kdump warning to increase reserved memory
Issue
- When I restart kdump under RHEL6 it always comes up with this message:
- And, this is the problem I'm seeing when I've got crashkernel=auto which prompted me to find out how to tune it:
- on systems that have a lots for pcie cards with ixgbe driver ... the checking scripts is not right:
Your running kernel is using more than 70% of the amount of space you reserved for kdump, you should consider increasing your crashkernel reservation [WARNING]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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