Configurable Parameters for Kernel-Panic Dumps

The following parameters affect dump operations when a kernel panic occurs and parts of system memory are dumped to disk:

alwaysdump
Specifies which classes of system memory are to be dumped if a kernel panic occurs.

dontdump
Specifies which classes of system memory are not to be dumped if a kernel panic occurs.

initmodmax
Maximum number of kernel modules that savecrash will handle when processing system-crash dump data.

modstrmax
Maximum size, in bytes, of the savecrash kernel-module table which contains module names and their location in the file system.

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