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How do I dump physical memory in Linux?

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Mar 15, 2026118821 views
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How would one create a dump of the physical memory (RAM) in Linux? What software if any is available for this purpose? I have read that one should not write to a local disk but rather send the data over the network. Anyone know the peculiarities here? Would Ethernet work for this purpose, or are th…

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Here is a eHow page on How to Dump Linux Memory Linux provides two virtual devices for this purpose, ' ' and ' ', though many distributions disable them by default for security reasons. ' ' is linked to the physical system memory, whereas ' ' maps t…

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