Routing Service 5.1.0 shuts down suddenly while running in Windows

When running on Microsoft Windows, the Routing Service 5.1.0 can unexpectedly stop working with the following dialog being displayed:

This can also occur when terminating the application with Ctrl-C.

The problem might be caused by a bug in an optimization introduced in Routing Service 5.1.0 that avoids deserializing and then serializing all routed samples. This problem will occur if all of the following conditions are true:

• The routed data types are final or extensible, but not mutable.
• The max_serialized_size of the type is a multiple of 8.
• You are running Routing Service on a supported Windows platform.

The workaround is to turn the optimization off using the hidden tag simple_route_optimization in the Routing Service configuration file. The following snippet of XML file demonstrates where to add the tag:

<session>
... 
    <auto_topic_route>
        ...
        <simple_route_optimization>false</simple_route_optimization>
        ...
    </auto_topic_route>
...
</session>    

For further assistance please contact support@rti.com.