Timeout on spawned thread within IIS

[Gerrit Hulleman]

A question regarding threading within IIS:

If you spawn a thread within an ASP.NET 1.1 webservice so that the calling
program does not has to wait for the result, (the calling program does not
support async methods and callback methods) what timeout / algorithm is
there in place in IIS 6.0 (ASPNET Worker process) to clean-up these lose
threads?

Gerrit

 

[John Saunders]

A question regarding threading within IIS:

If you spawn a thread within an ASP.NET 1.1 webservice so that the calling
program does not has to wait for the result, (the calling program does not
support async methods and callback methods) what timeout / algorithm is
there in place in IIS 6.0 (ASPNET Worker process) to clean-up these lose
threads?

None.

John

 

[Gerrit H]

None.

John

Strange... one would expect the thread to be destroyed during the shutdown
of IIS, when the system resources get low a process terminates these threads
or at the very least when the web.config gets altered / web service
reinstalled... :S

Gerrit

 

[John Saunders]

Strange... one would expect the thread to be destroyed during the shutdown
of IIS, when the system resources get low a process terminates these
threads or at the very least when the web.config gets altered / web
service reinstalled... :S

The thread should get cleaned up at the end. I just don't think it will get
cleaned up befoer then.

John