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Watch out for System.Threading.Timer on Windows 2003 SP1

About a month and a half ago, one of my guys worked with Microsoft to diagnose a problem within Windows 2003 SP1 which prevented timer events from being signaled under severe loads. Check out the knowledge base article here for an explanation: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=900822. I just ran into the same situation while deploying at a customer site so thought I'd post this to keep you from the pain of diagnosing this very tricky problem.  I strongly encourage everyone that plans on using iMotion or other applications that use System.Threading.Timer on a Windows 2003 Server SP1 machine to contact Microsoft to obtain the hot fix before deployment.

Note: If you're running iMotion on a Windows 2003 SP1 machine without the hot fix applied and are experiencing what appears to be dropped tags then you'll likely benefit from the hot fix so obtain it immediately.


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# re: Watch out for System.Threading.Timer on Windows 2003 SP1

Gravatar Do you know if there is a similar fix for Windows XP? I had the problem you describe in Windows 2003, and the hotfix solved it. But the problem also occurs on some XP computers, and the hotfix cannot be installed on them. 5/16/2006 12:45 AM | Mikkel

# re: Watch out for System.Threading.Timer on Windows 2003 SP1

Gravatar I'm having the same problem in XP. Any idea? 7/10/2007 8:08 AM | fsdias

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