From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XWOvP-0008Gf-H1 for ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:10:31 +0000 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1XWOvO-0000va-9J for ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:10:31 +0000 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:09:59 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Message-ID: <20140923120959.GB1732@redhat.com> References: <145412866.25258463.1411119061796.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <293476264.25264480.1411120345360.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20140919132236.GB2190@redhat.com> <594480021.25988504.1411355660836.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> <20140922144713.GA4250@redhat.com> <1446076274.27552759.1411440835273.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1446076274.27552759.1411440835273.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [LTP] [RFC] autokdump - automated kdump testsuite List-Id: Linux Test Project General Discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: ltp-list-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: CAI Qian Cc: ltp-list , kexec , linux-kernel , crash-utility On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:53:55PM -0400, CAI Qian wrote: [..] > > Why not simply let the respective service on the host do this job and > > test only makes sure that kdump service is running. It feels little > > out of place that a test is generating custom initramfs. > Because not every distro will have a kdump service like Fedora. So which distro does not have a service? Do we know this or we are assuming that distributions don't have a service to load/unload kdump kernel. [..] > > makedumpfile will reduce the vmcore file size to few hundreds of mega > > bytes on most of the systems. Especially, this is just a test, so > > system will be lightly loaded and vmcore will be small after filtering. > It probably actually have test cases to heavily loaded the memory before > dumping. Your original proposal does not take care of this case either. A test case could be heavily used memory and if user does not have sufficient memory to save core, so be it. That test will fail. Thanks Vivek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list Ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list