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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5 Responses to “Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 12)”

  1. Epelbaum Boris Says:

    Димочка, вот ты где !!!!
    Наконец-то проявился.

    Будь добр, отпиши на мой мейл весточку.

  2. Dmitry Vostokov Says:

    Hi Boris! Will do very soon!
    Thanks,
    Dmitry

  3. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 13) Says:

    […] 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 […]

  4. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 18) Says:

    […] we have a sequence of Activity Regions with increasing values of Statement Current, like depicted […]

  5. Crash Dump Analysis » Blog Archive » Software Trace Analysis Tools: CDFMarker Says:

    […] 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 […]

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