Software Generalist

Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions

Windows Internals by M. Russinovich, D. Solomon and A. Ionescu:

Impossibility to disable foreground after-wait priority boosts (p. 423)

CPU Stress tool (pp. 423 - 425, 428 - 430) - Good tool to model CPU spikes. See also Modeling CPU Spikes article I co-authored for Debugging Expert magazine: http://www.debuggingexperts.com/debugged-june-09

CPU starvation prevention via balance set manager thread (p. 427)

MMCSS priority boosts (p. 432)

Network throttling to prevent DPC activity interrupting MMCSS boosting (p. 433)

Advanced .NET Debugging by M. Hewardt:

System | shared | def app := bookkeeping, precreation | mscorlib | app code (pp. 37 - 38) - here we check that mscorlib assembly belongs to the shared domain:

0:003> !dumpdomain
--------------------------------------
System Domain: 000007fef00f8ef0
LowFrequencyHeap: 000007fef00f8f38
HighFrequencyHeap: 000007fef00f8fc8
StubHeap: 000007fef00f9058
Stage: OPEN
Name: None
--------------------------------------
Shared Domain: 000007fef00f9860
LowFrequencyHeap: 000007fef00f98a8
HighFrequencyHeap: 000007fef00f9938
StubHeap: 000007fef00f99c8
Stage: OPEN
Name: None
Assembly: 00000000003a2d10
————————————–
Domain 1: 0000000000390840
LowFrequencyHeap: 0000000000390888
HighFrequencyHeap: 0000000000390918
StubHeap: 00000000003909a8
Stage: OPEN
SecurityDescriptor: 00000000003930e0
Name: TestCLR.exe

[...]

Assembly: 00000000003a2d10[C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_64\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll]
ClassLoader: 00000000003a2dd0
SecurityDescriptor: 00000000003a2110
  Module Name
000007feeda51000 C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_64\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll

0:003> !dumpassembly 00000000003a2d10
Parent Domain: 000007fef00f9860
Name: C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_64\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll
ClassLoader: 00000000003a2dd0
SecurityDescriptor: 000000000335db78
  Module Name
000007feeda51000 C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_64\mscorlib\2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089\mscorlib.dll

Multimodule assemblies with separate PE file for a manifest (p. 40)

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