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Fine-Tuning Shared Library Use Figure 159: Stopping to Set a Breakpoint Question Box Selecting the Load button tells TotalView to display a file explorer dialog box that lets you navigate through your computer’s file system to locate the library. After selecting a library, TotalView reads it and displays a question box that lets you stop execution to set a breakpoint: TotalView might not read in information symbol and debugging information when you use this command. See “Controlling Which Symbols TotalView Reads” on page 246 for more information. Controlling Which Symbols TotalView Reads When debugging large programs with large libraries, reading and parsing symbols can impact performance. This section describes how you can minimize the impact that reading this information has on your debugging session. Using the preference settings and variables described in this section always slow down performance. However, for most programs, even large ones, the difference is often inconsequential. If, however, you are debugging a very large program with large libraries, significant performance improvements can occur. A shared library contains, among other things, loader and debugging symbols. Typically, loader symbols are read quite quickly. Debugging symbols can require considerable processing. The default behavior is to read all symbols. You can change this behavior by telling TotalView to only read in loader symbols or even that it should not read in any symbols. Saying “TotalView reads all symbols” isn’t quite true as TotalView often just reads in loader symbols for some libraries. For example, it only reads in loader symbols if the library resides in the /usr/lib directory. (These libraries are typically those provided with the operating system.) You can override this behavior by adding a library name to the All Symbols list that is described in the next section. Specifying Which Libraries are Read After invoking the File > Preferences command, select the Dynamic Libraries Page. (See Figure 160 on page 247.) The lower portion of this page lets you enter the names of libraries for which you need to manage the information that TotalView reads. 246 Chapter 12: Debugging Programs
Figure 160: File > Preferences: Dynamic Libraries Page Fine-Tuning Shared Library Use When you enter a library name, you can use the * (asterisk) and ? (question mark) wildcard characters. These characters have their standard meaning. Placing entries into these areas does the following: all symbols This is the default operation. You only need to enter a library name here if it would be excluded by a wildcard in the loader symbols and no symbols areas. loader symbols TotalView reads loader symbols from these libraries. If your program uses a number of large shared libraries that you will not be debugging, you might set this to asterisk (*). You then enter the names of DLLs that you need to debug in the all symbols area. no symbols Normally, you wouldn’t put anything on this list since TotalView might not be able to create a backtrace through a library if it doesn’t have these symbols. However, you can increase performance if you place the names of your largest libraries here. When reading a library, TotalView looks at these lists in the following order: 1 all symbols 2 loader symbols 3 no symbols If a library is found in more than one area, it does the first thing it is told to do and ignores any other requests. For example, after TotalView reads a TotalView Users Guide: version 8.7 247
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Book Overview part I - Introduction
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Contents About This Book TotalView
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Setting Preferences, Options, and X
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Installation Notes ................
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Figures Chapter 1: Getting Started
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Figure 76. File > Preferences: Bulk
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Chapter 13: Using Groups, Processes
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About This Book This book describes
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How to Use This Book The informatio
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Conventions and what you should cli
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Contacting Us Contacting Us Please
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Part I: Introduction This part of t
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Getting Started Figure 1: The Proce
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Getting Started Figure 3: Setting C
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Getting Started Figure 5: Diving on
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Debugging Multi-process and Multi-t
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Using Groups and Barriers Figure 10
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Introducing the CLI Introducing the
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Threads Figure 18: Threads Threads
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Types of Threads Figure 20: Four Pr
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Organizing Chaos Figure 23: User, S
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Simplifying What You’re Debugging
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c h a p t e r Getting Started with
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c h a p t e r Setting Up a Debuggin
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Command Summary Visualizing Array D
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