Wait Chain Patterns

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While preparing a presentation for an engineering conference I found that a page to reference various wait chain patterns is necessary, so I created this post:

  • Wait Chain (general)
  • Wait Chain (critical sections)
  • Wait Chain (executive resources)
  • Wait Chain (thread objects)
  • Wait Chain (LPC/ALPC)
  • Wait Chain (process objects)
  • I’ll update it as soon as I add more similar patterns.

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    One Response to “Wait Chain Patterns”

    1. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » 10 Common Mistakes in Memory Analysis (Part 8) Says:

      […] pattern. Let me illustrate this by a complete memory dump from a frozen system. Careful analysis of wait chains revealed a thread owning a mutant and blocking other threads from many […]

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