Using the Processes/Ranks and ThreadsTabs

TotalView User Guide : Part II: Debugging Tools and Tasks : Manipulating Processes and Threads : Using the Processes/Ranks and ThreadsTabs

The Processes Tab

The Processes tab, which is called a Ranks tab if you are running an MPI program, contains a grid. Each block in the grid represents one process. The color that TotalView uses to display a process indicates the process’s state, as follows:


Color	Meaning
Blue	Stopped; usually due to another process or thread hitting a breakpoint.
Orange	At breakpoint.
Green	All threads in the process are running or can run.
Red	The Error state. Signals such as SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, and SIGFPE can indicate an error in your program.
Gray	The process has not begun running.

Figure 207 shows a tab with processes in three different states:

Figure 207: The Processes Tab

If you select a group by using the Process Window’s group selector pulldown (see “Using the Toolbar to Select a Target” for information), TotalView dims the blocks for processes not in the group, Figure 208.


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Figure 208: The Processes Tab: Showing Group Selection

If you click on a block, the context within the Process Window changes to the first thread in that process.


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Clicking on the P+ and P- buttons in the tab bar also changes the process being displayed within the Process Window.


RELATED TOPICS
Custom group creation	“Creating Custom Groups”
More on controlling processes and threads	“Using the Toolbar to Select a Target”