orphaned-claude-sessions-ram-accumulation

Stale Claude Code sessions (idle 2-5h, reparented to systemd or orphaned) each hold 400-640 MB RSS and can spawn stuck child processes (e.g., docker logs, tail) that never exit. Three such sessions consumed ~1.5 GB RAM and drove load to 10.89 on an 8 vCPU server. Periodic audit via ‘ps aux | grep claude’ and killing sessions idle >2h is required maintenance.

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