On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:32:25PM -0300, Guilherme Piccoli wrote: > Sure, I understood that. I'm curious though about the memory > consumption of the compression operation, or put in other words: do we > need to increase crashkernel reserved memory if we plan to use your > gzip approach? > It's good to be sure about this, to evaluate the trade-off of core > file size vs. necessary reserved memory. I'm not sure. I didn't measure this, but from my experience makedumpfile uses more memory during dumping than gzip uses for compression. If our dump kernels run out of memory it's usually something inside makedumpfile when it's removing pages or something along those lines. Daniel _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
