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The Case of the 2 Million Context Switches
28 October 09 09:26 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
This week I was in Denver, CO handling a high CPU performance issue with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2. The customer was seeing very high CPU utilization even when BizTalk doesn’t have any real work do to, so this was a bit of a mystery and a challenge. Read More...
The Case of the Phantom Hard Page Faults
16 July 09 04:33 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 2 Comments   
I am teaching this week, so I figured I would talk about a case I had a few months ago. I have *plenty* of war stories to share, so I can certainly keep this weekly blog going for a long time. ;-) I’m a big fan of Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, so Read More...
The Case of the High CPU Web Server
09 July 09 01:39 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 0 Comments   
This week I was off to Phoenix, AZ again, but for a different customer this time. Phoenix is very hot this time of year – I think it got to about 110 degrees Fahrenheit hot enough to literally cook an egg on the sidewalk and likely burn it. ;-) When I Read More...
The Case of the Out of Memory BizTalk Server
07 July 09 01:30 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
About a month ago, I was conducting a BizTalk Health Check for a customer (yes, Microsoft BizTalk Server is one of my other specialties along with several others) where the BizTalk server has been running slower than expected. They noticed Out of Memory Read More...
Another Case of the Missing PTEs
18 June 09 11:02 AM | clinth@microsoft.com | 2 Comments   
I did an IIS Health Check (IISHC) this week and found another 32-bit Windows 2003 web server that was out of System PTEs. This blog entry talks about how we resolved this issue. I detected this issue by looking at the boot.ini file which is one of the Read More...
The Case of the Missing PTEs
15 June 09 11:53 PM | clinth@microsoft.com | 1 Comments   
It was a dark and stormy night… actually it was sunny and clear, but just thought I’d start this blog series like a classic novel. :-) This is the first blog entry of my new blog related to my job. I made a mistake when creating my first one and ended Read More...

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