Tag Archives: process shutdown

When Your Profiler Lies

Posted on December 9, 2018 by brucedawson

Last week I wrote about the performance consequences of inadvertently loading gdi32.dll into processes that are created and destroyed at very high rates. This week I want to share some techniques for digging deeper into this behavior, and the odd … Continue reading →

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A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown

Posted on December 3, 2018 by brucedawson

Subtitle: Making Windows Slower Part 3: Process Destruction In the summer of 2017 I wrestled with a Windows performance problem. Process destruction was slow, serialized, and was blocking the system input queue, leading to repeated short mouse-movement hangs when building … Continue reading →

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