makedumpfile-1.2.8: Add IMPLEMENTATION file
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp
Tue Aug 12 02:12:35 EDT 2008
Hi,
makedumpfile version 1.2.8 is released.
Since there are some requests about documentation for kdump
compressed format and I add the IMPLEMENTATION file describing it.
(There is no changes against source code)
Changelog:
- Add the IMPLEMENTATION file for the kdump-compressed format.
Explanation of makedumpfile:
To shorten the size of the dumpfile and the time of creating the
dumpfile, makedumpfile copies only the necessary pages for analysis
to the dumpfile from /proc/vmcore. You can specify the kind of
unnecessary pages with dump_level. If you want to shorten the size
further, enable the compression of the page data.
Download:
You can download the latest makedumpfile(ver. 1.2.8) from the following URL.
Details of the change are written on the CVS page of the following site.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/
Method of installation:
You can compile the makedumpfile command as follows;
1. "tar -zxvf makedumpfile-1.2.8.tar.gz"
2. "cd makedumpfile"
3. "make; make install"
Usage:
makedumpfile [-c] [-E] [-d dump_level] [-x vmlinux] dump_mem dump_file
Example:
If you want to exclude pages filled by zero, cache pages, user pages
and free pages and to enable compression, please execute the following
command.
# makedumpfile -c -d 31 -x vmlinux /proc/vmcore dumpfile
Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
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