How to collect a netmon 3.4 and xperf kernel trace and stop when a problem occurs.
So at a customer location the following question was posed to me: “In our VDI environment, how do we capture trace information? How can we […]
What do you do when you want to run Windows XP on a Solid State Drive?
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 […]
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. […]
33 Seconds lost at boot…
Imagine you are an enterprise customer who has several thousand desktops that boot slow. Inordinately slow…slow enough that your user base resists requests to reboot […]
Disk in-Depth
I started an article on Disk performance and characteristics for the PFE Performance Wiki a while back. I had actually forgotten about it (those who […]
DPC triangle…
So once upon a time, a PFE had a problem with his video game stuttering. The game would be playing fine and then suddenly, the […]
BPAs, not just for Exchange anymore…
So for those who don’t know, I used to be mainly an Exchange dork…ESE flowed in the veins don’t cha know? Anyway, one of the […]
RunAsRadio.com
I just realized I forgot to link to my xperf into talk on RunAsRadio.com back in October. Boy is my face red… http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=182 Check out […]
Yes, it matters
Often at customer engagements when I encourage them to use things like SCCM and SCUP along with HP or Dell SCUP integration to keep drivers […]
Boot delay in MOM 2005 Agent – notes from the field
Mom2005 agent for FCS v1 can slow boot times by around 20 seconds (typically)…So I did a WDRAP recently where part of their slow boot experience was […]