# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Hermes Desktop Electron crashes from memory exhaustion

## Open now

- 1 issue, 0 PRs open on GitHub.
- #58485: Desktop Electron main process V8 heap OOM after ~1 hour — Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit

Both reports describe Hermes Desktop crashing after extended runtime, pointing to memory problems in the Electron app. One cites a very large virtual memory footprint and EXC_BREAKPOINT, while the other cites a main-process V8 heap out-of-memory error; the underlying cause is not established by these titles.

## TL;DR

- 2 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 0 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix found: no merged or attempted fix PR is on record for this cluster.
- **Recommended:** if this matches your symptom, consider adding to the existing issue(s) below rather than opening a new one.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`LLM_ONLY`): no structural link between members; the grouping rests entirely on an automated relevance judgement over their text.
- Read the members yourself before treating them as one problem.
- Pairwise link density `0.36`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #58485: Desktop Electron main process V8 heap OOM after ~1 hour — Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #55730: \[Bug\]: Hermes Desktop crashes every 4-6hrs — Electron memory leak (1.3TB VM, EXC_BREAKPOINT)

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `apps/desktop`