On 2017-07-27 21:09, Mark Hounschell wrote:
System is bogged down because of
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6237 root 20 0 118980 97324 2040 R 99.34 0.592 0:03.55 systemd-coredum 6198 root 20 0 119140 97568 2040 R 98.67 0.593 0:09.04 systemd-coredum 6217 root 20 0 118980 97508 2096 R 84.72 0.593 0:05.91 systemd-coredum 6197 root 20 0 119112 97604 2096 R 80.07 0.593 0:09.89 systemd-coredum 6238 root 20 0 119128 54760 2096 R 76.41 0.333 0:02.30 systemd-coredum 6173 root 20 0 119128 97536 2096 R 64.45 0.593 0:13.83 systemd-coredum 6218 root 20 0 119128 92796 2040 R 55.15 0.564 0:04.28 systemd-coredum
What the heck is this? Can barely send this email
Some process is crashing and restarting. A core dump is being saved to disk for study by a developer. On the system log you will get a log entry stating which process crashed and perhaps why, so look in the log and find out, then impede it restarting. The system slows down because, if I recall correctly, systemd compresses the core dumps, to save some space (they can be huge). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))