Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932431AbWI0OoX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:44:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932437AbWI0OoX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:44:23 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:49869 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932431AbWI0OoW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:44:22 -0400 Message-Id: <200609271444.k8REiDLE005062@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Stupid kexec/kdump question... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:24:20 EDT." <20060927132420.GB2514@in.ibm.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200609261525.k8QFP6j4022389@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060926221029.d9e87650.akpm@osdl.org> <20060927052737.GA17214@verge.net.au> <200609271251.k8RCpp6X029724@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060927132420.GB2514@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1159368253_3224P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:44:13 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1361 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1159368253_3224P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:24:20 EDT, Vivek Goyal said: > Currently we are reserving 64MB of memory for our testing purposes on > i386 and x86_64. Any thing lesser than that, sometimes either system > hangs or OOM killer pitches in. Now people are working on preparing custom > initrd for dumping purposes so that dumping can be done from early user > space itself. This might lead to reduced memory usage and more reliability. > I think soon it should be available in fedora (busybox based custom initrd > for crashdumping purposes.) I'm told the busybox-based initrd stuff has been pushed to Fedora Rawhide, but it hasn't emerged yet - so most likely within the next 24 hours or so. I'll report back what happens... :) --==_Exmh_1159368253_3224P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFFGo48cC3lWbTT17ARArmmAJ0QcA2McYMDsFJpTh9pVpObT13cZACePqtL oaP2df4Weqrl4zdcP5J2XIQ= =RdBa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1159368253_3224P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/