[Crash-utility] Trying to read an 80GB PPC64 crash dump with little luck

Trying to investigate a SLES10SP1 crash dump Using crash 4.0-7.6 Using -d9, I get the following just before crash gives up. Any ideas? thanks - jim There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"... GETBUF(248 -> 0) GETBUF(1500 -> 1) FREEBUF(1) FREEBUF(0) <readmem: c00000000039db08, KVADDR, "kernel_config_data", 32768, (ROE), 11721c00> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c00000000039db08 type: "kernel_config_data" WARNING: cannot read kernel_config_data GETBUF(248 -> 0) FREEBUF(0) GETBUF(16 -> 0) <readmem: c0000000006470b8, KVADDR, "cpu_possible_map", 16, (ROE), 1071e968> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c0000000006470b8 type: "cpu_possible_map" WARNING: cannot read cpu_possible_map <readmem: c000000000653130, KVADDR, "cpu_present_map", 16, (ROE), 1071e968> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c000000000653130 type: "cpu_present_map" WARNING: cannot read cpu_present_map <readmem: c0000000006470c8, KVADDR, "cpu_online_map", 16, (ROE), 1071e968> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c0000000006470c8 type: "cpu_online_map" WARNING: cannot read cpu_online_map FREEBUF(0) <readmem: c0000000006d9f00, KVADDR, "xtime", 16, (FOE), 106f4218> crash: read error: kernel virtual address: c0000000006d9f00 type: "xtime" op720lpar5:/washer #