Performance Report Column Definition

The following table describes columns that appear in Call Tree, Caller Callee, Function Summary, Module Summary, Call Trace, and Thread Summary performance reports.

Column Name	Description
Application	The file name of the application that created the process or thread.
Application Exclusive Time	Calculated time for a function or summary item that excludes performance data that contains transition events, time from collection probes, and the time of subroutines called by the function.
Application Inclusive Time	Calculated time for a function or summary item that excludes performance data that contains transition events and time from collection probes, but includes the application time of subroutines called by the function.
AVG Application Exclusive Time	The average application exclusive clock time (processor cycles), P6 performance, or user-defined counter value for all instances of this function in the specified data range.
AVG Application Inclusive Time	The average application inclusive clock time (processor cycles), P6 performance, or user-defined counter value for all instances of the function in the specified data range.
AVG Elapsed Exclusive Time	The average elapsed exclusive clock time (processor cycles), P6 performance or user-defined counter value for all instances of the function in the specified data range.
AVG Elapsed Inclusive Time	The average elapsed inclusive clock time (processor cycles), P6 performance, or user-defined counter value for all instances of the function in the specified data range.
Base Address	The memory address of the loaded module.
Call Depth	The depth of the call tree.
Elapsed Exclusive Time	Calculated time for a function or summary item that includes samples that contain transition events, and excludes time from collection probes and the elapsed time of subroutines called by the function.
Elapsed Inclusive Time	Calculated time for a function or summary item that includes samples that contain transition events and time from subroutines called by the function, but excludes time from collection probes.
Event Action	The type of event action that occurred. Its Event actions can be Entry or Exit. It only appears in the Call Tree report.
Event Type	Event Type, such as event action, appears only in Call Tree report. The following list explains different event types: L - Loaded module Additionally, if ETW events are enabled, event type also lists them.
Exclusive Allocations	Allocations in a function excluding all other allocations in subroutines that it called.
Exclusive Bytes Allocated	Bytes allocated in a function excluding all other byte allocations in subroutines that it called.
Exclusive Bytes Percent	(Bytes allocated in a function / total bytes ) * 100
Exclusive Transitions	The number of transition events that occurred in all instance of this function, excluding functions called by the function.
Exclusive Transitions Percentage	The percentage of transition events that occurred in the exclusive time of the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree compared to the total number of exclusive transitions in the data range.
Function Address	The address of the function in hexadecimal format.
Function Name	The name of the function.
ID	The system-defined numeric identifier assigned to the process or thread.
Inclusive Allocs	Allocations in a function including all allocations in subroutines that it called.
Inclusive Bytes Allocated	Bytes allocated in a function including all other byte allocations in subroutines that it called.
Inclusive Byte Percent	(Bytes allocated in a function and all other subroutines that it called / total bytes ) * 100
Inclusive Transitions	The number of transition events that occurred in all instances of this function, including functions called by the function.
Inclusive Transitions Percentage	The percentage of transition events that occurred in the inclusive time of the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree compared to the total number of inclusive transitions in the data range.
Level	The call depth in call tree.
Line Number	This is location in the source file of the start of the function.
MAX Elapsed Exclusive Time	The greatest elapsed exclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MAX Application Exclusive Time	The maximum single application exclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MAX Elapsed Inclusive Time	The greatest elapsed inclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MAX Application Inclusive Time	The greatest application inclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MIN Elapsed Exclusive Time	The least elapsed exclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MIN Application Exclusive Time	The minimum application exclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MIN Elapsed Inclusive Time	The least elapsed inclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
MIN Application Inclusive Time	The least application inclusive clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter value for any one instance of this function that was called by the parent function in the call tree.
Module Identifier	An unsigned integer used to track the modules. It is assigned to a module based on the order in which it was loaded into the process. For example, the first module is module 0 and the second is module 1, and so on.
Module Name	The name of the module that contains the function.
Module Path	The directory location of the module.
Module Size	The size of the module in hexadecimal.
Name	The string assigned to the process or thread with the NameProfile API function. If no name was assigned to the item, the type of item (Process, Thread) is pre-pended to the item ID.
Number of Calls	The number of calls made to the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.
Percentage of calls	The number of instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree as a percentage of the total number of calls to all functions in the specified data range.
Process ID	The numeric identifier of the process.
Process Name	The process name.
Root Node Recursive	Indicates if this function was directly or indirectly called recursively in this context.
Source File Name	The name of the file that contains this function.
Stack Pointer	Stack pointer value for the function.
Time Exclusive Probe Overhead	The total time attributed to profiling probes in the exclusive time of the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.
Time Inclusive Probe Overhead	The total time attributed to profiling probes in the inclusive time of the instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.
Timestamp	The time at which an event occurred.
Time Delta	The difference between the timestamp at which this event occurred and the previous event's timestamp.
Thread ID	The system-defined numeric identifier assigned to the thread.
Thread Name	The string assigned to the process or thread with the NameProfile API function. If no name was assigned to the item, the type of item (Process, Thread) is pre-pended to the item ID.
Type	It represents the type of row. A value of: 0 represents the root function 1 represents the caller 2 represents the callee For example, if you have the following calltree: main->funcA->funcB Type column will have the following rows: 0 - main 2 - funcA 0 - funcA 1 - main 2 - funcB 0 - funcB 1 - funcA
Unique ID	A hexadecimal number that identifies the function.
Unique Process ID	An unsigned integer used to track the process. It is assigned to a process based on the order in which it was loaded. For example, the first process is 0 and the second is 1, and so on.
% Application Exclusive Time	The percentage of the total global clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data segment that was spent in the application exclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.
% Application Inclusive Time	The percentage of the total global clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data range that was spent in the inclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.
% Elapsed Exclusive Time	The percentage of the total global clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data segment that was spent in the elapsed exclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.
% Elapsed Inclusive Time	The percentage of the total global clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data segment that was spent in the elapsed inclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.
% Time Exclusive Probe Overhead	The percentage of the global clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter values for the specified data range that is attributed to profiling probes in the exclusive time of all instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.
% Time Inclusive Probe Overhead	The percentage of the global clock time (processor cycles), or performance counter values for the specified data range that is attributed to profiling probes in the inclusive time of all instances of this function that were called by the parent function in the call tree.

