Defrag Tools: #49 - WPT - Memory Analysis - VirtualAlloc | Defrag Tools

[Larry Larsen, Andrew]

In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT). This is part 2 of 3 episodes on memory usage/leaks. Example xPerf scripts.
Resources:Defrag Tools: #7 - VMMap
Sysinternals VMMap
Aaron Margosis VirtMemTest

Timeline:
[00:00] - Happy 1st Birthday Defrag Tools!
[00:52] - VMMap
[01:22] - VirtMemTest
[03:43] - xperf -on PROC_THREAD+LOADER+VIRT_ALLOC -stackwalk ...
[04:46] - WPA
[06:30] - Commit Type - Allocated Inside (AI) & Outside (AO), Freed Inside (FI) & Outside (FO)
[08:02] - VirtualAlloc vs Heap

Example: "xperf - Collect VirtualAlloc.cmd"

@echo off
echo Press a key when ready to start...
pause

echo .
echo ...Capturing...
echo .

xperf -on PROC_THREAD+LOADER+VIRT_ALLOC -stackwalk VirtualAlloc+VirtualFree -BufferSize 1024 -MinBuffers 256 -MaxBuffers 256 -MaxFile 256 -FileMode Circular

echo Press a key when you want to stop...
pause
echo .
echo ...Stopping...
echo .

xperf -stop -d virtualalloc.etl

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