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Yesterday was one of those days when I was in a good mood thinking about bugs. Suddenly a thought stroke me about the similar sounding words bacterium and bugterium (perhaps because I’m currently reading a theoretical biology book, Essays on Life Itself). I admit that it might be sounding the same only for a non-native English ear though. So the new definition was born:

Bugterium (pl. bugteria) - an instance of a memory dump analysis pattern found in a crash (memory, core) dump file.

Why a bugterium and not a cdarium? The motivation (with a hindsight) lies in the complexity of debugging (and life forms). While a bug is a complex thing (and a beast) and it takes sometimes days or weeks to chase and fix (kill) the one, a bugterium (bacterium) is of relatively smaller complexity and can be easily identified and dealt with by component removal or upgrade (massively killed). From software support perspective remember this bugtation No.14:

Crash dump analysis ”is anticipated with” joy, “performed with” eagerness, “and bragged about forever.”

Although the perceived simplicity of crash dump analysis is deceptive (bugtation No.2):

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious” crash.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

Finally taking advantage of the momentum, I registered yesterday www.bugteria.com which is currently pointing to the portal but in the future I plan to put a nicely formatted memory dump analysis classification page with easy navigation controls. Stay tuned!

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

           

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