setroubleshootd process consuming high memory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The memory consumption of the setroubleshootd process is very high.
# ps aux | grep ^setroub
USER         PID %CPU %MEM      VSZ      RSS TTY   STAT   START    TIME COMMAND
setroub+ 2170318 79.9 59.4 22092036 19460396 ?       -    Mar01 5676:08 /usr/libexec/platform-python -Es /usr/sbin/setroubleshootd -f
setroub+       -  3.7    -        -        - -       Sl   Mar01  263:36  -
setroub+       - 76.2    -        -        - -       Rl   Mar01 5410:07  -
setroub+       -  0.0    -        -        - -       Sl   Mar01    0:00  -
setroub+       -  0.0    -        -        - -       Sl   Mar01    2:24  -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 (Ootpa)
  • setroubleshoot-server

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