apport takes a lot of RAM for large crash dumps
Bug #98818 reported by
Asheesh Laroia
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #71560: Crash information collection depletes resources, clogs up and crashes system.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Apport |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When firefox-bin crashed with a >100M working set, apport opened and analyzed the crash. Until I submitted it or closed it, apport used >300M in the VIRT column of top and >80M in the RES column of top.
This was a lot of RAM, and my system slowed to a crawl.
Can I suggest that whatever it's storing in RAM get instead stored in a temporary file (assuming such disk space is available)? That would be tremendously helpful and would make me more willing to file reports that apport generates.
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