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Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133231 Points: 166 # Comments: 81

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Codex Desktop, a macOS application powered by OpenAI's Codex technology, has been observed continuously generating Crashpad pending dumps, leading to significant disk space consumption. These dump files are stored in the `~/Library/Application Support/com.openai.codex/web/Crashpad/pending` directory, where they accumulate at an alarming rate.

In just one day, the directory grew to 4.9GB and contained 54,504 files, with an equal number of `.dmp` and `_sidecar.json` files. This issue persists even while the application remains functional and usable, indicating that Crashpad or a related helper process is generating the pending dumps without proper cleanup or rotation.

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