Re: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory

[Yinghai Lu]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You may need bunch of PCIe cards installed.
>>
>> The system with 6TiB + 16 PCIe cards, second kernel OOM.
>> The system with 4.5TiB + 16 PCIe cards, second kernel works with vmcore dumped.
>
> What's the distro you are testing with? Do you have latest bits of
> makeudmpfile where we use cyclic mode by default and one does not need
> more reserved memory because of more physical memory present in the
> box. I suspect that might be the problem in your testing environment
> and old makedumpfile wil try to allocate larger memory on large
> RAM machines and OOM.

Default RHEL 6.4.

Will check if i can enable cyclic mode.

Thanks

Yinghai
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