Fatal error: out of memory

[NicholasAL]

When I attempted today to update the indexing for an external hard drive I recently added several large files to, Everything 1.5 repeatedly crashed with the attached error message:

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Even closing all other programs to free up as much memory as I could did not fix the problem. I saw that I was not using the latest version and updated to 1.5.0.1383a.x86, but still ran into the same fatal error.

I have consistently found that 1.5 takes up massive amounts of memory - I do not have "Index file content" enabled, for the record - but up until now I was able to at least get it to work.

[void]

Please try the x64 version of Everything.
The x86 version is limited to 2GB of RAM.

Backup your %APPDATA%\Everything folder
Uninstall Everything x86
Restore your %APPDATA%\Everything folder
Install Everything x64

[Fetterbr1961]

Hi.
I am running Win11 and i get same error every time i start up my pc. I am running 1.5a64 and the only way i can work is by removing Everything from the startup.
I love the program but as of now i have to look for other apps to do the job

[void]

Please try forcing a fresh reindex:

• Please make sure Everything is not running (File -> Exit)
• In Windows Explorer, type in the following address and press ENTER:
  
  %LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything
• Delete your Everything.db
• Restart Everything.
• Click OK.

[Fetterbr1961]

I did what you said.
I restarted the pc also and opened Everything app.
It started to Index Properties and came to around 35 %, i got a black screen. I could see on the Task Manager that it used around 98 to 99 % memory.
When i restart the PC and delete the Everything Icon in the right bottom list of atarted apps there is no problem so it is coming from the indexing.

[void]

What properties are you indexing?

Everything -> Help -> Troubleshooting Information.

[Fetterbr1961]

Everything: 1.5.0.1383a (x64)
OS: Windows NT 10.0 22631 (x64)
Admin: 0
Service: 1 (connected / installed and running)
Command line:
Config: include_file_content=1
Config: content_include_only_files=
Config: content_exclude_recall_on_data_access=0

[void]

Everything is not designed to index the content of all files.

Please set an include only files filter.
(Tools -> Options -> Content -> Include only files)

For example:

*.txt;*.docx;*.pdf


-or-


Use the Windows index to index and search content from Everything:

Searching the Windows index
si:

[Herkules97]

Use Process Explorer to get a better understanding of the memory in use, there are other more in-depth programs I presume, but Process Explorer should help get a sense of how much it actually uses. The default columns should be enough.
EBV does not take up massive amounts of memory, it depends entirely on what you have.
I have all standard and 6 extra properties for one device that has 52 million files on it, it should take around 9GB when it finishes re-indexing. The original had only standard properties and took about 8GB. This is GB of "Private Bytes" in Process Explorer as I do not use Task Manager for memory checks.
A quick glance at "Commit Charge", may not be a part of the default stats for the status bar, helps shed light on the real memory limit in Windows.

If no more replies, I suppose the conclusion is that it was content indexing and disabling or excluding file types fixed EBV accumulating too much memory from trying to index it all.