kexec+kdump + vmcoreinfo patch

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:02:53 -0400 Don Zickus wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:55:38PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > crashkernel=64M at 16M
> > > 
> > Hmm, well that should be enough.  looking at your log, it appears as though you
> > have a 512k chunk allocatable, which should seem sufficient to go on a little
> > longer.  The fact that your not seems to indicate that you are allocating a
> > suspiciously large single chunk of ram.  I'd configure your initramfs to drop to
> > a shell prompt before it sets up lp0.  Then you can step through the actions of
> > the init script and monitor the contents of /proc/slabinfo to get an idea of
> > whats eating up all your lowmem prior to the oom kill.
> > 
> > Neil
> > 
> 
> <snipped from Randy's output>
> 
> Out of memory: kill process 680 (boot) score 309 or a child
> Killed process 701 (S01boot.udev)
> 
> Heh, it's udev again.  What a surprise! </sarcasm>

Right, that's hardly a surprise.  :(

> Neil, didn't we solve this with an init 1 or something (ignoring the whole
> busybox thing).

I was trying to boot to runlevel 3.  I can just boot to runlevel 1
for a workaround (I think).

Thanks.

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~Randy
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