OCI: journalctl Process Causing High CPU Utilization

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64 on Oracle Public Cloud

Symptoms:

journalctl consumes high CPU utilization.

[root@test ~]# top 
top - 00:11:42 up 630 days, 6 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.91, 1.98, 1.93 
Tasks: 185 total,   2 running, 109 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie 
%Cpu(s): 22.2 us,  6.6 sy,  0.0 ni, 70.9 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.4 si,  0.0 st 
KiB Mem : 32323024 total,  7934640 free, 12774208 used, 11614176 buff/cache 
KiB Swap:  8388604 total,  8190204 free,   198400 used. 17462340 avail Mem 
  
PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND 
19842 root      20   0  673992 293448 293084 R  99.7  0.9   0:07.99 journalctl 

Cause:

journalctl is called by /usr/sbin/abrtd

When journalctl is running and consuming CPU resources.

The PID number is