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Tag Archives: UI hangs
What is Windows *doing* while hogging that lock
Earlier this month I wrote about how Windows 10 holds a lock during too much of process destruction, which both serializes this task and causes mouse-cursor hitches and UI hangs (because the same lock is used for these UI tasks). … Continue reading
Posted in Investigative Reporting, uiforetw, xperf
Tagged UI hangs, wait analysis, WIndows 10
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24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
This story begins, as they so often do, when I noticed that my machine was behaving poorly. My Windows 10 work machine has 24 cores (48 hyper-threads) and they were 50% idle. It has 64 GB of RAM and that … Continue reading
Posted in Investigative Reporting, uiforetw, xperf
Tagged UI hangs, wait analysis, WIndows 10
214 Comments