Ubuntu
apport package

apport should run with a lower nice

Bug #63099 reported by Kurt Kraut
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

When an app crashes, apport runs with nice +5. Having a crash is already CPU intensive, and having apport with that priority simply freezes my system.

I suppose that apport should be running with the lowest priority.

See original description
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

5 is already very low (mind you, the negative ones are the high-priority ones), but I'm happy to drop it further.

Changed in apport:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Kurt Kraut (kurtkraut)
description: updated
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in apport:
assignee: nobody → pitti
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

apport (0.25) edgy; urgency=low

  * Drop apport-gtk's update-notifier dependency to a Recommends:.
  * apport_utils.py, report_add_gdb_info(): Add register dump and disassembly
    of the last 32 bytes, they might be useful to see what's going on
    sometimes. Thanks to Kees Cook for the idea and the patch.
  * test-apport, check_crash(): Verify that a crash does not leave a core file
    behind. (Test for LP#62972)
  * preloadlib/libapport.c: Do not unlink the core file after calling apport,
    but set REMOVE_CORE=1 environment instead. This matches the current
    kernel behaviour.
  * apport: Register an atexit handler as early as possible for unlinking the
    core dump if REMOVE_CORE environment is set. Closes: LP#62972
  * apport: Set nice level 10 instead of 5. Closes: LP#63099

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:21:53 +0200

Changed in apport:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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