Thread: disk space mysteriously gone

  1. 01-20-2004 #1
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    Exclamation disk space mysteriously gone

    I am using MS Visual Studio 6 for my C++ programming. I have 30MB free space when I start out but each time I compile my program the free space decreases more and more until I get a fatal error saying I have no more disk space for compiling in the debugger. When I reboot I get this space back. I tried searching for any temp files or files in the debug folder but couldn't find any large files which grew in size. Would anybody know why 30MB would dissapear? My program isn't that complex yet (21kb for source files) to take that much space.
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    Visual Studio creates a lot of itermidiate files when it debugs/compiles a program. It might not fill up 30mb, but thats to little disk space anyway. Get another drive.
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  3. 01-21-2004 #3
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    virtual memory???

    when your RAM is filled up, windows uses what is known as virtual memory to save the RAM information on the hard drive and then wipes the RAM (this is a short explanation...) so it can have space again. depending on your program and if it uses a lot of RAM, it can take up a lot of hd space.

    One time I made a program (on purpose... a stupid memory eating 'virus') that made large nodes in a linked list in an infinite loop. After running for about 30 seconds... maybe a minute it had used 8 gigs of hd space. It's very likely you are doing something similar on accident. Post some code.
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  4. 01-21-2004 #4
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    It does use alot of STL containers so that could be true. I attatched the files if anyone wants to test it out.
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    just post the code...
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