[Crash-utility] memory requirement for crash tool

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Dharmosoth Seetharam" <seetharam_21 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a question regarding the memory requirement for crash tool
> to start analyzing or extract few command's results from the
> kernel core of size more than 50G.
> 
> my system details
> arch : x86_64
> memory: 128M
> 
> But I want to analyze kernel core of size 50G+.
> 
> Now I am unable to do that.
> 
> Can you please tell me how much memory it needs to get atleast "bt"
> information?

No I can't -- I have no idea.  128MB is pretty pitiful.  But with
enough swap I would guess that the crash session will come up eventually?
You might try adding "--active" to the command line, which will
only gather task data for the active task on each cpu.

Dave