kdump hangs with "Out of memory" error during vmcore collection
Issue
- When the system panics
kdump
starts, butkdump
hangs and does not output a vmcore. I see following error messages on the console:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes...
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Kdump
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