[Bug] Claude Code causes excessive memory usage and process spawning leading to system DoS

Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Mar 15, 2026 by othiym23 Closed Apr 27, 2026

Bug Description
Claude Code keeps hanging and using 9+GB of RAM (and seemingly causing a local DoS by spawning processes so rapidly that other processes can't create child processes), forcing me to send SIGTERM to the process. It started when I started using the ccstatusline package to manage my status line, but now that I've removed that everywhere, the problem persists. I don't want to have to nuke my Claude Code installation and start over, but if I must, I will.

Environment Info

  • Platform: darwin
  • Terminal: tmux
  • Version: 2.1.76
  • Feedback ID: 362a07cd-3089-47e7-ac5c-16c56c3b7d51

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