With gcore you can create core dumps of processes without the need to stop them. You can do the same with the crash dumps as well. You can trigger a crash dump without rebooting the system. The command for this task is the savecore command. The normal task of this program is to take the content of the crash dump device and to create files in the regular filesystem to make them persistent for further studies after the reboot of a system.
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