ABRT processes in Linux - What are they and how do I terminate them

Solution 1:

ABRT stands for the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool.

From this Red Hat solution article: What would be the impact of disabling the ABRT service? :

• What is the impact of disabling the ABRT service ?

The user would not be reported of any crashes happening on the system and would need to monitor the system and /var/log/messages constantly for any crashes happening. User should consider disabling the service only if ABRT service is of low importance in your environment and have an alternate problem detecting tool monitoring the system.

To stop it until the next reboot:

systemctl stop abrtd

To disable it for the future:

systemctl disable abrtd