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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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