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Managed Stacks in Process Monitor

Is it possible to see managed stack traces in Process Monitor for file access events of a given process? If not, is there the other way to accomplish such task?

Solution

  • Unfortunately Process Monitor does not yet support managed call stacks. But perfview is pretty good at decomposing managed stacks and it also provides a way to collect File I/O events:

    Select File I/O events in Run/Collect dialog:

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    After tracing is finished you should have File I/O events available in the directory tree:

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    Double clicking it should present you a window with all collected File I/O operations

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    Each operation has a call stack registered and you may browse it on other tabs available in the events window.