I suppose that the question is actually if there is a way to log when CGI (using ActivePerl) goes bad under NT. Correct? I guess this is another "it depends" question.

To the best of my (limited) knowledge, this is much more of a webserver issue than it is an OS issue. Since IIS is somewhat tied up to NT (and vice-versa), consider the following:

• IIS The webserver spawns the process, which gobles memory, CPU, the machine crawls to a halt, and before the script can timeout, or write a bad line to the error logs, the server is dead. Sounds familiar? I've never found a way around it, except for:
• Apache Acording to the documentation it runs as "experimental" on the NT boxes, but it kicks IIS but when it comes to respecting the process it spawned. Instead of using up all of the servers' CPU and memory, it will promptly timeout the process, and return a 500 to the browser (after a while). Since we are on the webserver comparison issue, may I also note that Apache on NT implements SSI correctly, and not that sorry excuse for server-side includes that MS named SSINC.DLL

Bottom line? There's probably some way to do it with IIS, but I'd drop it in favor of a better webserver if possible. If it isn't possible, there must be some way to shorten the timeout period by tweaking the registry or something of the sort. I prefered not to go there. Trying to implement this from within the CGI sounds even more troublesome. If you're going to open each and every script, you might as well track down the faulty one and remove the infinite loop.

My US$0.02.

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