try switching off antivirus and similar products fiddling around with your
files behind your back..
On 5/11/07, Igor Maslov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Switching off MSI validation does not seem quite right, but having build
last
for 10 hours is not acceptable as well.
I wonder why light.exe takes only 3-8% of CPU and almost no hard drive
activity mosst of the time.
What it actually does?
Brett Kapilik wrote:
>
> You can try using -sval to supress the MSI validation. That is what eats
> up most of the time. But of couse, you miss out on validation...
>
> However, for doing test builds, that should speed it up.
>
> - Brett
>
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>> Igor Maslov
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>> Subject: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is
>> safe use to make link faster?
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have several thousand files in the installation and linking
>> stage is very slow. It takes more than an hour per language.
>>
>> I tried to use -ss option with no effect. Cabinet creation is
>> not the reason, since I have the same slow times for
>> uncompressed files.
>>
>> What checks can I switch off safely to make link step faster?
>>
>> Most of the time CPU usage is very low and file activity also
>> low. I'm not sure what it is actually doing.
>>
>> Thank You,
>> Igor
>>
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