IDE + System Analysis

Hello,

Has anyone had luck with the System Analysis portion of the IDE?

I want to use the instrumented kernel and the system analysis
perspective in the IDE to get a graphical representation of an
application’s execution.

Everythings works okay from the command line on using
tracelogger/traceprinter etc, but the Momentics IDE either natively on
x86 host or from a Win32 host to an x86 target using qconn, is terribly
slow and often crashes. It took 10 minutes to load and parse a 3 second
trace file, and each time I try to select a region and magnify, the gui
freezes for several seconds. I’m only trying to gather at most 10
seconds of info and my machines are 2Ghz Xeons with 1 gig of ram.

How well can I expect the System Analysis Perspective in the IDE to work?

I don’t care about controlling the event capturing in the IDE, but I
want to parse the events graphically, so is there a way to load a
command line generated trace log into the Eclipse GUI?

When I tried to load a tracebuffer file into the GUI, it said unknown
parse error.

Thanks,

Chip Jones
Object Computing Inc.

chip <s304h@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello,

Has anyone had luck with the System Analysis portion of the IDE?

What version of QNX do you have?

The parsing of this data is VERY CPU intensive. (Take a look
at the size of the log file generated for even a 3 second
capture.)

It has gotten a bit better with later releases, but still can
be slow.

Try a smaller/shorter file (say .5 seconds) first.

Also, what sort of CPU/machine are you running the IDE on?

-David


I want to use the instrumented kernel and the system analysis
perspective in the IDE to get a graphical representation of an
application’s execution.

Everythings works okay from the command line on using
tracelogger/traceprinter etc, but the Momentics IDE either natively on
x86 host or from a Win32 host to an x86 target using qconn, is terribly
slow and often crashes. It took 10 minutes to load and parse a 3 second
trace file, and each time I try to select a region and magnify, the gui
freezes for several seconds. I’m only trying to gather at most 10
seconds of info and my machines are 2Ghz Xeons with 1 gig of ram.

How well can I expect the System Analysis Perspective in the IDE to work?

I don’t care about controlling the event capturing in the IDE, but I
want to parse the events graphically, so is there a way to load a
command line generated trace log into the Eclipse GUI?

When I tried to load a tracebuffer file into the GUI, it said unknown
parse error.

Thanks,

Chip Jones
Object Computing Inc.


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