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?
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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
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 them for patch cycle or power savings efforts or diagnostics. So imagine you do the right thing, you keep the BIOS and firmware up to date, you update drivers, you… Continue reading 33 Seconds lost at boot…
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 know me know my memory is Swiss Cheese sometimes). Anyway, here is a link to the article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/disk-in-depth-pfe-performance-guide.aspx If you are a disk expert, feel free to critique and/or update… Continue reading Disk in-Depth
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 sound would skip until he rebooted his PC. Nothing in the event log, device manager reports all good… So we collected an xperf trace using the following flags: xperf -on… Continue reading DPC triangle…
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 tools that rocked (and still does) is the ExBPA and the family of Exchange Analyzers. But did you know in Windows Server you get analyzers as well? And some are… Continue reading BPAs, not just for Exchange anymore…
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 their podcasts, it’s a great repository of technical information!
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 (and firmware!) up to date, I’m told it isn’t worth it. If the drivers from 2006 work, it doesn’t matter if an update is out. More often than not, the… Continue reading Yes, it matters
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 related to FCS. It’s not FCS’s fault though, it rides on top of the old MOM 2005 health agent. Oddly enough, the MOM 2005 health agent, in the registry called:… Continue reading Boot delay in MOM 2005 Agent – notes from the field
The David Solomon TechNet Spotlight Talks are online once again!
As some would say…Mission Accomplished. It’s a long story, but I use these videos, particular part of the part 3, in my class to teach how Windows talks to physical RAM. The students just about universally dig it and now they are rescued from the Akamai cache and posted once again…. https://vimeo.com/15890452 https://vimeo.com/15888263 https://vimeo.com/15889595 As the… Continue reading The David Solomon TechNet Spotlight Talks are online once again!