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In computing, a dump refers to recording the contents of the working memory of a computer program or operating system at a specific time, generally when it has terminated abnormally (crashed). Dumps are written to file and can be useful in debugging and diagnosing the crash that prompted the dump.

In computing, a dump refers to recording the contents of the working memory of a computer program or operating system at a specific time, generally when it has terminated abnormally (crashed). Dumps are written to file and can be useful in debugging and diagnosing the crash that prompted the dump.

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Understanding core dump (Solaris 11 crash)

I'm still trying to get behind crashes on my Solaris 11 system. Recently, a core dump has been written during the crash. Looking into it with mdb yields > $C ffffff0021c09430 vpanic() ffffff0021c09460 vcmn_err+0x2e(3, fffffffff7a8a830,…
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how to get text with sed?

i want to grab the the text between tok98 and 5678 and dump that out to a file. if the tok98 and the 5678 was on the same line i can use this sed -n 's/.*\(tok98\)\(.*\)\(5678\).*/\2/p' testfile.txt > text.dmp but when the tokens are vertically…
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Good practices for backing up MySQL on a large scale

I am a newbie to DB and in particular to MySQL. Are there any good practices to backup MySQL on a large scale? For example, there are a few things I've already found. Use mysqlbackup (physical backup) instead of mysqldump. increase key_buffer_size…
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SVNAdmin Load Returns Checksum Mismatch

I'm trying to load a svn dumpfile onto my RHEL server. The dumpfile was loaded from our old Ubuntu server and I used svnadmin create reponame and then svnadmin load --quiet reponame < dumpfilename. After a short time, I receive the following…
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Programme that accepts stdin, then writes to a datetime stamped file?

I wonder is there a programme that'll do what I want. This is like an streaming log rotation programme. For the linux/unix command line. Let's say I have some input that is streaming some data. I want to write it a file, but a different file per day…
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Can I delete java dump files (java core dump, heap dump, snap dump, etc)

Can dump files like java core dump, heap dump, snap dump, be deleted? They are occupying lots of space on the server. Is there any usage of this file? Will anything happen on production servers if i delete these? The files I see…
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Analyze contents of a dump file

Is it possible to extract some details from a file generated with the dump(8) command on a FreeBSD system? Preferably, I'd like to see the file sizes for each file inside, to see what exactly makes my incrementals so large. I know there's the…
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Interpreting minidump files from Windows Server 2008

I have a couple of minidump files generated by blue screen crashes on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine. I have installed the debugging tools and I am able to look at the contents of these files. However, I don't know how to find out the device…
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Postgres 10.1 slow on Ubuntu 16.04

Installing a single table-dump is significant slower on U16.04 (and higher) than on U14.04. The test was done on the same computer with default settings. testdb=# \d photos_searchlog Table…
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make a memory dump of a large w3wp instance

I have a web service that under normal conditions consume about 6-7 GB of memory. Sometimes, however, consumption spikes to 11-12 GB and I want to figure out why. For that I want to make a memory dump of the w3wp.exe running that service so I could…
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BIND cache dump file format parsing

I'm trying to analyze the contents of BIND's cache by looking into dump files, the ones generated by rndc dumpdb -cachedb. ; ; Start view _default ; ; ; Cache dump of view '_default' (cache _default) ; $DATE 20160606155942 ; authanswer . …
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/sbin/dump: "Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem"

I'm attempting a backup of one of our servers: [root@butler /]# /sbin/dump -0uan -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish IRUser@192.168.0.225 dd of=/RAIDPOOL01/sysbackup/full-backup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.dump.gz This gives me a strange error: DUMP: No…
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What steps are required to debug a memory.dmp? (walkthrough included)

I woke up to this in my eventlog today: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000ef (0xffffe0018668f080, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report…
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Virtualized Windows 2008 R2 throws random BSOD, but writes no minidumps

we are experiencing random BSODs inside a customers VMware-hosted RemoteDesktop-server. The BSODs happen nearly weekly. Curious thing is, the virtual machine does not write any dumps we could analyze, no minidumps in %systemroot%\minidump and no…
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How can I see what is on line 149351 of a large file?

I am trying to import a large MySQL dump file and am getting a consistent error on a certain line 149,351 (out of 4207442). I would like to see what that line is. The best way I have found to do this is like this: head -149351 dump.sql |…
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