How to collect a coredump of a running process without killing the process

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Issue

  • I want to collect a coredump of a running process without killing the process

  • I use gcore to collect the coredump but buildids and libraries are not available through executing eu-unstrip command

    # gcore <pid>
[...]
Saved corefile core.<pid>

# eu-unstrip -n --core=core.<pid> | grep -c "/lib64/"
0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)
    • gcore
    • eu-unstrip

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