If broken it is, fix it you should

This may seem like a preposterous statement, but unfortunately it’s all too common. In my work I go through a lot of dumps, somewhere in the neighborhood of 5-20 in a day:) Since the information is readily available to me, I usually do a quick check for Read More...

So you got a 1000 w3wp.exe stopped unexpectedly in the eventviewer or your process just exited in some weird undefined way and you don't know why. When a process crashes or exits a special event will be fired called EPR (Exit PRocess) so with a debugger Read More...

The most powerful command when debugging a managed memory leak is by far !dumpheap. It will show you all the objects on the managed heaps and using the different switches of !dumpheap you can display the output in virtually any way you want. !dumpheap Read More...

Not that it matters a tremendous lot but just because it is a big pet-peeve of mine I want to differentiate between a real memory-leak and high memory usage. A memory leak is when you used some memory and lost the pointer to the allocation so you can Read More...

To answer this question, there are a few concepts we need to discuss. Working on a 32-bit system, you can address 4 GB of memory, out of this 2 GB is typically reserved to the Operating System and 2 GB are allowed for each user mode process, such as w3wp.exe Read More...

10 years ago, still in college, I started working for a company developing real-time systems for trains in Motorola HC11 assembly. Although very interesting and challenging it was a relief to later move on to some more high-level languages, but in the Read More...