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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