Claude Code Issues

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Monday, February 2, 2026

Users are reporting issues with Claude Code, including forkbomb-like behavior, command execution errors, and orphaned child processes that consume excessive system resources.

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@ahmetbahmetb

I think I discovered a forkbomb in claude code: if you set your statusline to "sleep 1;date", run any prompt ('hello') and esc Ctrl-D Ctrl-D to exit, the cpu shoots to 100% and macOS becomes unresponsive. If you can get "ps aux" to work, it shows thousands of defunct processes.

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@paradite_Zhu Liang

Okay I am trying out Codex because everyone is yelling it is better than Claude Code. But why am I seeing "/bin/ps: Operation not permitted" error for every single cli command??? Apparently the bug has been open for more than 4 months and Codex team didn't seem to care at all?

@AndresReibelAndres Reibel

@bcherny Not sure it's only me... Claude Code spawns Node child processes that sometimes orphan on session exit. They accumulate, consume RAM, and eventually cause system thrashing/hangs. @claudeai