systemd-coredum consumes 100% CPU

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Hi,

I’m using the Gnome desktop. For the past few days my laptop CPU runs at almost 100%. top shows systemd-coredum is using it. I tried adding the lines

Storage=none
ProcessSizeMax=0

in /etc/systemd/coredump.conf but this change removes CPU usage but makes the system very very slow. Please suggest what to do.

Thanks.

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ls /var/lib/systemd/coredump

That might tell you what program is dumping core.

3

Hi,

/var/lib/systemd/coredump has a bunch of entries like:

core.single.1000.31e973209d514a2aab853be8566f73b6.5650.1554966591000000.xz core.tracker-extract.1000.31e973209d514a2aab853be8566f73b6.5077.1554966494000000.xz
. Today itself about 5GB of data was written in /var/lib/systemd/coredump.

I suppose tracker is a problem as some posts elsewhere in this forum indicate. But i use Gnome so i don’t know if it is good to remove tracker.

4

Hi,

The problem seems to have disappeared. Possibly an update solved it.

5

Excellent. And thanks for reporting back.