4.13. Sample Period

The sample period is a measure of how dense information about the memory access patterns of the application is captured by ThreadSpotter™ when sampling an application. A lower sample period means capturing more information. ThreadSpotter™ automatically adapts the sample period to the application being run, so there is usually no need to care about the sample period.

However, for applications that run for a very short time, a few seconds or less, you may need to manually decrease the sample period. For applications that run for a long time there may also be some performance to be gained from increasing the sample period. See Section 2.4.4.1, “Tuning the Sample Period”.