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Here is little tip for you that want to practice kernel mode debugging but either don’t have 2 machine machines to play the TARGET and HOST roles or simply don’t want to play with (for any reason) with the old null modem serial cable used to connect the
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This is another 100% CPU issue. This time I’m not working on any customer case as the issue is happening on my own Windows XP SP2 machine. So I resolved trying to troubleshoot that just for fun J . First, let me explain the scenario: Random interactive
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This week I'm working on this case related to IIS6 server hosting an Asp.Net application (it's a C# app) whose the performance is poor even when a very low number of users is hitting it. The architecture is the classical web layer accessing the backend
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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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