Dump Analysis

This publication guides experienced developers in the way of learning memory dump analysis, a low level application debugging method used to diagnose extraordinary problems that are virtually impossible to solve otherwise, and encourages them to use this technique whenever possible. The book guides the reader about the necessary tools and their setup, gives background information on how to interpret the raw data found in the memory dump files and then discusses several advanced debugging scenarios to diagnose errors such as deadlocks or memory leaks or to find vital information about applications, like tracing errors encountered in external libraries or finding passwords hidden in memory.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Required Tools and Installations
Chapter 2. Introduction to Dump Analysis
Chapter 3. CLR Internals
Chapter 4. Process and Threads
Chapter 5. CPU Spikes
Chapter 6. Deadlocks
Chapter 7. Exceptions
Chapter 8. Nested Exceptions
Chapter 9. Windows Service Debugging
Chapter 10. Finding ConnectionString from Dump File
Chapter 11. Low CPU Hang
Chapter 12. High CPU Hang
Chapter 13. Unsafe Exceptions
Chapter 14. Memory Leaks