From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753210Ab2GTJg6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:36:58 -0400 Received: from router-fw.net-space.pl ([89.174.63.77]:35156 "EHLO router-fw.net-space.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227Ab2GTJgz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:36:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:36:48 +0200 From: Daniel Kiper To: joe shmoe Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , daniel.kiper@oracle.com Subject: Re: kdump/kexec vmcore size doubles each time Message-ID: <20120720093648.GA3909@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> References: <1342735724.60460.YahooMailNeo@web160604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1342735724.60460.YahooMailNeo@web160604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:08:44PM -0700, joe shmoe wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to configure kexec/kdump on 2.6.35-14. > > > $> kexec --version > kexec-tools-testing 20080330 released 30th March 2007 [...] It is very ancient version. Please use at least Ver. 2.0.3 (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/) or current development version (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git). Daniel