I am running into a weird problem in my ultra-simple Winforms
application written in C#.
In the Form.Shown event I set a couple of environment variables using
the standard SetEnvironmentV ariable API like so:
Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able("someKey", somevalue,
EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User );
I have 2 such calls. Amazingly it takes nearly 10 seconds for these
two calls to execute! If I comment out these 2 calls and run, the
application is just spiffy and the dialog comes up in no time.
Because it takes 10 seconds for these calls to execute, the dialog
kinda hangs before becoming responsive for that duration of time
(obviously because the UI thread is held up).
Am I doing something wrong?
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On Feb 14, 3:50 pm, Dilip <rdil...@lycos. comwrote:
I am running into a weird problem in my ultra-simple Winforms
application written in C#.
In the Form.Shown event I set a couple of environment variables using
the standard SetEnvironmentV ariable API like so:
Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able("someKey", somevalue,
EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User );
I have 2 such calls. Amazingly it takes nearly 10 seconds for these
two calls to execute! If I comment out these 2 calls and run, the
application is just spiffy and the dialog comes up in no time.
Because it takes 10 seconds for these calls to execute, the dialog
kinda hangs before becoming responsive for that duration of time
(obviously because the UI thread is held up).
Am I doing something wrong?
Apologies.. false alarm!
It was a different problem.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:06:28 -0800, Dilip <rd*****@lycos. comwrote:
Apologies.. false alarm!
It was a different problem.
What was it? As I mentioned, I was able to easily reproduce what you
described. Are you saying that you're not actually having that problem?
Pete
On Feb 14, 4:21 pm, "Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPe...@nn owslpianmk.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:06:28 -0800, Dilip <rdil...@lycos. comwrote:
Apologies.. false alarm!
It was a different problem.
What was it? As I mentioned, I was able to easily reproduce what you
described. Are you saying that you're not actually having that problem?
Pete
Peter
I am sorry once again. Its now a false alarm on top of a false
alarm :-)
My original post was accurate. Those two calls to the
SetEnvironmentV ariable does take nearly 10 seconds to execute (I timed
it with System.Diagnost ics.Stopwatch).
This is weird because I earlier had these calls in a console app and I
never saw this delay. Putting them in a Winforms app however
introduces it. I can't understand why.
I am going to run CLR profiler and see what is bottlenecking it. I
haven't read your other post yet.
Will get to it after I post this.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:24:45 -0800, Willy Denoyette [MVP]
<wi************ *@telenet.bewro te:
I can't repro this using a minimal Forms applications that sets two
environment variables in the Shown handler.
The SetEnvironmentV ariable calls take less than 2 millisecond. to
complete.
Are you running in a local account, or are you running in a domain
account?
What version of the framework and OS are you running?
I was able to reproduce the behavior easily. So, from my configuration:
Windows XP SP2, IE7 (it shouldn't matter, but as we know it sometimes
does), all critical updates installed (including this month's release).
..NET 2.0 installed (SP1, if I recall correctly). User is a
restricted/limited user, local account, and the target for the call to
SetEnvironmentV ariable is EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User .
As I noted in a different message, running the code in the GUI thread
results in a 10 second delay (I didn't measure the two calls
independently, so I don't know if it's a single 10 second delay, or two 5
second delays). Running the same exact code in a thread pool thread (via
BackgroundWorke r) results in a much smaller delay (700-900ms...still
longer than I'd expected, but much more acceptable).
Are you sure you're using the EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User as the target
in your tests?
Pete
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:24:45 -0800, Willy Denoyette [MVP]
<wi************ *@telenet.bewro te:
>I can't repro this using a minimal Forms applications that sets two
environment variables in the Shown handler.
The SetEnvironmentV ariable calls take less than 2 millisecond. to
complete.
Are you running in a local account, or are you running in a domain
account?
What version of the framework and OS are you running?
I was able to reproduce the behavior easily. So, from my configuration:
Windows XP SP2, IE7 (it shouldn't matter, but as we know it sometimes
does), all critical updates installed (including this month's release).
.NET 2.0 installed (SP1, if I recall correctly). User is a
restricted/limited user, local account, and the target for the call to
SetEnvironmentV ariable is EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User .
As I noted in a different message, running the code in the GUI thread
results in a 10 second delay (I didn't measure the two calls
independently, so I don't know if it's a single 10 second delay, or two 5
second delays). Running the same exact code in a thread pool thread (via
BackgroundWorke r) results in a much smaller delay (700-900ms...still
longer than I'd expected, but much more acceptable).
Are you sure you're using the EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User as the target
in your tests?
Yep, these two:
Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able("someKey", "1",
EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User );
Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able("someOther Key", "2",
EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User );
in Shown handler.
Running V2 SP1 of the FW on VISTA.
Timing done using "QueryThreadCyc leTime" API (Vista and up), with Processor
clock at fixed rate.
Total time for the two consecutive calls: ~3.6 msec. on 2.2Ghz Dual core
AMD64
~3 msec. on 3GHz Intel Core Duo.
Willy.
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:42:49 -0800, Willy Denoyette [MVP]
<wi************ *@telenet.bewro te:
Yep, these two:
Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able("someKey", "1",
EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User );
Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able("someOther Key", "2",
EnvironmentVari ableTarget.User );
in Shown handler.
Running V2 SP1 of the FW on VISTA.
Timing done using "QueryThreadCyc leTime" API (Vista and up), with
Processor clock at fixed rate.
