From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: 896MB address limit
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:11:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877grissof.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1TGHkf-0006ZB-22@eag09.americas.sgi.com> (Cliff Wickman's message of "Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:07:45 -0500")
Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> writes:
> Gentlemen,
>
> In dumping very large memories we are running up against the 896MB
> limit in SLES11SP2 (3.0.38 kernel).
Odd. That limit should be the maximum address in memory to load the
crash kernel. Tha limit should have nothing to do with the dump process
itself.
Are you saying you need more that 512MiB reserved for the crash kernel
to be able to dump all of the memory in your system?
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-25 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-24 23:07 896MB address limit Cliff Wickman
2012-09-25 3:11 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2012-09-25 14:18 ` Cliff Wickman
2012-09-25 15:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-25 15:57 ` Maxim Uvarov
2012-09-25 15:58 ` Maxim Uvarov
2012-09-27 23:07 ` Cliff Wickman
2012-09-25 17:38 ` Vivek Goyal
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