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AI agents consume all your memory in linux by default

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My 64 GB Linux workstation kept freezing hard while coding agents worked on a couple of projects. Swap filled up. Applications were killed. Half the memory looked like cache. Then I found 22 GB of agent-created files under /tmp , mounted as tmpfs . tmpfs stores file contents in RAM or swap . Unlike…

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  1. 2026-09-19 00:10 · DEV Community — AI
    AI agents consume all your memory in linux by default

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