Predicting Vmcore Size

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

When available storage space at the kdump target filesystem is less than total RAM on the server, the kdump service prints the following error message:

Warning: There might not be enough space to save a vmcore.

Resolution

Note: There is no guaranteed method to pr...

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