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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:31:54 -0800
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On 11/21/2013 05:29 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM,  <jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:12:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> Large systems w/ lots of IO require large crash kernel allocations for
>> the kernel to boot.  Then you have to worry about the OOM killer.....
> 
> so go with crashkernel=1024M,high.
> 

Yes, there is no bloody excuse to hog that much low memory.

	-hpa