Hello Ken'ichi, On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 17:09 +0900, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:22:04 -0400 > makedumpfile uses the system memory of 2nd-kernel for a bitmap if RHEL. > The bitmap represents each page of 1st-kernel is excluded or not. > So the bitmap size depends on 1st-kernel's system memory. Does this mean that makedumpfile's memory demand linearly grows with 1 bit per page of 1-st kernel's memory? Is that the exact factor, if /tmp is in memory? Or is there any other memory allocation that is not constant regarding the 1-st kernel memory size? Michael