vercel / vercel/hyper

Hyper process stays open in background

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Description

  • I am on the latest Hyper.app version
  • I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate
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Issue

I've noticed this issue repeatedly, however, this time has, unfortunately, had me decide to remove Hyper from my windows device. While I have no issues on OS X, Windows has become unusable for me. Upon closing Hyper, the app stays open in the background and needs to be killed via Cmd or Taskmanager. If the task is not killed, the memory growth is extremely high (Nearly crashed my entire PC as it hit 29GB of memory usage). This appears to be the case no matter what plugins are installed and even when nothing was running in the terminal. It would not occur every time, however, it appeared to be rather random.

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Research direction

Reproduce the Windows-only behavior by closing Hyper and checking whether its background process remains in Task Manager while memory usage grows. No files, tests, or entry points are named; done means Hyper exits cleanly after closing without continued process or memory growth.

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Assessment

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

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