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VS 2005 Annoyance -- "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation"

Has anyone else seen this message when trying to compile a solution? My dev box has 2 gigs of memory with about 1 gig free when i get this. I get this about once or twice a week.

The only way to get around this is to restart the IDE, kinda annoying....

Has anyone else seen this?

Published May 01 2007, 10:06 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net IDE

Comments

Jeremy said:

Yup, I've seen it too. Ironically, I didn't start seeing it until I upgraded my box from 1GB of memory to 2GBs. I think I just got a little more 'liberal' with my Visual Studio instances after that.

I see it many 2 -3 times a month.

# May 1, 2007 11:26 AM

Kevin said:

I am not sure that it is VS (or at least the IDE part). We have some internal tools that call msbuild directly and I've seen that before on occasion. I've only observed this issue occur when trying to compile projects with a lot of references so I wonder if that has something to do with it.

# May 1, 2007 12:57 PM

Brett said:

I periodically delete my solutions .SUO "prefs" file, as when this grows too large (on web projects, for e.g.) it can cause VS to use huge amounts of RAM and finally die.

# May 1, 2007 2:08 PM

Derik Whittaker said:

Brett,

I like your idea, i will try it.

My solution file has 13 projects (some are large) so maybe this could help.

Thanks,

Derik

# May 1, 2007 3:02 PM

adrianbanks said:

I had this recently. It was an error in Visual Studio, but it originated from MSBuild whilst trying to compile. A restart of VS solved the problem though.

# August 10, 2007 2:20 PM

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About Derik Whittaker

Derik is a .Net Developer/Architect specializing in WinForms working out the northern suburbs of Chicago. He is also believer and advocate for Agile development including SCRUM, TDD, CI, etc.

When Derik is not writing code he can be found spending time with his wife and young son, climbing on his bouldering wall, watching sports (mostly baseball), and generally vegging out.