Some Cool Perf Analysis Tool I Recently Discovered
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/
Here is a quick summary of the tools:
The DiskSpd program to measure disk bandwidth (DiskSpd.zip).
The NetSpd program to measure network bandwidth (NetSpd.zip).
The MemSpd program to measure memory bandwidth (MemSpd.zip).
The GenFile program to quickly create large disk files with randomized content (GenFile.zip).
The DumpFile program displays sections of arbitrarily large files in hex and/or ASCII (DumpFile.zip).
They were helpful this week and I'll add these little guys to my performance analysis toolkit.
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I am originally from Dayton, OH. Worked for the Air Force for 6 years. Joined Microsoft in 1999 and moved to Charlotte, NC. There I was a Support Professional and later worked as a Testing Consultant. After 6 years, my wife, daughter and I moved to Seattle, WA where I took a job as a Microsoft Premier Field Engineering (PFE) supporting BizTalk. Throughout my Microsoft career I've always been very passionate about performance analysis, so I have worked hard to make performance analysis easier for our customers. Oh, and I like PC games like Diablo 2 and Fable, cigars, and a nice Chianti.
