Creating a Memory Dump of a Process in Windows Server 2003?

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Michael Stum picture Michael Stum · Jan 22, 2010 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

Since windows Vista, we have the nice option to create a memory dump of a process directly from Task Manager. Sadly, Windows Server 2003 does not have this option yet :( I found ways to do a complete system-wide memory dump, but that's a bit too much.

Is there a way to dump a single process? As this is a production Server, I do not want to install any heavy-weight tools or and service that runs in the background, ideally I'd just like to dump the process, copy the dump to my own machine and debug it there.

Answer

i_am_jorf picture i_am_jorf · Jan 22, 2010

You can attach the Windows debugger (ntsd or windbg) to the proccess, then when you want to create a dump of the process you can use the .dump command:

0:000> .dump /ma myprocess-crash.dmp
Creating myprocess-crash.dmp - mini user dump
Dump successfully written
0:000>

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