Location |best| — Memory Dump

gcore <PID> Creates core.<PID> in current working directory.

Using /proc filesystem:

/var/crash/YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS/vmcore Using gcore (GDB): memory dump location

cat /proc/<PID>/mem > process_mem.dump System-wide core dumps are controlled by: gcore &lt;PID&gt; Creates core