Memory Consumption in TUI: Unbounded Growth During Long-Running Operations

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 25, 2025 by bekirisgor Closed Nov 30, 2025

Bug Description
Claude code allocating too much memory for a TUI operations, initial loading is 2gb, after a couple hours its hitting 4gb per instance ( i am working with different instance aswell)\

Environment Info

  • Platform: macos
  • Terminal: tmux
  • Version: 1.0.3
  • Feedback ID: a2de23bb-a996-4c7b-9476-b5b2fefedb7e

Errors

[{"error":"Error: Command failed: security find-generic-password -a $USER -w -s \"Claude Code\"\nsecurity: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.\n\n    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:983:15)\n    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:537:14)\n    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:882:11)\n    at execSync (node:child_process:954:15)\n    at cG (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:644:3513)\n    at file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:574:15313\n    at Q (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:532:13335)\n    at sR1 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:574:14562)\n    at aI (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:574:14179)\n    at FU2 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1965:20997)","timestamp":"2025-05-25T04:20:54.429Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/bekirisgor/.claude/ide'\n    at Module.readdirSync (node:fs:1581:26)\n    at Object.readdirSync (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:540:1519)\n    at UD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1318:16584)\n    at Da (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:2580)\n    at file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2370:11384\n    at b7 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:21374)\n    at hZ (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:40861)\n    at wW (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:34915)\n    at W5 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:148:4822)\n    at $8 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:32232)","timestamp":"2025-05-25T04:20:54.638Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/bekirisgor/.claude/ide'\n    at Module.readdirSync (node:fs:1581:26)\n    at Object.readdirSync (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:540:1519)\n    at UD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1318:16584)\n    at QS4 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:555)\n    at HD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:2305)\n    at TD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:5754)\n    at file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:2438:2017\n    at b7 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:21374)\n    at hZ (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:40861)\n    at wW (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:150:34915)","timestamp":"2025-05-25T04:20:54.644Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/bekirisgor/.claude/ide'\n    at Module.readdirSync (node:fs:1581:26)\n    at Object.readdirSync (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:540:1519)\n    at UD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1318:16584)\n    at Da (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:2580)\n    at HD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:2372)","timestamp":"2025-05-25T04:20:54.847Z"},{"error":"RangeError [ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER]: stdout maxBuffer length exceeded\n    at Socket.onChildStdout (node:child_process:481:14)\n    at Socket.emit (node:events:507:28)\n    at Socket.emit (node:domain:489:12)\n    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:559:12)\n    at readableAddChunkPushByteMode (node:internal/streams/readable:510:3)\n    at Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:390:5)\n    at Pipe.onStreamRead (node:internal/stream_base_commons:189:23)","timestamp":"2025-05-25T04:20:55.676Z"},{"error":"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir '/Users/bekirisgor/.claude/ide'\n    at Module.readdirSync (node:fs:1581:26)\n    at Object.readdirSync (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:540:1519)\n    at UD0 (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1318:16584)\n    at Da (file:///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.js:1319:2580

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