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From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: kexec+kdump + vmcoreinfo patch
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:02:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070827170253.GE27516@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070827165538.GE20548@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:55:38PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > crashkernel=64M@16M
> > 
> Hmm, well that should be enough.  looking at your log, it appears as though you
> have a 512k chunk allocatable, which should seem sufficient to go on a little
> longer.  The fact that your not seems to indicate that you are allocating a
> suspiciously large single chunk of ram.  I'd configure your initramfs to drop to
> a shell prompt before it sets up lp0.  Then you can step through the actions of
> the init script and monitor the contents of /proc/slabinfo to get an idea of
> whats eating up all your lowmem prior to the oom kill.
> 
> Neil
> 

<snipped from Randy's output>

Out of memory: kill process 680 (boot) score 309 or a child
Killed process 701 (S01boot.udev)

Heh, it's udev again.  What a surprise! </sarcasm>

Neil, didn't we solve this with an init 1 or something (ignoring the whole
busybox thing).

Cheers,
Don


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-27 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 21:41 kexec+kdump + vmcoreinfo patch Randy Dunlap
2007-08-25  0:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-26  8:35   ` Bernhard Walle
2007-08-26 13:23   ` Neil Horman
2007-08-26 17:04     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-27 16:55       ` Neil Horman
2007-08-27 17:02         ` Don Zickus [this message]
2007-08-27 17:28           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-27 17:55             ` Neil Horman
2007-08-27 18:04               ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-27 17:54           ` Neil Horman
2007-08-27 17:09         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-27 18:04           ` Neil Horman

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