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In Part 1 of this series we identified a pool leak in non paged pool.  In Part 2 and Part 3 of this series we identified what pool tag was leaking.  In Part 5 and Part 6 we got call stacks showing the memory being allocated.  In this article we are going to discuss a tool that combines...

In part 5 we used poolhittag to get call stacks of pool being allocated and freed.  This information is often essential to identifying the cause of a memory leak; however it is not always feasible to configure a live kernel debug to obtain this information.  Fortunately there are alternative...

In Part 4 we narrowed the source of the leaked pool memory to the specific driver which is allocating it, and we identified where in the driver this allocation was taking place.  However, we did not capture contextual information such as the call stack leading up to this code.  Also, we didn...

In our previous articles we discussed various techniques for identifying a pool memory leak and narrowing the scope of the leak to an individual pool tag.  Knowing the leaking pool tag is often sufficient to identify the cause of the problem and find a solution.  However, there may be a scenario...

In our previous articles we discussed identifying a pool leak with perfmon , and narrowing the source of the leak with poolmon .  These tools are often preferred because they are easy to use, provide verbose information, and can be run on a system without forcing downtime.  However, it is not...

In our previous article we discussed how to identify a pool leak using perfmon.  Although it may be interesting to know that you have a pool leak, most customers are interested in identifying the cause of the leak so that it can be corrected.  In this article we will begin the process of identifying...

Over the years the NTDebugging Blog has published several articles about pool memory and pool leaks.  However, we haven’t taken a comprehensive approach to understanding and troubleshooting pool memory usage.  This upcoming series of articles is going to tackle pool leaks from the basics to...

Hi, it's the Debug Ninja back again with another debugging adventure.   Recently I have encountered several instances where processes fail to initialize, and a review of available resources showed that there was no obvious resource exhaustion.   A more in depth review found that there were...

Hi All, this is Karim Elsaid and I’m a Support Escalation Engineer working with the Dubai platforms support team.   Recently I was working on a very challenging and interesting case, and I wanted to share that experience with you.   One of our customers was experiencing a problem on all his...

Written by Jeff Dailey Hello, my name is Jeff Dailey, I’m an E scalation E ngineer for the Global Escalation Services P latforms team. I’d like to show you how to debug and find leaking handles within your application or other process. We can do this with the !htrace command in windbg . Windbg...