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manually Debugging native memory leaks

So in my previous posts, I explained how you can use DebugDiag tool to capture high memory dumps with leak tracking enabled and also how to use the inbuilt memory analysis scripts to get a report of memory usage. In this post, I discuss how you can do Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:01 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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Using debugdiag for memory pressure analysis

In my last post , I discussed a generic approach to collecting memory dumps using Debug Diagnostics tool. In this post, I discuss how to use DebugDiag’s memory pressure scripts. Please note that the current version of DebugDiag does not have the ability Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:00 PM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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debugging native memory leaks

Debugging native memory leaks is one of the most difficult things to do - (at least for me). There are a few Escalation Engineers at Microsoft Product Support Services who are extremely good at debugging all kinds of issues. I learn a lot from these guys Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 2:05 PM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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How to get the http headers for asp.net requests from a dump file

So, you have a managed dump and you want to find out the request headers. Here’s one of the methods I use to find this information. I use it especially when I want to view the session ID or cookies. Load SOS Run !aspxpages and note down the HttpContext Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:06 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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setting managed breakpoints in windbg

Windbg is a native debugger and you can use it to set a breakpoint on a virtual address. Any managed code running within the process wouldn’t have a virtual address associated with it until it is JIT compiled. Thus setting a breakpoint on a managed function Read More...
Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 12:28 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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catching a memory dump on system.outofmemoryexception

Issues related to high memory utilization on an IIS application server are common. With .NET there is a little misconception that the Garbage Collector (GC) will clean up objects and therefore the process can never run out of memory. This isn’t true. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:28 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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debugging memory problems – a beginner’s view

Unlike native debugging, you don’t need symbols for debugging managed code. SOS.dll can also be used with WinDBG and Visual Studio debugger. Simply use the intermediate window in Visual Studio to load SOS.dll and then you can use the commands provided Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2009 1:55 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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installing & configuring debugging tools for windows

There are umpteen blogs out there that discuss various debugging techniques. So what is so different about this one? Nothing really. It’s just something that I am adding as a reference for myself and for any soul out there that is starting out with debugging. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 2:32 AM by Sudeep Gopalakrishnan | 0 Comments
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