Why do I fail to get a vmcore when my system panics, despite setting up a remote kdump correctly?
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Some network cards take a long time to initialize, and some spanning tree enabled networks do not transmit user traffic for long periods after a link state changes.
If the kdump server is geographically a long distance or is using slow network such as WAN, “ link_delay ” is helpful.
# vi /etc/kdump.conf
link_delay <seconds>
This...
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