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Designing Applications for High Performance

Happy Friday AskPerf!  We’ve had a few questions in the past about guidelines for application design in a faster computing environment.  Now, I make absolutely no claims whatsoever to being any sort of a code guru, and so I wasn’t about to try Read More...
Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Remote Desktop Services: Announcements

Good morning all – today’s post is a very brief one regarding new announcements concerning Remote Desktop Services.  The original announcements were made on the Remote Desktop ServicesTeam blog . RDS CAL Single Pack now available in Retail channel Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Ten Tips and Tricks for Server Baselines

Happy Friday AskPerf! One of our Technical Account Managers pinged me a few weeks ago and asked if I could put together something on how to do a server baseline. After thinking about how best to do this for a while, I realized that trying to create a Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Two Minute Drill: Using PROCDUMP

Hello again AskPerf!  Blake Morrison here to introduce you to a new tool from Sysinternals called ProcDump.  If you are familiar with AdPlus then ProcDump will be a welcome addition to your debugging arsenal.  ProcDump is a new command Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

Two Minute Drill: Stack Basics

Welcome back AskPerf!  Carrying on with our debugging / architectural theme from the last couple of weeks, today’s topic is about the stack.  A stack is a way of storing information – a data structure.  When a new object is placed on the Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Semaphores – More than Flag Waving

Good Morning AskPerf!  Today is the last in our series on Windows Synchronization Mechanisms.  Our topic today is Semaphore Objects.  A semaphore object is a kernel-mode synchronization object that maintains a count between zero and a maximum Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 3 Comments

The Basics of Mutexes and Spin Locks

Good Morning AskPerf! We’re continuing on with our mini-series on Synchronization Mechanisms today with a look at Mutexes. A mutex is a synchronization object. Mutexes ensure mutually exclusive (hence the term) access. In other words, while one thread Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Interlocked Operations in a Nutshell

Good Morning AskPerf!  On Tuesday, we went over some very high-level concepts around synchronization mechanisms.  Today, we’re going to briefly dig into one of those mechanisms, Interlocked Operations, in a little more depth.  This isn’t Read More...
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Synchronization Mechanisms 101: Concepts for Non-Programmers

Good morning AskPerf! I realize it’s been a couple of weeks or so since we’ve posted. The reason is that we’ve all been a bit busy trying to wrap up the end of our fiscal year, write our reviews and of course, there was the Fourth of July holiday in there Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

Windows 7 Application Compatibility: Virtual Roundtable with Mark Russinovich

On June 18th, Mark Russinovich will be hosting a Virtual Roundtable on Windows 7 Application Compatibility. This is a chance for IT Pros to learn all about Windows 7 Application Compatibility and get answers to any management or deployment questions for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments
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Two Minute Drill: TYPEPERF

Hello again AskPerf! Blake Morrison here to discuss a little known OS tool called TYPEPERF. TYPEPERF is a built-in tool that writes performance data to the command window or to a log file. If you are a command line junkie, love to script, and need to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

Viewing Folder Sizes in Explorer

Good morning AskPerf.  Today’s post is a very short one, but it does address one of our most common Shell / Windows UI questions.  That question is, “Why can’t I see the size of folders in Windows Explorer?”  The simple answer is that the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 2 Comments

Terminal Services and Graphically Intensive Applications

Hello AskPerf, my name is Subheet Rastogi and I am a Technical Lead on the Performance team in Bangalore.  Today, we’re going to take a quick look at issues that typically arise when using graphic intensive applications or media streaming in a Remote Read More...
Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments

PRF: Windows System Resource Manager (Windows Server 2003)

WINDOWS SYSTEM RESOURCE MANAGER - WINDOWS SERVER 2003 Description: Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) is a feature of Windows Server 2003, Enterprise and Datacenter editions. Using WSRM, administrators can control how CPU resources are allocated to Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 9:19 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments

PRF: Windows System Resource Manager (Windows Server 2008)

WINDOWS SYSTEM RESOURCE MANAGER - WINDOWS SERVER 2008 Description: Microsoft Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) provides resource management and enables the allocation of resources, including processor and memory resources, among multiple applications Read More...
Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 9:19 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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