Suggestions: Memory profiling

cgruenzner

Hi,

after some days of profiling the memory of a WinForm application I have some suggestions to improved ANTS:
1. For memory profiling I'm taking a couple of snapshots. It would be nice if I can save the complete result set in one result file. So it would be easier to reload a profiling run. After reloading such a set of course I want to see the single results again.
2. Also it would be nice if I can enter a comment for every result and the whole result set.
3. When I’m working on a result set and I have applied some column filters I want to have the possibility to apply the same filter on all results. At the moment I have to apply the filter an every single result manually. This makes it hard to take look at the same set of objects in every result.

cgruenzner

Hil,

here another suggestion (if this has already been discussed I'm sorry):
It would be great if the Thread column would display the thread name if one was set. We name all our threads to identify them in traces an during debugging.

Brian Donahue

Hi Carsten,

Thanks for your suggestions. We have, in fact, already implemented the display of thread names in the results. It was supposed to work always, but there was some sort of issue with it. It will be working in the next version.

Robert C

If I remember correctly, in V3, if you start the thread then set the name, ANTS Profiler will pick it up correctly, but if you set the name before starting the thread, we won't.

Hope that helps,
Robert

Brian Donahue

That must have been the issue! :-)

cgruenzner

Hi,

thank you for the suggestion concerning the thread name. We will take a look if we can change the order of settings the name and starting the thread.

mihies

Filter management would be really a great annoyance killer. Having to reapply same filter over and over again is really tedious.