Why are you doing that? The question here is elapsed time, not the CPU
time consumed by the thread for the calls.
If you just put a Stopwatch in the Shown event handler, start it before
the two calls, and check the Elapsed time after them, what results do you
get?
Not that it's relevant to this question IMHO, but what's the .NET API for
the QueryThreadCycl eTime call (if any)? I can only find the unmanaged
version. Is there a managed way to get at that? Maybe in WMI?
Pete
"Peter Duniho" <Np*********@nn owslpianmk.comw rote in message
news:op******** *******@petes-computer.local. ..
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:42:49 -0800, Willy Denoyette [MVP]
<wi************ *@telenet.bewro te:
>Yep, these two:
Environment.Se tEnvironmentVar iable("someKey" , "1",
EnvironmentVar iableTarget.Use r);
Environment.Se tEnvironmentVar iable("someOthe rKey", "2",
EnvironmentVar iableTarget.Use r);
in Shown handler.
Running V2 SP1 of the FW on VISTA.
Timing done using "QueryThreadCyc leTime" API (Vista and up), with
Processor clock at fixed rate.
Why are you doing that? The question here is elapsed time, not the CPU
time consumed by the thread for the calls.
One reason is higher precision, initially I used Stopwatch and soon found
out that the elapsed time was way below 1 second (see later), also, I don't
like to use Stopwatch for anything that takes less than a second.
The other reason is that I wanted to measure the time taken by the
*current* UI thread to perform these two API calls, not the time taken by
the other threads in the system. The reason is that SetEnvironmentV ariable
calls Win32's "SendMessageTim eout" to broadcast a message to all top level
windows (except the owning window) and does not return before the message
has been processed by all *other* top level windows or after a 1000 msec.
time-out period (per window). When the system broadcasts a message to a
top-level window who's thread doesn't pump it's message queue, it will wait
a max of 5 seconds before returning, which looks like what's happening in
your (and the OP's) case, though I don't understand why it's working from a
console app.
If you just put a Stopwatch in the Shown event handler, start it before
the two calls, and check the Elapsed time after them, what results do you
get?
~90-100 msecs. using ...
double elapsed = ((double)sw.Ela psedTicks/swFrequency);
with ~10 top-level windows.
This is considerably longer merely because of the extra thread switches
Not that it's relevant to this question IMHO, but what's the .NET API for
the QueryThreadCycl eTime call (if any)? I can only find the unmanaged
version. Is there a managed way to get at that? Maybe in WMI?
QueryThreadCycl eTime, QueryProcessCyc leTime, QueryIdleProces sorCycleTime and
a couple of others are new Win32 API's in Vista and up.
..NET lags behind here, so the only way to use these high precision low
latency counters is by PInvoke.
WMI does/can't expose this, but the VS profiler can be configured to use
these counters, also ETW uses the high precision counters on Vista and
WS2008.
Willy.
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"Peter Duniho" <Np*********@nn owslpianmk.comw rote in message
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>On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:42:49 -0800, Willy Denoyette [MVP]
<wi*********** **@telenet.bewr ote:
>>Yep, these two:
Environment.S etEnvironmentVa riable("someKey ", "1",
EnvironmentVa riableTarget.Us er);
Environment.S etEnvironmentVa riable("someOth erKey", "2",
EnvironmentVa riableTarget.Us er);
in Shown handler.
Running V2 SP1 of the FW on VISTA.
Timing done using "QueryThreadCyc leTime" API (Vista and up), with
Processor clock at fixed rate.
Why are you doing that? The question here is elapsed time, not the CPU
time consumed by the thread for the calls.
One reason is higher precision, initially I used Stopwatch and soon found
out that the elapsed time was way below 1 second (see later), also, I
don't like to use Stopwatch for anything that takes less than a second.
The other reason is that I wanted to measure the time taken by the
*current* UI thread to perform these two API calls, not the time taken by
the other threads in the system. The reason is that SetEnvironmentV ariable
calls Win32's "SendMessageTim eout" to broadcast a message to all top level
windows (except the owning window) and does not return before the message
has been processed by all *other* top level windows or after a 1000 msec.
time-out period (per window). When the system broadcasts a message to a
top-level window who's thread doesn't pump it's message queue, it will
wait a max of 5 seconds before returning, which looks like what's
happening in your (and the OP's) case, though I don't understand why it's
working from a console app.
>If you just put a Stopwatch in the Shown event handler, start it before
the two calls, and check the Elapsed time after them, what results do you
get?
~90-100 msecs. using ...
double elapsed = ((double)sw.Ela psedTicks/swFrequency);
with ~10 top-level windows.
This is considerably longer merely because of the extra thread switches
>Not that it's relevant to this question IMHO, but what's the .NET API for
the QueryThreadCycl eTime call (if any)? I can only find the unmanaged
version. Is there a managed way to get at that? Maybe in WMI?
QueryThreadCycl eTime, QueryProcessCyc leTime, QueryIdleProces sorCycleTime
and a couple of others are new Win32 API's in Vista and up.
.NET lags behind here, so the only way to use these high precision low
latency counters is by PInvoke.
WMI does/can't expose this, but the VS profiler can be configured to use
these counters, also ETW uses the high precision counters on Vista and
WS2008.
Willy.
Please note that I don't have handlers for WM_SETTINGCHANG E in the other
running windows applications, other than the default handler.
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