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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:31:54PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Curious, why is low memory precious on x86_64? Who is going to use it?

Thanks
Vivek