US 7,496,794 B1
Creating lightweight fault analysis records
Paul C. Eastham, Mountain View, Calif. (US); George Cabrera, III, San Francisco, Calif. (US); and David Grunwald, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/332,031.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 714—37  [714/38] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a crash dump component operable to generate a lightweight core file without generating a complete core file, the lightweight core file comprising regions in memory specific to a problem of a machine, wherein the lightweight core file is smaller in size than the complete core file and includes a copy of contents of processor registers of the machine, and wherein the lightweight core file comprises header information including routing information for routing the lightweight core file to an analyst.