Troubleshooting

This page guides you about the possible exceptions which you may encounter while using the NCache along with the appropriate workarounds to deal with them.

Disabling BinaryFormatter Serialization And Deserialization

Message: BinaryFormatter serialization and deserialization are disabled within this application.

You'll encounter this exception with ASP.NET 5.0 or above and .NET 8.0 and above. As in both cases, the Binary Formatter is disabled by default. As in both cases, the Binary Formatter is disabled by default. This issue can be solved by using the following workarounds.

Workaround

• Enable the Binary Formatter by adding adding following tag in project.csproj file:

<PropertyGroup>
...
    <EnableUnsafeBinaryFormatterSerialization>true</EnableUnsafeBinaryFormatterSerialization>
...
</PropertyGroup>

Note

This is explained further here.

• Alternatively, you can use JSON Serialization instead of Binary Serialization as the serialization format at the time of cache creation.

Note

It is recommended that you use the JSON serialization.

No sigar-amd64-winnt.dll in java.library.path

If you haven't included the sigar-amd64-winnt.dll file for Windows or the sigar-amd64-winnt.so file for Linux in your classpath, you will encounter this warning, and when this happens, you won't be able to monitor your counters (in Java).

Workaround

Include the sigar-amd64-winnt.dll file for Windows or the sigar-amd64-winnt.so file for Linux in your classpath.

See Also

How to Connect to Cache
Error Handling in Cache