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setroubleshootd Consuming Large Amount of Memory

Applies To:

Oracle Linux - Version 8 and later

Symptoms:

The process setroubleshootd consume more than 50% of the system memory.

$ ps -aeo user,pid,ppid,pri,pcpu,pmem,vsize,rssize,wchan:42,s,start,cputime,command | grep -E "RSS|setroubleshootd" | grep -v grep
USER         PID    PPID PRI %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS WCHAN                                      S  STARTED     TIME COMMAND
setroub+  516032       1  19 73.3 54.4 18093488 17733884 pipe_wait                             S   Mar 28 15-10:00:02 /usr/libexec/platform-python -Es /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd -f

Cause:

There is a known problem with setroubleshoot-server where it can consume a large amount of memory.

Solution:

There is a known bug in the version of setroubleshoot-server that was corrected in version 3.3.26-4:

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