Setting profiling preferences
To change the defaults used while profiling an application, follow these steps:
- Select Window > Preferences. The Preferences window opens.
- From the tree on the left, select Profiling and Logging. The Profiling
and Logging preferences pane opens.
- Use this pane to:
- Enable or disable profiling or logging
- Change the default project name of a new profiling session.
- Specify whether to show helpful tips about profiling.
- Specify the port number that the agent uses to connect to the Agent Controller.
- Select Appearance (and the items below it) to change the resources appearing
in the Profiling Monitor view, the colors in the execution flow graph, and the amount of
data displayed on each page of the Sequence Diagram.
- If you are working with more than one machine, use Hosts to identify
them. The last machine in the list is selected by default.
- To identify logging agents, use Logging Agents.
- To limit the data being collected, select Profiling.
- By default, the profiling session ends as soon as the profiled application
stops running. To repeatedly invoke profiling, select Stop profiling
after a number of invocations and set the number.
- To collect data for a period of time, select Stop profiling after a
specified amount of time and set the number of seconds.
- To associate views to the context menus of specific items in the Profiling Monitor
view, select Trace Associations.
- Click Apply. Your choices take effect in all currently open
profiling windows. Click OK to close the Preferences window.
Related concepts
Overview of the Profiling Tool
Related tasks
Profiling an application
Specifying profiling criteria
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