Re: is there a better solution than "killall -9 journalctl"?

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On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 13:27 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > > When one of these journalctl processes is running, 'systemctl status
> > > (pid of that process)' may tell you what service is spawning it. --
> >
> >   i'll set aside some time this evening to look at this, but i just
> > want to confirm that i'm not the only person seeing this -- that is,
> > i have a quad core i7 with hyperthreading so i have 8 possible CPUs
> > and, without messing with any kind of related configuration, i've seen
> > this system with 7 journalctl processes running, each one pegged at
> > 98-99% CPU. and that's more than enough to have the fans on this thing
> > running full blast to keep it from melting down. :-(
> >
> >   and doing a "systemctl restart abrtd" didn't appear to solve the
> > problem.  more this evening after some testing ...
>
> I asked at the meeting this morning, and nirik said he'd seen it but
> only once, could not reproduce it any more. The rest of us aren't seeing
> it (or at least haven't *noticed* it).

  ok, i just rebooted and, within a minute, a journalctl was invoked
that almost immediately sucked up 99% CPU. so i checked its status via
PID and got:

$ systemctl status 4230
● abrtd.service - ABRT Automated Bug Reporting Tool
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/abrtd.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2014-07-14 15:14:51 EDT; 8min ago
 Main PID: 801 (abrtd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/abrtd.service
           ├─ 801 /usr/sbin/abrtd -d -s
           ├─4016 abrt-server -s
           ├─4017 /usr/libexec/abrt-handle-event -i -e post-create -- /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-07-14-15:20:51-2330
           ├─4070 abrt-server -s
           ├─4071 /usr/libexec/abrt-handle-event -i -e post-create -- /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-07-14-15:21:23-4057
           ├─4197 /bin/sh -c if grep '^TracerPid:[[:space:]]*[123456789]' proc_pid_status >/dev/null 2>&1; then             # We see 'TracerPid: <nonzero...
           ├─4205 abrt-server -s
           ├─4206 /usr/libexec/abrt-handle-event -i -e post-create -- /var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-07-14-15:22:32-4202
           ├─4219 /bin/sh -c if grep '^TracerPid:[[:space:]]*[123456789]' proc_pid_status >/dev/null 2>&1; then             # We see 'TracerPid: <nonzero...
           ├─4229 /bin/sh -c if grep '^TracerPid:[[:space:]]*[123456789]' proc_pid_status >/dev/null 2>&1; then             # We see 'TracerPid: <nonzero...
           ├─4230 journalctl _UID=0 -b
           ├─4231 grep -F -e packagekitd
           └─4232 tail -99

Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-05-12-10:31:33-2547/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-04-06-05:46:42-25982-1/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-05-12-10:31:33-2547/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: '/var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2014-05-12-10:31:33-2547' is not a problem directory
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-06-19-05:49:38-1919-0/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-04-06-05:46:42-25982-1/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-06-19-05:49:38-1919-0/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-04-06-05:46:42-25982-1/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-06-19-05:49:38-1919-0/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-04-06-05:46:42-25982-1/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-04-06-05:46:42-25982-1' is not a problem directory
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-06-20-06:21:16-848-0/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Missing file: time
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4205]: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/oops-2014-06-19-05:49:38-1919-0/.lock' (no or corrupted 'time' file)
Jul 14 15:23:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[4070]: Missing file: time

... etc etc ...

  thoughts?

rday

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