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Subject: Re: Force Memory Dump
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   I get this error when trying gcore what am I doing wrong?
   # gcore 581
   gcore: /proc/581/file: No such file or directory
   # cd /proc
   # ls -la
   total 4
   dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 May  8  2005 .
   drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 Apr  3 17:03 ..
   Dan Nelson wrote:

In the last episode (Jun 04), Sean Murphy said:
  

 How do you force a memory dump from a specific PID?
    

/usr/bin/gcore