node-gcore

A small module to induce core files from inside a node process.

The more memory the process is using, the longer this will take, and for consistency reasons the method should be synchronous.

Usage

• gcore(filename)
  • Will SYNCHRONOUSLY produce a corefile with the name filename
  • Returns true/false if it was able create a core file

var gcore = require('gcore').gcore;
var result = gcore("corefile");

Caveats

• Currently only for Linux based platforms, but trivial to add SmartOS and probably others.