[SoaS] /var/cache/abrt is an overlay killer

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Frederick Grose's message of Sat Aug 14 04:50:22 +0200 2010:

> /var/cache/abrt is another directory that can quickly fill the operating
> system overlay file.  In testing I've noticed 10s to 100s of megabytes in
> coredumps in subdirectories of /var/cache/abrt/.
That sounds like something is seriously wrong. Cores are only dumped if
a process is exiting abnormally, with segfaults being the most common
cause. Even for a single program this should be rare (and is always
a bug) and much more so for a set of programs (which I suppose are the
different subdirectories in /var/cache/abrt - I don't have this tool
installed on any of my systems, so I can't check).

> mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755 varcacheabrt /var/cache/abrt
Whether this is a good idea will depend on the amount of RAM and swap
available. But in any case the cause of the core dumps should be
investigated.

Sascha

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