Microsoft KB Archive/918559

= FIX: You may experience slow performance and increased memory usage when you start the debugger for a Visual C++ project in Visual Studio 2005 =

Article ID: 918559

Article Last Modified on 4/13/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Architect Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Test Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario. You open a Microsoft Visual C++ project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. The Visual C++ project contains symbolic debugging information. You set breakpoints in the application code. In this scenario, you may experience the following problems when you start the debugger:
 * You may experience slow performance. For example, it may take several seconds for the debugger to arrive at the breakpoints that you set.

Note This problem is more likely to occur when the Visual C++ project contains large .pdb files.
 * You may experience increased memory usage in the Devenv.exe process.

Note These problems occur only on x86 processors. These problems do not occur on x64 processors or on IA-64 processors.



Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. But the hotfix is intended only to correct the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Visual Studio 2005 service pack that contains this hotfix. To resolve this problem immediately, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=87466

File information
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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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