Why kdump in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 fails to save vmcore if the system has 1TB memory or greater ?

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  • Why kdump in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 fails to save vmcore if the system has 1TB memory or greater ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 x86_64
  • kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64
  • kexec-tools-1.102pre-96.el5.x86_64

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