Also have this issue (100% cpu usage by /usr/sbin/rsyslogd) with Firefox in Sway on Ubuntu 22.04. So far I've only noticed this after reloading the sway config (`swaymsg reload` or Mod+Shift+c).
Fabien (afabien) wrote: > To avoid having disk full problems, I used the following workaround: > > I created a file /etc/rsyslog.d/10-no-gdm-wayland.conf > Containing the following lines: > :msg, contains, "Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send" ~ > :msg, contains, " :" ~ > > And then restarted rsyslog (as root): systemctl restart rsyslog.service This workaround didn't work for me, even after replacing the `~` with `stop`. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2051838 Title: /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: GDM, or more specifically is flooding systemd journal and /var/log/syslog via rsyslogd with gigabytes of the following messages: Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: : Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: : Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: : Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[283270]: : Jan 31 08:44:26 rivendell /usr/libexec/gdm-wayland-session[285102]: Error: WaylandMessage::Write() too many files to send I noticed the problem when I started to run out of disk because /var/log/syslog was consuming more than 400GiB. I noticed that rsyslogd starts to consume a lot of CPU trying to process such volume of messages. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/2051838/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
