Starting the TotalView Debugger Server

Debugging a remote process with TotalView only differs from debugging a native process in that:

• TotalView works with other TotalView processes running on remote machines. This remote TotalView process is called the TotalView Debugger Server (tvdsvr).
   
• The performance of your session depends on the performance of the network between the native and remote machines. If the network is overloaded, debugging can be slow.

Unless you tell it otherwise, TotalView automatically launches tvdsvr in one of the following ways.

• It can launch a tvdsvr on each remote host independently. This is called single process server launch.
   
• It can launch all remote processes at the same time. This is called bulk server launch.

Autolaunching greatly simplifies the debugging remote processes since you do not need to take any action to debug remote processes.