Back in my developer days when I was building DLLs and OCXs, I was constantly registering and unregistering DLLs using the command line (find me a dev who isn't a command line junkie - I still have two prompts open as I type this). As time's gone on, I submitted to using Windows Explorer more and...
Today I would like to do a quick walkthrough of the VMMap tool from Windows Sysinternals.
This tool gives us a neat summary of a process’ virtual and physical memory usage. It shows a graphical summary as well as a detailed report of a given process’ memory usage pattern.
VMMap breaks down the...
a brief discussion of a very useful tool. You may have had the need to run a Performance Monitor log at one time or another, but noticed that a needed counter was missing from the list. This can occur if the counter has been disabled intentionally, or if the counter has been disabled by the...
As system memory increases, and applications and roles of the server become more important, access to the disk becomes more competitive between applications and the operating system. As a result, you can start to see the Event ID 333 logged, and you are likely seeing other performance issues...
As promised - here's the long awaited post on the infamous /3GB switch. At least once a week we have this discussion with a Systems Administrator somewhere who has this set in the boot.ini file on all of the servers but doesn't know why. Maybe someone added it to the...
Memory Management issues make up a considerable portion of the support incidents that we handle. At some point during the support incident we invariably engage in a discussion of Memory Management, Memory Tuning, the use of the infamous...
First of all - what are Pool Resources? When a machine boots up, the Memory Manager creates two dynamically sized memory pools that kernel-mode components use to allocate system memory. These two pools are known as the Paged Pool and NonPaged Pool. Each of these pools start at an...
Our new blog has been launched today.
Hi all. Today I would like to bring to your attention an issue we have been seeing lately that very well may effect those of you in a corporate environment. McAfee has recently released information about this issue on their web site.
The...
