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Windows does something similar, but it uses the swap file as temporary storage for the crash dump. On next boot, the system checks the swap file for crash dump
by nonane 15y ago
Windows does something similar, but it uses the swap file as temporary storage for the crash dump. On next boot, the system checks the swap file for crash dump signatures. If it finds a crash signature, it creates a minidump out of it and stores the dump in %SYSTEMROOT%\Minidumps. It also optionally prompts the user to upload the dump to it's automated analysis servers. I think it stores a bigger dump in %SYSTEMROOT%\memory.dmp too depending on how the machine is configured.
- Hoff 15y agoThat particular Windows behavior is arguably from some of NT's ancestral roots in the VMS designs. VMS can also use its pagefile as temporary storage for a system crashdump.