Hi Mulyadi, I am referring to the kdump core. Assuming my system has 32GB RAM and 32GB swap space => 64GB.
>Well, in my opinion, crash dump image should be as big as the current >allocated anonymous pages on RAM. So, it could be less than your RAM >size, equal, or bigger. Has you said, could you tell me how big allocated anonymous pages can be in this case. -Hari On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Hari... > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 09:56, hari krishnan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi kernelnewbies, > > > > I have a system which has 16GB memory +16GB for swap space total space > > required in /var/crash is 32GB. > > Are you referring to kdump here? > > > Can I keep less then 32GB for /var/crash ? many times I see kernel dump > > less then 20GB. > > > > My problem is we have 32GB RAM memory in production machine on RHEL5U5 > and I > > don't have 64GB space for /var/crash. > > Could anyone tell me what is the minimum /var/crash we should have to get > > dump stored. > > > Well, in my opinion, crash dump image should be as big as the current > allocated anonymous pages on RAM. So, it could be less than your RAM > size, equal, or bigger. > > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com >
