The makedumpfile can make a Linux crash dump smaller.

• Exclude unnecessary pages for crash analysis
• Compress dump data with zlib, lzo, snappy, or zstd
• Multi-thread processing

CAUTION: Sorry, but currently we do not accept Pull Requests via GitHub, we accept patches posted to the kexec mailing list.

If you find a bug, please search the archives of kexec mailing list for similar problems first.

• kexec Archives (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/)

If you report a bug, we would prefer you to report it to the kexec mailing list below rather than submit a GitHub issue or pull request, because the mailing list has a lot of contributors to makedumpfile.

• kexec mailing list <kexec@lists.infradead.org>

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• kexec Info Page (http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec)