On 19/05/14 04:53 AM, Ondřej Kučera wrote: > Hello, > > from time to time, Thunderbird crashes on my computer. It doesn't happen > all that often and so far I haven't lost any data, so this actually > doesn't bother me that much. > > But, when it happens, suddenly the process systemd-journald starts > allocating more and more memory (this last time it went up to 1.3 GB), > which makes the computer start swapping and for a few minutes it becomes > quite unusable. I have no idea what journald is trying to log at that > moment. This is what I found in the journal afterwards (also notice that > last lines are out of order): > > May 19 10:24:18 rory systemd-journal[7906]: Permanent journal is using > 28.0M (max allowed 15.0M, trying to leave 4.0G free of 131.5G available > → current limit 28.0M). > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service... > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service stop-sigterm > timed out. Killing. > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service... > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: main process > exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Unit systemd-journald.service entered > failed state. > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service has no holdoff > time, scheduling restart. > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Stopping Journal Service... > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service... > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd[1]: Started Journal Service. > May 19 10:24:19 rory systemd-journal[7906]: Journal started > May 19 10:22:31 rory systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service watchdog timeout! > May 19 10:24:05 rory systemd[1]: Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to > Persistent Storage... > May 19 10:24:08 rory systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to > Persistent Storage. > > Is there a journald setting I could use to prevent this huge memory > allocation? > > Ondřej It's from logging the core dump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Disabling_application_crash_dumps_journaling
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