The Call Tree tab provides information about method calls during the profiling session in a form that lets easily identify a hot spot. It consists of two parts: the execution flow call tree and call stack view.
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The tree shows relative time spent in a method execution against total time spent in application run. The first-level items in the tree are threads instances. The tree items show the cumulative time of methods, and when expanded the base time of a method is shown as one of sub-items. The percentage column in the table is shown as the bar graph where 100% is the total time of the thread. Sorting by this column is available.
The call stack view shows the stack trace of the method selected in the call tree. The tree shows aggregated information while the stack trace can be ambiguous if one method is called from another several times at different lines of code. In this case the stack traces can be navigated by "previous" and "next" buttons. Cumulative time for every method in the stack trace is provided in absolute and percentage forms.
Related concepts
Overview of the Profiling Tool
Profiling resources
Related tasks
Profiling an application
Viewing invocations and callers of a method
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