The Thread View

The Thread View displays information for all the threads of a selected profiling resource. You can control the format and scope of the displays.

To open the Thread View, right-click a profiling resource in the Profiling Monitor and click Open With > Thread View.

The Thread View shows the following information:

The following controls and menu commands are available in the Thread View:
Control Command Description
Thread View whole view button No menu command Toggles the Time Window between the "whole time" view, which shows the entire time span for the profiling run, and a "current time" view, which shows a time segment. You can select the time segment using the handles on the Whole time scale.
Goes back to a previously defined zoom time range. No menu command If enabled, goes back to a time range that was previously defined for zoom.
Goes forward to a previously defined zoom time range No menu command If enabled, goes forward to a time range that was previously defined for zoom.
Thread View show legend button Display legend Switches the legend on and off.
Thread View tree view button Display threads as tree Lists the threads for the profiling run in tree format, with collapsible nodes.
Thread View list view button Display threads as list Lists the threads for the profiling run as a flat list.
Thread View linear time scale button Display linear times Switches to a linear time display. All time units are the same size.
Thread View compressed view button Display compressed scale Switches to a compressed time display. Time segments that have no interesting thread activity are compressed.
Expands all nodes in the threads tree. Expand all threads Expands all nodes in the Threads tree. (Threads are displayed in a tree format.)
Collapse all nodes in the Threads tree so that only the Process level is visible. Collapse all threads Collapses all nodes in the Threads tree so that only the Process level is visible.
Pull-down menu Open Call Stack View Opens the Call Stack View to show call details.
Pull-down menu Open UML2 Object Interactions Opens the UML2 Objects Interactions view with data collected for the profiling run.

You can control the display in the following additional ways:

Related tasks
Identifying thread bottlenecks
Related reference
The Thread View preferences page
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