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setroubleshootd Consuming Large Amount of Memory
in Linux
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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