Intermittent out-of-memory errors with the 3.4.153-alpha release in Visual Studio
See original GitHub issueHi,
I tried installing the 3.4.142-alpha release into a small project a while back and it all seemed ok, but then more recently tried in with a much larger solution and started seeing #540.
I’ve now tried updating that larger solution to the 3.4.153-alpha package, and that seems to work ok for a few builds, but then starts failing with
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: The "Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Tasks.GetBuildVersion" task failed unexpectedly.
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: System.IO.IOException: Not enough memory resources are available to process this command.
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018:
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles.MemoryMappedView.CreateView(SafeMemoryMappedFileHandle memMappedFileHandle, MemoryMappedFileAccess access, Int64 offset, Int64 size)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles.MemoryMappedFile.CreateViewAccessor(Int64 offset, Int64 size, MemoryMappedFileAccess access)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitPack..ctor(GetObjectFromRepositoryDelegate getObjectFromRepositoryDelegate, Lazy`1 indexStream, Func`1 packStream, GitPackCache cache)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitPack..ctor(GetObjectFromRepositoryDelegate getObjectFromRepositoryDelegate, String indexPath, String packPath, GitPackCache cache)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitPack..ctor(GitRepository repository, String name)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitRepository.LoadPacks()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at System.Lazy`1.CreateValue()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at System.Lazy`1.LazyInitValue()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at System.Lazy`1.get_Value()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitRepository.TryGetObjectBySha(GitObjectId sha, String objectType, Stream& value)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitRepository.GetObjectBySha(GitObjectId sha, String objectType)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitRepository.GetCommit(GitObjectId sha, Boolean readAuthor)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.ManagedGit.GitRepository.GetHeadCommit(Boolean readAuthor)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Managed.ManagedGitContext..ctor(String workingDirectory, String dotGitPath, String committish)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.GitContext.Create(String path, String committish, Boolean writable)
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Tasks.GetBuildVersion.ExecuteInner()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at MSBuildExtensionTask.ContextAwareTask.Execute()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
1>C:\Users\Richard Webb\.nuget\packages\nerdbank.gitversioning\3.4.153-alpha\build\Nerdbank.GitVersioning.Inner.targets(17,5): error MSB4018: at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__26.MoveNext()
And once it gets into that state it keeps failing until I close and reopen Visual Studio (just closing and reopening the solution doesn’t seem to fix it).
I’ve also only seen the error when building inside Visual Studio (2019) - dotnet build from the command line seems ok.
The git repo for the project that gets the error is quite large (over 400 megabytes), whereas the one where it’s ok is trivial. I’m not sure if there is an issue with large data, or if that case just happens to fail over some other issue more quickly?
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I’ve just given it a go, and the new version does seem to have fixed it 😃
@Numpsy version 3.4.161-alpha, which is available on NuGet, should contain a fix for this. Could you give that version a try and let me know if it resolved the issue for you?