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Friday, May 27, 2005 11:39 AM

Lock Convoys and How to Recognize Them

The problem: When using a particular application on one specific device, users noticed very bad UI response for a period of a few seconds. After those seconds, UI responsiveness went back to normal. The investigation: I used ActiveSync to drop celog.dll
Posted by sloh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:49 PM

Windows CE eHow-tos and Tutorials! WOW!!

I saw a blip of this at MEDC, and just checked it out myself. How cool! It's like a DevCon for all to share! http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/getstart/basics/tutorialsce/default.aspx Most of it is pretty basic stuff, but if you're new to Windows CE,
Posted by sloh | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:23 PM

Using RAM over 512MB

Q: I can use only 512MB of RAM from my device. How can I address the remaining RAM ? On one of your posts you said that there is a way to go with more that 512 MB RAM. Can you help me on this issue? A: Windows CE can't address more than 512MB. There's
Posted by sloh | 1 Comments
Monday, May 23, 2005 11:16 AM

Recognizing Excessive Thread Switching

Sometimes the source of a performance problem is not that code is too slow, but that threads switch too frequently. When the system switches between threads, the system consumes extra cycles in scheduling activities such as selecting the next thread to
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:06 AM

Remote Kernel Tracker: More things you should recognize

I have a few more examples of patterns you can recognize when you’re looking at CeLog threading data in Remote Kernel Tracker. Note: these images are wacky heights because I tweaked them to cut off white space that didn’t contain any CeLog data. Thread
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:52 AM

Introduction to Remote Kernel Tracker

When you connect to a device with Remote Kernel Tracker, or when you open a log file that has been collected by one of the other CeLog tools, you’ll see a lot of data you may not understand. At MEDC this past week, a few people asked for a better explanation
Posted by sloh | 9 Comments
Monday, May 16, 2005 10:55 AM

CeLog documentation

At long last, a big chunk of work I did to add documentation of CeLog & Remote Kernel Tracker has finally shown up in a form you can view. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wcedebug5/html/wce50conEventTracking.asp I did a huge brain dump and
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