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A core dump is a copy of the state of a program or OS. Usually dumped to a file when it crashes.

When a program crashes the contents of its memory may be written to a file. This information can then be used to determine why the crash happened.

This can happen with both regular programs as well as when the OS panic. Such a file contains the core memory and hence it as called a core dump. Other names used for it as system dump and memory dump.

Dump can also be triggered on demand. E.g. with kill -SIGQUIT process_id. Also see man 3 abort.

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How can I install objdump on Mac OS X?

I want to get the source code of a small command line tool using objdump on Mac OS X. I've used arm-linux-objdump on Linux and find it a great tool. Is there any way to install objdump on OS X? I've searched Google and found information about…
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Pipe gunzip and mysql to gunzip a dump and import it

I have a .gz sql dump file (example: foo.sql.gz) that i want import in my database with the classic mysql command. gunzip -c foo.sql.gz > foo.sql mysql -uroot -ppassword foo < foo.sql foo is the database. How can i pipe these two commands in a…
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How do I dump physical memory in Linux?

How would one create a dump of the physical memory (RAM) in Linux? What software if any is available for this purpose? I have read that one should not write to a local disk but rather send the data over the network. Anyone know the peculiarities…
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How Can I Create A Dump File of a Running Process in Linux?

I have a process that is spinning out of control under Linux, and I would like to create a dump file that I can take to my dev machine, and examine there. In Windows, it is possible to create a "minidump" of a running program in several different…
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How can I dump the memory of a process in Windows 7?

Are there any tools to dump the running application from memory in Windows 7?
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How to analyze a memory dump on Windows after a blue screen error?

My computer running Windows 7 x64 crushes time to time. Could you please advise how to analyze the memory dump or point out possible cause and further troubleshooting steps? The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000003b…
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How to inspect a Process Explorer full dump

I've been having some trouble with Visual Studio 2010. It stops working, and I see it increases in memory usage. So I suspect a memory leak (in one of the plugins maybe). I took a Full Dump with Process Explorer (procexp.exe), but am a bit at loss…
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How can I enable kernel crash dumps in Debian?

I want to enable kernel crash dumps for my Debian 5.0.7 machine. The kernel version is 2.2.26 amd64. How can I configure this?
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What is the "create dump file" feature in Task Manager?

Recently I came to find about a feature (option) by right clicking on process in Task Manager on Windows 10: I want to know what does the feature stand for and what can I do with it?
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Possible to save process as dump file to disk and then reload the process later?

Is it possible to save process as dump file to disk and then reload the process later? For example if I'm using a video editing program and are in the middle of rendering a file, then I can go to the Resource Monitor in windows and right click the…
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Disable Procdump

I had an issue with a vendor product, then I had to run procdump to be able to narrow down the possible cause for this issue, now I need to disable it, is there any way to disable it without taking risks because it is on a critical server
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How do I troubleshoot computer dumps?

Once I have a dump of a computer crash/freeze, what are some tools and steps to take in order to troubleshoot crash based off of the dump itself? I am looking for tools to isolate what processes or issues are causing the crash, and also good…
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How can I create a memory dump of a production system without affecting performance?

I am trying to analyze a hard-to-track memory leak problem on a production IIS web server running an ASP.NET application. To that end I am trying to create a dump file of the memory to analyze it offline. It is critical that the production server…
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Should I use a "Small Memory Dump" or "Kernel Memory Dump?"

I use Memory Dumps to analyse BSODs and other crashes, and generally keep my PC set to the standard "Small Memory Dump" setting, as shown below. However, there is another setting, "Kernel memory dump", avaliable as well. What's the difference…
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How to dump the memory of a process to a file and then restore the process into memory?

I have a game where saving is impossible most of the time, there are big gaps between saves and many progress is lost if the game crashes or I die. I want to know if it's possible to dump the RAM of a process onto the disk and then restore it when…
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