Category Archives: WinDBG

Memory snapshots in Azure Web Apps

A memory snapshot could explain why an app does not behave well. The process of collecting memory snapshot is straightforward locally: Download ProcDump Find the process ID in Task Manager Trigger onDemand collection: procdump.exe -accepteula -ma 123 Why that does not work in cloud? Despite KUDU can generate memory snapshots on demand, it frequently failsContinue reading “Memory snapshots in Azure Web Apps”

Performance crime: config to kill performance

Would you as a developer allow a setting that can make system 15 550 times slower? I’ve received a few memory dumps with high CPU; each scavenges AccessResultCache: How big is the cache so that every snapshot contains the operation? Detecting cache size from the snapshot A ClrMD code snippet locates objects in Sitecore.Caching.Generics.Cache namespaceContinue reading “Performance crime: config to kill performance”

Performance crime: careless allocations

I was investigating Sitecore Aggregation case a time back and my attention was caught by GC Heap Allocation mentioning RequiresValidator in top 10: Combining all generic entries together leads to over 7% of total allocations making it second most expensive type application wide! Yes, all it does is check object is not null Yes, itContinue reading “Performance crime: careless allocations”