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Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A GitHub issue documenting Codex Desktop on macOS generating Crashpad pending dumps at an unbounded rate, consuming tens to hundreds of gigabytes. Reported behavior shows a growing crash-report queue (.dmp and _sidecar.json files) in Crashpad/pending despite the app remaining usable, with crashes in browser_crashpad_handler and repeated rebuilds. The thread outlines observed evidence, proposed mitigations, and multiple workarounds, highlighting a need for caps or rate-limiting and an upstream fix to the crash-handler loop.

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