I have been using vtune amplifier 2015 for a few months now for analyzing performance of our products. It has been extremely unstable for me, crashing during data collection as well as when I am going through caller-callee stacks and changing views during my analysis. On an average I am generating 2-3 crashes and whenever the vtune application does not blue screen my machine, it generates crash dump. I have been religiously sending these to the intel email address for vtune support.
I do not have reproduction steps for you, as the exact steps never reproduce the problem completely. However, it would be great if I could get any help to track down the root cause. My organization has a site license. I can provide more details through private channels if needed.
I am opening a new thread in the hope that someone from vtune customer support team will be able to help me. I can provide any additional data/traces you would like, through private communication thread. Here are details of application and my machine:
I am using vtune amplifier XE 2015 Update 1 (build 380310)
My machine spec is as follows:
Intel Xeon CPU E5-1650 v3 @ 3.5GHz
64 bit operating system
RAM 32GB
OS Windows 7 enterprise
I personally have not upgraded to 2016, however a teammate has and they have not seen any improvement in terms of stability. Any pointers/help in tracking this down will be appreciated,
Thanks.