Tom Christian's Blog : Crash

ASP.NET Tip: How to avoid creating a GC Hole

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:00:00 GMT

There are only a few things that can make a .NET process crash. The most common one is an Unhandled Exception getting raised. Another way that is can happen is by creating a GC Hole. What is a GC Hole So first a little background on what I...(read more)

ASP.NET and Performance

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:29:34 GMT

I wanted to talk about monitoring performance in ASP.NET for a bit. I have already posted a few postings that talk around this issue, namely: ASP.NET Debugging - High Memory part 5 – Fragmentation ASP.NET Debugging - ASP.NET Tips- How to use DebugDiag...(read more)

ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:38:59 GMT

So now that I am done with all the individual posts, I thought I would wrap them all together. So here are all of the posts that I created on gathering information when you are having a problem. Please keep in mind that these are geared towards...(read more)

ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot - part 6 - Recycle due to memoryLimit

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:03:04 GMT

Here is another situation that you may come across and what to do in order to gather information about it. The following steps will configure DebugDiag to automatically capture a memory dump of the ASPNET_WP.exe process recycling when it exceeds the memoryLimit...(read more)

ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot – part 3 – Crash

ASP.NET Debugging : IIS — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:39:51 GMT

Defining an IIS Crash A Crash in IIS occurs when an IIS process (INETINFO.EXE, DLLHOST.EXE, W3WP.EXE) terminates unexpectedly. A Crash typically happens when there is an Unhandled Exception caused by an Access Violation, Stack Overflow, etc. In these...(read more)