My client has an ASP.NET application installed on two production servers (balanced with NLB, but that's irrelevant). Both servers crash every 3-4 hours with the following event viewer logged error:
Faulting application name: w3wp.exe, version: 7.5.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7afa2
Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.0.30319.18034, time stamp: 0x50b5a783
Exception code: 0xc00000fd Fault offset: 0x000000000001a840
Faulting process id: 0xd50
Faulting application start time: 0x01ce97fe076d27b4
Faulting application path: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll Report Id: e0c90a5f-0455-11e3-8f0e-005056891553
I have no idea how to debug or where to start. When the crash is about to happen the server processor usage jumps to 100% and stays there. The process at fault is w3wp.exe. I'm not even sure if my code is generating the error or not. It's IIS 7.5. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
It looks like you have a StackOverflow Exception, which is caused by unbounded recursion (a function repeatedly calling itself, etc). This can't be caught by regular try/catch block. You can track the problem down using DebugDiag and WinDbg.
DebugDiag can be configured to generate a crash dump when the StackOverflowException occurs. Download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49924.
Next time a StackOverflowException occurs, you'll have a crash dump. Now to need to interpret the dump file.
Debugging tools for Windows is part of the Windows SDK and can be downloaded at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/hardware/gg463009/.
SRV*your local folder for symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
, however I just put in the local folder for the symbols and it worked fine..loadby sos clr
!CLRStack
In the results, it should be clear what the problem is (you'll likely see a BUNCH of lines showing the function(s) that was repeatedly being called).