Sometimes it happens we have to analyze dumps of our application: it’s a mixed .NET/C/C++ software, so the legacy libraries can trigger unhandled exceptions that cause the process to crash. In most of these cases either through the internal minidumper or thanks to the WER, the user is able to send us the core dump, […]
Month: March 2022
The cost of performance monitoring
When writing software (in particular applications that can make intense use of the system resources, such as CPU, GPU, memory) it can be helpful to have a way to monitor how things are going, and this includes not only how the application is behaving but also if the entire system is sane and responsive. In […]