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My application seems to hang. What do I do? – Part 1

September 28, 2006 Sep 28, 2006 09/28/06

maoni

Defining “hang” is a good place to start.   When people say “hang” they could mean all sorts of things. When I say “hang” I mean the process is not making progress – the threads in the process are either blocked (eg. deadlocked, or not scheduled because of threads from other processes) or executing code (madly) but not doing...

Understand the problem before you try to find a solution

September 1, 2006 Sep 1, 2006 09/1/06

maoni

So far I’ve never written a blog entry that gives out philosophical advices on doing performance work. But lately I thought perhaps it’s time to write such an entry because I’ve seen enough people who looked really hard at some performance counters (often not correct ones) or some other data and asked tons of questions such as “is this...