Wednesday, 4 November 2009
brief pause in currency transmissions..
Sorry - went on holiday and had to shut down the little server that does all the currency maps. Now it's back on you should see them appearing any day now. I forget the time gap used in generating the change in exchange rate but i think it's a week.
Friday, 9 October 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Tracking Memory Usage in Windows XP
Another personal reminder.
I've been asked to track the memory usage of a colleague's application. It crashes without a trace after two days. So a series of virtual machines are set up to run the software and I'm using windows xp's perfmon to monitor the memory usage - as that's the suspect here.
In Task Manager we have a column called Mem Usage but if we enter the various counter options in perfmon you'll see no such counter. MS provide a breakdown on what memory counters are available for a process and here's the list;
Process : Page Faults/sec. Excessive page faults from a particular process are an indication usually of bad coding practices. Either the functions and DLLs are not organized correctly, or the data set that the application is using is being called in a less than efficient manner.
Process : Pool Paged Bytes.
Process : Pool NonPaged Bytes.
Process : Working Set. This is the current size of the memory area that the process is utilizing for code, threads, and data. - And this is the equivalent to the Mem Usage column you see in Task Manager.
Now I know next to nothing about memory management so I'm not going to pretend I do but one should remember that applications' working sets are allows to grow if free memory is available in abundance.
I've been asked to track the memory usage of a colleague's application. It crashes without a trace after two days. So a series of virtual machines are set up to run the software and I'm using windows xp's perfmon to monitor the memory usage - as that's the suspect here.
In Task Manager we have a column called Mem Usage but if we enter the various counter options in perfmon you'll see no such counter. MS provide a breakdown on what memory counters are available for a process and here's the list;
Process : Page Faults/sec. Excessive page faults from a particular process are an indication usually of bad coding practices. Either the functions and DLLs are not organized correctly, or the data set that the application is using is being called in a less than efficient manner.
Process : Pool Paged Bytes.
Process : Pool NonPaged Bytes.
Process : Working Set. This is the current size of the memory area that the process is utilizing for code, threads, and data. - And this is the equivalent to the Mem Usage column you see in Task Manager.
Now I know next to nothing about memory management so I'm not going to pretend I do but one should remember that applications' working sets are allows to grow if free memory is available in abundance.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Streaming music sites
Shame i can't use StreamingSoundtracks (workfirewallslol) but have been recommended a few to try;
http://www.citysounds.fm/ is a fantastic hack from music hack day 2009
and http://radiotime.com has a neat option for different streams
and http://listen.grooveshark.com/ also seems to work. nice.
/personal note rather than a blog
http://www.citysounds.fm/ is a fantastic hack from music hack day 2009
and http://radiotime.com has a neat option for different streams
and http://listen.grooveshark.com/ also seems to work. nice.
/personal note rather than a blog
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Fix for currency maps
The currency maps are now back. I'll properly test them over the next week. Let me know of any faults.
Monday, 13 July 2009
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Winamp + BBC Five Live Sports Extra
Winamp loves mms urls so here's one for the bbc 5 live sports extra channel. Just in time to listen to the Ashes.
mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc_ami/radio5/5spxtra_bb_live_ep1_sl0?BBC-UID=14e87a4b4fd508318a6572473010ec403085feedd060d134242fa9b714a34d55&SSO2-UID=
mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc_ami/radio5/5spxtra_bb_live_ep1_sl0?BBC-UID=14e87a4b4fd508318a6572473010ec403085feedd060d134242fa9b714a34d55&SSO2-UID=
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