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• What is the exact difference between MEM_RESERVE and MEM_COMMIT states?

  - by pj4533

  As I understand it MEM_RESERVE is actually 'free' memory, ie available to be used by my process, but just hasn't been allocated yet? Or it was previously allocated, but had since been freed? Specifically, see in my !address output below how I am nearly out of virtual address space (99900 KB free, 2307872 as MEM_PRIVATE. But the states shows that 44.75% of that is actually MEM_RESERVE. Does that mean it is actually free, in my process...but maybe fragmented? 0:000> !address -summary --------- PEB a8bd8000 not found ---- -------------------- Usage SUMMARY -------------------------- TotSize ( KB) Pct(Tots) Pct(Busy) Usage 259af000 ( 616124) : 22.29% 23.12% : RegionUsageIsVAD 618f000 ( 99900) : 03.61% 00.00% : RegionUsageFree 13e22000 ( 325768) : 11.78% 12.22% : RegionUsageImage 42c04000 ( 1093648) : 39.56% 41.04% : RegionUsageStack 42d000 ( 4276) : 00.15% 00.16% : RegionUsageTeb 2625d000 ( 625012) : 22.61% 23.45% : RegionUsageHeap 0 ( 0) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsagePageHeap 0 ( 0) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsagePeb 1000 ( 4) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsageProcessParametrs 1000 ( 4) : 00.00% 00.00% : RegionUsageEnvironmentBlock Tot: a8bf0000 (2764736 KB) Busy: a2a61000 (2664836 KB) -------------------- Type SUMMARY -------------------------- TotSize ( KB) Pct(Tots) Usage 618f000 ( 99900) : 03.61% : <free> 13e22000 ( 325768) : 11.78% : MEM_IMAGE 1e77000 ( 31196) : 01.13% : MEM_MAPPED 8cdc8000 ( 2307872) : 83.48% : MEM_PRIVATE -------------------- State SUMMARY -------------------------- TotSize ( KB) Pct(Tots) Usage 57235000 ( 1427668) : 51.64% : MEM_COMMIT 618f000 ( 99900) : 03.61% : MEM_FREE 4b82c000 ( 1237168) : 44.75% : MEM_RESERVE Largest free region: Base 7e4a1000 - Size 000ff000 (1020 KB)

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• How to show percentage of 'memory used' in a win32 process?

  - by pj4533

  I know that memory usage is a very complex issue on Windows. I am trying to write a UI control for a large application that shows a 'percentage of memory used' number, in order to give the user an indication that it may be time to clear up some memory, or more likely restart the application. One implementation used ullAvailVirtual from MEMORYSTATUSEX as a base, then used HeapWalk() to walk the process heap looking for additional free memory. The HeapWalk() step was needed because we noticed that after a while of running the memory allocated and freed by the heap was never returned and reported by the ullAvailVirtual number. After hours of intensive working, the ullAvailVirtual number no longer would accurately report the amount of memory available. However, this method proved not ideal, due to occasional odd errors that HeapWalk() would return, even when the process heap was not corrupted. Further, since this is a UI control, the heap walking code was executing every 5-10 seconds. I tried contacting Microsoft about why HeapWalk() was failing, escalated a case via MSDN, but never got an answer other than "you probably shouldn't do that". So, as a second implementation, I used PagefileUsage from PROCESS_MEMORY_COUNTERS as a base. Then I used VirtualQueryEx to walk the virtual address space adding up all regions that weren't MEM_FREE and returned a value for GetMappedFileNameA(). My thinking was that the PageFileUsage was essentially 'private bytes' so if I added to that value the total size of the DLLs my process was using, it would be a good approximation of the amount of memory my process was using. This second method seems to (sorta) work, at least it doesn't cause crashes like the heap walker method. However, when both methods are enabled, the values are not the same. So one of the methods is wrong. So, StackOverflow world...how would you implement this? which method is more promising, or do you have a third, better method? should I go back to the original method, and further debug the odd errors? should I stay away from walking the heap every 5-10 seconds? Keep in mind the whole point is to indicate to the user that it is getting 'dangerous', and they should either free up memory or restart the application. Perhaps a 'percentage used' isn't the best solution to this problem? What is? Another idea I had was a color based system (red, yellow, green, which I could base on more factors than just a single number)

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• How can I create objects based on dump file memory in a WinDbg extension?

  - by pj4533

  I work on a large application, and frequently use WinDbg to diagnose issues based on a DMP file from a customer. I have written a few small extensions for WinDbg that have proved very useful for pulling bits of information out of DMP files. In my extension code I find myself dereferencing c++ class objects in the same way, over and over, by hand. For example: Address = GetExpression("somemodule!somesymbol"); ReadMemory(Address, &addressOfPtr, sizeof(addressOfPtr), &cb); // get the actual address ReadMemory(addressOfObj, &addressOfObj, sizeof(addressOfObj), &cb); ULONG offset; ULONG addressOfField; GetFieldOffset("somemodule!somesymbolclass", "somefield", &offset); ReadMemory(addressOfObj+offset, &addressOfField, sizeof(addressOfField), &cb); That works well, but as I have written more extensions, with greater functionality (and accessing more complicated objects in our applications DMP files), I have longed for a better solution. I have access to the source of our own application of course, so I figure there should be a way to copy an object out of a DMP file and use that memory to create an actual object in the debugger extension that I can call functions on (by linking in dlls from our application). This would save me the trouble of pulling things out of the DMP by hand. Is this even possible? I tried obvious things like creating a new object in the extension, then overwriting it with a big ReadMemory directly from the DMP file. This seemed to put the data in the right fields, but freaked out when I tried to call a function. I figure I am missing something...maybe c++ pulls some vtable funky-ness that I don't know about? My code looks similar to this: SomeClass* thisClass = SomeClass::New(); ReadMemory(addressOfObj, &(*thisClass), sizeof(*thisClass), &cb);

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• What do the 'size' numbers mean in the windbg !heap output?

