macOS: slow launch — Crashpad/pending accumulates ~40k crash files; logs_2.sqlite grows unbounded

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 21, 2026 by Michael-IT001
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App version: 26.818.31338 (Codex desktop, bundle id com.openai.codex)

Platform: macOS 13.7 / Apple Silicon

What issue are you seeing?

The desktop app is consistently the slowest to launch on this machine. A read-only investigation surfaced two concrete problems:

  1. ~/Library/Application Support/Codex/Crashpad/pending accumulated ~43,000 *.dmp / *_sidecar.json files (~171 MB) over roughly a month. On launch, browser_crashpad_handler appears to process this backlog, which correlates with the slow startup. During investigation the backlog was flushed to near-empty by the app itself, but fresh .dmp files keep being written (crashes are still being captured).
  1. ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite is ~102 MB while holding only ~15 MB of live data — it grows without any rotation/size cap.

Expected behavior

Fast, stable launch; crash-report metadata and logs should be rotated/cleaned instead of growing unbounded.

Additional notes

No account/diagnostic specifics included. Happy to attach sanitized logs on request.

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github-actions[bot] contributor · 7 days ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #38544

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