MSVC Package Server blocking the system

Question

Suddenly, after opening my solution, the Visual Studio background process "Microsoft (R) Visual C++ Package Server" starts consuming all available resources, especially memory, leading to swapping and effectively grounding the system to a halt.

When killing the process, it immediately starts up again which allowed me to take this screenshot after it allocated nearly 3 GB of memory in about 2 seconds: http://i43.tinypic.com/14todc9.png

I tried deleting the .sdf, .suo and other generated files from the directory of the solution but that didn't help.

Any tips?

Best regards

Marcus

Edit: the problem appears with both Ultimate and Express editions of MSVC

Edit: I seem to have found a possible source for this problem.

Putting the following code from outside inside a class, it will cause the above symptoms:

    static std::map<int, Platform::String^> documentCategories = []() {
        std::map<int, Platform::String^> result;
        result[0] = "unknown";
        result[1] = "receipt";
        result[2] = "invoice";
        result[3] = "contract";
        result[4] = "manual";
        result[5] = "shipping";
        return result;
      }();

Answer 1

Hello Marcus,

I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
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