Java XProf option

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

I would like to know about the output of XProf, rather I would like to know exactly what the meaning of all informations that it provide ?

#2

Netbeans’ profiler is a lot easier to use:
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/java/profiler-screencast.html

It gives you more information in a far more accessible format.

#3

Netbeans profiler affects performance unfortunately, but Xprof affects affects performance far less.

Xprof output tells you the ‘ticks’ spent in each method (whatever ticks are! I think they’re a measurement of time)

#4

[quote]Netbeans’ profiler is a lot easier to use:
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I just tried it, it give good informations about thread and memory but monitoring cpu seems wrong.

The result I obtain using XProf seems a lot more logical than the values given by BetBean profiler, even if I still dont know what are the exact meaning of those value

[quote]Netbeans profiler affects performance unfortunately, but Xprof affects affects performance far less.
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for Thread and Memory that’s ok, for cpu that’s too much for me :frowning:

[quote]Xprof output tells you the ‘ticks’ spent in each method (whatever ticks are! I think they’re a measurement of time)
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I guess it was something like that, seems to be the CPU consumption according to tests I have done, but what the meaning of “compiled vs native vs interpreted vs …”, I would like to know the exact data output format of this option. Someone have make it so someone in the world must know the answer :-\