On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 03:19:19PM -0500, Eric DeVolder wrote: > We run here QEMU with the ability for 1024 DIMM slots. QEMU, haha. What is the highest count of DIMM slots which are hotpluggable on a real, *physical* system today? Are you saying you can have 1K DIMM slots on a board? I hardly doubt that. > So, for example, 1TiB requires 1024 DIMMs of 1GiB each with 128MiB > memblocks, that results in 8K possible memory regions. So just going > to 4TiB reaches 32K memory regions. Lemme see if I understand this correctly: when a system like that crashes, you want to kdump *all* those 4TiB in a vmcore? How long would that dump take to complete? A day? IOW, how does a realistic use case of this look like - not a QEMU one? Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec