Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 12:45:25 EST


On Fri, 25 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> the image". But we're not - kernel developers don't know how to turn the
> thing on in $RANDOM_DISTRO, testers have no experience with the feature
> and kernel developers don't have experience handling the crash images.

Well, we for instance have problems with huge crash dumps. Its even a
challenge if the machine has only a few gigabytes of main memory.

> And I'm not sure that the (required) "don't dump user memory and pagecache"
> feature has been implemented yet?

A colleague of mine is still working to get it to work just right on IA64.
He does it full time. sigh. Jay what is the status on that?

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