Timer hangs

[Christian Jost]

Hello

I have a big problem with a timer (System.Threading.Timer) in a windows
service.

Sometimes the callback-method of the timer seems to hang. It can work more
than one week without problem and suddenly the timer stands still. The timer
check regulary if it's midnight. If not, then it sleeps again for some time.
Suddenly the event to check the time doesn't comes anymore. :-( There is no
more code in the callback-method.

The problem appears on two different Windows 2003 Server with .Net SP1. The
Service runs since about 2 years without any problem on dozen of machines.


Does somebod has had the same problem? Any Idea?

Thanks a lot.
Best regards
Chris

 

[Ricci Hammond]

There is a hotfix available from PSS:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900822/

 

[Christian Jost]

Hello Ricci,

Thank you for the link. I will try it with this hotfix.

Chris.