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  • Never Sleep(0) in an Infinite Loop

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    I ran into a problem installing some COM+ components today. The installer was using Regsvcs.exe to register each COM+ component. I noticed after a while that the installer wasn't making any progress and that my dual-proc system was stuck at 50% CPU utilization. I attached a debugger to the offending process, regsvcs, and found that it was stuck in the following infinite loop (disassembly courtesy of Reflector):

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  • Upgrade your installation of NAnt

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    My colleague, Greg, and I spent all day debugging a build break in some unit tests that exercise a webservice interface in legacy .NET 1.1 code. Last night, the tests stopped working on our CruiseControl.NET build server. We couldn't understand it. The tests had been working for months. Now we were getting timeouts in SOAP. The tests essentially mock a SOAP service using the soap.inproc transport and a stub implementation that signaled an event to acknowledge a method being called.

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