crash dump

Failure state record

A crash dump is a file containing the contents of a computer's memory at the moment a program or system failed.

When software crashes, the operating system may save this snapshot for developers to analyze what went wrong: The engineer examined the crash dump to find the bug.

Also called a core dump or memory dump.

memoryMind's retention capacity
errorFault in communication
kernel panicOS core fatal error
stack traceSequence of nested calls
stack overflowExceeded call depth

failure · snapshot · system failure · fatal error · blue screen · operating system · logging · debugger · error reporting · runtime error · blue screen of death · profiling · troubleshooting · breakpoint · software testing · post-mortem · reverse engineering · error code

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system state documentation

crash dumplog file

Automated activity transcript

event log · system log · audit trail · status report · telemetry

data capture timing

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