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Say Hello to Libcoredumper – A New Way to Generate Core Dumps, and Other Improvements

In a perfect world, we expect all software to run flawlessly and never have problems such as bugs and crashes. We also know that this perfect world doesn’t exist and we better be as prepared as possible to troubleshoot those types of situations. Historically, generating core dumps has been a task delegated to the kernel. If you are curious about how to enable it via Linux kernel, you can check out Getting MySQL Core file on Linux. There are a few drawbacks that pose either a limitation or a huge strain to get it working, such as:

  • System-wide configuration required. This is not something DBA always has access to.
  • Inability or very difficult to enable it for a specific binary only. Standards ways enable it for every software running on the box.
  • Nowadays, with cloud and containers, this task has become even …
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