1. #1 THE BIG UNO! Properly align your partition with diskpar/diskpart and THEN install your XP build into that aligned partition. This link has a great explanation and how-to so I’m not going to re-invent the wheel. I’m not certain I agree with the rest of the proposals there necessarily, I’m thinking more in line… Continue reading What do you do when you want to run Windows XP on a Solid State Drive?
Month: May 2011
High Privileged Mode CPU on 1 of 64 cores–quick fix
I was contacted recently about a server with 64 cores that, with no work load, had one core, ordinal 34, running very high on CPU. Looking closer, it was all being used by process ‘System (4)’. So that’s a fun one. I had them collect an xperf trace using the following command: xperf –on base+cswitch+disk_io_init+latency+dispatcher… Continue reading High Privileged Mode CPU on 1 of 64 cores–quick fix