A 2-minute fix burned 100k+ tokens: taming Linux agent memory with MemOS
NutellaEquivalent452 · reddit · 2026-09-08
The author's Linux debugging agent was bleeding tokens: a single journalctl run on a crashing service dumped 500 lines of raw logs (15k tokens in one hit). Once auto-compacting wiped history, the agent forgot the root-cause permission error, re-ran the huge log command, and looped endlessly — burning 100k+ tokens on a 2-minute fix.
After weeks of hacky cron scripts, SQLite dumps and crude log-trimming bash scripts, the author switched to MemOS for agent-to-agent state memory: instead of passing massive raw prompt histories back and forth, MemOS stores and schedules state memories in the background, letting agents pull exact context on demand. Token usage dropped immediately.
The post ends asking how others manage agent memory on Linux — custom truncation scripts or something else.
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