The next time it locks up take a memory dump of the application and load it up on your development machine ... you can then get in with SOS and see if any threads are dead locked.
http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2006/01/11/back-to-basics-how-do-i-get-the-memory-dumps-in-the-first-place-and-what-is-sos-dll.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/joncole/archive/2007/03/29/creating-a-process-memory-dump.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/Bugslayer/ Cheers, Greg On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Peter Osucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm hoping someone might provide me some direction on troubleshooting an > app. It's one of the first apps I have been involved with that makes > use of multiple threads. The app also connects to another computer by > way of an AsynchTCP socket. Also, the app is on a single board computer > embedded system (running WinXP Embedded) - end result, there is not > enough room on the target system to install VS2005 so I can't run from > the IDE to see what is happening. > > Anyway, I often find this app to be in a non-responsive state and I have > to kill it with the task manager. I've put in some debug/trace > statements but either I'm not putting in enough of them or they are in > the wrong place - end result, I'm don't seem to be getting any closer to > figuring out why the app keeps getting to a non-responsive state. It > does seem that the app becomes non-responsive with greater frequency if > I have opened up the TCP connection than if I haven't - leading me to > believe that might be involved with the problem condition. But again, > my debug/trace statements aren't getting me closer to solving the > problem. > > Comments? > > Sincerely, > peter > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(R) http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > -- Studying for the Turing test =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
