I have a WPF script running into problems recently.
The script does subnet scanning using PSParallel module. When the subnet CIDR is less than 21, it starts having the problem.
The problem is:
I have a concurrent queue as a member of a synchronized hash table. The queue is used for producer/consumer model. The scanning threads keep enqueue the data and the GUI thread keep dequeue data and write it to a richtextbox. The dequeue process is handled by a dispatch timer event handler, which is executed every 20 ms. When the CIDR >=21, there is no problem. But when CIDR <21, sometimes it will throw an error message:
Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.
At E:\PSScanner\PSScanner.ps1:446 char:8
+ if($syncHash.Q.Count -ne 0){
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException
I think the synchronized hash table is thread safe and the concurrent queue is thread safe as well. Not sure why is this happening.
The source code is here:
Any help would be appreciated.
David