// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Day by day work stuff
While troubleshooting released application on remote production site, it is very useful to grasp a state of the process for further analysis. There are several scenarios in which the following information about process state is helpful: modules (DLLs) loaded into process and their versions threads and their call stacks process and thread performance An utility…
A picture for relaxation: It is probably a fresh bug there as it seems to be happening far more frequently with version 2008 (with ot without SP1) as compared to 2005. Luckily it has no effect to code being written, the problem clearly relates to debugger. At some point there is a crash, though which…
FFDShow is already known for it issues (including for example mentioned one). Today’s featured one is related to its Video Decoder. A great deal of FFDShow related issues amy be worked around with a single shot by listing the image name as an FFDShow exclusion under registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\ffdshow; blacklist but I felt relaxed and the…
> How do you test performance? I don’t. I just believe in it. This is actually what we have here but still we have managed to deliver software that gives more frames per second than rivals. Why? We hopefully knew what we did in first place. According to one of our partner hardware vendors, there…
Yesterday there was a support request on another weird problem which was eventually forwarded to me for investigation. The symptom was “application configured as Windows service does not start and shows “Starting” in services console all the time”. The case did not look difficult as the symptom clearly indicates a freeze or deadlock inside service,…
Yesterday I received a complaint from a Most Important Customer about a weird problem on a few of their digital video recording servers. The problem was that a new version of software, client part, would out of a sudden auto-close without any notice. The problem was quite persistent and basically of not a difficult kind…
I just read a post on frame pointer omission (FPO) optimization, also known as /Oy compiler flag. And a comment from Vladimir Scherbina on problems getting the feature actually work. I wondered if there has been any improvement with a Visual Studio .NET 2008 SP1. latest compiler from Microsoft and briefly – the result is…