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DavidJameson's avatar
DavidJameson
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Why is Performance Profiler indicating no routines analyzed

This is almost embarrassing. I was an AQTime user 12 years ago and earlier using it with Delphi. Now, I'm working on a project in C++ (just native) and, with a brand new license, I'm trying to use i...
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    DavidJameson
    8 years ago

    Sigh!

     

    (Edit: Sorry - couldn't resist creating the image.  In case nobody looked, the problem was because the button "Enable profiling" was off.   For me, coming from Mac, the tooltip was misleading. When I saw the tooltip  "Enable profiling", I assumed that meant that profiling WAS in fact enabled, and not that I needed to click it to enable profiling. 

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

Just a quick idea: do you have debug information file (the one with .pdb extension) in the same folder where the profiled application is located?

DavidJameson's avatar
DavidJameson
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Yes, but even if I didn't - wouldn't it still analyze stuff but just not be able to provide meaningful names?

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    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago

    > but even if I didn't - wouldn't it still analyze stuff

    I am far not sure... How to distinguish between data and code and how to understand where the function starts and ends without debug info (and too deep disassembling) ?

    If I remember correctly, there must be a record in the Event View panel that debug info was read after you opened a project (or added a module to it). Does such record exist in your case?

    Also, what if you try to use Sampling Profiler? Does it provide you with some results?

     

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      DavidJameson
      Occasional Contributor
      8 years ago

       

      Yes, I get that you couldn't provide symbolic info but in that case I'd still expect to be able to see raw disassembly output.

      > and how to understand where the function starts and ends without debug info 

       

      I'll certainly check the PDB and the other things you suggest but the fact that the application was clearly running orders of magnitude more slowly along with AQTime indicating that it didn't capture anything suggests something more fundamental is wrong with my configuration.

       

      I do appreciate all the suggestions.

      • AlexKaras's avatar
        AlexKaras
        Champion Level 3
        8 years ago

        Hi,

         

        > the fact that the application was clearly running orders of magnitude more slowly

        Yes, I remember this fact. :) But the message that zero routines were analyzed made me think initially that it may be something not in place with debug info as well, thus my questions and suggestions.

         

        I think that it is a good idea to contact Support directly via the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=AQtime form. They may ask you for some information and screenshots that you may not want to publish here.

        If you decide to contact Support, I will appreciate it if you update here whether the problem was solved and what was its reason.