When AI Agents Eat Your Server: Taming Rogue Processes I was debugging a CI pipeline when Nginx stopped responding. htop showed the culprit: a Python script spinning at 99.8% CPU, and another process that had swallowed 6GB of RAM before the kernel gave up. The script was an experimental AI agent stuck in a loop parsing bad JSON — the kind of agent failure I’ve dealt with before .
Key Takeaways
When AI Agents Eat Your Server: Taming Rogue Processes I was debugging a CI pipeline when Nginx stopped responding.
The script was an experimental AI agent stuck in a loop parsing bad JSON — the kind of agent failure I’ve dealt with before .
The memory eater was a local LLM session where I forgot to cap the context window.
Bottom Line
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