Bug: Severe Performance Issues Due to Excessive Proton Log Output
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Bug #1695

Severe Performance Issues Due to Excessive Proton Log Output

PerformanceCrash
Status: Open
Priority:
Critical
Added by:
h0n3y-badger on October 15, '26
Assigned to:
Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:
Forefront - v6.0.180

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Launch Forefront with proton 11.0-2 with PROTON_LOG=1 in the launch options.

Explanation

PROTON_LOG=1 causing severe performance issues on Linux by outputting ~9,000 lines of logs every second, or a confirmed 2.2 million in 9 minutes. This can (AND HAS) lead to crashes.

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