What is Windows Performance Analyzer all about and why should you use it instead of xperfview?
Consider the following trace in xperfview: This should be familiar to you, it’s the DPC storm / storport doorbell that looks like this: So how […]
Month: June 2012
PAL 2.3.1 released!
Why? VMware template. Awwww yeah, the Dude strike again. If you are running in VMware, we can capture the memory ballooning driver and real processor […]
When an Exchange Server doesn’t Exchange…
“Well the high sheriff, told his deputy, won’t you go out and bring my Lazarus?” Why am I quoting the Po Lazarus tune, the opening […]
Ladies and Gentleman (and low lifes), it is with outstanding pleasure tonight that I am able to present to you, the reader, with an xperf trace….
For those who didn’t yet know, the Dude is a fan of old school rap. So one of these days, not much to do, I […]
Yet another xperf analysis post
Pump up the volume, Pump up the volume… Slow Boot: Yep, that’s slow. Clearly not in CPU usage though…what about disk? Nope (the dude knows […]
The dude does xperf…
So the Dude (that’s me) has gone over how to collect xperf traces a few times now, but what do we do after we’ve collected […]
PAL 2.3 with Multi-Threading!
PAL (http://pal.codeplex.com/) is a favorite tool of mine, written by Clint Huffman. I’ve written about it a few times but maybe you weren’t aware that […]
Introducing Windows Server 2012 Free e-book available
I highly recommend giving this a read so you are ready for Windows Server 2012. The dude had a hand in proofing the book and […]