macOS: slow launch — Crashpad/pending accumulates ~40k crash files; logs_2.sqlite grows unbounded

App version: 26.818.31338 (Codex desktop, bundle id com.openai.codex)

Platform: macOS 13.7 / Apple Silicon

What issue are you seeing?

The desktop app is consistently the slowest to launch on this machine. A read-only investigation surfaced two concrete problems:

1. ~/Library/Application Support/Codex/Crashpad/pending accumulated ~43,000 *.dmp / *_sidecar.json files (~171 MB) over roughly a month. On launch, browser_crashpad_handler appears to process this backlog, which correlates with the slow startup. During investigation the backlog was flushed to near-empty by the app itself, but fresh .dmp files keep being written (crashes are still being captured).

2. ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite is ~102 MB while holding only ~15 MB of live data — it grows without any rotation/size cap.

Expected behavior

Fast, stable launch; crash-report metadata and logs should be rotated/cleaned instead of growing unbounded.

Additional notes

No account/diagnostic specifics included. Happy to attach sanitized logs on request.

Start by inspecting ~/Library/Application Support/Codex/Crashpad/pending and ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite, then reproduce launch timing and storage growth on macOS. Done means crash-report files and log storage are rotated or cleaned instead of growing unbounded, while launch remains fast and stable.