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After a recent SharePoint 2007 migration exercise at a large customer, we started experiencing performance issues reported by end users when the system was under load. In the Windows Event Logs we saw the following event: Event Type: Warning Event Source: W3SVC-WP Event ID: 2262 Description: ISAPI ...

Sometimes when looking at your dump files, the actual cause isn't possible to determine due to issues such as memory corruption. For example a buggy module may write to some memory address that it doesn't own. When the real owner comes to read back its data, the data is now corrupt and an exception is raised. Unfortunately the crashing ...

Update: I have now added Part 3 - where I cover enabling the Driver Verifier tool. This can be handy if you are getting STOP 0xA crashes, but the faulting stack is different/corrupt each time. Update 2: If you are getting random STOP numbers each time your machine blue screens (e.g. the bugcheck is different each time), then it's ...

A STOP 0x0000000A (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL) bugcheck is one of the most common STOP codes encountered by users today. After discussing this with my former colleague Chewy on my way to Tech.Ed SEA, I've decided to write up a post briefly explaining what an IRQL is, why it being "not less or equal" will cause a bugcheck, and what ...

Seen on bash.org - made my laugh Coke out my nose. does anyone waht error: 0x1d1c4e86 referenced memory at 0x0000000000 the memory could not be read mean? :D yes what does it mean ? i only get it when i'm browsing the harddrives someone forgot to check if a pointer was null before reading from it.. ok. so some troubles with the mouse drivers? ...

Tristan's got a post explaining how to determine whether your client's using NTLM or Kerberos when authenticating to your web application. Is there a better way than looking at the size of the request? I think so (but that's just my opinion). The first option is to simply use a capture tool (such as Wireshark aka Ethereal) that is ...

There are a few good resources out there for troubleshoting crash/hang situations in Windows. Some of the resources I regularly look to include: Tess's Blog Raymond Chen's BlogDavid Wang's blogWindows Internals (by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon)The WinDBG newsgroup on the Microsoft public news server (news.microsoft.com)Pat's ...

I've been assisting someone with a memory leak issue over the past few days. They described their symptoms as: The server will suddenly stop accepting any form of request from other servers. If you try to do a snap-in from another server using MMC, it will say "There is not enough storage to complete this operation". You may not even ...