Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory

H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22T01:32:34Z

On 11/21/2013 05:29 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM, <jerry.hoemann@hp.com> 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