Chapter 5 Loading and Managing Sessions

Totalview® for HPC User Guide : PART II Debugging Tools and Tasks : Chapter 5 Loading and Managing Sessions

Chapter 5 Loading and Managing Sessions

This chapter discusses how to set up a TotalView session, based on some of the most-used setup commands and procedures.

There are two primary ways to load programs into TotalView for debugging: the GUI via the Sessions Manager (Loading Programs from the Sessions Manager) or the CLI (Loading Programs Using the CLI) using its various commands. Both support all debugging session types.

For information on setting up remote debugging, see “Setting Up Remote Debugging Sessions” on page 447.

For information on setting up parallel debugging sessions, see “Setting Up MPI Debugging Sessions” on page 466 and “Setting Up Parallel Debugging Sessions” on page 497.

This chapter contains the following sections (not necessarily in this order):

Setting up Debugging Sessions

• "Loading Programs from the Sessions Manager"

— "Starting a Debugging Session"

— "Debugging a New Program"

— "Attaching to a Running Program"

— "Debugging a Core File"

— "Debugging with a Replay Recording File"

— "Launching your Last Session"

• "Loading Programs Using the CLI"

NOTE >> Setting up parallel debugging sessions is not discussed in this chapter. Rather, see Chapter 19.

Additional Session Setup Options

• "Adding a Remote Host"

• "Options: Reverse Debugging, Memory Debugging, and CUDA"

• "Setting Environment Variables and Altering Standard I/O"

Managing Debug Sessions

• "Managing Sessions"

Other Configuration Options

• "Handling Signals"

• "Setting Search Paths"

• "Setting Startup Parameters"

• "Setting Preferences"