How to reduce the size of a vmcore file?
Issue
- Some systems have more than 32 GB of memory. Configuring
kdump
creates a huge vmcore file, which then creates a heavy offload on the network and storage. - Is there a way to reduce the size of a vmcore file?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - 9
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