Intel® GPA 2013 R4 now supports tracing of Android* applications. This feature may cause some overhead during the analysis with Intel® GPA System Analyzer, which may impact the accuracy of some platform metrics displayed. If you do not intend to use trace analysis for Android* applications and would like to avoid the possible overhead, you have an option to disable this feature once Intel GPA is installed.
Note: On Ubuntu* and OS X* analysis systems, tracing of Android* applications is disabled by default.
To disable tracing on a Windows* OS analysis system:
- Make sure that Intel GPA System Analyzer is not running.
- Locate the
GpaSystemAnalyzer.cfgconfiguration file in the Intel GPA home directory. On Windows* OS, the default location is:C:\Users\<user_ID>\Documents\<GPA_version>\.
TheGpaSystemAnalyzer.cfgfile appears after the first launch of the Intel GPA System Analyzer. If you do not see this file, run the tool, close it, and try again. - Open the configuration file in a text editor.
- In the Android* section of the file, replace ”
install_tracing = true,” with ”install_tracing = false,”. Make sure to preserve the comma at the end of the line.
Tracing is disabled until you restore the original setting of the “install_tracing” variable.
Next Steps
For more details on getting started with Intel GPA on the Android* OS, please refer to the product's online help. The Intel GPA home page also contains links to product information, including information about analyzing DirectX* games on the Windows* OS platform.
If you want to be notified of Intel GPA product updates, use this link.
As always, we welcome your suggestions, so please let us know what we can do to improve your use of these tools by posting your comments on the Intel GPA Support Forum.
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