Full crash dump vs. minidump?

Asked Jul 08 '20 at 06:31

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currently my application creates full crash dumps via the registry settings in HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" and DumpType 2.

Unfortunately these dumps often are very big. Now there is a thingy named "Minidump" available too. The MSDN-documentation is not very helpful here, it only says minidumps do not contain as much information as full crash dumps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/minidump-files

As the Windows documentation does not say what is exactly missing in Minidumps, my question: what is the difference to full dumps? Can I still use them to find the position of a crash within my application? Is the callstack contained as well as relevant symbol data to find the point in source when PDBs are available?

Thanks!

asked Jul 08 '20 at 06:31

Elmi

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See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6903329/minidump-vs-fulldump – riQQ Jul 08 '20 at 06:36
Note that crash dumps often compress quite well. – Jonathan Potter Jul 08 '20 at 07:40
Depends. Is it a language that compiles to native or IL? – Thomas Weller Jul 12 '20 at 12:54
@ThomasWeller C++ which builds native code – Elmi Jul 18 '20 at 13:02
Did document in the first link answers your question? – Drake Wu Jul 20 '20 at 02:43

Full crash dump vs. minidump?

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