From a641e78f73554c54f5502297d05e456e8999bcc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuan Bai Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:28:58 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] enhance kdump doc crashkernelsize section (#4846) --- .../manage_clusters/common/deployment/enable_kdump.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/enable_kdump.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/enable_kdump.rst index a6c0765d2..8a6158914 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/enable_kdump.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/enable_kdump.rst @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ For system x machine, on sles10 set the crashkernelsize attribute like this: :: chdef -t osimage crashkernelsize=M@16M -On sles11 and rhels6 set the crashkernelsize attribute like this: :: +On sles11, rhels6 and above set the crashkernelsize attribute like this: :: chdef -t osimage crashkernelsize=M @@ -118,13 +118,21 @@ Where recommended value is 256. For more information about the size can r ``_. ``_. + + ``_. For system p machine, set the crashkernelsize attribute to this: :: chdef -t osimage crashkernelsize=@32M +For Power System AC922, set the crashkernelsize attribute to this: :: + + chdef -t osimage crashkernelsize=M + Where recommended value is 256, more information can refer the kdump document for the system x. +**Notes**: The ``crashkernel=`` option can be defined in multiple ways. If it is hard to decide the specific crashkernelsize, auto value can be used, the auto value enables automatic configuration of reserved memory based on the total amount of memory in the system like ``crashkernel=auto``. + When your node starts, and you get a kdump start error like this: :: Your running kernel is using more than 70% of the amount of space you reserved for kdump, you should consider increasing your crashkernel