Vista - Issue with get-content

When I use get-content with the binary flag like

$bytes=get-content $path -encoding byte

Some of the JPEGS I am trying to open cause PowerShell to start eating memory
I am opening a 1.5MB image and in the Task Manager it shows PowerShell going
from about 10,000k to almost 1.5GB memory usage. I have seen this with
multiple JPEGS. It can take a minute or 2 to open one of these files in
binary mode, while opening them without the binary flag, they open up in 2
seconds.

Any one have any ideas? I am writing scripts to upload 1.5 Million docs
into a SharePoint site and this everything appears to be working except for
this.

Thanks

"mdifranco" <mdifranco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BB7DA2A3-DEC0-45DF-B580-447D6215E7D7@microsoft.com...
> When I use get-content with the binary flag like
>
> $bytes=get-content $path -encoding byte
>
> Some of the JPEGS I am trying to open cause PowerShell to start eating
> memory
> I am opening a 1.5MB image and in the Task Manager it shows PowerShell
> going
> from about 10,000k to almost 1.5GB memory usage. I have seen this with
> multiple JPEGS. It can take a minute or 2 to open one of these files in
> binary mode, while opening them without the binary flag, they open up in 2
> seconds.
>
> Any one have any ideas? I am writing scripts to upload 1.5 Million docs
> into a SharePoint site and this everything appears to be working except
> for
> this.

I think it is safe to say that this an area that needs some serious
optimization. For now I would just bypass get-content and use this .NET
method. It is quite fast:

$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\Users\Keith\Pictures\Foo.JPG')

--
Keith

"Keith Hill [MVP]" wrote:

>
> "mdifranco" <mdifranco@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BB7DA2A3-DEC0-45DF-B580-447D6215E7D7@microsoft.com...
> > When I use get-content with the binary flag like
> >
> > $bytes=get-content $path -encoding byte
> >
> > Some of the JPEGS I am trying to open cause PowerShell to start eating
> > memory
> > I am opening a 1.5MB image and in the Task Manager it shows PowerShell
> > going
> > from about 10,000k to almost 1.5GB memory usage. I have seen this with
> > multiple JPEGS. It can take a minute or 2 to open one of these files in
> > binary mode, while opening them without the binary flag, they open up in 2
> > seconds.
> >
> > Any one have any ideas? I am writing scripts to upload 1.5 Million docs
> > into a SharePoint site and this everything appears to be working except
> > for
> > this.
>
> I think it is safe to say that this an area that needs some serious
> optimization. For now I would just bypass get-content and use this .NET
> method. It is quite fast:
>
> $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes('C:\Users\Keith\Pictures\Foo.JPG')
>
> --
> Keith
>

Thanks Keith,
I ended up using the .Net classes all ready.

$fs = new-object System.IO.FileStream($path,[System.IO.FileMode]::Open,
[System.IO.FileAccess]::Read)
$fs.open
$br = new-object System.IO.BinaryReader($fs)
$bytes=[byte[]] $br.ReadBytes($fs.Length)

Looks like you code is a little simpler.