[Crash-utility] Using crash - is a debug kernel required during vmcore collection (additional question - typical vmcore size)

[Gallus]

On 29 January 2010 15:47, Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> If you're asking whether the secondary kdump kernel needs to
> be the same as the crashing kernel, then the answer is no.
>
> Dave
>


That was my question. Thank you for answer.

What is the size of vmcore file? Is it the size of all allocated
virtual memory at the moment of kernel panic?

Regards,
Gallus