Timers.timer Stops in W2K SP1 With hotfix 900822!!!

[Bobby]

Hi,

We have a .NET 1.1 Windows service which has some timers.timer
running. A while back we notified microsoft and subsequently were
informed of HotFix 900822. On most of our sites, this has resolved the
issue.

On 1 site however, the problem still occurs. We trace output from one
of the timers every second and it runs fine for a while, but then just
stops for no apparent reason. Details are below

- Windows 2003 SP1
- Hotfix is installed
- Timer is set to "AutoReset=False" and is started again in the
finalize section
- Machine has been rebooted multiple times
- .NET 1.1 SP 1 has been installed
- Occurs on multiple machines, but not all
- We're concentrating on 1 machine for now which is a quad processor
- Cannot recreate on W2K3 SP1 outsite of customer site.

Things tried
- Restarting service
- Confirmed hotfix in Add/Remove programs
- Adding threading.sleep(0) at beginning of timer event

Does anyone have any idea as to the problem and how to solve it?

Regards

Bobby

 

[Guest]

We have a problem that is suspiciously similar. Heavily loaded software and
timers don't kick.
Installed SP+hot fix on Monday (19th March) and it ran without a hitch for
60 hours. Now the software will not get much further than show the main form.

WinXP
..NET 1.1 SP1
Hotfix 900822
Dual core machine (doesn't happen on single core machines)

At the moment we have reverted the customer machine to .NET1.1, no SP & no
hotfix.

Would be interested in any ideas?

Neil

 

[kevin goff]

what type of application are you using and which timer class?

 

[Guest]

It's an application that talks via sockets to many (40) remote connections
simultaneously (using async sockets BeginConnect/EndConnect etc etc).

Using System.Threading.Timer for various timers.

Neil