Sizing memory for virtual machines appropriately

The Virtual PC Guy doles out some guidelines for appropriately sizing memory of virtual machines

I had always (mistakenly) believed that I should be throwing as much memory at my VPC as possible. I have 1.5GB of which I have 1GB given to VPC. Prior to that I had 512MB with 256MB for VPC which was quite slow. Even with more memory I haven't noticed a huge performance gain. Perhaps I've just been starving out my host system.

Good thing the memory was cheap.

[Listening to: Powerman 5000 - Son of X-51]

Shared Services

From Larry Osterman - a description of
Shared Services and why they're important.

I gotta play with this some day.

Updated: Larry posted a second entry on a clever trick to debug shared services. In a nutshell:

Split a shared service into it's own:
C:\>sc config type= own
And put it back again:
C:\>sc config type= share

[Listening to: Black Sabbath - Trashed]

On Threads and WinDBG|SOS

Yun Jin posted a series of articles on Thread, System.Threading.Thread, and !Threads that you can find here:

Part I

Part II

Part III

[Listening to Sister Sledge - He's the Greatest Dancer]

[Ed: 7-Aug-2006 - Finally fixed goofy list formatting]

Thank you Scott for getting rid of those #$@#$! binding logs

For months now I kept getting assembly binding info being dumped into my c:\temp directory for every .NET executable on my machine. As I use c:\temp for (surprisingly enough) temporary files it was getting quite aggrevating having to constantly delete all those .exe directories.

I vaguely remember enabling this but I couldn't remember/find what I had done so I could shut it off.

Fortunately, I happened across this blog entry from Scott Hanselman about assembly binding redirects which pointed me to the right place:

Change the registry value HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion\ForceLog to 0.

Soooo much quieter. Ahhh.

[Listening to: Kiss - Cold Gin]