ProcDump is a

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application used for monitoring an application for

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spikes and creating

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s during a spike. The crash dumps can then be used by an administrator or software developer to determine the cause of the spike. ProcDump supports monitoring of hung windows and unhandled exceptions. It can also create dumps based on the values of system performance counters.

Overview

Initially, ProcDump was only available for Microsoft Windows. In November 2018, Microsoft confirmed it is

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Sysinternals tools, including ProcDump and ProcMon, to

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. The software is

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. It is licensed under

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and the source code is available on

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. The Linux version requires

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s version 3.5+ and runs on

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/ CentOS 7, Fedora 26, Mageia 6,

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. It currently does not have full feature parity with the Windows version (e.g. custom performance counters).

Example

Create 5 core dumps 10 seconds apart of the target process with

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(pid)

1234 $ sudo procdump -n 5 -p 1234

References

External links

ProcDump - Windows Sysinternals , Microsoft Docs

GitHub - microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux: A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool
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