Collecting Information for Application Hang

posted by  kevyn (54)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Application hangs typically occur in two scenarios.

1) When there is a deadlock

2) When there is an infinite loop.

Where there is infinite recusion involved, the application will most likely crash because the stack will overflow.

So when the hang occurs we would basically generate pdbs just like for crashes and then start the application and run it till the point where the problem occurs. Once the hang occurs, we would need to generate memory dumps at different intervals. After getting a set of dumps, then we would examine it to see if we are stuck at a certain p