Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 12)
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When looking at lengthy traces with thousands and millions of messages (trace statements) we can see regions of activity where statement current (Jm, msg/s) is much higher than in surrounding temporal regions. Hence the name of this pattern, Activity Region. Here is an illustration for a typical ETW/CDF trace where a middle region of activity (Jm2) signifies a system performing some response function like a user session initialization and application launch:

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November 19th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Димочка, вот ты где !!!!
Наконец-то проявился.
Будь добр, отпиши на мой мейл весточку.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Hi Boris! Will do very soon!
Thanks,
Dmitry
December 31st, 2009 at 2:27 pm
[…] pattern. In our trace example, the search for “password” jumps straight to a small activity region of authorization modules starting from the message number #180,010 and the last […]
March 8th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
[…] we have a sequence of Activity Regions with increasing values of Statement Current, like depicted […]
May 25th, 2010 at 10:17 am
[…] rely on Significant Event and Anchor Message analysis patterns to partition traces into artificial Activity Regions to start our analysis with. This is also analogous for the imposition of the external time on the […]