Dear Hari... On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 09:56, hari krishnan <p.harikrishnan22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi kernelnewbies, > > I have a system which has 16GB memory +16GB for swap space total space > required in /var/crash is 32GB. Are you referring to kdump here? > Can I keep less then 32GB for /var/crash ? many times I see kernel dump > less then 20GB. > > My problem is we have 32GB RAM memory in production machine on RHEL5U5 and I > don't have 64GB space for /var/crash. > Could anyone tell me what is the minimum /var/crash we should have to get > dump stored. Well, in my opinion, crash dump image should be as big as the current allocated anonymous pages on RAM. So, it could be less than your RAM size, equal, or bigger. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
