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I have a web application running in tomcat 3.3.1 on solaris 5.8. Every so often, tomcat crashes, and the java process generates a core dump. Will this core dump be useful to us in tracking down the problem? When we open it, it seems to contain garbage data. How do we make use of this core dump file? Can some one please help. Thanks.
 
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Hi,
the core dump is useful and there are some utilities in Solaris that allow you to investigate them (adb comes with solaris or you can download other debuggers (dbx for instance)). We had exactly the same problem (same version of tomcat and solaris) and eventually traced the problem to an uncaught exception in one of our servlets, which was somehow crashing the VM. Further investigation of the core dump should tell you more about that.
 
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