linux core dump size doubles
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I have a rather weird issue at hand. I am trying to setup kdump/kexec with linux 2.6.35-14. 

Everything works fine and I am effecting the crash via "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger". 

However, I see that the size of the core file generated DOUBLES for every invocation of crash! :s :s

 - First crash: 347Mb 
 - Second crash: 622Mb 
 - Third crash: 1.2Gb 
 - Fourth crash: 2.2Gb

Would folks have any insight into why this could be? And hence what the solution could be?

Thanks much.