NAME¶

procdump - generate core dumps based off performance triggers

SYNOPSIS¶

procdump [OPTIONS...] TARGET

DESCRIPTION¶

procdump is a Linux reimagining of the class ProcDump tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procdump provides a convenient way for Linux developers to create core dumps of their application based on performance triggers.

OPTIONS¶

-h

Displays a summary of the command-line usage of procdump

-C

Trigger core dump generation when CPU exceeds or equals specified value (0 to 100 * nCPU)

-c

Trigger core dump generation when CPU is less than specified value (0 to 100 * nCPU)

-M

Trigger core dump generation when memory commit exceeds or equals specified value (MB)

-m

Trigger core dump generation when when memory commit is less than specified value (MB)

-T

Trigger when thread count exceeds or equals specified value.

-F

Trigger when filedescriptor count exceeds or equals specified value.

-I

Polling frequency in milliseconds (default is 1000)

-n

Number of core dumps to write before exiting (default is 1)

-s

Consecutive seconds before dump is written (default is 10)

-o

Path and/or filename prefix where the core dump is written to

-d

Writes diagnostic logs to syslog

TARGET must be exactly one of these:

-p

pid of the process

-w

Name of the process executable

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2019 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT license.