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Non-invasive time-based profiling tool

  • US 10,127,129 B2
  • Filed: 02/27/2007
  • Issued: 11/13/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • collecting information from a plurality of subsystems of a client machine in a system, the information comprising an event report corresponding to each of a plurality of events occurring in the plurality of subsystems, each event report indicating one of the plurality of subsystems on which a corresponding event occurred, a first identifier of the event and a cause identifier, wherein each event report is generated by a reporting client in each respective subsystem, and wherein the cause identifier associated with a first event comprises at least one of a unique identifier of a second event which caused the first event or an empty field;

    responsive to determining that the cause identifier comprises an empty field, profiling, by a processing device, the system using the information collected from the plurality of subsystems to determine time values in the information associated with the first event and the second event of the plurality of events;

    determining that a time value of the second event is within a defined period of time of a time value of the first event;

    determining to indicate a causation relationship between the first event and the second event in view of the time value of the second event being within the defined period of the time value of the first event;

    generating a timeline to display the plurality of events along with measurement data and a source subsystem of the plurality of subsystems corresponding to each of the plurality of events, wherein the plurality of events are plotted at positions along a first timeline axis relative to the determined time values corresponding to each event and at positions along a second timeline axis relative to the source subsystem of each event, the timeline comprising a visual indication of the causation relationship between the first event and the second event in view of the determining to indicate the causation relationship;

    presenting the plurality of events on the timeline, wherein the presenting is performed in a graphical user interface (GUI); and

    in response to a user request made via the GUI, presenting additional details of a portion of the timeline comprising the visual indication of the causation relationship and corresponding to a period of time specified in the user request to initiate debugging of at least one of the plurality of subsystems.

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