ETag and IIS demystified

by rahul 3/17/2011 6:17:29 PM

Let me quote from Wikipedia straight away… <snip> An ETag, or entity tag, is part of HTTP, the protocol for the World Wide Web. It is one of several mechanisms that HTTP provides for cache validation, and which allows a client to make conditional requests. This allows caches to be more effi... [More]

Tags: performance, tips and tricks, iis

PowerShell Script to disable or enable services that consume resource on Windows 7 with SharePoint 2010 installed

by rahul 9/15/2010 9:14:58 PM

This is small follow-up post for SharePoint 2010 - Setup your development environment for Windows 7. The reason was Pedro's reply to the post who pointed that if you are indeed using your Windows 7 desktop for SharePoint 2010 development, the performance will not be up to the mark for general day to... [More]

Tags: download, performance, sharepoint 2010

Download | Performance | SharePoint 2010

Missing Process counter from Available Counters in Perfmon

by rahul 2/18/2010 10:19:10 PM

Do you notice anything special in the list below? If you have been working with Perfmon enough, you will notice that the Process Counters are missing in the list below. Download a utility called Extensible Counter List from this link…. and run it. Select PerfProc and ensure that Performance ... [More]

Tags: troubleshooting, tips and tricks, performance

Troubleshooting | Tips and Tricks | Performance

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) counters for IIS - 4

by rahul 2/17/2010 8:35:15 PM

In part 1 of this series, I provided the BaseLine counter set for Windows 2k3. To close this loop for Win 2008, I am providing one more set of baseline counters for IIS. Download the following template and extract the XML file - IIS-BaseLine-Win-2k8.zip. Start –> Run –&... [More]

Tags: performance, troubleshooting, iis

Performance | Troubleshooting | IIS 7

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for IIS - 3

by rahul 1/26/2010 12:10:40 PM

In the last couple of posts you’ve seen collection and manual analysis of Performance data. In this post let’s automate the analysis using one of the really fantastic tools called PAL – Performance Analysis of Logs. Download it from CodePlex. Ensure that you have installed all the pre-requisites… ... [More]

Tags: performance, troubleshooting, iis

Performance | Troubleshooting | IIS

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counters for IIS - 2

by rahul 1/21/2010 11:37:40 AM

In my previous post, I have shown the configuration of perfmon counters. Let’s talk about how to analyze it now. Before you do anything else, read the following articles… IIS 6 Performance Counters Suggested Performance Counters to Watch (IIS 6.0) ASP.NET Performance Counters I know i... [More]

Tags: performance, troubleshooting, iis

Performance | Troubleshooting | IIS

Performance Monitor (Perfmon) counters for IIS - 1

by rahul 1/21/2010 11:00:47 AM

If you consider troubleshooting as an art, Perfmon will be one of the brushes – almost like sable. If you master it well, you can not only tell a lot about your server’s performance, you will also be able to take a lot of actions pro-actively even before anything breaks down. In this post, let me q... [More]

Tags: performance, troubleshooting

Performance | Troubleshooting

How to troubleshoot slow Page Rendering in ASP.NET?

by rahul 11/20/2009 2:49:44 PM

Before I answer this question, let us have a quick refresher. Answer this question diligently… Is Page_Render in ASP.NET really an EVENT? A BIG ZERO if you have said YES! The answer is No, It is not. Here is an excerpt from MSDN… <snip> This is not an event; instead, at this stage of proce... [More]

Tags: asp.net, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, performance

ASP.NET | Tips and Tricks | Troubleshooting | Performance

Microsoft Visual Round Trip Analyzer

by rahul 11/13/2009 5:03:05 PM

If you are a web developer, and haven’t heard of VRTA yet, you should try downloading it from here. It is free and it depends on Microsoft Network Monitor. To have the real knowledge about this VRTA, read the following article - 12 Steps To Faster Web Pages With Visual Round Trip Analyzer. Using th... [More]

Tags: performance, troubleshooting

Performance | Troubleshooting

LINQ Performance - Part 1 - LINQ to Collection

by rahul 1/27/2009 2:30:23 PM

There are multiple benchmarking results already out there for LINQ. The reason why I am doing this again is the because I have heard multiple times that the latest version of LINQ contains a lot of improvements. My current configuration is... Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP 1Visual Studio 2008 SP... [More]

Tags: .net, linq, performance

.NET | LINQ | Performance