For all of you who have been asking me if there is a 64bit version of Debug Diag (used to debug 64 bit processes), I am happy to say that yes, Debug Diag 1.1 64bit is now released. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=28bd5941-c458-46f1-b24d-f60151d875a3&displaylang=en#filelist And an updated whitepaper talking about how to use it is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4A2FBD0D-0635-440C-A08B-ED81BDBB5960&displaylang...

I had an interesting case today where an asp.net app was stuck in a true deadlock. In other words two threads were both waiting for resources that the other thread owned. The scenario in these cases usually goes something like this: FunctionA (locks on ResourceA) and calls FunctionB where it needs ResourceB FunctionB (locks on ResourceB) and calls FunctionA where it needs ResourceA And is typically pretty easy to spot, understand and fix… However, in this particular case things were...

I got an email today on an issue that I think is pretty common when you try to memory leak analysis on a dump with debug diag . They had set up a leak rule in debug diag to monitor for leaks and then ran the memory analysis on it to see what was leaking and the results looked something like this:   Warning mscorwks.dll is responsible for 372.46 MBytes worth of outstanding allocations. The following are the top 2 memory consuming functions: mscorwks!EEVirtualAlloc+119 : 312.00 MBytes worth of...

I was out looking for some sample scripts for tinyget and ran across this ANTS Memory Profiler review where Scott Seely has tested it out on some of my debugging labs . I haven’t had the time and/or opportunity to test it out myself but since many people have asked me if I had used it or what I thought of it I thought I’d just point you to someone who has instead:) Have fun, Tess