Profiling: 0 entries but high costs

[Stefan Wehr]

Hi all,

here is some profiling output which shows strange behavior:

COST CENTRE                          MODULE
                   no.     entries  %time %alloc  %time %alloc

MAIN                                 MAIN
                       1         0    0.0    0.0  100.0  100.0
 ...
 CAF:runHttpNewsWatch_watchNews
MobileGateway.DataClient.HttpNewsWatch                8685         1
 0.0    0.0   90.2   95.7
  watchNews                          MobileGateway.LubSync.NewsWatch
                   12239        14    0.0    0.0   90.2   95.7
   watchNewsIteration                MobileGateway.LubSync.NewsWatch
                   12283         4    0.0    0.0   90.2   95.7
    ...
    getAndProcessNews                MobileGateway.LubSync.NewsWatch
                   12284       156    0.0    0.0   90.2   95.7
     ...
     handleNewsItem                  MobileGateway.LubSync.NewsWatch
                   12526       577    0.0    0.0   88.9   95.1
      ...
      dsLoadObject_a7eq              MobileGateway.DataClient.HttpDs
                   12648       144    0.0    0.0   84.0   91.5
       loadObject                    MobileGateway.DataClient.HttpDs
                   12650       720    0.7    0.6   84.0   91.5
        ...
        runNewsWatchTInIO
MobileGateway.DataClient.HttpNewsWatch               12654         0
 0.0    0.0   69.5   80.3
         runHttpDsM                  MobileGateway.DataClient.HttpDs
                   12655         0   69.5   80.3   69.5   80.3


The cost centre runHttpDsM has yero entries but rather high costs. How
can this be? According to the manual, the entries column specifies
"the number of times this particular point in the call graph was
entered". From this definition I would conclude that a cost centre
with zero entries cannot have any costs. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for helping.

-- Stefan