This works for me, with both stable and master from December 12th.

Miguel.

From: Mono-list <mono-list-boun...@lists.dot.net> on behalf of Rubén de Alba 
<rdea...@codicesoftware.com>
Date: Friday, December 23, 2016 at 6:27 AM
To: "mono-list@lists.dot.net" <mono-list@lists.dot.net>
Cc: "psant...@codicesoftware.com" <psant...@codicesoftware.com>
Subject: [Mono-list] Easy way to deadlock Mono with concurrent HttpWebRequests


Hi,

We can deadlock Mono launching a few HttpWebRequests. We can consistently 
reproduce in our app, but only sometimes happens in the attached program.

We initially detected this on a server pulling data from Azure. It deadlocks 
and it is unable to handle a single new request (since we rely on 
Socket.BeginReceive for that, and the callback is never invoked once the 
deadlock happens).

We suspect it could still be related to this ancient issue: 
http://www.mono-project.com/archived/articlethreadpool_deadlocks/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mono-project.com%2Farchived%2Farticlethreadpool_deadlocks%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cmiguel%40microsoft.com%7C9fa698bca9f44310f44d08d42b26b563%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636180892637291812&sdata=%2BSrNzQ4qjxdxSjyZltlqdwN%2BgfHhZORprCNzkNXdSrk%3D&reserved=0>

I have attached a small sample application to reproduce the issue. It 
occasionally deadlocks on Mono 4.6.2.7 (and older) no matter whether the 
machine has 1 core or 8. What is consistent is that it performs worse than 
expected and fails. Not sure if this is a hint.

What the app does is:

* It launches 40 HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() in parallel.
* Most of them fail ("The authentication or decryption has failed.", "The 
request timed out") .
* The program retries if they fail - and retries also fail.
* CPU is very high (90% on my test box).
* After a while sometimes the entire program hangs.
* We also tried the HttpClient class using async calls and no threadpool but 
result wasn't any better.

Some interesting notes:
* The same code works well in .NET/Windows.
* And launching the 40 concurrent requests is super fast there compared to 
super slow using Mono.


Any hints or workarounds will be greatly appreciated :-P

Thanks!

Rubén,

www.plasticscm.com<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.plasticscm.com&data=02%7C01%7Cmiguel%40microsoft.com%7C9fa698bca9f44310f44d08d42b26b563%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636180892637291812&sdata=uAyy71WFMUKAVt5eoPImc6LfgarnOrhkX74kRVvRsWI%3D&reserved=0>
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