Category: Performance

White Paper: Perceived Performance Reloaded

Today I posted a new whitepaper associated with the Perceived Performance presentation I made at BriForum London yesterday.  We had a great session with a diverse eupoean crowd in attendance.I wish I had another name for this than a “white paper”, because most of what we see in white papers today are just blatant product pitches with a technical description. 
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HyperV_Mon 1.8 Release

HyperV_Mon updated release

 

HyperV_Mon is my free tool for monitoring and diagnosing performance issues with Hyper-V.

After prompting from a user with a lot more processors then the test systems here, I updated the HyperV_Mon tool to handle resizing in general, and to adjust the root partition processor display.  This new version is a minor release (1.8.0).

In the works
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ATM Version 3.0

I have updated the ATM tool. This free tool allows you to investigate memory usage on a system, particularly the system file cache, standby lists, and supercache.

New in 3.0 is the ability to clear out more parts of memory. The intent of adding this is to help those performing repeated performance tests. The idea is to try to …

HyperV_Mon 1.7 Released

I added an updated version, Version 1.7, of HyperV_Mon today.

HyperV_Mon is a free monitoring tool for use with Microsoft Hyper-V. It provides a graphical display of the main performance indexes for both the VMs and the physical host. This includes CPU, Memory, Paging, as well as File and Network I/O traffic.

More importantly, it displays CPU “virtualization overhead” that …

Free Tool ATM version 2.0

August 17, 2009
Release of Version 2 of ATM. See the 7 priority standby list caches in Ram!

Prioritized Standby Caches are new in Vista and above versions of the Microsoft Operating Systems.…

HyperV_Mon 1.6

June 28, 2009
Updated Tools! HyperV_Mon version 1.6, with small improvements and updated documentation. See the Tools section of the site.…