Category Archives: xperf

ETW Flame Graphs Made Easy

Posted on September 5, 2016 by

A bit over three years ago I wrote about how to use flame graphs to visualize CPU Usage (Sampled) data from ETW, and a year ago I added flame graph support to UIforETW. However these techniques are clumsy and slow … Continue reading →

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UIforETW is No Longer a CPU Hog

Posted on May 12, 2016 by

A few months ago I wrote about how many processes on my system were waking up and wasting CPU time for no good reason, thus wasting battery power, electricity, and CPU power. I was surprised that nobody called me out … Continue reading →

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Power Wastage On An Idle Laptop

Posted on March 8, 2016 by

Ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 it’s felt like my battery life is worse. My suspicion was various scanning tasks that were springing to life more frequently, but it was just a hunch. So, I did what I do … Continue reading →

Posted in Investigative Reporting, Performance, Programming, uiforetw, xperf | Tagged , | 32 Comments

ETW Central

Posted on September 24, 2015 by

Over the last few years I’ve written over forty blog posts that discuss ETW/xperf profiling. I’ve done this because it’s one of the best profilers I’ve ever used, and it’s been woefully undersold and under documented by Microsoft. My goal … Continue reading →

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Xperf Basics: Recording a Trace (the ultimate easy way)

Posted on September 1, 2015 by

If your Windows computer is running slowly – if a program takes a long time to launch, if a game has a poor frame rate, or if an idle application uses too much CPU time – the best way to … Continue reading →

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New Xperf and new WPA in the new WPT

Posted on August 10, 2015 by

A new version of Windows means a new version of the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT), the ship vehicle for xperf, WPA and other Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) tools. I’m a huge fan of xperf/ETW (just look at some of … Continue reading →

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Graph All the Things (Using WPT 10)

Posted on August 3, 2015 by

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) has always recorded a rich set of data and allowed graphing it all on the same timeline. With the creation of UIforETW (which records more data) and the new* ETW trace viewer (which can graph … Continue reading →

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