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MCP/TUI startup memory reduction efforts

Cluster 53415 · dashboard. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #77511 on 3 Aug 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A cluster of issues and pull requests focused on diagnosing and reducing high resident memory usage at startup, particularly from MCP server initialization and related allocator behavior. Approaches include lazy startup, schema caching, allocator trimming, and telemetry.

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Fixes on record

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  • #76905 feat(mem): config-driven allocator trim with telemetry (#66355 salvage)

    merged to main

    files: gateway/run.py, hermes_cli/config_defaults.py, hermes_cli/mem_trim.py, run_agent.py, tests/gateway/test_memory_trim_housekeeping.py, tests/hermes_cli/test_mem_trim.py, tests/test_tui_gateway_server.py, tui_gateway/server.py, tui_gateway/slash_worker.py

  • #77511 perf(mcp): lazy server startup from fingerprint-keyed schema cache (#56832 extract-salvage)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_mcp_lazy_start.py, tests/tools/test_mcp_schema_cache.py, tools/mcp_schema_cache.py, tools/mcp_tool.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #56832 perf(dashboard): reduce idle memory from MCP startup · superseded by another PR → #76905, #77511
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#53415Desktop TUI Gateway Python process resident memory ~1GB on startup (state.db 469MB + pymalloc)
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#76905, #77511
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1 PR closed without merging
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3 Aug 2026

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