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Subjectkdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time
Hi,
I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14.


$> kexec --version
kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007


I did manage to configure kdump to use raw device (/dev/sda7) for saving the dump from within the initrd.

When the production kernel boots, it copies core from /dev/sda7 to /var/crash/ path.
I see that the size of data copied over from /dev/sda7 to /var/crash almost doubles with every crash (370MB to 620MB to 1.2 GB to 2.1GB).


The size returns back to normal, should there be a "normal" reboot cycle anytime. After that every subsequent crash again doubles the size. This is very baffling.

On a related note, I wanted to understand if there are any known issues with having swap device as a dump location. Does kdump start
early enough to ensure that vmcore can be safely copied off swap
/dev/sda7 and THEN mkswap/swapon commands set up the swap space?


Thanks much.


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