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4.2.1.5 Starting TotalView for the First Time

This section tells you what you must do when running TotalView for the first time — before you
begin to use it to debug an application. The steps in this section assume that you have already
set up your environment to run TotalView, as described in Section 4.2.1.2.

The first time you use TotalView, you should set up preferences. For example, you need to
tell TotalView how to launch TotalView processes on all of the processors. After you have
performed the steps in this section once, you do not need to do it again unless you want to
change how processes are launched. The result of these steps is to create a preferences file
the

.totalview

directory of your home directory. As long as this file exists in your home

directory, the preferences you are about to define are used whenever you run TotalView.

To create the preferences file, proceed as follows:

1.

Start TotalView by entering the following command:

$ totalview

TotalView’s main control window (called the TotalView Root Window) appears, as shown
in Figure 4-1:

Figure 4-1: TotalView Root Window

4-4

Debugging Applications

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