Bug 62826

Summary: journald performance very sensitive to segfaults
Product: systemd Reporter: Jonas H. <jonas>
Component: generalAssignee: systemd-bugs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: systemd-bugs
Severity: minor    
Priority: medium CC: jonas
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Jonas H. 2013-03-27 16:40:07 UTC
journald takes up a LOT of CPU if some program repeatedly segfaults.

To reproduce: Let a program segfault every $interval (1s was sufficient for my computer). The program I used was

int main() { *((int*)0) = 123; }
Comment 1 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2014-06-21 03:07:40 UTC
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=34c10968 moves coredumps to a file on disk by default. Should fix the slowdowns.

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