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Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:03 PM

Introducing Performance Console

Ever wonder how I get those nice looking HTML call trees with attributed costs like this one here in my last quiz? Well, it turns out that Josh Williams wrote an excellent program for massaging the perf results that come out of our profiler. The way it
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Monday, August 08, 2005 5:44 PM

LogDump: CLRProfiler Log analysis tool

Ever wonder how I produce nice textual allocation summaries like this one? This report shows allocations in dictread.log Total Allocations 136301 Objects 6694232 Bytes Top 10 Allocated Types Count Bytes Type 108040 5836392 System.String 26726 534520 DictionaryEntry
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:10 PM

Narrowing Down Performance Problems in Managed Code

My last entry was some generic advice about how to do a good performance investigation. I think actually it's too generic to be really useful -- in fact I think it fails my Peanut Butter Sandwich Test. Digression to discuss the Peanut Butter Sandwich
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Monday, May 23, 2005 5:54 PM

How To Do A Good Performance Investigation

I find that sometimes people have difficultly just getting started when doing a performance analysis – meaning they’re faced with a potentially big problem and don’t know where to begin. Over the years many people have come to me under those circumstances
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:12 PM

Performance Quiz #6 -- Analyzing the managed code

Raymond didn't post an update today so I think this is a good time for me to post the first analysis of the managed code. There's some things to notice right away and I've highlighted them in the table below. This table was generated in the same way as
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Friday, April 15, 2005 12:37 PM

Three techniques for tracking down memory leaks due to undisposed objects

People often ask me for tips/tricks on how to find out which objects are not being properly disposed. But before I go any further I should talk briefly about why that's a problem. If an object is Finalizable that means that the runtime must run the Finalize
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Friday, December 10, 2004 10:02 AM

Tracking down managed memory leaks (how to find a GC leak)

If you think you've got memory leaks, or if you're just wondering what kind of stuff is on your heap you can follow the very same steps that I do and get fabulous results your friends will envy. OK, well maybe not, but they're handy anyway. These steps
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