Excessive memory utilization by dmeventd daemon

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • The dmeventd daemon is consuming ~4.2 GB of RSS memory:

    F   UID    PID   PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
    4     0    772      1  20   0 5529032 4435968 poll_s SLsl ?     562:13 /usr/sbin/dmeventd -f
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
  • device-mapper-event-1.02.170-6.el7_9.3

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