What version of the WiX toolset are you using? That sounds like an unexpected performance problem. It would be awesome if you wanted to do a little profiling to see if there is one particular part of the processing that takes longer than others. The verbose switch *might* give you enough info to track down when light goes into "hog your machine mode".
More likely than not, we'll find a bug (or two) that needs fixing. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Pönitz Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:05 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] light bogging down my machine Hi all. I have the problem that longer runs of 'light' make my desktop machine basically unusable for any other task in that time (unless one counts the display of partially updated windows as 'task'...) I do not really understand the reason for that. Windows thinks my desktop machine has two CPUs with the consequence that other CPU intensive applications usually use only 50% of the 'full power' - at least when I restrict them to use only one processor in the task manager. 'light' differs and seemingly ignores that setting. They only way I can use my machine during the time light runs is to reduce the priority of the light task to the minimum - which otoh means it does not make any visible progress anymore. I could imagine that this is some consequence of the CLR implementation running in 'kernel mode'. Is that possible? If so, how could I restrict it to use one CPU only? Andre' PS: Is it common that 'light' needs _8 minutes_ to create a 200MB setup with 5500 components? It's hard to imagine that writing a few(?) table entries and a 200MB file needs _that_ long (this is without validation btw). Writing a file of that size filled with random numbers (including creating them) takes about 17 seconds so it does not seem to be a disk issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.php&p=sourceforge&CID=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.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