  - by pj4533

  I see output like this in my DMP file: Heap entries for Segment00 in Heap 00150000 00150640: 00640 . 00040 [01] - busy (40) 00150680: 00040 . 01808 [01] - busy (1800) 00151e88: 01808 . 00210 [01] - busy (208) 00152098: 00210 . 00228 [00] 001522c0: 00228 . 00030 [01] - busy (22) 001522f0: 00030 . 00018 [01] - busy (10) 00152308: 00018 . 00048 [01] - busy (3c) The WinDbg docs say this: Heap entries for Segment00 in Heap 250000 0x01 - HEAP_ENTRY_BUSY 0x02 - HEAP_ENTRY_EXTRA_PRESENT 0x04 - HEAP_ENTRY_FILL_PATTERN 0x08 - HEAP_ENTRY_VIRTUAL_ALLOC 0x10 - HEAP_ENTRY_LAST_ENTRY 0x20 - HEAP_ENTRY_SETTABLE_FLAG1 0x40 - HEAP_ENTRY_SETTABLE_FLAG2 Entry Prev Cur 0x80 - HEAP_ENTRY_SETTABLE_FLAG3 Address Size Size flags (Bytes used) (Tag name) 00250000: 00000 . 00b90 [01] - busy (b90) 00250b90: 00b90 . 00038 [01] - busy (38) 00250bc8: 00038 . 00040 [07] - busy (24), tail fill (NTDLL!LDR Database) The spacing is weird in the docs though. Does that mean 'entry address' and 'prev size' and 'cur size', or are the 'entry' 'prev' and 'cur' not for the line below? What does 'prev size' and 'cur size' mean? Especially with regard to 'bytes used'. What is the difference between 'bytes used' and 'cur size'?

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• How can I get type information at runtime from a DMP file in a Windbg extension?

  - by pj4533

  This is related to my previous question, regarding pulling objects from a dmp file. As I mentioned in the previous question, I can successfully pull object out of the dmp file by creating wrapper 'remote' objects. I have implemented several of these so far, and it seems to be working well. However I have run into a snag. In one case, a pointer is stored in a class, say of type 'SomeBaseClass', but that object is actually of the type 'SomeDerivedClass' which derives from 'SomeBaseClass'. For example it would be something like this: MyApplication!SomeObject +0x000 field1 : Ptr32 SomeBaseClass +0x004 field2 : Ptr32 SomeOtherClass +0x008 field3 : Ptr32 SomeOtherClass I need someway to find out what the ACTUAL type of 'field1' is. To be more specific, using example addresses: MyApplication!SomeObject +0x000 field1 : 0cae2e24 SomeBaseClass +0x004 field2 : 0x262c8d3c SomeOtherClass +0x008 field3 : 0x262c8d3c SomeOtherClass 0:000> dt SomeBaseClass 0cae2e24 MyApplication!SomeBaseClass +0x000 __VFN_table : 0x02de89e4 +0x038 basefield1 : (null) +0x03c basefield2 : 3 0:000> dt SomeDerivedClass 0cae2e24 MyApplication!SomeDerivedClass +0x000 __VFN_table : 0x02de89e4 +0x038 basefield1 : (null) +0x03c basefield2 : 3 +0x040 derivedfield1 : 357 +0x044 derivedfield2 : timecode_t When I am in WinDbg, I can do this: dt 0x02de89e4 And it will show the type: 0:000> dt 0x02de89e4 SomeDerivedClass::`vftable' Symbol not found. But how do get that inside an extension? Can I use SearchMemory() to look for 'SomeDerivedClass::`vftable'? If you follow my other question, I need this type information so I know what type of wrapper remote classes to create. I figure it might end up being some sort of case-statement, where I have to match a string to a type? I am ok with that, but I still don't know where I can get that string that represents the type of the object in question (ie SomeObject-field1 in the above example).

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• How to create a MySQL query for time based elements with a 'safe window'?

  - by pj4533

  I am no SQL expert, far from it. I am writing a Rails application, and I am new at that as well. I come from a desktop programming background. My application has a table of data, one of the columns is the time at which the data was logged. I want to create a query with a 'safe window' around EACH row. By that I mean, it returns the first row, then for X minutes (based on the timelogged column) it won't return any data, once X minutes is up, it will return the next row. For example: ID | TimeLogged 1 | 3/5/2010 12:01:01 2 | 3/5/2010 12:01:50 3 | 3/5/2010 12:02:03 4 | 3/5/2010 12:10:30 5 | 3/5/2010 01:30:03 6 | 3/5/2010 01:31:05 With a 'safe window' of 5 minutes I want to create a query to return: 1 | 3/5/2010 12:01:01 4 | 3/5/2010 12:10:30 5 | 3/5/2010 01:30:03 (It skipped the 12:01:50 and 12:02:03 items because they occurred within 5 minutes of the first item.) Another example, with a 'safe window' of 15 minutes I want to return: 1 | 3/5/2010 12:01:01 5 | 3/5/2010 01:30:03 Perhaps I have to just return all data and parse it myself?

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