PART 6: Fun with Crash Dumps

Debugging Slang and Proverbs

PUS

PUS - Process User Space (when abbreviation already shows something not good before you even inspect it).

Example: I opened a memory dump and inspected its PUS.

Coollect

Coollect (verb) – To collect something coolly (without rush, with self-control).

Example: Please coollect software logs. (Response after coollection: Cool!)

Dump-out

Dump-out - server or service outage time needed to save a memory dump before reboot or restart.

Example: We need to plan for dump-out. The amount of memory is huge, and it takes a few minutes to save a complete memory dump.

LOGIC

LOGIC - LOG In Computer.

Example: Do you have some logic?

DiagNose

DiagNose - Diagnostic Nose.

Example: This problem requires DiagNose: a big one is on its way.

Consolidation

Consolidation - focused, solid diagnostics through a console window.

Example: We urgently need consolidated diagnostics.

No Pass a Run!

No pass a run! - Sounds like: “no pasarán”; meaning: they shall not pass a run.

Example: Malware no pass a run!

ID IoT Zone

ID IoT zone - a place devoid of real Internet activity.

Putty in Someone's Hands

Putty in someone's hands (circa 1920s) - acquired the new Internet meaning.

DisPatched vs. DESPatched

Disassembled & Patched vs. DES Patched.

Example: Code was DisPatched; System was DESPatched.

Programmatica Nervosa

Programmatica nervosa - when someone refuses to code.

Example: After a decade in software support an engineer acquired programmatica nervosa.

GOTCHA

GOTCHA - Good Old Trace, Crash and Hang Analysis

Example: Software incident? Gotcha!

Pan-o-RAM-ic

Pan-o-RAM-ic – including all available memory.

Example: Pan-o-RAM-ic view of a software incident.

VLSI

VLSI (Very Large Snapshot of Internals) - usually used to describe information rich memory dump: several days of continuous dumping of processes and thread stack traces (not a circular loop due dump corruption).

Example: We finally got a VLSI log.

Debugging Proverb

Exception is an enemy of a state.

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