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Bruce Dawson is a performance analyst on the client performance team. He has written this guest post on enabling stack walking using xperf for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems (Vista and Win7). For more posts on xperf see this page .
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In my last post I talked about how multi-threading can be used to improve responsiveness while loading a file. I’ve put together a sample program (source included) that shows how to do this in C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, and WPF using Visual Studio 2008. You can find a zip file with a complete project attached.
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There is a lot of information in a typical kernel trace. While the Performance Analyzer tool is quite powerful and makes it easy to view a trace graphically, sometimes you just need to see what is in the trace directly. Xperf makes this easy.
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Here is a chronological list of the my posts about the xperf tools. If you are new to the tools, or simply want to find a specific article, this is a good place to start. I've listed each article's title and first paragraph. The title is the link to the
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Using the xperf tools, ETW, and the kernel sample profile interrupt all together provides a very effective and easy to use sample profiler for the analysis of both application and system wide performance. At each sample interrupt, the ETW sub-system
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"Do the xperf tools support XP or Windows Server 2003?" is a frequently ask question. The answer is no mostly, and yes for a few things. The next article in this series is Using the Windows Sample Profiler with Xperf xperf.exe can
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Lets get to it! Here is how to take a basic trace then look at CPU and disk utilization. Its really simple, just three commands to turn on tracing, turn it off, and then view the trace. The next article in this series is Xperf
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The WHDC folks now have web page setup for the Windows Performance Toolkit (aka the 'xperf tools'). The page includes downloads for updates to the versions that ship in the SDK. In the near future, this page will include pointers to updated
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The SDK team just shipped the latest version of the Windows SDK which supports Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1. The SDK now includes an important new tool; the Windows Performance Tool Kit from the Windows performance team (we call them the xperf
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CLCV V5 now has a fully working TreeMap control that zooms, supports mouse over events and looks pretty good. But there are two major performance problems: 1) WPF rendering seems to be very expensive. 2) Tree Map nodes are relatively expensive in terms of memory size. Source code is included.
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CLCV V4 now loads files about 27 times faster than V3 when running on my laptop. The tree view is also about 5 times faster.
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One of the things I worked on for Vista was the System Requirements. These are widely quoted, but the canonical source is Knowledge Base Article 919183. There are two sets of system requirements The minimum supported system requirements : this is the
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Windows Aero is Vista's new user interface and is based on desktop composition which is the process where each window and the desktop background is drawn separately and then composed by using the 3‑D graphics engine to create the desktop image a user
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Hardware interrupt service routines and deferred procedure calls can be the silent killers of system performance. ISRs and DPCs are the highest priority code that runs in the system - they cannot be pre-empted by the OS and run to completion. ISRs and
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Channel9 has a good video interview of Mike Fortin where he dicusses what our team does and goes into good detail on SuperFetch, disk layout and defrag, and other interesting topics. See http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429
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