Profiling Tools Report Column Definitions

The following table contains the definitions of values that are available in performance report views.

Column Name	Description
% Application Exclusive Time	The percentage of the total 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 time (processor cycles), or performance counter values of the specified data range that was spent in the application inclusive time of all instances of the function in this context.
% Elapsed Exclusive Time	The percentage of the total 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 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.
Application	The file name of the application that created the process or thread.
Application Etl File	Location of the file that contains ETW data.
Application Exclusive Time	Calculated time for a function or summary item that excludes performance data that contains operating system 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 operating system 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.
Clock Frequency	The processor clock speed.
Command Line	Command that is used to create the performance report.
Counter 1 - 16	During instrumentation, you can collect data from many different counters. By default, only the TimeStamp counter is used.
CPU ID	CPU manufacturer and type information.
Creation Time	This is the date/time that the .vsp file was created.
Dirty Shutdown	Indicates that the profiler was abruptly exited.
Elapsed Exclusive Time	Calculated time for a function or summary item that 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 intervals from subroutines called by the function, and 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 M - Mark E - End Explicit - refers to explicitly receiving an exit from a function. Implicit - refers to inferring function exit because of an exception. 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 Allocations Percent	([Allocations in a function excluding all other allocations in subroutines that it called] / [Total number of exclusive allocation that occurred during profiling]) * 100
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 Percent	([Exclusive samples for the function] / [Total exclusive samples taken during profiling]) * 100
Exclusive Samples	Total number of performance data samples collected for the function excluding performance data for other functions that were called by it.
Exclusive Transitions	The number of transition (operating system) events that occurred in all instance of this function, excluding functions called by the function.
Exclusive Transitions Percentage	The percentage of the total number of operating system (transition) events that occurred in the inclusive time of the instances of this function in the data range that also occurred in the exclusive time of the function.
Final Processes	Number of processes alive at the end of the profiling run, typically only nonzero when detaching with sampling.
Final Threads	Number of active profiled threads that were running when the application terminated.
Function Address	The address of the function in hexadecimal format.
Function Name	Name of the function.
I/O Buffers	Count of buffers used for storing data during profiling.
ID	The system-defined numeric identifier assigned to the process or thread.
Inclusive Allocations	Allocations in a function including all allocations in subroutines that it called
Inclusive Allocations Percent	([Allocations in a function including all allocations in subroutines that it called] / [Total number of inclusive allocation that occurred during profiling]) * 100
Inclusive Allocs	Allocations in a function including all 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 Bytes Allocated	Bytes allocated in a function including all other byte allocations in subroutines that it called.
Inclusive Bytes Percent	(Bytes allocated in a function and all other subroutines that it called / total bytes ) * 100
Inclusive Percent	([Inclusive samples for the function] / [Total inclusive samples taken during profiling]) * 100
Inclusive Samples	Total number of performance data collected for the function including performance data for other functions that were called by it.
Inclusive Transitions	The number of operating system (transition) events that occurred in all instances of this function, including functions called by the function.
Inclusive Transitions Percentage	The percentage of operating (transition) system 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.
Instruction Address	The address of the instruction in hexadecimal format.
Kernel Etl File	If ETW data was collected, a separate file is created by using that data and this is the location of the file with kernel events.
Level	The call depth in call tree.
Line Number	Location of the start of the function in the source file.
Machine Name	Computer that is used for profiling.
Mark	Data inserted by the user as a marker in the code to help document performance issues.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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	Name of the module that contains the function.
Module Path	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.
Num. CPUs	Total number of CPUs in the computer that is used for profiling.
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.
Operating System	Operating system version information.
Parent Function Address	Address in memory of the parent function that called another function.
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 Highwater	Maximum number of process profiled at the same time.
Process ID	Numeric identifier of the process.
Process Name	Name of the process.
Report Creation Time	The date and time of report creation.
Root Node Recursive	Indicates if this function was directly or indirectly called recursively in this context.
Sample Interval	Average of number of clock cycles between samples or the event used.
Samples (Aborted)	Samples taken while the application's stack could not be walked.
Samples (Application)	Samples that were taken while the application was in application mode.
Samples (Broken)	Incomplete stack because the call stack walk failed to walk up to the thread start address.
Samples (Kernel)	Samples that were taken while the application was in kernel mode. These are thrown out.
Samples (Overhead)	Samples that occurred while a call stack walk was occurring. These are thrown out.
Samples (Total)	Total samples that occurred.
Scenario Name	Default value is ProfileRun. Can be set in process using the NameProfile API.
Size of Buffers	Size of the I/O Buffers. See I/O Buffers.
Source File	The full path of the .vsp report file.
Source File Name	Name of the source file that contains this function.
Stack Pointer	Stack pointer value for the function.
Source Character Begin	Column number at the beginning of the reported code sample.
Source Character End	Column number at the end of the reported code sample.
Source Line Begin	Line number at the beginning of the reported code sample.
Source Line End	Line number at the end of the reported code sample. This is the same as Source Line Begin except for samples taken on multiline statements, for example: y = myFunction(x + 2, y * 3, x / y ) – x;
Thread Highwater	Maximum number of threads profiled at a single time.
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.
Time Delta	The difference between the timestamp at which this event occurred and the previous event's timestamp.
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.
Tool Name and Full Version	The name and version of VSPerfReport.
Total Processes	Total number of processes profiled over the lifetime of the profiling session.
Total Threads	Total number of threads created during profiling.
Type	Represents the type of row in a call tree. A value of: 0 represents the root function 1 represents the caller 2 represents the callee For example, if you have the following call tree: 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.
Unique Process ID	Unsigned integer to track the process.
VSPerf90.DLL File Version	The version of the data collection dynamic link library, named VSPerf90.DLL, that created the .vsp file.

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