Solved What would cause a Crashpad dmp file to be created every 5 mins?
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I just noticed this (I cut the pic off at 3):
And it's a lot more than 50. "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Crashpad\reports" actually contains 318 dating back to Thursday night.
I don't know what's significant about that time, but a new one has been created every 5 mins that Vivaldi has been running ever since, until about a half hour ago, which is around the time when for an unrelated reason I cleared Cache and Application Cache.
(Update: After no dmps for about 3 hours, they have no resumed...for no apparent reason.)
There have been no actual crashes, at least in any obvious ways. Vivaldi had been restarted several times during the period just in normal use.
This is 3.0.1874.33, which I installed on Wednesday.
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@Gwen-Dragon When looking at the reports directory again today, I noticed that the earliest reports were now from May 1, so there definitely is some automatic culling done of the oldest files in that dir (I would suggest more than 2 days-worth be left in there--or at least maintain a log somewhere).
This means that I don't know when this started, since I seldom look there. It couldn't have been THAT long ago, but certainly possibly before 3.0.
So picking up on your extensions idea, I found through the process of elimination that it's caused by running both Google Docs Offline 1.10.0 and one other extension. Disabling one or the other works around the problem. Not sure it's worth reporting in that case. FWIW, it doesn't reproduce in Chrome 83.0.4103.34.
Update: Uninstalling/reinstalling Google Docs Offline seems to fix this issue.
Update 2: But it eventually recurs later.
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@Gwen-Dragon No, everything I'm reporting above has occurred with the latest version, which I upgraded to (from the previous 3.0 release) on Wednesday.
The earliest dmp is Thursday.
I didn't notice if the dumps occurred with the Minor Update 1 release, but unless the Reports directory is cleared periodically, they did not.
There are no new extensions since 3.0, so I don't think that's it. And I don't think it can be the some pages problem if it occurs exactly every 5 minutes.
Also, why it would pause for ~3 hours is especially puzzling.
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@Gwen-Dragon When looking at the reports directory again today, I noticed that the earliest reports were now from May 1, so there definitely is some automatic culling done of the oldest files in that dir (I would suggest more than 2 days-worth be left in there--or at least maintain a log somewhere).
This means that I don't know when this started, since I seldom look there. It couldn't have been THAT long ago, but certainly possibly before 3.0.
So picking up on your extensions idea, I found through the process of elimination that it's caused by running both Google Docs Offline 1.10.0 and one other extension. Disabling one or the other works around the problem. Not sure it's worth reporting in that case. FWIW, it doesn't reproduce in Chrome 83.0.4103.34.
Update: Uninstalling/reinstalling Google Docs Offline seems to fix this issue.
Update 2: But it eventually recurs later.
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