application-hang

Diagnosing application hang in a production .NET desktop program

I have trouble. One of the users of an application I'm developing is occasionally, but regularly, experiencing an application hang. When this happens, we find an entry with a source of "Application Hang" in the machine's Event Log, with the informative message "Hanging application [my app], version [the right version], hang module hung...

Diagnosing Rails Application Hang on Element Update

In the course of building a rails application to help small hotels' manage bookings, I'm encountering a strange application hang. Building the reservation works fine; adding guests, assigning them to rooms, etc, without issue. However, when the merchant goes to 'confirm' an inquiry, Mongrel hangs me out to dry. The index page for reserv...

How can I simulate this application hang scenario?

I have a Windows Forms app that itself launches different threads to do different kinds of work. Occasionally, ALL threads (including the UI thread) become frozen, and my app becomes unresponsive. I've decided it may be a Garbage Collector-related issue, as the GC will freeze all managed threads temporarily. To verify that just managed t...