Linux / Fedora: Mem Leak - Claude code CLI
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Feb 13, 2026 by pjgg Closed Feb 16, 2026
Bug Description
I didn't reset the laptop in three days and my current Claude code memory usage is 13.2 Gib ... must be a bug?
top - 09:26:35 up 2 days, 2:02, 2 users, load average: 0.99, 1.15, 1.14
Tasks: 530 total, 3 running, 527 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 2.0 us, 0.6 sy, 0.0 ni, 97.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.3 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 59895.9 total, 12381.8 free, 27907.9 used, 16182.4 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 8192.0 total, 8192.0 free, 0.0 used. 31987.9 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4083 pagonzal 20 0 11.3g 551092 172684 R 8.3 0.9 78:14.83 gnome-shell
5762 pagonzal 20 0 17.3g 4.2g 1.2g S 7.6 7.2 188:04.20 java
271452 pagonzal 20 0 3301264 490912 141140 R 6.6 0.8 4:32.24 Isolated Web Co
12668 pagonzal 20 0 81.0g 13.2g 58388 S 4.0 22.6 116:18.28 claude
Environment Info
- Platform: linux
- Terminal: Intelij claude code plugin
- Version: 2.1.38
- Feedback ID: 6ecc36e2-0c5e-4b27-86cf-16b87a679cfc
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