LKBEN10861: Installing dheapmon for looking at your desktop heap
Symptom
You need to install the dheapmon tool to view the desktop heap size on the system.
Cause
none
Solution
You need to download the tool from the microsoft website. The tool has to be entpacked and needs to be installed in a special way. (it need the debugging symbols for the installation)
The installation from the commandline:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapmon.exe"
Dheapmon - Software is not installed or Driver is not running (1012)
F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapinst.exe"
dheapinst - Win32k.sys symbol load error, Correct symbol required
F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapinst.exe" -y
c:\Symbols
dheapinst - Win32k.sys symbol load error, Correct symbol required
F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapinst.exe" -y
srv*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols
dheapinst - Desktop Heap Monitor installed successfully
F:\>"C:\Software\Desktop Heap Monitor\kktools\dheapmon8.1\x86\dheapmon.exe"
Desktop Heap Information Monitor Tool (Version 8.1.2925.0)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dheapmon - Software is not installed or Driver is not running (2)
To load the driver you need to do it -l
Dheapmon -l
now you loaded the driver and can use the tool:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\kktools>dheapmon.exe
Desktop Heap Information Monitor Tool (Version 8.1.2925.0)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Session ID: 0 Total Desktop: ( 5824 KB - 8 desktops)
WinStation\Desktop Heap Size(KB) Used Rate(%)
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WinSta0\Default 3072 15.3
WinSta0\Disconnect 64 4.5
WinSta0\Winlogon 128 9.2
Service-0x0-3e7$\Default 512 27.5
Service-0x0-3e4$\Default 512 6.8
Service-0x0-3e5$\Default 512 6.8
SAWinSta\SADesktop 512 0.5
Service-0x0-fea2$\Default 512 1.1
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\kktools>
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.