[Crash-utility] 2.6.25-rc2-git1 test

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 16:35:54 UTC 2008


Solofo Ramangalahy wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 4:53 PM, Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I'm amazed it made it to the prompt with just that change.
> 
> I checked it with 2.6.25-rc1-ext4-1 (but used 2.6.25-rc2 for the
> initial submission),
> and double-checked with unpatched binary.
> Appart from .config (which was defconfig + minimal changes for kexec/kdump),
> I think I did not forgot to disclose any information for people to reproduce.
> 
>> Reports would be fine, and if it's possible for you to make the
>> vmcore and and vmlinux files available for me to download, it
>> would probably help move things along quicker.
> 
> I am contacting you off-list for the possibilities...
> (short summary is that downloading 4GB dump at few dozens of KB/s
> is not easy, probably even compressed at ~50MB).
> 

OK, thanks.

BTW, perhaps the mem=<number>M kernel boot command line option
could be used to create a smaller kernel and subsequent vmcore?

Dave




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