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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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How to enable core files on CentOS 6

I am trying to enable core files on a machine running CentOS 6; however, nothing I have tried has produced core files…here is what I have done: Added the following two lines to /etc/security/limits.conf: * hard core unlimited * soft …
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Centos server rebooted unexpectedly and i'm unable to process crash file, what am i doing wrong?

One of my Mysql replication servers has rebooted during the night and i'm trying to find the reason. Running the command last shows this line: reboot system boot 2.6.32-71.29.1.e Wed Jul 31 04:37 - 11:02 (06:24) I'm trying to read the vmcore…
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How to remove the OpenSolaris ZFS dump device

The ZFS dump device is used only for debugging problems. In this case, I have decided the risk vs reward is such that I should delete the dump device to make room for other storage. I am able to disable save-core (copy from dump device to…
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How to dump data written to disk

Question : How to dump data (byte-stream) written from an application to the filesystem ? (something like tcpdump but for IO/file). Ideally it should be able to "attach" and dump the stream while it is beeing written, without specific configuration…
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Accents not properly reported in MySQL dump

I'm using MySQL 5.1.58 on Debian Sqeeze and I'm trying to restore the dump of a database. Once it is restored I noticed that all the accented chars had become other chars as ù or è: completely different. Looking in the dump I've seen that the…
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How can I use a batch file to dump only the last few weeks' revisions in SVN?

We were previously backing up our full SVN dump each night, but the repository has now become too large. If I was willing to cut off the revision history at say 2 weeks, how would I go about making a batch script to perform this dump? I realise…
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Linux dump file - can it be read on Windows system?

Is there a way to mount/read linux file created with /sbin/dump under Windows system?
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procdump on w3wp.exe: Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed

I'm having a problem with an IIS application that occasionally spikes up in CPU usage, and am trying to use procdump to get a memory dump for examination. I'm running "procdump.exe -64 -mA 9999" where 9999 is the pid of the process. But every time…
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kill SIGABRT does not generate core file from daemon started from crontab

I am running CentOS 5.5 and working on server application that sometimes I need to force core dump so I can see what is going on. If I start my server from shell and send kill SIGABRT, a core file is created. If I start same program from crontab and…
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Concurrent modification during backup: rsync vs dump vs tar vs?

I have a Linux log server where multiple applications write data. Data is written in bursts, and in a lot of different files. I need to make a backup of this mess, preferably preserving as much coherence between the file versions as possible and…
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Where are "Debug Dump Files" located in windows?

Windows has a tool called "Disk Cleanup" (German: Datenträgerbereinigung). There it lists "Debug Dump Files" which can be deleted. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me which files are meant. It can't be only the folder C:\Windows\Minidump because in my…
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Modify source IP from a package dump

I have a dumped several packages udp and I am trying to tcpreplay it. The issue is that the source is from a different network and I want to modify or redump by changing the source IP. I have done once but I can't seem to find the command line…
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How to process core-dumps with Splunk?

We are managing an application, which some times crashes and dumps core. We have a script, which outputs the application's stack from the core -- and some other details useful for debugging. Can Splunk be configured to invoke a script upon…
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PostgreSQL, update existing rows with pg_restore

I need to sync two PostgreSQL databases (some tables from development db to production db) sometimes. So I came up with this script: [...] pg_dump -a -F tar -t table1 -t table2 -U user1 dbname1 | \ pg_restore -a -U user2 -d dbname2 [...] The…
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Dump a tcp stream (tcpdump/tpick?) and save to file only if RST happen

I'm looking for a way to capture a whole tcp stream, but save it into the file only if 1) error happens (like RST) 2) not sure if possible - analyze the http response, store if HTTP 500 happen is a stream. The network flow is high, so I'd like to…
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