Maximizing Windows 7 Performance: Troubleshooting Tips 9/21/2018 4:46 PM WCL316 Maximizing Windows 7 Performance: Troubleshooting Tips Johan Arwidmark Chief Technical Architect Knowledge Factory © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Objectives And Takeaways 9/21/2018 Objectives And Takeaways Performance is critical Live production system analysis Tools of the trade Inbox tools Windows Performance Toolkit © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Defining Performance Responsiveness Resource utilization Unresponsive system  Customer dissatisfaction Resource utilization CPU, disk, memory, network, battery Resources are limited and shared Good Citizenship It takes one component to impact system performance

Windows 7 Performance Enhancements Performance work started with Windows Vista I/O Models – Caching – Network Protocols Startup / Shutdown / Resume Continued to improve in Windows 7 All of the above... Superfetch and Readyboost Device Drivers (Industry / Parallelization) CPU / Memory Management Logon time (Redirected folders etc.)

Has anyone ever heard this? Hello IT-Pro… My system is running really slow. Fix it now!

Performance Tools Windows Inbox Tools Task Manager, Resource Monitor, Perfmon Write your own tools to gather data Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) Performance Counters

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Performance Tools, continued Non-Inbox Tools Windows Performance Toolkit Sysinternals tools (http://www.sysinternals.com)

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Windows Performance Toolkit Official kit Built and used by the Windows organization Contains Performance Analyzer (WPA) tool suite Built upon the ETW infrastructure Allows you to capture and analyze performance traces Freely available as part of the Windows 7 SDK

Performance Analyzer tool suite xperf: Trace capture, processing, and command-line analysis xperfview: Visual trace analysis Xbootmgr (and xbootmgrSleep): On/Off transition trace capture hwpower2etw: TDMS-to-ETL converter symcachegen: PDB-to-SymCache generator

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The Big Picture XPerfView XPerf ETW XML file Merged ETL file 6. CLI trace analysis via actions 5. GUI trace analysis via graphs and summary tables 3. Controls logging sessions and enables/disables providers Merged ETL file Action System and Symbol Information XPerf Control/Status Control/Status Post Processing 4. Metadata injection Control/Status ETW ETL file 1. Collection of configurable in-memory buffers that is managed by the kernel ETW Session Event Providers 2. Any component that has been instrumented with Event Tracing API Event Providers Control/Status Data flow

How Performance Analyzer Pull This Off ETW is the magic behind the curtains Event Tracing for Windows Core component since Windows 2000 High performance, low overhead, highly scalable ~2.5% CPU usage for sustained rate of 10,000 events/sec on a 2GHz CPU For details, see “Event Tracing” on MSDN

Case Study #1 Disk Usage 9/21/2018 4:46 PM © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Disk Usage Study Summary Multiple components working well in isolation could impact performance when executed in parallel Fighting over disk dramatically impacts performance for all involved Disk seeks can cut throughput by 90% Schedule all work that can wait as Idle tasks See Task Scheduler documentation on MSDN

Hardware Device not performing 9/21/2018 4:46 PM Hardware Device not performing Case Study #2 © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Hardware Device Case Study Summary One bad component can disrupt numerous good components High usage of any single resource can cause performance issues Spending too much CPU at DPC impacts performance

Summary Good performance  customer satisfaction WPT = official perf tools from/for Windows Performance Analyzer xperf: Trace capture, processing, and command-line analysis xperfview: Visual trace analysis xbootmgr: On/Off transition trace capture

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Tech Ed North America 2010 9/21/2018 4:46 PM © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.