KB4340747 - FIX: SQLDUMPER.EXE-initiated dumps take a long time to finish in SQL Server 2017 on Linux

Applies To
SQL Server 2017 Developer Linux SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Core on Linux SQL Server 2017 Enterprise on Linux SQL Server 2017 Standard on Linux

Symptoms

Assume that you have a Linux-based computer that has more than 1 TB of RAM allocated to a Microsoft SQL Server process. When you trigger a SQL Server dump by using the DBCC STACKDUMP or DBCC DUMPTRIGGER command, you notice that the dump generation process takes a long time to finish.

Resolution

This problem is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:

Cumulative Update 9 for SQL Server 2017

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Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:

Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2017

Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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