Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for management of copy-on-write faults. The apparatus and method include the acts of: assigning a translation to a first physical memory page, where the translation is a virtual memory address to physical memory address translation and where an offset portion in the translation includes a physical address of the first physical memory page; and creating a second physical memory page which is a copy of the first physical memory page.

Abstract: A system and method is provided for handling severe hardware errors communicated to a computer operating system as an abort indication. The method includes classifying the type of abort into a memory-related error or non-memory-related error. For memory-related errors, a debug file is written that includes error source information for an affected process without accessing the affected process memory.