have not seen this issue arise since removing Embedded Resource boils properly and moving the database to a recourse folder.
My fix this problem with delete or disable(exclude) the *.rpt files that have large size;and I've optimize the my reports!
I am late to Answer but may be useful for others
In my case just restarting Visual Studio fixes the problem
A couple of times recently I have noticed that 'something' is causing the Windows System Process to sit at 50+% and it will not quit until the PC is rebooted. Happening on Win2k and Win XP so far.
This is particularly troublesome because it currently appears to be triggered by MSVC 2005/Incredibuild and rebooting the build servers is not a nice thing.
At the same time the 'System Idle Process' process is holding the rest of the CPU and the build steps themselves seem to be starved. ie. a module that normally takes <5 minutes to compile is currently taking 20+.
I'd take a few guesses at maybe being virus checker or tortoise svn but would desperatly like some other suggestions.
Edit:
I've been experiencing this as something that is triggered, and the culprit may not be ongoing. Thats not to say that some other ongoing process hasn't done something 'stupid' and is managing an active lock up of System while appearing to be idle itself.
System (100% of 1 core), and System Idle Process are sharing 98-100% of the total CPU.
Occasionaly mt.exe, link.exe, buildservice would get a look in at 1-2%.
I'm running VNC to view the machine, so it's getting a look in on occasion.
Edit 2:
When left the previous evening the build process seemed to be progressing all be it slowly, but after waiting another 13 hours the 1 hour build process hasn't completed. System is still hogging the 1 core.
My understanding is that the "System" process is the time spent in the kernel (so performing disk I/O, network I/O (you did mention Incredibuild) and the like) -- I'd check for disk fragmentation, virus checkers and possibly look at these on other machines in your Incredibuild cluster.
As the System Idle process runs at "Low" priority, it's a red herring that it'd be "taking up CPU time" -- if anything it's just showing that there is available CPU time available. The fact the processing is stuck to a single processor shows that the process is doing something that is not multi-core aware, or someone has set it's thread affinity to 1.
I've noticed the virus checking software that I use can radically slow down compilation but it does not extend beyond the end of the build. Turning off advanced and heuristic checking improves this to the extent that I do not have to disable the scanner entirely. I have changed my scanning strategy such that I use scheduled full scans now more than advanced on the fly scanning, as it hurts the perfromance of a number of apps. (n.b. I am using the latest cut of Kaspersky). I'm also using an automated backup tool (AJCBackup) that also needs to be restrained when compiling.
You may also want to consider disableing the Windows Indexing service on drives that are be used to create a lot of temporary and object files, as it doesn't provide much value in this context for the amount of performance it draws.
Edit: Have checked which processes are actually hogging the CPU core and traced them back to a given app?
We've encountered issues with Kaspersky and Incredibuild in our offices - compiles and sometimes links will just hang and never finish.
Only seems to affect some machines though which is wierd, and only Windows XP (Vista seems immune from what I've seen).
Only solution I've found so far is to turn Kaspersky off entirely - so if you find a solution then let me know!
RE: smacl, work from the Windows Search/Indexing Service (WSearch) won't be attributed to the System process's CPU time, it should come from the SearchIndexer.exe/SearchFilterHost.exe services (Vista+).
The majority of activity from System you will see will be in disk activity from the lazy writer and other disk accesses. CPU activity from System will be because of kernel activity such as drivers (ISRs/DPCs) and other kernel-level filters (which could include AV file and process filters).
Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) can aid in viewing CPU usage across processes, including System. You can use the public Microsoft Symbol Server and this resource to get you started.
If you can take a trace with Xperf (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx), I can help you analyze where the CPU time is being spent in the System (kernel) context. Xperf isn't officially supported on XP, but you can take a trace on XP and analyze it on other systems.
Xperf and Process Explorer should be able to shine a spotlight on exactly the module(s) that are causing the runaway CPU usage. Symbols may not even be necessary to diagnose the problem; simply the module name can often point to the component in question that is slowing down your system. For example, high CPU usage from ndis.sys can point to network interrupts, or activity from modules such as aavmker4.sys can point to AV software (Avast! in this case).
And as always, check if there are any updated drivers and AV software for your system.
In my office, a conflict between Incredibuild and Spyware Doctor's Immunize feature caused similar issues. Turning off Immunize solved it for us.
What anti-virus/malware do you use?
I'm having same hangs when compiling using IncrediBuild in VS2003, on clean Windows 7 without any anti-virus. It worked fine on same box in XP and Vista.
Which features and services in Vista can you remove with nLite (or tool of choice) to make a Virtual PC-image of Vista as small as possible?
The VPC must work with development in Visual Studio.
A normal install of Vista today is like 12-14 GB, which is silly when I got it to work with Visual Studio at 4 GB. But with Visual Studio it totals around 8 GB which is a bit heavy to move around in multiple copies.
You can try and cut stuff out with vLite, but unless you cut out a real lot it's not going to save a ton of drive space. Here's your best bets:
Disable Hibernate and run disk cleanup to remove any hibernation file.
Disable System restore entirely and use disk cleanup to remove all restore points... this will save an enormous amount of space.
Disable SuperFetch (since it kills your VM hard drive with it's crazy usage)
Minimize the size of your pagefile by setting a smaller static size and make sure to assign lots of memory to your VM to compensate.
Use the disk utilities to shrink your VM drive down as far as possible.
Once you have the base machine configured, I would suggest using VMware workstation and the awesome Linked Clones feature, which will let you create a completely new VM based on the base machine, but only using a portion of the space.
I would not advise running a Vista VM from a USB flash drive, it will be slower than dirt.