Part I:

Introduction

This part of the TotalView User Guide contains two chapters.

Chapter 1, “A Tour of TotalView”

Presents an overview of what TotalView is and the ways in which it can help you debug programs. If you haven’t used TotalView before, reading this chapter lets you know what TotalView can do for you.

Chapter 2, “About Threads, Processes, and Groups”

Defines the TotalView model for organizing processes and threads. While most programmers have an intuitive understanding of their program’s behavior, debugging multi-process and multi-threaded programs requires an exact knowledge of what’s being done. This chapter begins a two-part look at the TotalView process/thread model. This chapter contains concept information. Chapter 13, “Using Groups, Processes, and Threads” contains information on actually using these concepts.