Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4 V2] introduce: livedump

[Vivek Goyal]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:12:07PM +0900, YOSHIDA Masanori wrote:

[..]
> (4) It allocates about 50% of physical RAM to store dumped pages. Currently
>     Live Dump saves all dumped data on memory once, and after that a user
>     becomes able to use the dumped data. Live Dump itself has no feature to
>     save dumped data onto a disk or any other storage device.

People complain when kdump reserves 128M of memory when system crashes.
I am skeptical that reserving 50% of memory for livedumps is going to fly.

Thanks
Vivek
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