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:
~/Library/Application Support/Codex/Crashpad/pendingaccumulated ~43,000*.dmp/*_sidecar.jsonfiles (~171 MB) over roughly a month. On launch,browser_crashpad_handlerappears 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.dmpfiles keep being written (crashes are still being captured).
~/.codex/logs_2.sqliteis ~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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