I've attempted to write a windows service that creates one FileSystemWatch er
for each entry in a XML config file. Everything start perfrectly and runs
as I expect for about 5 minutes and then after that the FileSystemWatch ers
seem to stop monitoring... My theory is that for some reason the Garbage
Collector is trashing my FileSystemWatch ers.
Another clue to my situation is that I just took my service and made it into
a windows form application and it's been running overnight without any
problems. What am I overlooking? Can anyone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks,
Craig
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Craig,
I have been using watcher in windows service. Sometimes when you start a
program from the watching event and that program breaks, the whole watcher
service appear to break. If you attach the debugger to windows service, you
would find out that the main window service thread would be stuck in some
other part of program, thus ignoring further watcher interrupts. To make
sure all watcher events are always handled, I write a very small process
which just pushes the required info in SQL Server table and relinquish the
control back to listener. The time consuming main program then looks in the
SQL Server table, pops off the watcher generated rows, and process them at
its Owen convenience reducing the risk of overlooking watcher event.
Fakher Halim
"Craig Thompson >" <cthompson@trcs olutions<NO Spam> wrote in message
news:OY******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I've attempted to write a windows service that creates one
FileSystemWatch er for each entry in a XML config file. Everything start perfrectly and runs
as I expect for about 5 minutes and then after that the FileSystemWatch ers
seem to stop monitoring... My theory is that for some reason the Garbage
Collector is trashing my FileSystemWatch ers.
Another clue to my situation is that I just took my service and made it
into a windows form application and it's been running overnight without any
problems. What am I overlooking? Can anyone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks,
Craig
Fakher,
Thanks for the response and the advice. I'll give it a shot...
Craig
"Fakher Halim" <fa****@msn.com > wrote in message
news:Oo******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Craig,
I have been using watcher in windows service. Sometimes when you start a
program from the watching event and that program breaks, the whole watcher
service appear to break. If you attach the debugger to windows service,
you would find out that the main window service thread would be stuck in some
other part of program, thus ignoring further watcher interrupts. To make
sure all watcher events are always handled, I write a very small process
which just pushes the required info in SQL Server table and relinquish the
control back to listener. The time consuming main program then looks in
the SQL Server table, pops off the watcher generated rows, and process them at
its Owen convenience reducing the risk of overlooking watcher event.
Fakher Halim
"Craig Thompson >" <cthompson@trcs olutions<NO Spam> wrote in message
news:OY******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I've attempted to write a windows service that creates one
FileSystemWatch er for each entry in a XML config file. Everything start perfrectly and
runs as I expect for about 5 minutes and then after that the
FileSystemWatch ers seem to stop monitoring... My theory is that for some reason the
Garbage Collector is trashing my FileSystemWatch ers.
Another clue to my situation is that I just took my service and made it
into a windows form application and it's been running overnight without any
problems. What am I overlooking? Can anyone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks,
Craig
Just to follow-up for anyone who runs into this problem in the future...
Fakher's suggestion worked. I changed my service to only execute a stored
procedure that writes a record to a SQL table when a FileSystemWatch er event
is triggered. Then periodically, I have another thread on the service that
looks at this table for new files to process. This seems to have freed up
the FileSystemWatch er thread and my service does not mysteriously stop
anymore...
Craig
"Craig Thompson >" <cthompson@trcs olutions<NO Spam> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP09.phx.gbl. .. Fakher,
Thanks for the response and the advice. I'll give it a shot...
Craig
"Fakher Halim" <fa****@msn.com > wrote in message
news:Oo******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl... Craig,
I have been using watcher in windows service. Sometimes when you start a
program from the watching event and that program breaks, the whole
watcher service appear to break. If you attach the debugger to windows service,
you would find out that the main window service thread would be stuck in
some other part of program, thus ignoring further watcher interrupts. To make
sure all watcher events are always handled, I write a very small process
which just pushes the required info in SQL Server table and relinquish
the control back to listener. The time consuming main program then looks in
the SQL Server table, pops off the watcher generated rows, and process them
at its Owen convenience reducing the risk of overlooking watcher event.
Fakher Halim
"Craig Thompson >" <cthompson@trcs olutions<NO Spam> wrote in message
news:OY******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I've attempted to write a windows service that creates one
FileSystemWatch er for each entry in a XML config file. Everything start perfrectly and runs as I expect for about 5 minutes and then after that the FileSystemWatch ers seem to stop monitoring... My theory is that for some reason the Garbage Collector is trashing my FileSystemWatch ers.
Another clue to my situation is that I just took my service and made
it into a windows form application and it's been running overnight without any
problems. What am I overlooking? Can anyone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks,
Craig
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