Question/Suggestions on using a Windows Service or Hangfire

Question

I plan on either doing a Windows Service, or using Hangfire (right in my web api), for continuously gathering new security event logs similar to that of the Windows Event Viewer.

Looking for feedback/suggestions on doing it with an event listener.

What would happen if I ran a continuous while loop for the life of the service using the following:

using EventLogWatcher logWatcher = new EventLogWatcher(query);

logWatcher.EventRecordWritten += new EventHandler<EventRecordWrittenEventArgs>((sender, e) => LogWatcher_EventRecordWritten(sender, e, domain));

try 
{	
	while (!token.IsCancellationRequested)
	{
		logWatcher.Enabled = true;
	}
}
...

Would this potentially, ever, lead to a memory leak if it runs constantly, for the life of the service running?

Any recommendations on how this should really be handled, please let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

No, but the code

    while (!token.IsCancellationRequested)
	{
		logWatcher.Enabled = true;
	}

Is compute bound and will 100% of the cpu. Also there is no need to keep resetting the enabled. And where is the disable code? Try:

    logWatcher.Enabled = true;
    while (!token.IsCancellationRequested)
	{
        Thread.Sleep(500);
	}
    logWatcher.Enabled = false;