"Aspa" <Aspa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> With a laptop 1.8 Ghz centrino, 2GB mem, running on Vista beta2 this
> produces
> the same result.
> Guess is has to do with filling up the column space to create a table with
> the width given. using a width of 214748364 (one digit less) on the same
> command allready creates a .txt file 1.7 GB in size (takes a while to
> create)
I'm using a 1.67 GHz AMD, 768 MiB RAM and get errors even when I cut it down
by a factor of 16. This suggests the problem really is a memory error, and
therefore system-dependent.
> A list won't use up the width given because the lines aren't long enough.
> Giving this width just results in lines not being cut off. Much less
> memory
> is used this way.
Yes. This produces some interesting issues since we've seen similar errors
in other contexts. First, it looks to me as though the technique used for
allocation is bad; the memory is consumed even if not needed. Another thing
is that there is no simple way to say "give me as much length as I need but
no longer" when specifying output width, and that's what we really want.
> I don't know if these assumptions are correct, but seems logical to me. I
> do
> like to know if my guess about the table width is correct and could it be
> that a table with less characters wouldn't produce this error, but than
> system memory would matter asswel.
>
> grt
> Aspa
>
> "Alex K. Angelopoulos [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Could I get someone else to validate errors using the maximum
>> possible -width for Out-File when output is going to be tabular?
>>
>> PS> Get-Command | Out-File -FilePath c:\temp\output.txt -Width 2147483647
>> out-lineoutput : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was
>> thrown.
>>
>> PS> Get-Command | Out-File -FilePath c:\temp\output.txt -Width 0x7fffffff
>> out-lineoutput : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was
>> thrown.
>>
>> PS> Get-Command | Format-Table -Property * | Out-File -FilePath
>> c:\temp\output.txt -Width 0x7fffffff
>> out-lineoutput : Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was
>> thrown.
>>
>> Note that if I either explicitly use Format-List or use Select-Object *
>> (which forces list formatting) that it works fine:
>>
>> PS> Get-Command | Format-List -Property * | Out-File -FilePath
>> c:\temp\output.txt -Width 0x7fffffff
>> PS> Get-Command | Select-Object -Property * | Out-File -FilePath
>> c:\temp\output.txt -Width 0x7fffffff
>> PS>
>>
>>
>>