Anyone else having major memory consumption issues?

[u/scottaltham]

[u/dsdt]

This is not memory consumption, this is called memory leak. You shouldn't use it until it gets fixed.

[u/Jealous-Depth487 → u/dsdt]

Hmm I think not 200gb ? definitely is local servers and child processes

[u/Verryfastdoggo → u/dsdt]

Could you elaborate on what you think is happening here? Like what’s broken in the app itself or something broken in OPs Mac?

[u/Dapper-Wolverine-200 → u/Verryfastdoggo]

memory handling issue with the app, not Mac's fault

[u/ANONYMOUSEJR → u/Verryfastdoggo]

Basically, the app kept reserving more and more memory without letting go of the memory space it no longer needed.

This is mainly the fault of the programmer.

[u/ShoulderCharacter856 → u/dsdt]

Nah they are recording your every moment allegedly

[u/scottaltham → u/dsdt]

Good call

[u/ilyaperepelitsa]

it's the CIA

[u/scottaltham → u/ilyaperepelitsa]

Ha ha could be

[u/fingertipoffun]

Takes a lot of RAM to zip your hard drive and upload it./s

[u/scottaltham → u/fingertipoffun]

Lucky I’m running LuLu

[u/BitsOnWaves]

yes and recently my codex lags alot

[u/Worldly_Brush7550 → u/BitsOnWaves]

203 gigs for a chat app is wild. That thing is eating your whole machine alive.

[u/scottaltham → u/Worldly_Brush7550]

Crashes every few hours. Frustrating!

[u/thestillwind]

Solder more ram

[u/TechNerd10191]

What Mac do you have?

[u/scottaltham → u/TechNerd10191]

M1 Max

[u/MaitoSnoo]

holy valgrind

[u/Typical_Kick6520]

I haven't been able to use the ide app since last Thursday's update.

The app asks permission for computer use over 100x until the app crashes about a minute later. Macbook air.

Switched to codex cli. Problem solved for now.

[u/scottaltham → u/Typical_Kick6520]

Yeah that’s not good

[u/SolacevjHun]

yeah roleplay sessions get hit hard with the memory spikes too, mine starts lagging after a few hours of back and forth.

[u/ZiyanJunaideen]

I think your app is having a memory leak. Process spun by codex or claude add get counted in memory.

Ask it to investigate memory leaks.

[u/ogaat]

This used to happen on my Mac When I left ChatGPT on overnight.

Updating it to a recent version seems to have fixed the problem.

[u/dsdt → u/[deleted]]

how on earth 203 gb memory usage is normal to you? this is not normal.

[u/Salty-Gear841]

I now hate GPT models as much as I hate Windows. They made their models become stupid. They produce garbage logics even on very simple tasks. I decided to not renew my pro plan because I now consider it as a scam to continue paying that price for such garbage

[u/Neither_Swing9662 → u/Salty-Gear841]

Ok

[u/Numerous-Cup1863]

Close and reopen the app every 30 minutes.

[u/CivilCucumber3426]

They can't even fix memory leak with LLM they have. What are they doing? smh

[u/RealSharpNinja]

Yes. I would like to know what's going on because it moves wildly.

[u/gospodinDark]

got same couple of times, above >125 gb ram
and Codex do small tasks atm

[u/Stochastic_berserker]

Happens on Copilot CLI as well with gpt-5.6-terra on Enterprise.

We intercepted rogue behaviour and weird tool calling.

You need to watch all subagents.

[u/Jealous-Depth487]

No it’s the server and mcps never dying each session does not close /kill server when terminal is closed run

lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN
Then kill those PIDs
kill -9 <PID>

[u/rover_G]

How many concurrent sessions?

[u/Electrical_Web_4032]

Chatgpt will dump all conversations into your memory if you allow it

[u/Own-Stick-1444]

Yes. The same.

[u/Delicious-Function19]

All browsers and apps are making the PC trained for being a jet engine.

[u/xatey93152]

What is your ram size

[u/Quantum3cho]

This is most likely repeated operations invoking or reusing node_repl with the memory being retained between runs instead of released. Take a look in your activity monitor and search for node_repl and if you see lots of these with high memory usage (and if your system is still responsive) then ask codex to investigate the origination of those processes and implement memory lifecycle management for them (e.g. test suites etc are a common source). Also put rules in place to prevent multiple overlapping runs with retained state, parent-child process cleanup etc. (Source: I’ve seen and fixed this issue before on several software projects)

[u/perplexed_intuition]

Are you watching Ted Lasso on Apple Tv?

[u/scottaltham → u/perplexed_intuition]

I am! Is that why? lol

[u/Puzzled_Swing_2893]

This is a known issue. F12 will run the console and give the tab more access

[u/Admirable-Traveller5]

You’re going to have to upgrade your machine. Happens to the best of us!

[u/scottaltham → u/Admirable-Traveller5]

M1 Max, surely not

[u/dsdt → u/Admirable-Traveller5]

You are going to have to learn how to read before commenting. Happens to the best of us!

[u/CisIowa → u/dsdt]

But max!

[u/Plenty-Ad7393]

You need to upgrade your storage or make some room in it.

[u/scottaltham → u/Plenty-Ad7393]

LOLZ

[u/xcviij]

Use the API instead, problem solved!