* Vivek Goyal [2008-07-16 12:34]: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:26:01PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > * Vivek Goyal [2008-07-16 11:12]: > > > > > > You need to dive deeper to find out what is taking so much of time. > > > > I think the main difference are the huge memory gaps usual on IA64 > > systems. makedumpfile processes each PFN sequentially when creating the > > 1st bitmap. > > By memory gaps you mean large amount of memory? No, the whole system memory mappend (beside of boot memory) beyond 1^32. Like (from /proc/iomem): 6000100000-60003fffff : System RAM 6003000000-6033dfffff : System RAM 6033e00000-6043ffffff : System RAM 6044000000-6045b9efff : System RAM 6045b9f000-60f7ffdfff : System RAM 16000100000-160003fffff : System RAM 16003000000-16033dfffff : System RAM ... Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
