Codex Desktop 持续生成无限增长的 Crashpad pending dumps 问题追踪

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~~[-]Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps, growing to ~5GB[/-]~~ [+]Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps, growing without any limit: +5GB per day at least[/+]
on Jun 9, 2026

Still happening on the current build, and at a much larger scale. Measured 2026-10-15 to 2026-10-17:

Environment

ChatGPT.app 26.1007.71326 (build 20398), Codex Framework (Chromium) 155.0.8059.40
macOS 15.7.4, Apple Silicon (arm64)

What I found

Folder	Size	Files
`~/Library/Application Support/com.openai.codex/web/Crashpad`	180 GB	2,251,765
`~/Library/Application Support/Codex/Crashpad` (almost all of it in `pending/`)	143 GB	1,785,095
Total	~323 GB	~4.04 million

That was about 35% of a 926 GB disk. Free space fell to 1.4 GB before I found it. Nothing in the app warned me. I only found it by running du over ~/Library.

The app kept working the whole time, as others have reported here. So the dumps build up silently in the background with no limit.

Cleanup

With the app still running, I renamed both Crashpad folders and deleted the renamed copies. Free space went from 1.4 GB to 50+ GB within minutes, and the delete is still running (millions of small files).

Asks

Put a size or count cap on Crashpad/pending, with automatic pruning (see also Add storage limits and automatic cleanup for Codex-generated data #51361).
Stop the handler crash loop that produces the dumps ([app][macOS][26.727.51351] browser_crashpad_handler SIGTRAPs 2ms after launch, launchd respawns it, Crashpad/pending fills disk at ~17GB/day #36982).
Show a warning in the app when its own data goes over a few GB.

Related: #36982, #39875, #51739, #52194, #51361.