Re: Big Dumps

2013-05-09 Thread Filipe Miranda
As fas as I know, the Kdump and exec Kernel Dumping Mechanism was a tech preview on RHEL6.3 - its only fully supported by the GSS (Red Hat's Global Support Services) on RHEL6.4 Bellow is a summary of the technical features for RHEL6.4 just for reference: http://www.slideshare.net/ftmiranda/red-h

Re: Big Dumps

2013-05-09 Thread Shane G
On Fri, May 10th, 2013 at 2:32 AM, David Boyes wrote: > You're probably not going to budge them on that. With luck maybe Filipe can bring some more clout to the table ;-) Shane ... -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / a

Re: Big Dumps

2013-05-09 Thread David Boyes
> I know the IBM dump tools doc says explicitly to use kdump, but apparently > RedHat support has been adamant > Has anyone else bumped into that message from RedHat? Repeatedly. They know what they know, and that's what's in their script. You're probably not going to budge them on that. --

Shell Account Or zLinux VPS Service

2013-05-09 Thread David L. Craig
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Re: Big Dumps

2013-05-09 Thread Filipe Miranda
Hello Stewart, Could you contact me off list? I want to know more details about your recent experience. Thank you, Kind Regards, Filipe Miranda Global Lead for System z fmira...@redhat.com M. 949 572 3463 W. 650 254 4170 Red Hat, Inc. On May 9, 2013, at 9:03 AM, "Stewart, Lee" wrote: > We'

Big Dumps

2013-05-09 Thread Stewart, Lee
We're running RHEL 5.9 and 6.3. My Linux guys tell me that RedHat support is telling them that the only way to take a dump on System Z is VMDUMP. But our Linuxes tend to be up in the 20-40GB range, and it takes forever (many hours) to take a dump, tons of free dump space in the spool, and ma