Archive for September 22nd, 2009

Bugtation No.105

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

“A little” debugging “is a dangerous thing;” Debug “deep, or”

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Bugtation No.104

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

While reading memory snapshots (dumps) from Clive James during lunch I came across this:

“… beauty” in debugging “begins as consolation for what can’t be” debugged.

Clive James, Cultural Amnesia

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

CDFAnalyzer for Analysis of CDF (ETW) Traces

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Citrix released the powerful GUI CDF trace analyzer tool that can work with hundred Mb trace files with millions of trace messages:

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122741

I use it on day-to-day basis while analyzing CDF traces from terminal services environments and highly recommend. Its ability to quick filter out modules is indispensable when dealing with messages from hundreds of processes and thousands of threads. I haven’t tried it yet with MS TMF files though.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Dictionary of Debugging: Memory Space

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Memory Space

The linear range of memory addresses. Usually, addresses are numbers from N0 set. For example, [0, 7FFFFFFF] or [0×80000000, 0xFFFFFFFF]. Memory space is divided into memory regions. The memory contents might not be available for specific memory regions of a memory space.

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Also: memory dump, memory region, user dump, kernel dump, complete dump, physical memory, virtual memory, user spacekernel space.

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