What is the possible performance impact or overhead of enabling kernel crash dump (kdump) ?
Issue
- What is the possible performance impact of enabling kernel crash dump (kdump) ?
- What is kdump overhead or possible impact in performance.
- Is there any impact of configuring kdump on the server
- We have been told to install and enable kdump, to collect data if/when the system crashes. Will this affect our systems performance?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
kdumpfromkexec-tools
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