Profiling Monitor view controls

There are three groups of controls in the Profiling Monitor view:
  1. The drop down menu
  2. The process controls
  3. The objects controls

Drop down menu

Use this menu to select the objects that appear in the view.
Hide Folders
Hide Monitors
Hide Hosts
Hide Processes
Hide Logging agents
Hide Profiling agents
Hide Profiling details
Filters
Select profiling resources to hide from the view

Process controls

These frequently-used controls of the profiling process are available from near the top of the Profiling Monitor view.
link with viewer icon
Links with the view to always show the currently selected item
start icon
Start monitoring a paused process
pause icon
Pause the monitoring of a process
collect object references icon
Collect object references (if available)
garbage collection icon
Run garbage collection
refresh icon
Refresh the Profiling Monitor view

Objects controls

These controls are obtained by selecting an object, right-clicking, then selecting the action. The choices of action available vary depending on what type of object is chosen (for example, only agents and processes can be terminated).

list of available objects that can be selected

Attach to, or detach from, an agent monitoring icon

See details about Launching or attaching a Java process.

Reset Data monitoring icon

Select this action to set a new base line for the profiling data. After running this action, a new trace agent will be created under the existing process item and profiling data will be collected by this agent.

Run Garbage Collection process icon monitoring icon

Determine the memory that the process is no longer using, and recycle it for other use. This control is the same as: garbage collection icon

Collect Object References process icon monitoring icon

If available, depict references to or from a set of objects. This is useful for locating objects that still have references to them, which might explain why garbage collection cannot occur for those objects. This control is the same as: Collect object references icon

Terminate process icon monitoring icon

You can terminate a process that is either running locally on your machine or one that is running on a remote host.  Right click the process, then select Terminate.

The process is unconditionally terminated. There is no way to reverse this action. It is better to terminate the process in the way the Java program would normally expect it to be terminated, if such a way exists.

Open With monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

Open the selected object into the selected view.

Refresh Views monitor icon process icon monitoring icon

Refresh all views that are open.

Save project icon folder icon monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

See details about Saving profiling resources. To recover such saved resources, see Importing profiling resources.

Reload from Local project icon folder icon monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

Load the saved information about the selected object, from the local file system. Use this to recreate the data collected during a previous profiling session.

Refresh project icon folder icon monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

Refresh the Profiling Monitor view.

Delete project icon folder icon monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

To delete a monitor, host, process object, or agent, right-click it, then select Delete. Select whether to delete from the view only or from the file system. The selected item is deleted with all the objects below it in the hierarchy.

Properties project icon folder icon monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

To view the properties of a specific monitor, host, process, or agent, right-click it, then select Properties. A preferences page appears.

A completed process, a terminated agent, and the associated monitor cannot be modified because there would be no point in doing so. Otherwise, when you modify the information on this page, it takes effect the next time the associated package or host is used.

Many of the properties that you see here are also found in Windows > Preferences. Whichever was the more recent property setting takes precedence.

Import and Export project icon folder icon monitor icon host icon process icon monitoring icon

See details about Importing or Exporting profiling resources.

Team > Apply Patch project icon folder icon

This feature is related to CVS use and is inherited from the base Eclipse system. See Working with patches.

Team > Share Project project icon

This feature is related to CVS use and is inherited from the base Eclipse system. See Sharing a new project using CVS.

Compare With > Each Other project iconfolder icon

This feature is related to CVS use and is inherited from the base Eclipse system. See Comparing Resources.

Restore from local history project iconfolder icon

This feature is related to CVS use and is inherited from the base Eclipse system. See Restoring deleted resources from local history

Related concepts
Overview of the Profiling Tool

Related tasks
Profiling an application

Related references
Profiling monitor view
Profiling console view

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