A core dump or crash dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally
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analyse .core file generated from a load test on resin
I am having a load test run on a linux machine which is generating huge .core files.
My question is how do I analyse these. GDB is an option but would it mean to start the load test from inside GDB.
Is there other tool which can be used?

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What settings does Visual Studio 2010 use when calling MiniDumpWriteDump()?
I've been trying to optimize the size of the dumps generated when our (C++) program crashes. I was wondering in anyone knew what it was passing to MiniDumpWriteDump() when you tell it to make dump from the debug menu?
It would be a good starting…

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Windows 2003 crashing with .NET 3.5 SP1
I have a product I developed based on Linq and Entity Framwork.
Before they upgraded to SP1 I got an exeption when I tried to find the
Entity Framework DLL.
I asked the customer to upgrade to SP1. After that, they are getting bluescreen.
Are there…

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Probably heap corruption, but could it be something else?
I have the following c++ code running in a multi-threaded environment:
A* a = (A*) (_x->b);
a->DoStuff();
A is a concrete class, _x is a member of A (let's say of type X*) and b is a void *.
In addition, this is also an A*, and it has a different…

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How to collect Application Crash Dumps
I need to collect the crash dumps for some specific applications. I have gone through this article but can't say it helped me much.
Platform:: WinXP, Vista & Win7.
Seems that WinXP and above versions collect the dumps differently. For Example, say…

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App crash while accessing SqlIte database
I am creating a sqlite database through my app. The queries for insertion and table creation executes well. But when I am retrieving the data my app crashes with following log
Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: no such table:…

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Debugging the C crash dump on Windows x64
There is a crash dump (FULL dump created by setting LocalDump registry key as explained here) that got created on a Windows x64 2008 R2 machine and I am able to debug this dump file using VS 2010 on the same machine (can load symbols for my modules,…

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Why would an application crash without leaving a crash dump?
I have an application that is crashing with a
"The exception unknown software exception (0x4000000015) occurred in
the application at location 0x76d66109. Click on OK to terminate the
program"
but no crash dump is stored in the CrashDumps…

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kernel module which will dump only modified heap page of a user process
Is there any way from a kernel module to track which all page is written in heap ,
when user application write to a malloced page( example like given below ptr[1] =3) ?
The real use of this is , i am writing a kernel module which will dump only…

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Application Pool crashing after every automatic recycle since upgrade to ASP.NET 4.0
After upgrading an ASP.NET solution to 4.0 we have noticed that every time the application pool recycles automatically (every 1740 minutes), exactly 32 seconds later we get an error in the event logs with event ID 5009.
I installed the debugger on…

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Periodic W3WP.exe crash
I have ASP.NET application. Periodicaly it is down and make my users unhappy.
In log I see:
Faulting application name: w3wp.exe, version: 7.5.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7afa2
Faulting module name: nlssorting.dll, version: 4.0.30319.261, time…

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analyzing the crash dump with __except
Suppose I have the following code
main()
{
__try
{
//---> SEH EXCEPTION HAS HAPPENED HERE
}
__finally
{
//---> CRASH DUMP WAS TAKEN HERE
}
}
The crash dump was taken at the "--->" marked place. Can I know from userdump…

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How can we analyze a Crash log generated on Mac machine?
I have developed an application on a Windows machine(using QT 5.14.2), and prepared a setup for Windows and Mac both. The setup works fine on Windows but crashes on Mac.
It may sound a bit weird, but my question is, can we analyze the crash log…

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Program execution continues after procdump created a dump on an exception
I am throwing an exception throw std::exception("dummy") (as a test) which is not being caught anywhere.
Without ProcDump attached this immediately crashes the process as it should.
When I attach ProcDump with -e to a debug build, ProcDump properly…

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Memory dump for period of time
When a program is misbehaving, it is pretty easy to capture a memory dump of the process, and then analyze it with a tool like WinDBG. However, this is pretty limited, you only get a snapshot of what the process is doing, and in some cases finding…

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