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Windows Performance Tool Kit in the Windows SDK

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By now I hope you’ve installed the latest version of the Windows SDK which supports Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1, and several earlier operating systems. The SDK now includes a very cool new tool; the Windows Performance Tool Kit (xperf) from the Windows performance team. The xperf tools have used internally by the SDK team, and widely throughout Windows, for system-wide performance analysis. The tools measure and analyze system and application performance on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and later. Read Richard Russell’s blog post on the xperf tools, which includes some nice graphics of the reports you can get with these tools.

The SDK xperf tools include an xperf trace capture tool, an xperfview visualization tool (also known as Performance Analyzer), and an xbootmgr boot trace capture tool. The tools are designed for the analysis of a wide range of performance problems including application start times, boot issues, deferred procedure calls and interrupt activity (DPCs and ISRs), system responsiveness issues, application resource usage, and interrupt storms. The MSIs containing these tools are available in the SDK bin directory (one per architecture).

Here’s how to get them:

 

  1. Install the SDK by downloading the ISO image, or using the Web based installer.
  2. Find the xperf MSI in the SDK's "bin" directory. It will be named xperf_x86.msi, xperf_x64.msi, or xperf_ia64.msi, depending on the architecture on which you installed the SDK.
  3. Install the xperf tools from the MSI directly, or copy the xperf MSI file to another location and install it from there. For example, you could keep the MSI files on a USB key.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2008
    By now I hope you’ve installed the latest version of the Windows SDK which supports Windows Server 2008