Re: Can an application hang Windows 2000?


Thank you, that could explain some things. Could you point me at any
documentation about "Kernel must-succeed allocations"? Because there could
be several things hanging the machine, and the application is only one
possibility, we have been looking at drivers more. I think we have a test
version of the app with garbage
collection included in the loop, but we have not deployed it yet.

"m" <m@xxx> wrote in message news:uueK6o46FHA.2176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> FYI: The GC is optimized for GUI apps. For services that are 'always'
> busy, it will not be pro-active enough at trimming memory. You can shunt
> this with a call to GC.Collect();
>
>
>
> Also, any app that consumes all available memory can halt any w2k or
> earlier OS due to kernel mode must-succeed allocations. Especially if
> that app is the only active process on that machine and windows does not
> page out the working set.
>
>
> "Roger" <roger_a_h@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:16Nef.13149$PI4.5423@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> We have a problem with W2000 hanging, and one application we have
>> (running as a service) seems to get up
>> to an enormous amount of memory - about 500Mbytes showing in task
>> manager. Presumably this is paged memory
>> (its all written in c#) and so would get garbage collected if it were
>> needed?
>>
>>
>>
>> "MB" <bla@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:Ouy6iUe6FHA.2676@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Thank you! That's the kind of information I am looking for.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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