The following table describes columns that appear in the Header performance report:

Column Name	Description
Tool Name and Full Version	The name and version of VSPerfReport.
VSPerf80.DLL File Version	The version of the data collection dynamic link library, named VSPerf80.DLL, that created the .vsp file.
Source File	The full path of the .vsp report file.
Command Line	Command that is used to create the performance report.
Report Creation Time	The date and time of report creation.
Size of Buffers	Size of the I/O Buffers. See I/O Buffers.
I/O Buffers	Count of buffers used for storing data during profiling.
Maximum Processes	Maximum number of processes that the profiler allows to be profiled at the same time, beyond which an error is reported. This can be controlled by a registry key.
Process Highwater	Maximum number of process profiled at the same time.
Final Processes	Number of processes alive at the end of the profiling run, typically only non-zero when detaching with sampling.
Total Processes	Total number of processes profiled over the lifetime of the profiling session.
Maximum Threads	Maximum number of threads that the profiler allows to be profiled at the same time, beyond which an error is reported. This can be controlled by a registry key.
Thread Highwater	Maximum number of threads profiled at a single time.
Final Threads	Number of active profiled threads running when the application terminated.
Total Threads	Total number of threads created during profiling.
Num. CPUs	Total number of CPUs in the computer that is used for profiling.
Clock Frequency	The processor clock speed.
Samples (Aborted)	Samples taken while the application's stack could not be walked.
Samples (Broken)	Incomplete stack because the call stack walk failed to walk up to the thread start address.
Samples (Overhead)	Samples that occurred while a call stack walk was occurring. These are thrown out.
Samples (Total)	Total samples that occurred.
Samples (Kernel)	Samples that were taken while the application was in kernel mode. These are thrown out.
Samples (Application)	Samples that were taken while the application was in application mode.
Sample Interval	Average of number of clock cycles between samples or the event used.
Kernel Etl File	If ETW data was collected, a separate file is created with that data and this is the location of the file with kernel events.
Application Etl File	Location of the file that contains ETW data.
Creation Time	This is the date/time that the .vsp file was created.
VSPerf Version	Version of the performance tool used.
Scenario Name	Defaults to ProfileRun. Can be set in process using the NameProfile API.
CPU ID	CPU manufacturer and type information.
Machine Name	Computer that is used for profiling.
Operating System	Operating system version information.
Counter 1 - 16	During instrumentation, you can collect data from many different counters. By default, only the TimeStamp counter is used.
Dirty Shutdown	Indicates that the profiler was abruptly terminated.

See Also

Reference

VSPerfReport