[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#744964: systemd: should enable coredump handling

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Michael Biebl 

> I remember that we had a few issues in the past. One being that the
> journal file was blown up incredibly causing important log data to be
> "rotated away"

We might want to make it configurable whether to use it or not, and it
sounds like the journal might want to grow support for «blobs» that can
be handled slightly differently than normal log entries.

> Another one, that it could slow down the system considerably if lots of
> coredumps were triggered. E.g. I noticed that when running the glib test
> suite which triggered the coredump handler quite often.

Sounds like those shouldn't dump core and just use prctl to make sure
this happens, then?

> I'm a bit reluctant because of this and we should make sure to not cause
> any regressions when enabling this feature.

Absolutely, but it should be available for people who want to use it,
rather than not compiled as is the case today.

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