Question

I have a webservice that will be called by a nightly job process documents, each document will be queued and executed on it’s own background processor. This process can take a couple hours or a few munites depending on the load. I don’t want to have it alive if it’s not doing anything. But when a spawn a thread and return immediately the idle clock begins even though there is a thread working. i have not set the thread to IsBackground and it still terminates for being idle. For my test i set the idle time to be 1 minute. Is there a way to keep the service as being “ALIVE”

Here is the webservice code:

public class LetterInitiateWS : System.Web.Services.WebService
    {

        private static Processor processor = new Processor();
        [WebMethod]
        public void ExecuteBulkRun()
        {
            var thrd = new Thread(() => ThreadExecuteBulkRun());
            thrd.IsBackground = false;
            thrd.Start();

        }

        private void ThreadExecuteBulkRun()
        {
            processor.ExecutBulkRun();
        }

    }

Answer 1

To handle this I created a static class that when I am working in ThreadExecuteBulkRun the static class has a timer that every 5 minutes hist the webservice page which resets the Idle timer in IIS. and when the process completes the static class stops hitting the webpage.