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.NET How to keep a Threading.Task alive with a While Loop

I have no previous experience with Windows's DebugDiag and need some insight about this report.

My EWS Managed API application spans a new task evertytime an event occurs.

My app runs on ~30-35% CPU usage so I decided to run this diagnostic tool to find out the wheres and whys.

I got this and need to make sure what I see is right what I think it is.

Judging from the picture below it says that the Task.StartNew function was executed 5 times and that caused this high CPU usage?

Update

After looking deeper I found what appears to be the "Stacktrace" with some function calls highlighted in Red, I have a feeling red means these functions cause the high CPU, and these functions appear to be comming from EWS Managed API code.

Analysis Report

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Solution

  • I found the CPU eating piece of code.

    I had an infinite while loop inside the Tast because I needed to keep it from being garbage collected.

            While Not pToken.IsCancellationRequested
            If pToken.IsCancellationRequested Then Return
        End While

    This caused my CPU usage to go high 38% all the time!

    So instead I used 

            _CancelSignal = New AutoResetEvent(False)

        _CancelSignal.WaitOne()

    To put the thread to sleep until I tell it to exit by setting the _CancelSignsal