On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:53:55PM -0400, CAI Qian wrote: [..] > > Why not simply let the respective service on the host do this job and > > test only makes sure that kdump service is running. It feels little > > out of place that a test is generating custom initramfs. > Because not every distro will have a kdump service like Fedora. So which distro does not have a service? Do we know this or we are assuming that distributions don't have a service to load/unload kdump kernel. [..] > > makedumpfile will reduce the vmcore file size to few hundreds of mega > > bytes on most of the systems. Especially, this is just a test, so > > system will be lightly loaded and vmcore will be small after filtering. > It probably actually have test cases to heavily loaded the memory before > dumping. Your original proposal does not take care of this case either. A test case could be heavily used memory and if user does not have sufficient memory to save core, so be it. That test will fail. Thanks Vivek
