Profiling IO Bound applications with Visual Studio Team System – Part One

posted by  hjwin (10)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

It just so happens (and I know that I’ve mentioned it here before) that the Visual Studio Team System Profiler has both sampling and instrumentation modes available for you to use. However, in most of my samples so far I’ve been using the sampling mode of the profiler to profile some small applications. And for almost all CPU bound applications the sampling mode is the mode to use as it collects much smaller data files as compared to instrumentation profiling. However, for diagnosing performance problems that are not CPU bo