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VS 2015 Profiler may show different results with report generated from VS 2013

I just noticed that if I generate a profiler report using VS 2013, but open it in VS 2015, the report shows different results. Do not open the report in a different version of visual studio!

Unable to open huge profiler files in Visual Studio? (10GB 20GB)

Visual Studio would crash and burn on every system I tried. Finally got it working on a Windows 2012 R2 server with 98GB RAM. Still hangs, but can go through the different views. Found out the real reason - when it is opening the file, it is taking up disk space in the temp folder. If you do not have huge disk space then it runs out of space and dies. Observe the drive with temp folder having less and less space when the file is being opened. Also, you cannot predict how much it will consume. For a 10GB memory profile 50-60GB space was enough. For a 5GB sampling report, it is consuming more than 100GB.