We have noticed that the FileSystemWatch er is not reliable. It is not easily
repeatable but sometime it fails to catch file system changes. When it gets
into this state it doesn't recover unless a reboot is done.
The problem is only seen when multiple files are copied to the system in
quick succession. Once the watcher misses a file *any* subsequent incoming
file isn't seen.
I found this comment on the http://www.experts-exchange.com site:
I also include a "directory sweep" that periodically checks the directories
that the filewatchers are monitoring to make certain no files have been
missed and to detect files that may have been created while the filewatchers
were not running. remember if a file is placed in a directory and the file
watcher is started afterwords - the File_Created event will not fire.
It seems that others have experienced this bugger.
Any other ideas or comments?
-jeff 2  13068 
> We have noticed that the FileSystemWatch er is not reliable.
I think FileSystemWatch er is implemented using win32 api
ReadDirectoryCh angesW. If that is true, then the documented limitations of
ReadDirectoryCh angesW will convey to FileSystemWatch er. One such limitation
is associated with many updates in a short period of time.
If all of the above is true (sorry, I really don't know), then a belt and
suspenders design is to use a timer to trigger an examination everything in
the directory of interest, in other words, polling, and you could be smart
about the polling interval. During periods of heavy file activity, decrease
the interval. During periods of file inactivity, increase the interval. A
FileSystemWatch er could set the interval to 'immediate' when it sees
something. In this way, you would process quickly when the watcher sees
something, but you will always get around to it if the watcher fails.
In this kind of design, I would use the FileSystemWatch er only as a trigger
to look at all files - I would not use it to trigger specific files. I think
if you limit the watcher to trigger only, its reliability will improve. And
you could periodically reinstantiate the watcher object. If you really have
a failure mode that requires a reboot, then I wouldn't use it at all, but my
guess is that reinstantiating it fixes whatever failures you may be
encountering.
In programming, as in boxing, protect yourself at all times. Good luck.
Arnie wrote: We have noticed that the FileSystemWatch er is not reliable. It is not easily
repeatable but sometime it fails to catch file system changes. When it gets
into this state it doesn't recover unless a reboot is done.
The problem is only seen when multiple files are copied to the system in
quick succession. Once the watcher misses a file *any* subsequent incoming
file isn't seen.
I found this comment on the http://www.experts-exchange.com site:
I also include a "directory sweep" that periodically checks the directories
that the filewatchers are monitoring to make certain no files have been
missed and to detect files that may have been created while the filewatchers
were not running. remember if a file is placed in a directory and the file
watcher is started afterwords - the File_Created event will not fire.
It seems that others have experienced this bugger.
Any other ideas or comments?
I wrote a service that monitored an "inbox" folder and, when a file write
occured, moved the file to a work folder for processing. After processing, it
handles the next write that might have occured, and so on.
The watcher event triggered the moment the write began, meaning that my process
had to wait until the file finished. While the thread was waiting, I might have
several more files arrive; if I wait too long, the events timeout from the queue
and the files are not processed, leaving orphaned files that weren't processed.
I tried multi-threading, but that introduced other problems (such as a shared
printer object) that I was unable to solve to my satisfaction.
In the end, I threw away the FileSystemWatch er and recreated the previous, non
..NET method I used successfully for several years: sleep the main thread for a
minute, have it process up to five files from the inbox, sleep for 60 seconds,
repeat.
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