Hi all,
I wanted to send out an early screenshot showing a simple
chart with event trace information, and solicit feedback;
any ideas / suggestions / what-have-you - please send 'em
through. This is under active development at the moment.
The attached screenshot could be showing, for example, two
processes (PID 1242 and its child 8020). Both generated
start and end events (horizontal coloured connections) and
the parent/child relationship is shown (vertical lines).
Additionally, both show a series of regular "point" events
generated during their runtime.
One area that's been discussed a bit already is selection
of events - trying to keep the initial display simple, and
then drill down through selection (for example). Current
thinking is to allow both direct individual event selection
as well as selection of groups of events (mosue click+drag+
release to capture a group, with some visual feedback) -
then a little popup with event detail(s) would appear.
So, hopefully this gets the ideas across, the event metric
could be of anything (not just processes - could be a disk
IO, whatever) ... I'll try to incorporate any suggestions I
can or at least begin to plan for them if they require more
effort.
Thanks!
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Nathan
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