Do Thread.Sleep cause stop of window service?

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Hi all,
My project is window service on C#, contains 2 service:
- 1 manager service: can start slave service by some codition.
- Many slave service: will do something.

1 of my slave services has code as follow:

C#

for(i:1-n)
{
	doSomeThing();
	Thread.Sleep(3000); // wait a bit
}

But after installed, the service only run the 1st iteration of for, I tried to unit test the function and it work right.
When I clear the line "Thread.Sleep(3000);" then the service run with all iterations.
So, do "Thread.Sleep()" cause stop of the window service? What is a alternative solution of Thread.sleep for window service?

I tried google for days but I've not found any solution.
Could you help me.
Thank in advance.
TuanNM

Posted 14-Feb-12 22:03pm

TuanNGUYEN

Updated 14-Feb-12 23:37pm

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Herman<T>.Instance 15-Feb-12 4:31am

is there more code involded?

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Solution 1

Try the following:

C#

while(run) // a global boolean which you can set to false to end the loop
{ 
   doSomething();
   Thread.Sleep(3000);
}

Posted 15-Feb-12 0:06am

Mehdi Gholam

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BobJanova · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-15T01:11:00

Solution 2

No it won't. Something else is causing the issue here. For example, is your master service killing the slaves after a timeout? Is the service communicating with something else which regards 3 seconds as inactivity and closes the communication channel? Does doSomething do something which is time dependent?

Posted 15-Feb-12 1:11am

BobJanova

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TuanNGUYEN 15-Feb-12 9:54am

Thanks, I've found the reason.