So, since RAM is constantly refreshed and possibly changed on each one, how often are they supposed to do a memory dump?
If you count a refresh as a change to memory, then thats a heck of a lot of hard drive space. Lets say 2GB of RAM, 7ns refresh, and say 1 hour. So: 1,000,000,000ns = 1s*60s/m *60m/h ~514,000,000,000refreshes/hour * 2GB = 1,028,000,000,000 GB/hour. Not really feasible. Obviously you would want to track the delta instead, but how would you without capturing a full dump on every access?
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So, since RAM is constantly refreshed and possibly changed on each one, how often are they supposed to do a memory dump?
If you count a refresh as a change to memory, then thats a heck of a lot of hard drive space. Lets say 2GB of RAM, 7ns refresh, and say 1 hour. So: 1,000,000,000ns = 1s*60s/m *60m/h ~514,000,000,000refreshes/hour * 2GB = 1,028,000,000,000 GB/hour.
Not really feasible. Obviously you would want to track the delta instead, but how would you without capturing a full dump on every access?