March 2008 - Posts

I'm speaking at TechEd 2008 This Year!
21 March 08 12:51 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

I'm proud to announce that I will be speaking at TechEd 2008 this year in Orlando, Florida. It will be a 1 hour chalk talk during the ITPro week (June 10th - 13th, 2008). I hope to see some of the PAL tool users there! :-) My session will be on Microsoft Read More...

Some Cool Perf Analysis Tool I Recently Discovered
21 March 08 12:39 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

While troubleshooting disk latency ghosts (see my previous blog entry on AMD Opteron processors), i came across a set of tools. Apparently these tools have been around awhile, but I never knew. Here is the link to them: http://research.microsoft.com/barc/Sequential_IO/ Read More...

Warning: Perf Counter Data might be Inaccurate on some AMD Processor Computers
21 March 08 12:35 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   

I've been gathering performance counter data all week on a server and found a really long disk latency issue where disk writes were taking longer than 1 second (should be less than 15ms). The odd part is that the server was very responsive and the typical Read More...

Microsoft BizTalk Database Tips for Microsoft SQL Server DBA's
20 March 08 07:16 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

I recently had a Microsoft SQL Server expert ask me about some tips regarding Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 databases, so I thought I'd share this information on my blog. First of all BizTalk database are not your normal SQL databases. Yes, I said databases… Read More...

Quick Network Performance Checks
06 March 08 08:43 AM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   

Here are a few quick network checks I do when I go on-site with customers. First, I do a ping to measure latency – LAN should respond in less than a few milliseconds. Next, I do a PathPing (sends a burst of 100 ping packets at each hop, then measures Read More...