Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:57:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically | From | Yinghai Lu <> |
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote: > In my experience, trying to keep foot-print small has kind of been a > losing battle. > > - People want more functionality in second kernel, want to dump to more > complicated IO stacks and that requires pulling in more drivers, > more libraries, more daemons, more user space tools and what not. > > - Now we use dracut generated initramfs and it has been growing in size. > Now systemd has been pulled in too. > > - Drivers keep on increasing their memory usage.
If the dump file will be only put one place, why should all the drivers for all devices get loaded? for example: dump will be on disk with one scsi controller, can you only load driver that contoller? and forget about all other storage controller and network etc drivers.
Thanks
Yinghai
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