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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 16.04.2014 22:06, schrieb 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.
> 

With the recent upstream changes [1], I think we can reconsider enabling
the coredump feature. This would require v215 (to be released).

Michael

[1]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/020357.html

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