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October 2008 - Posts

Ntfs Misreporting Free Space (Part 2)

Continuing our discussion on the internals of disk usage, we will now shift our focus to internal metadata usage. …….. KB in …. Indexes . Consider for a moment a world without indexes… The $MFT is a database containing records that are accessed via FRS Read More...
Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 1:56 AM by ntdebug | 3 Comments
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Remote kernel or user mode debugging of dumps or live systems

GES (Global Escalation Services) is not only responsible for helping our external customers, but we spend a great deal of time collaborating with engineers and developers around the world at our support and development sites. We often look at large dump Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:43 PM by ntdebug | 2 Comments
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Windows Hotfixes and Updates - How do they work?

Today I would like to talk about some of the work the Windows Serviceability (WinSE) team does regarding servicing Windows and releasing updates. The operating system is divided into multiple components. Each component can consist of one or more files, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:25 PM by ntdebug | 10 Comments
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How to Determine Which Resource is Causing the Cluster Resource Monitor to Crash – Possible Deadlock

Hello, my name is John Marlin, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Microsoft Platform Cluster Services Support team. I wanted to talk about the Windows 2003 Cluster Resource Monitor and with what happens when it crashes. In this blog I’ll show Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:53 PM by ntdebug | 1 Comments
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Unlocking some puzzles requires building a better key... board

Hi, this is Matt from the Windows Performance team. Sometimes we are presented with problems that defy our usual troubleshooting and require a creative approach. In a recent case, we needed a way to test the responsiveness of an application as text was Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 3:32 PM by ntdebug | 1 Comments
 
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