A computer-implemented method for capturing system memory dumps includes receiving, by a diagnostic data component, an instruction to capture a system memory dump associated with a computer process being executed by a computing system comprising one or more processing units, the system memory dump comprising data from a plurality of memory locations associated with the computer process. In response to determining that the system memory dump satisfies a predetermined criterion, the diagnostic data component sends a request for a computing resource boost from the computing system. Further, in response to the request for the computing resource boost being granted, the diagnostic data component uses additional computing resources from the one or more processing units to store the data from the plurality of memory locations in the system memory dump and executing the backlogged operations that were halted due to the system memory dump capture.