Sampling and system states

During an Application Performance Analyzer observation session, activity in the target address space is sampled at the frequency and for the duration which was specified when the session was requested. Each observation results in data being recorded which describes an observed System State. The essence of the analysis reports is the aggregation of System States and attribution of these aggregates to various System Objects. For example, CPU Executing is a type of System State and a Load Module is a type of System Object; a report might quantify observations of CPU Executing and attribute these quantities to various Load Modules. By mapping observed system states to system objects, the analysis reports provide a meaningful picture of how resources are consumed.