Author Archives: Rich Kreider

About Rich Kreider

Hello, world! I'm over 1/4 of a century old. I'm just another tech guy swinging from vine to vine in the jungle of technology and life. I currently work for an IT consulting firm in northwestern Pennsylvania and before that I was a system administrator for a small ISP that was centrally located in Ohio's Amish area. The answer is 42.

Traffic Shaping and Policing in Cisco IOS

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Rich Kreider

I needed to setup bandwidth shaping on a router recently for testing purposes and decided on the below configuration on my Cisco router.  I know this drops packets and I don’t really care;  this is a guest network and it … Continue reading →

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MSDN Bug Check Code Reference

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Rich Kreider

Bug Check Code Reference from MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh406232(v=vs.85).aspx Great site with lots of collected information from an MVP http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html I once had a complete listing with search capability (http://www.techish.net/bugcodes/) but I no longer have this.  I will soon recreate it.

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Visualizing SQLIO: Disk benchmark results using a PivotChart

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rich Kreider

This is a quick video of what I was working on for a little today. I created a batch script that will benchmark a disk(s) using SQLIO and record the output to a single file (or multiple, if necessary). After … Continue reading →

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SQL Performance Monitoring

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rich Kreider

I have read numerous articles all over the ‘net regarding performance counters to monitor, etc. This is a snapshot of a typical performance monitoring session I use to track down performance issues or review the system at any given point. … Continue reading →

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SQLIO Scripts and Graphs

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Rich Kreider

One of probably hundreds of SQL scripts out there. This is what I made and use… and I like it. There are a lot of other scripts out there that are available and even an SQLIO GUI.  Here are a … Continue reading →

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