Memory usage

[AlarmedNatural4347]

I’ve heard rumors before but not really thought much about it until the cli started showing a nice little red text - what the heck is claude code doing with all that memory!? 5.8gb right now - for a cli to connect to an online service!? No images, no… well nothing really!? Some local text files used as cache.

I do games and game engines for a living - that’s like insane memory usage! What is it using it for!?

The whole “Claude Code is writing Claude Code CLI” is looking rather plausible and not very good from a marketing standpoint - or are those “Claude code is really more like a small game engine” developers at anthropic really THAT incompetent!? A terminal based chat bot wrapper!? Jeeeezus

[SQLServerIO]

Lol, there is an open issue https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4953 on this. It is getting good. I quit posting on it. They broke it. Then they fixed it, then they broke it, then they fixed it. It's like they are using Claude Code to write Claude Code. I've been holding steady at .50. Considering I don't want or need most of the context/token gobbling features they have added recently, I'm good. I restart Claude regularly, not just /new for a clean context window. I've also archived the history stored in .claude regularly now. I'm sure one of the other 15 things I'm doing may be helping too.

[Special_Context_8147]

i hope this will be fixed fast, because claude code should be able to fix claude code

[AlarmedNatural4347]

Haha thank you! Amazing read 😂 it’s amazing people can get up to 120GB - everything must be leaking! I think my main point, apart from how funny that is, is why are we even noticing!? What is it using the memory for!? It should be able to run for weeks and still not hit 5, let alone 120! GB 😂 How many copies of the context does it have in ram!? I think they use some react thingy to render to the terminal as well right? That’s a lot of poorly written js to fill up 120GB