[Crash-utility] crashdc: Memory issues when running in kexec context on SLES11

[Bernhard Walle]

Hi,

Zitat von Louis Bouchard <louis.bouchard at hp.com>:
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> I feel that requiring 256M for crashkernel is a bit large, but I may be
> wrong. What also puzzles me is the difference b/w SLES10 & SLES11.

SLES10 doesn't use initramfs/initrd to save the dump. Instead, it boots
a "full" system with / on disk. One difference I see here regarding
to memory consumption is the /tmp directory: On SLES10, it's on the
disk, on SLES11, it's in the memory. I don't know if crash creates some
temporary files, but it may be worth a check

   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/lib:/root/usr/lib
   root/bin/strace -o /root/root/strace.out crash ...


Regards,
Bernhard