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Profiling with TPTP - plug-in development
Revision as of 15:03, 10 October 2008 by Ewchan.ca.ibm.com (Talk | contribs) (→Performance Overhead)
Contents
Overview
- This page shows how to quick start a profiling session on a plug-in project. TPTP must be installed on an Eclipse workbench, for more information on installation, please read Install TPTP with Update Manager.
Profile a plug-in project
- 1. Select a plug-in project and select Profile As > Eclipse Application.
- 2. In the profile configuration dialog, under Monitor tab, select Java Profiling agent and select Edit Options.
- 3. In Filter page, add a new filter.
- 4. Input a new filter that includes your plug-in packages. eg.,
- 5. Click Finish to apply filter.
- 6. Click OK to start profile session.
- 7. Select Yes to switch to profiling perspective upon request.
- 8. Profiling resources (process, agent, and analysis type) are created in Profiling Monitor view.
- 9. Interact with your Run-time workbench for profiling agent to collect profiling data.
- 10.In the development workbench, double-click on an analysis type to open a profiling view to show profiling data collected.
- 11.In profiling table view, select any column header to sort the table.
Execution Analysis : Identify a bottleneck
TPTP provides tools and views to help identify execution bottleneck problem, please take a look at Execution Analysis for more information.
Memory Analysis : Identify a memory leak
TPTP provides tools and views to help identify potential memory problem in an application, please take a look at Memory Analysis for more information.
Thread Analysis : Identify threading problem
TPTP provides tools and views to analysis threading problem in an application, please take a look at Thread Analysis for more information.
Performance Overhead
The Performance overhead of a profile session mainly depends on the profile configuration which includes profile filter and profile options configuration.
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Known issues
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