VA 1619 crash consistently on my Vista machine during high memory load.
Vista uses up 98% of my memory (2GB + 4GB virtual) during intense data streaming either over internet or watching a local HD movie. If I activate VS2005 or VS2008 during that condition va_x.dll cause VS to crash.
I realize this is very vague and difficult to reproduce. But I believe VA tries to allocate some large chunks of memory that fails and subsequently crash the entire studio. Would it be possible to contain the crash within VA if this happens?
One could argue that Vista's memory manager is incredibly stupid, but that's not going to change any time soon. =)
I've reverted to XP now, because Vista is generally unusable on my machine. So I can't test 1626. It's odd though if I'm the only one with this problem...
I don't recall anyone else reporting anything like this. Given the general problems you were seeing with Vista on your machine it is possible that these more general problems were somehow causing this.
I am also seeing crashes of Visual Studio 2005 with Visual Assist 1626. I'm working on a project with a very, very large number of source files, if that matters. At random times my IDE completely disappears mid-stride...no error dialogs or anything, just *poof* to the desktop. I can not currently get this to happen reliably.
I do not recall this problem occurring before a week ago. At that time I was using 1624, and I then moved to 1626 to see if that fixed the problem. It has not.
If you open VA's Open File in Solution dialog (Alt-Shift-O) the title bar contains two numbers. The first number is the number of files currently listed, which changes as you filter the list. The second number is the total number of files in the list, which is normally the number of files in your solution. What is this second number?
Can you please go to:
VA Options -> System Info -> Copy Info
and paste the details (from the clipboard) into this thread. This will give us the basic information about your setup.
How often are you seeing this crash? Every few minutes? Ever few days? Every few weeks? Does there seem to be any form of pattern to this?
VA 1619 Consistent crash
Posted - Feb 20 2008 : 04:21:14 AM
