Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files

ta bu shi da yu writes "It appears that, incredibly, Vista can run out of memory while copying files. ZDNet is reporting that not only does it run out of memory after copying 16,400+ files, but that 'often there is little indication that file copy operations haven't completed correctly.' Apparently a fix was scheduled for SP1 but didn't make it; there is a hotfix that you must request."

Comments

Re:Maybe this stems from...

[WwWonka]

Then you multiply 23 by 30, get 690, take 42, reverse it to 24 and subtruct this from 690. You get 666.
What does that tell you

...that you listen to too much Rush Limbaugh.

Re:We *ALL* need to give Microsoft a dope slap

[tomstdenis]

Bingo. This is what separates the "coders" from the "developers." And for the record I've only been professionally writing software for about 6 years now. Though I started "coding" when I was a kid [e.g. 20 years prior].

Very likely it's just some extra data allocated per file when there is a hook [like AV] involved that isn't getting freed. As others pointed out copying files sans-antivirus seems to work just fine.

This is what debugging skills are about. Diagnose, differentiate, and reason. Don't just guess and then post flamebait on /. hehehe.

Tom