Accelerated Linux Core Dump Analysis, Fourth Edition

The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training. Learn how to analyze Linux process and kernel crashes and hangs, navigate through core memory dump space and diagnose corruption, memory leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and much more. This training uses a unique and innovative pattern-oriented diagnostic analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. The training consists of more than 70 practical step-by-step exercises using GDB and WinDbg debuggers, highlighting more than 50 memory analysis patterns diagnosed in 64-bit core memory dumps from x64 and ARM64 platforms. The training also includes source code of modeling applications, a catalog of relevant patterns from the Software Diagnostics Institute, and an overview of relevant similarities and differences between Windows and Linux memory dump analysis useful for engineers with a Wintel background. In addition to various improvements, the fully revised and updated fourth edition adds entirely new material, such as defect mechanism patterns and WinDbg Linux kernel dump analysis exercises.

  • Title: Accelerated Linux Core Dump Analysis: Training Course Transcript with GDB and WinDbg Practice Exercises, Fourth Edition
  • Authors: Dmitry Vostokov, Software Diagnostics Services, Dublin School of Security
  • Publisher: OpenTask (January 2025)
  • Language: English
  • PDF/Paperback: 737 pages
  • ISBN-13: 978-1912636495

Table of Contents and Sample Exercise
Slides from the training

The training course also includes the recording of the training sessions.

When you purchase the book, you additionally get free named Software Diagnostics Library membership with access to more than 440 cross-referenced patterns of memory dump analysis.

Available in either PDF or ultra-premium color paperback or both. The printed paperback course also includes trackable shipping to most countries of North America and Europe. If your country's trackable shipping is expensive, you will be contacted with additional payment information. The order is shipped in 2 or 5 working days. The printed book can be personalized with a unique CID with the possibility to print a name on a full-color awareness certificate as a first book page.

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