Hi
I am trying to put together a trace environment and need help interpreting the results. Basically I set up a project that calls vtaskstarttrace() function to start then creates a task with a predefined timeout which when it occurs stops the trace and then prints each byte of the trace buffer to the console window in my eclipse environment. I've redirected my console to save to a file, so then I run the ensuring binary file through tracecon to get me the results. I'm not sure what the results mean. The results below are the .txt file output....Could some help interpret the results?

Here is the .txt file (after it ran through traceCon):
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808858460.05000012636
808858460.05000012636
808858460.10000012636
808858460.10000012636
808858460.15000012636
808858460.15000012636
926363996.00000012636
926363996.00000013148
926363996.05000013148
926363996.05000013148
926363996.10000013148
926363996.10000013148
926363996.15000013148
926363996.15000013148
926363996.20000013148
926363996.20000013148
926363996.25000013148
926363996.25000013148
926363996.30000013148
926363996.30000013148
926363996.35000013148
926363996.35000013148
926363996.40000013148
926363996.40000013148
926363996.45000013148
926363996.45000013148
926363996.50000013148
926363996.50000013148
926363996.55000013148
926363996.55000013148
926363996.60000013148
926363996.60000013148
926363996.65000013148
926363996.65000013148
926363996.70000013148
926363996.70000012380
892482396.00000012380
892482396.00000023559
925981744.00000023559
925981744.00000023607
925981744.05000023607
925981744.05000023607
925981744.10000023607
925981744.10000023607
925981744.15000023607
925981744.15000023607
925981744.20000023607
925981744.20000023607
925981744.25000023607
925981744.25000023607
925981744.30000023607
925981744.30000023607
861669173.00000023607
861669173.00000012342
861681463.00000012342
861681463.00000012342
861681463.05000012342
861681463.05000012342
861681463.10000012342
861681463.10000012342
861681463.15000012342
861681463.15000012342
861681463.20000012342
861681463.20000012342
861681463.25000012342
861681463.25000012342
1543976759.00000012342
1543976759.00000013875
1547122481.00000013875
1547122481.00000013875
1547122481.05000013875
1547122481.05000013875
1547122481.10000013875
1547122481.10000014129
1546663475.00000014129
1546663475.00000014129
1546663475.05000014129
1546663475.05000014129
1546663475.10000014129
1546663475.10000014129
120926771.00000014129
120926771.00000013148
926363996.00000013148
926363996.00000013148
926363996.05000013148
926363996.05000013148
926363996.10000013148
926363996.10000012636
808858460.00000012636
808858460.00000012636
808858460.05000012636
808858460.05000012636
808858460.10000012636
808858460.10000012636
909335559.00000012636
909335559.00000023600
909335607.00000023600
909335607.00000023600
909335607.05000023600
909335607.05000023600
909335607.10000023600
909335607.1000003376
909335607.1500003376
909335607.15000023600
909335607.20000023600
909335607.20000023600
842226743.00000023600
842226743.0000001845
828125238.0000001845
828125238.00000014135
828125238.05000014135
828125238.05000014135
828125238.10000014135
828125238.10000014135
828125238.15000014135
828125238.15000014135
828125238.20000014135
828125238.20000014135
828125238.25000014135
828125238.25000014135
1546663475.00000014135
1546663475.00000014129
1546663475.05000014129
1546663475.05000014129
1546663475.10000014129
1546663475.10000014129
1546662448.00000014129
1546662448.00000012851
808858460.00000012851
808858460.00000012636
808858460.05000012636
808858460.05000012636
808858460.10000012636
808858460.10000012636
892482396.00000012636
892482396.00000023559
925981744.00000023559
925981744.00000023607
925981744.05000023607
925981744.05000023607

I think the first number is a time, and the second number the handle of the task that was running at that time. You can open it in a spread sheet and plot of graph.

But, that is a very old way of creating a trace. Look up the trace macros section on the FreeRTOS web site for a very flexible alternative that lets you trace nearly all kernel events.

I thought so too, until you look at the first column and realize that the numbers do not increase, they go up and down...

Is there a ready-made example that one can utilize to achieve the same results using the newer trace functions in the example files?