Arenas

A P/T identifier often indicates a number of groups, processes, and threads. For example, assume that two threads executing the same executable image in process 2 are stopped at the same statement. This means that TotalView places the two stopped threads into a lockstep group. If the default focus is process 2, stepping this process actually steps both of these threads.

The CLI uses the term arena to define the processes and threads that are the target of an action. In this case, the arena has two threads. Many CLI commands can act upon one or more arenas. For example, here is a command with two arenas:

dfocus { p1 p2 } 

The two arenas are process 1 and process 2.