Clint Huffman's Windows Performance Blog

Clint Huffman's Windows Performance Blog

My blog has moved

It took awhile, but I was able get a new blog created using my email name “ClintH” versus...

Date: 06/23/2009

Do not use Task Manager in Hyper-V for Processor Measurements

I’m doing another blog post about the processor utilization in a Hyper-V environment because it...

Date: 05/11/2009

Windows Prefers Wired Connections

Awhile ago someone asked me about how to make their laptop prefer their wired internet connection...

Date: 04/19/2009

Determining the Maximum Sizes of Kernel Memory Pools

While onsite with customers, I have found several more cases where the Windows Server 2003 32-bit is...

Date: 03/26/2009

Helpful PowerShell One-Liners

While doing a BizTalk Health check this week, the customer and I thought it would be cool to try to...

Date: 03/24/2009

Microsoft BizTalk Server Explained in Simple Terms

At TechEd 2008, I manned the Microsoft BizTalk Server booth. Nearly every question I got was, “I’ve...

Date: 03/18/2009

Bling.ps1 (a functional proof of concept for PAL v2.0)

Work on PAL v2.0 (PowerShell version) is coming along nicely. While working on it, I created a...

Date: 12/31/2008

Another RunAs Radio Show

A few weeks ago, I did another show on the internet radio talk show called Run As Radio at...

Date: 12/31/2008

I survived an internet radio talk show

About a month ago, I was on Run As Radio (www.runasradio.com) doing a session on the PAL tool. This...

Date: 12/18/2008

BizTalk Admin Console Fails with DTC Failures

Relevant Environment Information: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (32-bit) Microsoft Windows Server...

Date: 12/15/2008

Use the Hyper-V Counters for CPU Measurement

As a reminder to everyone, use the perf counter “\Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical...

Date: 10/13/2008

The Need for a Performance Analysis of Logs Tool

Introduction Performance analysis of log files (*.blg files) in Microsoft Windows has primarily been...

Date: 09/21/2008

How to use the PAL Tool for BizTalk Performance Analysis

Sorry, I haven't blogged much in the past few months. I've been heads down on several exciting...

Date: 09/02/2008

BizTalk Artifact Duration Aggregations

I’m working on another BizTalk performance gig and created a few custom HAT queries for...

Date: 05/07/2008

Identifying What Installed Microsoft DLL, EXE, or SYS Files

We [Microsoft] tend to have quite a few diamonds in the rough. One of those is our DLL Help...

Date: 04/14/2008

Free System Page Table Entries (PTEs)

Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide prescriptive guidance on how to troubleshoot...

Date: 04/07/2008

I'm speaking at TechEd 2008 This Year!

I'm proud to announce that I will be speaking at TechEd 2008 this year in Orlando, Florida. It will...

Date: 03/21/2008

Some Cool Perf Analysis Tool I Recently Discovered

While troubleshooting disk latency ghosts (see my previous blog entry on AMD Opteron processors), i...

Date: 03/21/2008

Warning: Perf Counter Data might be Inaccurate on some AMD Processor Computers

I've been gathering performance counter data all week on a server and found a really long disk...

Date: 03/21/2008

Microsoft BizTalk Database Tips for Microsoft SQL Server DBA's

I recently had a Microsoft SQL Server expert ask me about some tips regarding Microsoft BizTalk...

Date: 03/20/2008

Quick Network Performance Checks

Here are a few quick network checks I do when I go on-site with customers. First, I do a ping to...

Date: 03/06/2008

Taking Advantage of HTTP Cache-Control in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) has some great output cache settings, but what...

Date: 02/25/2008

BizTalk Server Database Optimization article

A few months ago, I tech reviewed a very well done article on BizTalk performance. It is called...

Date: 12/10/2007

Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications has been published

I'm a contributor for the book "Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications" and it...

Date: 12/10/2007

TrustedInstaller.exe is slain by Vista SP1!

<rhetorical question>Having performance on your Vista laptop and a disk queue length of about...

Date: 12/06/2007

An Optimal Network Load Balancing (NLB) Configuration

When I go on-site with customers who are using Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB), most of the...

Date: 10/08/2007