Re: [Crash-utility] [RFC] autokdump - automated kdump testsuite
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:53:55PM -0400, CAI Qian wrote:
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> Why not simply let the respective service on the host do this
job and
> test only makes sure that kdump service is running. It feels little
> out of place that a test is generating custom initramfs.
Because not every distro will have a kdump service like Fedora.
So which distro does not have a service? Do we know this or we are
assuming that distributions don't have a service to load/unload
kdump kernel.
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> makedumpfile will reduce the vmcore file size to few hundreds of
mega
> bytes on most of the systems. Especially, this is just a test, so
> system will be lightly loaded and vmcore will be small after filtering.
It probably actually have test cases to heavily loaded the memory before
dumping.
Your original proposal does not take care of this case either. A test
case could be heavily used memory and if user does not have sufficient
memory to save core, so be it. That test will fail.
Thanks
Vivek