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[Chris Peterson <mp+483502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes thank you both for the quick turnaround on this! 

Thanks Dan too for the feedback, good point about handling swap.

Diff comments:

> diff --git a/testcases/image/1822_Install Kernel Crash Dumps Automatic (Enabled) b/testcases/image/1822_Install Kernel Crash Dumps Automatic (Enabled)
> index 7632763..5cfac7f 100644
> --- a/testcases/image/1822_Install Kernel Crash Dumps Automatic (Enabled)
> +++ b/testcases/image/1822_Install Kernel Crash Dumps Automatic (Enabled)
> @@ -2,17 +2,17 @@
>  <strong>This test is only valid for Oracular (24.10) and later releases. If testing pre-Oracular media, please just mark this test as passing.</strong>
>  </p>
>  <p>
> -The purpose of this testcase is to test that kernel crash dumps are <strong>successfully enabled</strong> on installed systems which meet certain criteria. The result of this test case will depend on the specifics of your hardware. Please perform the test using a system that <strong>meets</strong> the following minimum
> -criteria:
> +The purpose of this testcase is to test that kernel crash dumps are <strong>successfully enabled</strong> on installed systems which meet certain criteria. The result of this test case will depend on the specifics of your hardware and the steps you perform during the course of the install. Please perform the test using a system that <strong>meets</strong> the following criteria:
>  </p>
>  
>  <ul>
>      <li><strong> CPU Architecture</strong>: amd64 (x86_64), arm64 (aarch64), or s390x </li>
>      <li><strong> CPU Cores</strong>: >=4 </li>
> -    <li><strong> Memory (RAM + SWAP)</strong>: >=6GiB</li>
> -    <li><strong> Disk space in /var</strong>: 5 x (Memory)</li>
> +    <li><strong> Memory (RAM + SWAP)</strong>: 8GiB</li>

Yeah we need better handling of swap here. I think the real problem is if there _is_ swap available at install time the user isn't aware of, pushing the swap+mem check over the threshold. So asserting "no swap" is probably the right call.

I expect having the the memory requirement high enough means we shouldn't really run into the case where there wasn't enough memory during install but enough on first boot.

We should also probably add a note in the testing notes about the potential discrepancy between the values across different boots.

> +    <li><strong> Disk size </strong>: 100GiB</li>
>  </ul>
>  
> +
>  <em>
>      Proceed in your native language if you wish. Instructions will remain in
>      English.


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