odd MSVC link.exe behavior

Every now and again, link.exe will decide that he needs to start another process of himself, which will chug for a few seconds, and then stop. Then the original link process will take much longer to finish than usual, and also use much much more memory ( usually it goes up to 500MB or so ). This is with MSVC 2003's link.exe, and will sometimes happen when only linking 1 new object file ( although I don't know if the number of new obj's actually matters ).


Has anybody else seen this, or have any idea why it would happen?

This is the sort of question you search for on Microsoft's knowledge base - goto msdn.microsoft.com

I had searched the knowledge base, but couldn't find anything. I just realized there's a forum over there, so I'm going to ask the same question over there.