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GreyCloud
GreyCloud

Reputation: 3100

ASP.Net life of threads and spawned tasks

I'm new to ASP.net,

I am writing a webapi to kick off some heavy server side processing which I need assurance will complete.

At present the ASP.net request kicks off a new Task (Task.Factory.StartNew(...)) then returns a URL the user can poll to find status.

However I am getting the odd ThreadAborted exceptions in the serverside processing tasks and reading this question I am thinking that using Task is not the best option.

Is there a better parallelism/async paradigm for spawning long running server side processes which need assurance of completion ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 135

Answers (1)

Trevor Pilley
Trevor Pilley

Reputation: 16393

IIS can recycle your application at any time so the web server is not the best thing to use for this. Your best bet would be to run a windows service on a separate server and either self host the WebApi in that or use MSMQ to send a message from the web server to the "app" server to initiate the processing.

Upvotes: 1

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