Tag Archives: Performance

Collecting performance profiles in Azure WebApps on demand

Agenda: All of sudden your Application starts responding slow. What to do? In order to figure out why it is slow, you’ll need to understand what happens internally, what does each thread do? How the wallclock time is spent while processing your request? The source of that data is dynamic profiling. Azure WebApps can collectContinue reading “Collecting performance profiles in Azure WebApps on demand”

Performance crime: Params

You might heard params are evil. Have you ever seen the performance bill for that? How to find out where params are used? Memory allocation report shows all allocations, we’ll start from here: Method with params creates an array behind the scenes, so hunting for object[]: IL code proves sad truth – array is alwaysContinue reading “Performance crime: Params”

Reckless interlocked operations

Let’s start with a guess – what is the most CPU-heavy operation in Sitecore? Answer: Performance counters initialization: Yes, that’s right, those performance counters which are powered by OS and super fast. Although Sitecore counter init implementation does not look offensive (volatile read & interlocked), counters are everywhere (cache lookup / access / object creation):Continue reading “Reckless interlocked operations”

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”