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Wait Chain Patterns

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:

I’ll update it as soon as I add more similar patterns.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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2 Responses to “Wait Chain Patterns”

  1. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » 10 Common Mistakes in Memory Analysis (Part 8) Says:
    June 16th, 2010 at 10:32 pm

    […] 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 […]

  2. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » Notation for Memory and Trace Analysis (Part 1) Says:
    October 7th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    […] semantics. We propose to use capitalized letters for major pattern categories, for example, W for wait chains and D for deadlocks. Then use subscripts (or small letters) for pattern subcategories, for example, […]

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