----- "Dave Anderson" <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- "Dharmosoth Seetharam" <seetharam_21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a question regarding the memory requirement for crash tool > > to start analyzing or extract few command's results from the > > kernel core of size more than 50G. > > > > my system details > > arch : x86_64 > > memory: 128M > > > > But I want to analyze kernel core of size 50G+. > > > > Now I am unable to do that. > > > > Can you please tell me how much memory it needs to get atleast "bt" > > information? > > No I can't -- I have no idea. 128MB is pretty pitiful. But with > enough swap I would guess that the crash session will come up eventually? > You might try adding "--active" to the command line, which will > only gather task data for the active task on each cpu. Or try the "--minimal" command line option. You won't have the "bt" command available, but the "log" command is -- and with that you can at least see the kernel-generated backtrace in the log buffer output. The --minimal mode commands are: log, dis, rd, sym and eval) Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility