Re: debugging strategies

From:
"Scot T Brennecke" <ScotB@MVPs.spamhater.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sat, 9 May 2009 23:51:42 -0500
Message-ID:
<#rkPFsS0JHA.1096@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
You said "stop" a few times, but that word is ambiguous to me. Does it mean the program terminates
abnormally with a fatal exception? Does it mean that all threads become idle and no work happens?
Does it mean that one or more threads consume the CPU in a busy loop and no progress is made? What
is "stops"?

"Angus" <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:624234e2-0828-4b01-a0e9-f7339e73ce24@q14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com...

Hello

I have written a server product in C++. It is not .NET - standard C+
+
program. The problem I have is that the server from time to time
just
stops. Of course there is no log, no nothing. No idea what is
causing this. It runs as a service. It just stops! It will work
fine say for 24 hours and then just stop.

There are two interfaces / inputs to the server. I have a try catch
block on one of the interfaces and I am going to add a try catch
block
on the other interface. I think it is the interface where I have no
try/catch block which is causing the server to stop in this case.

Of course in my labs I never see this behaviour...

Does anyone have any input on how to troubleshoot/debug this?

I do have logging but logging gives me a very rough idea because I
see
the last thing that worked.

The site is a customer many miles away so that makes it trickier.

Any ideas would be very much appreciated.

Angus

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