In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue looking at the Debugging Tools for Windows (in particular WinDbg). WinDbg is a debugger that supports user mode debugging of a process, or kernel mode debugging of a computer.
This installment goes over the Windows Scheduler. We look at Running, Ready and Waiting threads, and talks about the effect of Power Management on scheduling.
We use these commands:
!running
!running -t
!ready
!dpcs
!thread <addr> 17
!thread -1 17 (current thread)
Make sure you watch Defrag Tools Episode #1 and Defrag Tools Episode #23 for instructions on how to get the Debugging Tools for Windows and how to set the required environment variables for symbol and source code resolution.
