September 2006 - Posts
This is lab for simulating a real 100% CPU condition being caused by a generic Win32 application when there are no symbols available for such application. Let’s start supposing the situation is currently occurring. So, the first step is to confirm the
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Processes consuming 100% of a system's CPU time is such a situation everybody has faced at least once (likely much more than once :)), and normally as solution we just "kill the murderer" by stopping the culprit process. But what was really causing that
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I've been following the discussions about these options for a long time. When it seems that everybody agrees on something, somebody else comes with a different understanding and the discussion starts all over again... The questions at the beginning of
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The System Monitor (Perfmon.exe) reports the data gathered through some of its objects and counters with no formatting and depending on what kind of counters are you looking at, or how tired you are, sometimes this can be confusing and even cause misinterpretation
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