Codex Desktop Bug Causes Windows Memory Crash with 9.6GB Page Table
Pygmalion03 · ghdev · 2026-08-01
A user reported a severe resource leak in the OpenAI Codex desktop app on Windows 11.
- Symptoms: The app intermittently spawns massive numbers of git.exe and conhost.exe processes, rapidly draining system resources.
- System Impact: During the incident, system commit reached 95.9%, available physical memory dropped to 1.19GB, and the page table consumed 9.63GB, freezing the machine and requiring a reboot.
- Attribution: Tracing showed some Git processes were direct children of ChatGPT.exe. While a reboot restored memory baselines, the process creation behavior reproduced later, confirming it as a client-side bug.
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