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Trying to figure out how to get any profiling information, I went to  
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* Trying to figure out how to get any profiling information, I went to  
 
Profiling Monitor view, right clicking on different elements and  
 
Profiling Monitor view, right clicking on different elements and  
 
pressing "Refresh" from context menu. It was asking whether to refresh  
 
pressing "Refresh" from context menu. It was asking whether to refresh  
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Suddenly after one of those refreshes, everything had disappeared in  
 
Suddenly after one of those refreshes, everything had disappeared in  
 
Profiling Monitor - like the projects were removed, and after a while I  
 
Profiling Monitor - like the projects were removed, and after a while I  
got NPE (it was happening during profiling session):
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got NPE (it was happening during profiling session)
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* It's hard to find filters
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settings window. It would be also cool if the view had automatically
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showed, which classes and packages will be filtered with current filter
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settings. (e.g. by using packages and classes available in workspace).
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Without that, user has to spend 2-3 profiling sessions just to tune the
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filters.
 
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Execution statistics viewer again. Columns don't remember their width  
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settings. When I switch e.g. between Package and Class level  
 
settings. When I switch e.g. between Package and Class level  
 
information, columns restore to their original sizes. Generally columns  
 
information, columns restore to their original sizes. Generally columns  
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longer than 15 chars) and calls (it's normal to have more than 100000  
 
longer than 15 chars) and calls (it's normal to have more than 100000  
 
calls.
 
calls.
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* Execution statistics view could be easier to use - e.g. don't collapse
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profiling details nodes during profiling session, columns width should
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be remembered.
 
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Things to document better:
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launch configuration).
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profiling with default settings.
 
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Revision as of 00:55, 17 December 2008

Background

During the development of TPTP v4.5.2 iteration 1 and 2, invitation was sent to the TPTP and Eclipse communities targeting plug-in developers to evaluate the TPTP driver and feedback for improvement. This page summaries the feedback collected and tracks the defects opened to address the problem.

Feedback

Issues Description Defects
col1

I've added TPTP to my current Eclipse Ganymede, using p2. First I installed only profiling feature and I had no monitors available. I then installed all in TPTP group in p2 install manager and was finally able to use Java profiling monitors (execution time, memory, thread, probe insertion). I have no idea which package should I have chosen to have monitors at the beginning. This may be issue for someone new to TPTP.

col3
col1
  • Trying to figure out how to get any profiling information, I went to

Profiling Monitor view, right clicking on different elements and pressing "Refresh" from context menu. It was asking whether to refresh from file system or don't refresh from FS (it is not intuitive for me what should I choose, as I don't know what is written to file system). Suddenly after one of those refreshes, everything had disappeared in Profiling Monitor - like the projects were removed, and after a while I got NPE (it was happening during profiling session)

  • It's hard to find filters

settings window. It would be also cool if the view had automatically showed, which classes and packages will be filtered with current filter settings. (e.g. by using packages and classes available in workspace). Without that, user has to spend 2-3 profiling sessions just to tune the filters.

col3
col1

Execution statistics view is hard to use during profiling session, because whenever I expand some tree node, it's collapsed immediately.

col3
col1
  • Execution statistics viewer again. Columns don't remember their width

settings. When I switch e.g. between Package and Class level information, columns restore to their original sizes. Generally columns could be wider - specially Package column (it's normal to have package longer than 15 chars) and calls (it's normal to have more than 100000 calls.

  • Execution statistics view could be easier to use - e.g. don't collapse

profiling details nodes during profiling session, columns width should be remembered.

col3
col1

Things to document better: It's not obvious where to find filters configuration in Monitor. (You have to click "Edit Options" on Java profiling node in Monitor tab in launch configuration). It's not obvious why there are no filtering results, when launching profiling with default settings.

col3
col1
  • If TPTP requires additional memory, it'd be good to have that documented

somewhere or have some message dialog popping out. Eclipse SDK defaults are not enough (256M for heap).

col3






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