#heapcorruption

Why application crashing with HeapCorruption failure?

What’s a Heap?

Before understanding HeapCorruption here’s a quick review of the Heap. The HeapCreate function creates a private heap object from which the calling process can allocate memory blocks by using the HeapAlloc function. HeapCreate specifies both an initial size and a maximum size for the heap. The initial size determines the number of committed, read/write pages initially allocated for…

Why an application hung after enabling PageHeap using GFlags

Issue

Recently a colleague asked this question. They had a customer who was experiencing a heap corruption so as expected we enabled PageHeap but there was a catch. The application had to run for a long time (around 30 days) in order to reproduce the crash and we had no idea what’s causing the crash.

We can enable standard PageHeap using following command run from an admin command prompt: gflags…