"Seth Van Nijen" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using IPC channel remoting. After the application (remoting client) has
> been running for a while it receives a RemotingException "Port is Busy: All
> pipe instances are busy" while attempting to retrieve a property from the
> remoting server (a different process on the same machine). The problem occurs
> after seemingly random amounts of time.
>
> I searched for this exception message but nothing substantial turned up, so
> here are my questions:
>
> 1) What causes this? (yes, I think too many clients are attempting to access
> the server but I'd like to be sure because there are at most three process
> trying to do that - which isn't that much, really)
>
> 2) How can I find out what is causing this?
>
> 3) Can I solve this by simply making the client retry? If so, do I retry
> immediately or sleep for a while? If retrying doesn't help, what would?
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> FYI, the complete stack trace is:
>
> Server stack trace:
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.IpcPort.Connect(String portName,
> Boolean secure, TokenImpersonationLevel impersonationLevel, Int32 timeout)
> at
> System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.ConnectionCache.GetConnection(String
> portName, Boolean secure, TokenImpersonationLevel level, Int32 timeout)
> at
> System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.IpcClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage
> msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream,
> ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
> at
> System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)
>
> Exception rethrown at [0]:
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage
> reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
> at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData&
> msgData, Int32 type)
> at Application.get_Property()