Andi Kleen schrieb: >> As an initial approximation I would use a 32nd of low memory. > > That means a 1TB machine will have a 32GB crash kernel. > > Surely that's excessive?!? > > It would be repeating all the same mistakes people made with hash tables > several years ago. The idea of Eric was to shrink the reserved memory in an init script. I doubt that the 1 TB machine will have any problems or performance issue when booting with (1 TB - 32 GB) memory. > It doesn't sound reasonable to Andi. > > Why do you even want to grow the crash kernel that much? Is there > any real problem with a 64-128MB crash kernel? Try it out. No chance for 64-128MB crashkernel on "medium" IA64 machines. Regards, Bernhard
