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From: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:13:09 +0000
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto
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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>

Eric W. Biederman schrieb:
> Hmm.  I half take it back.  How is crashkernel=auto and then shrinking
> the reserved size better than the extended syntax Bernhard Walle
> introduced nearly two years ago?

BTW: Ubuntu ships by default with

	crashkernel84M-2G:64M@16M,2G-:128M@16M

What is the complexity for the user? I didn't edit /boot/grub/menu.lst,
I just installed kexec-tools and a few other kdump-related packages, and
then this was in my menu.lst.

Don't make the kernel complex. Make the userspace complex.


Regards,
Bernhard