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aslushnikov / tracium

A blessed Chrome Trace parser.
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RunTask vs other #9

Open soulgalore opened 5 years ago

soulgalore commented 5 years ago

Hi! I have a question about RunTask events and categorising it as other. Looking at https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-profiling-tool/trace-event-reading I get a feeling RunTask is a wrapper event saying that the process is busy? And categorising it as kind other means we count it twice, is that right? And the way it is now other represents total + other uncategorised events?

Best Peter

patrickhulce commented 5 years ago

Correct it is a wrapper so all of the selfTime spent in it is just browser overhead bookkeeping which is why it gets categorized as "Other".

kind on the task is really only applicable to the selfTime of the task, not the task and all of its children if that makes sense.