Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:29:01PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:25 PM,  <jerry.hoemann@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:12:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > Large systems w/ lots of IO require large crash kernel allocations for
> > the kernel to boot.  Then you have to worry about the OOM killer.....
> 
> so go with crashkernel=1024M,high.

He trying to solve problem with older distributions on these machines and
there we do not have crashkernel=X,high option nor do we have capability
to load and boot bzImage above 896MB.

Thanks
Vivek
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