GitHub issue #11315 in anthropics/claude-code, opened 2025-11-09 by nenrightld-ux, records a report of a severe memory leak in which Claude Code consumed 129GB of virtual memory, exhausted all 16GB of system RAM, and caused a complete system freeze requiring a hard reboot; the report documents physical memory growing from ~2GB to ~12GB in 30 minutes with no other resource-intensive applications running.
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“Claude Code experienced a severe memory leak that consumed 129GB of virtual memory, exhausted all available system RAM (16GB), and caused a complete system freeze requiring a hard reboot.”
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anthropics/claude-code (issue 11315 opening body, Summary section)
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“Memory consumption increased from ~2GB to ~12GB in just 30 minutes, with no other resource-intensive applications running.”
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anthropics/claude-code (issue 11315 opening body, Incident Details section)
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“Virtual memory peaked at **129GB** (8x available physical RAM)”
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anthropics/claude-code (issue 11315 opening body, Symptoms section)
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Counter-record: No in-thread refutation of the reported memory leak as of 2026-10-13: 66 comments discuss the leak and corroborating observations. The report documents sysstat timeline data, post-restart process memory statistics (VmPeak 129GB), a workaround (monitoring with ps and restarting Claude Code), and suggested investigation areas (memory profiling, circular references, context accumulation).
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