Chapter 19. Hangs and sluggish performance
The cases in this chapter involve application hangs and slow system performance. Call-stack analysis features prominently in the following cases, which use Procexp, Procmon, and ProcDump:
“The Case of the IExplore-Pegged CPU” demonstrates the use of thread stacks in Procexp to identify a root cause.
“The Case of the Runaway Website” demonstrates the value of thread stacks, too—this time in Procmon.
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