Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 04:48:19PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: > Hi, > Thank you for the reply. You are welcome. > I ended up opting for writing to filesystem rather than > raw_device and this seems to have helped me sidestep the > problem for now. Good move. > Unfortunately, I can't quite make a

Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 04:48:19PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: Hi, Thank you for the reply. You are welcome. I ended up opting for writing to filesystem rather than raw_device and this seems to have helped me sidestep the problem for now. Good move. Unfortunately, I can't quite make a jump

Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-23 Thread joe shmoe
y, July 20, 2012 2:36 AM Subject: Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:08:44PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. > > > $> kexec --version > kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007 [.

Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-23 Thread joe shmoe
-kernel@vger.kernel.org; daniel.ki...@oracle.com Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 2:36 AM Subject: Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:08:44PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. $ kexec --version kexec-tools-testing

Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-20 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:08:44PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. > > > $> kexec --version > kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007 [...] It is very ancient version. Please use at least Ver. 2.0.3

Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-20 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:08:44PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. $ kexec --version kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007 [...] It is very ancient version. Please use at least Ver. 2.0.3

kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-19 Thread joe shmoe
Hi, I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. $> kexec --version kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007 I did manage to configure kdump to use raw device (/dev/sda7) for saving the dump from within the initrd. When the production kernel boots, it copies core from

kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time

2012-07-19 Thread joe shmoe
Hi, I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. $ kexec --version kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007 I did manage to configure kdump to use raw device (/dev/sda7) for saving the dump from within the initrd. When the production kernel boots, it copies core from