Codex Desktop Crashes While Idle as Computer Use Workers Multiply

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version: 26.810.52044, build 6662

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro 20x

What platform is your computer?

Hardware: Mac mini M4, 16 GB macOS: 15.7.8 (24G824)

What issue are you seeing?

Reproduction: launch application and leave idle; Computer Use instances multiply; crash after approximately five minutes
Activity Monitor: more than 20 Computer Use processes visible
Faulting thread: 315 computer-use
Immediate failure: node::OOMErrorHandler
Dispatch warning: soft limit of 64 blocked synchronous dispatch threads
Incident ID: 2390B917-4DEC-4128-B322-F6540B47B9CA

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Reproduction: launch application and leave idle; Computer Use instances multiply; crash after approximately five minutes

What is the expected behavior?

Codex should launch normally and remain stable while idle. It should create only the Computer Use workers required for active tasks, reuse or terminate them correctly, and prevent their number from continually increasing. Memory and thread usage should remain stable, the application should stay responsive, and it should not crash when no task is running.

Additional information

This is consistently reproducible after restarting the Mac, even when Codex is the only application running and no task is active. Within several minutes, Activity Monitor shows more than 20 Computer Use instances, memory usage increases, and the application crashes.

Environment:

Mac mini M4 with 16 GB RAM
macOS 15.7.8 (24G824)
ChatGPT/Codex version 26.810.52044, build 6662
Bundle identifier: com.openai.codex

The crash report identifies the faulting thread as computer-use, with SIGABRT, node::OOMErrorHandler, and the message: Dispatch Thread Soft Limit Reached: 64 (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations).

In the attached incident, the application launched at approximately 18:11:43 and crashed at 18:17:16 while idle. This appears to indicate that Computer Use workers are repeatedly being created or restored without being terminated correctly. I have attached the full crash report and Activity Monitor evidence.

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Start by reproducing the idle launch on macOS and review the attached crash report alongside Activity Monitor. Confirm why Computer Use workers multiply while no task is active; done means worker count, memory, and thread usage remain stable and Codex stays running while idle.