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Abnormal memory usage caused chatGPT to crash and exit.

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Description

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

26.825.51511

What subscription do you have?

Pro 20X

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22621.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

During chatGPT working on run some command(coding, java/mysql/vue/vite/git) , the process's memory usage gradually increases at a rate of approximately 20–40 MB per second.
I had created a dump file when the process chatGPT.exe up to 9GB and the dum file is 8.75GB. After a few minutes, the process's memory usage continued to increase, pushing the system's total memory consumption to 32 GB, which is the full amount of physical RAM on my machine. ChatGPT then crashed and exited. This has already happened twice today.

Upload the dump file failed.

Below section:What steps can reproduce the bug? --> I can not edit this. the ID is the feedback ID I sent in chatGPT. If you need this dump file, please contact me at yushuai.w@outlook.com.

Best Regards

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 01a0566a-8800-7061-bc28-d88217d12266

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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Research direction

No repository file, test, entry point, or reproducible sequence is provided. Start with the Windows environment details, the feedback ID 01a0566a-8800-7061-bc28-d88217d12266, and the failed dump upload; done means identifying and preventing the memory growth that causes ChatGPT.exe to exhaust system RAM and crash.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
desktop, devtools
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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