Hi,
I was giving a try to 2020.3 but I can't find an option to avoid capturing straight from app start. The point of capture I'm (typically) interested in is a few good seconds away from the start of the app and this generates a very large apc file. Is there a way for the capture to start paused or something along those lines?
In addition to this when I stop the capture it kills the application. I would be great to keep it alive to do more captures if I need to.
Hi JPJ, There isn't a way to do this via the new GUI today, although you can still use the gator_me.py script (it might need a modification to not kill the app).
There are a couple of technical reasons we now force connect on start, primarily that connecting to a process after it's started and forked threads is a lot more expensive to monitor using Perf than one we can instrument before any threads are created. For threaded game engines that are capturing CPU counters it's very probable that a post-start data capture will actually fail to capture due to inode exhaustion on Android (If we connect after threads have been created we need one inode per counter, per thread, per cpu so that can multiply up pretty fast, and Android's default inode limits are pretty low).
Is the only concern you have the data file size? There are a couple of possible directions we could go in future:
Would be interested to have your thoughts here.
Cheers, Pete
One related question - to help you jump more directly into the interesting aspects of your application, would the ability to pass in command line arguments to the application when starting it be useful (e.g. selecting a scene to test, skipping manual menu selection)?
I believe we don't have yet any kind of support for that but I'll try to find out - it would certainly be useful! I'll get back to you on this.
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