Q. What do you mean by Core dumps?
Core dumps are a repairing technique. A printout of all applicable memory locations is obtained and studied. All dumps must be well documented and retained for possible use on subsequent problems. Its merits are that a complete dump of memory at a crucial time is obtained Require CPU and I/O time and can get expensive if used indiscriminately. Sometimes it is hard to interpret the dump which is represented using hexadecimal numbers.