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We used a paging/alerting product. It was intended to be fired by command line, I guess, so each run was totally cleaned up because the process died.

They added library (DLL) functionality so we could run it from a script. So the script ran and ran and ran and sent alerts, and randomly crashed from time to time.

Why is it crashing? The stand-alone worked fine! Well, they weren't cleaning up their handles, so eventually we get to the process handle count limit and die!




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