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