Out of memory (OOM) or hang during vmcore collection (ie. kdump) due to sysctl.conf settings.
Issue
- vmcore file collection is receiving Out of memory (OOM) while loading the kdump environment due to
sysctlsettings likevm.nr_hugepagesbeing included. - vmcore file collection is hanging while loading the kdump environment due to
sysctlsettings likevm.nr_hugepagesbeing included. - Why
sysctl.conffile is included in initramfs in RHEL 7 ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0
- kexec-tools-2.0.4-32.el7_0.5 or earlier
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