Peter:
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:13:56 -0500, you wrote:
Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
>
> Which leads to the next question: Is there any documentation on
> savedump.exe?
>No. Is this a serious question? Why would there be?
Yes, this is a serious question.
Reason: Getting a crash dump out of a system that is completely hosed is a
useful thing. Why would one imagine that after a system crashes, that the
system is healthy enough to come back up?
Wouldn’t it be simpler, Peter, if one crashed the system, saved the
pagefile, and then restored the system to its state prior to the crash?
The idea that you crash and then depend on a possibly trashed system to
convert pagefile.sys to memory.dmp is a little strange to me. Hence the
question about savedump.exe.
Just a personal suggestion: You might find it more fruitful to spend
more time engineering
Peter, I would be hard pressed to imagine that anyone spends more time
engineering than I do. 
and less time posting questions seeking to learn
the holy grail of crash-dump creation. The whole process of creating
and writing crash dumps is very complicated, esoteric, and almost
entirely undocumented.
Which is why I post to the illuminati here.
Peter, I have little interest in the arcana of crash dumps. I had a problem
that was plaguing me (and still plagues me). Producing a crash dump wasn’t
happening for me … and the crash dump was the only way I could get
information about the error that is still plaguing me.
Engineering is about solving problems and making the best product possible
with the resources on hand. In order to get the crash dump I had to learn
how the crash dump is produced.
Without disrespect to you, Peter, I believe that engineering is what I am
and was doing.
Also, you’ll doubtlessly be pleased to know, it
has been known to change from version to version of Windows.
So, Peter, what else is new?
Peter
OSR
Gratefully,
Ralph Shnelvar