Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 15
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 15
About the Book
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written from 15 August 2021 to 14 April 2023. It is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 14.
Compared to the volume 14, the volume 15 features:
- 11 new crash dump analysis patterns
- New crash dump analysis case study
- 21 new software trace and log analysis patterns
- New software diagnostics architecture pattern
- Introduction to systematic software diagnostics
- Introduction to using Dia|gram language in memory dump analysis
- Introduction to traces and logs as 2-categories
- Introduction to a broad program for diagnostics of artificial intelligence
- Lists of recommended books
The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, technical support, escalation, site reliability, and cloud engineers dealing with complex software issues, DevOps and DevSecOps, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts.
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Table of Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 10
About the Author 11
PART 1: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns 13
Shared Thread 13
Execution Residue (Unmanaged Space, Kernel) 14
Local Buffer Overflow (Kernel Space) 27
Spiking Interrupts 29
Structure Field Collection 35
Stack Overflow (Managed Space) 39
Black Box 41
Rough Stack Trace Collection (Unmanaged Space) 44
High Contention (Sockets) 45
COM Object 46
Shared Page 48
PART 2: Pattern Interaction 49
Exception Stack Trace, Stored Exception, Translated Exception, Execution Residue, Hidden Exception, NULL Pointer, Exception Module, Stack Trace Motif, No Component Symbols, and Coincidental Symbolic Information 49
PART 3: Software Trace Analysis Patterns 53
Message Essence 53
Unsynchronized Messages 54
Measurement 56
Collapsed Message 58
Trace Skeleton 59
Null Reference 61
Trace Braidoids 63
Message Complex 65
Traceme 67
Trace Molecule 68
CoActivity 70
Trace Window 72
Embedded Trace 73
Whisker Trace 74
Trace Nerve 75
Message Bond 76
Trace Retract 77
Denormalized Message 78
Case Messages 79
Iconic Trace 80
Pattern Vector 82
PART 4: Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Debugging 83
The Dream of Quantum Software Diagnostics 83
Systematic Software Diagnostics 84
REPL Streaming (REPLS) 87
Dia|gram Language and Memory Dump Analysis Patterns 89
Traces and Logs as 2-categories 95
Diagnostics of Artificial Intelligence 97
LaMDA 98
PART 5: Software Narratology 99
New Impetus 99
PART 6: Fun with Debugging, Crash Dumps, and Traces 101
Diagnostics and Debugging in Science Fiction 101
Software Musical Scale 102
The Spine Bug 102
Number Patterns 102
Prefixes 102
Debugging Slang 103
lav 103
DRAMA 103
ESSE 103
Comical 103
VERSES from POEM 103
Communist 103
Planck’s Numbers 104
Pattern Recognition of Pattern Recognition 105
Positions and Balances 106
MS Word Blackout 107
Diagnostics has an Error 108
Variable Naming Convention 108
Demon, Absolute Emperor, Wargamer. 109
Beware of Mars Bugs Now 110
Selling Dumps 110
Solid WFH table for SOLID programming 111
Metadata NULL Pointer 111
Windows and Society 112
Studying *bugs and Erro* 113
Nature CSS Anomaly 114
LP64 115
NaNonaire 115
Bedtime 116
Functional Programming 116
Santa 117
Basic Pointer Operations 117
Surveillance 118
Tips Programming Language 118
Finest Data Structures 119
Only Sundays 120
PART 7: Art and Photography 121
Defect Detect Logo 121
Legacy Transport Containerized 122
Clock Microservices 122
Fuzzy Banknote 123
Clustering 123
Morning Traces 124
Python is Buried Here 124
Parallelism 125
Three Generations 125
Crios 126
Memory Dumps 127
The New Twitter 128
PART 8: Miscellaneous 129
WinDbg Notes 129
Quotes 130
My Favorite Category Theory Books (Continuation) 132
Books That Influenced Me 145
System Programmer and User Manual 165
Running Linux in 2000 166
Data Science, AI, ML Books 167
Logic Books 172
Quantum Books 175
Weekly IT (WIT) Books 186
Other Books 223
Algèbre d'Enfants (Children’s Algebra) 266
X and Being vs. Being and X 266
Color-enhanced Bookmarks 267
Personalized Books with a Certificate 267
Game Applets 268
USSR Chemistry Olympiads 269
My Longest Career 278
Editing Memory Dump Analysis Anthology 279
Window2Dump Use Case 281
Massive Parallel Reading 282
Lego Lambda Calculus 282
GCD/LCM Software Engineering Principle 283
Supervised ML (Music Listening) 283
Proof of Concept Engineering Patterns 284
Reflections on 2022 286
Training Categories and Functors 288
Appendix 289
Frame Patterns 289
CPU Consumption Patterns 290
Index of WinDbg Commands 291
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