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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."
...haven't done any research, but I've been tricked by kdawson before. As far as I'm concerned, kdawson = "suspect".
Congratulations! You have either a problem with your file system or your Windows installation. I move files around all the time and Explorer never crashes. Scan your file system, repair your installation or reinstall.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Windows box (a Core 2 Duo w/4 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Sempron 3100+ running Ubuntu Linux, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Window box, the same operation would take about 2 seconds. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Mozilla Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Windows computers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Windows box that has run faster than its Linux counterpart. My Pentium III/700 with 128 megs of ram runs faster than this quad-core 2.2GHz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Windows is a superior OS.
Windows addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Windows over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Then you multiply 23 by 30, get 690, take 42, reverse it to 24 and subtruct this from 690. You get 666.
...that you listen to too much Rush Limbaugh.
What does that tell you
Way to post anonymously, fagster.
Yeah right, MS shills in full effect!
You have taken a M$ PR classic and nailed Vista!
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work.
True.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista PC (an Intel Core 2 Duo w/4 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes.
True even before we knew that it was because of some crazy memory eating bug that won't release until reboot.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Vista PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many
Don't worry, there are great lists of these things. Vista is defective by design and no one wants it.
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].
/. hehehe.
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
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
"This is just Yet Another Windows 95 shell bug (yes Vista uses the same shell architecture ported through each version from Win95)."
B...b...but I thought that M$ was an 'innovative' company? I thought Vista was new and shiny technology?
What, they haven't found any new technology they can buy/swindle/steal and claim it's their latest innovation?