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WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

We have been trying to track down a problem with our blog aggregator software B.AG which is currently powering INDA's blog aggregator at www.developers.ie/blogs.

We recently upgraded the server to Windows Server 2003 SP1 and for some reason, threads were simply disappearing from our custom threadpool and the application logging which uses log4net would simply stop without warning. We have just tracked the problem down to the System.Threading.Timer class which according to this has major issues when running on Windows Server 2003 with SP1. It seems the Timer class stops firing at some random point and never fires again...

I know of a number of major ASP.NET sites around the world that have applications that depend on functionality provided by the Timer class and I'm very surprised that this issue has not seen more publicity. So this is just a warning to ensure that you don't fall victim to this issue!

As far am I am aware there is no hotfix available for this problem yet.

posted on Thursday, August 04, 2005 5:20 PM

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# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

I heard about this from Pascal, so I had a root around to see if there is a patch etc....

Have a look at this MS support article. While the title is really crap, I reckon the fix that is being reference is the one that should sort out the problem. If is does, I just cannot believe how the heck it should only have Windows Forms in the title and make no reference what so ever to ASP.NET

hth,
Paul Fallon

8/4/2005 8:10 PM | Paul Fallon

# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

aaahhhhh crap, forgot to post the link.

anyway have a look at this http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=900822

hth,
Paul
8/4/2005 8:11 PM | Paul Fallon

# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

Some of the discussion at the following link suggests Microsoft are going to release an updated KB which will make the link with SP1:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.clr/browse_thread/thread/772a5528aba714fa/eeee6f6d9601c90b?hl=en

cheers,
Michael
8/5/2005 6:50 AM | Michael O'Brien

# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

Including "Windows Forms" in the title is probably just downplaying the significance of the issue, at least it would reduce the "system-wide" bug count of .NET by one in the eyes of a third party bug statistic collector. The issue does indeed affect ASP.NET and .NET service applications.
8/5/2005 9:10 AM | Matias

# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

We had originally discounted KB 900822 as it specifically mentions that the problem is related to ".NET Framework 1.1 SP1". We've been running .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 since it came out... Our issue appears to be related to "Windows Server 2003 SP1". Furthermore we have not yet concluded whether the issue is indeed "system wide", as we originally based our diagnostic assumptions on the fact that maybe the issue was related to the move from IIS 5 to IIS 6 which has a very different process model...
8/5/2005 9:42 AM | Marcus Mac Innes

# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1


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4/10/2008 11:03 AM | forum

# re: WARNING: Serious ASP.NET issue with Windows Server 2003 and SP1

Thanks.
5/26/2008 8:52 PM | Sanatyorum
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