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• Thread, System.Threading.Thread, and !Threads (III)

  I got email asking me to explain !Threads output in details. I think this is a good question and a good topic for another installment to the series. Here is an example I'll use for this post: 0:055> !threads ThreadCount: 202 UnstartedThread: 95 BackgroundThread: Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:55 AM by yunjin | 5 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips, CLR internal and Misc

• Thread, System.Threading.Thread, and !Threads (II)

  With knowledge in my previous blog , we could avoid some mistakes in .NET programming. A C++ Thread is very resource heavy. It is associated with a lot of dynamically allocated memory and some OS handles. So it had better to be cleaned up ASAP after its Read More... Posted Monday, August 29, 2005 9:30 AM by yunjin | 2 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips, CLR internal and Misc

• Thread, System.Threading.Thread, and !Threads (I)

  If you use SOS’s !Threads command during debugging a lot, you should be familiar with such output: 0:003> !threads PDB symbol for mscorwks.dll not loaded Loaded Son of Strike data table version 5 from "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\mscorwks.dll" Read More... Posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:26 AM by yunjin | 4 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips, CLR internal and Misc

• Special threads in CLR

  Question: How many threads does a typical managed process have when it just starts to run? Answer: regardless how many threads the user creates, there are at least 3 threads for a common managed process after CLR starts up: a main thread which starts Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:52 AM by yunjin | 15 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, CLR internal and Misc

• Thread safety of Timer callbacks

  I didn't realize I've stopped blogging for 1 year. What a shame! Fortunately I didn’t waste the time: we ship Whidbey Beta1 and Beta2 in the past year! Now with Beta2 out of door, I have more spare time for blogging. :) Today I want to talk about some Read More... Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 2:12 AM by yunjin | 5 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, .NET programming gotcha and debugging tips, CLR internal and Misc

• FCall and GC hole - first post about Rotor

  An exsample of FCall My friend Joel Pobar had a great post to demo how to add new code to Rotor which exposes more EE(Execution Engine) internal information to managed world. This is a very good example covers both BCL and EE, and how the two parts interact Read More... Posted Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:34 PM by yunjin | 5 Comments Filed under: Rotor code explanation, CLR internal and Misc