[DUG] Service hassles - out of resources

[Phil Middlemiss]

Generally, if you get a "Address and port already in use" and you know 
that no other service or program uses that address/port then you have a 
hanging process that hasn't shut down property. Check the Task Manager 
to see if the process is still running if it happens again. If it 
interacts with IIS then restarting that can clear it too (it may be that 
an ISAPI DLL is hung up if you are interacting with one).

My only guess as to the resources problem would be that it may be file 
handles it is running out of (since each TCP connection uses a file handle).

Either way it sounds like a connection or connections are not 
terminating correctly and leaving something hanging - possibly over and 
over, thereby eating up file handles.

Phil.

Phil Scadden wrote:
> Panicing here a bit. Have a service running under windows XP that does two things.
>
> First it runs an Indy TCPServer. Uses this for communication with remote
> control apps.
>
> Second, it runs manages a bunch a extremely cpu intensive processes,
> starting them and stopping them as requested. It does this largely so
> console application (written in fortran) can be started on machine startup
> and run in background.
>
> Now, first indicartion of problem was when got error from service as it
> tried to start these processes.
> System error - insufficient resources etc.
>
> hmm. Not a memory problem. pretty of main memory, memory usage by
> the service unchanging and small. Stop service, uninstall, install, start.
> Fails to start. This time the event log says TCP Server failed to start -
> "Address and port already in use". Say what?? The server was uninstalled.
> Anyone know why address and port might be tied up. I have stopped and
> started the service many many times without problems. Had to reboot in the
> end.
>
> The out of resources. What a strategy for finding out what resources its out
> of? Does writing output to a filestream opened on "NL:" actually consume
> any resource??
>
> Any ideas welcome.
>
>
>
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