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macOS desktop app white screen due to orphaned process accumulation #12240
Description
Description
The macOS desktop app experiences intermittent white screen issues during normal usage. This is caused by orphaned processes accumulating and consuming excessive memory.
Root Cause
The process cleanup code in packages/desktop/src-tauri/src/lib.rs uses killall opencode-cli, but the actual process name is opencode (not opencode-cli). This means orphaned processes are never cleaned up on app restart.
Symptoms
- Multiple
opencode,openwrk, andopenwork-serverprocesses accumulate over time - Memory usage grows significantly (observed 5 opencode processes consuming 1.3GB RAM)
- WebView render process gets killed by system memory pressure
- App shows white screen
Steps to Reproduce
- Use OpenWork desktop app on macOS for extended period
- Restart the app several times
- Check running processes:
ps aux | grep -E "opencode|openwrk" | grep -v grep - Observe multiple instances of each process type
- Eventually the app will white screen due to memory pressure
Expected Behavior
Old processes should be cleaned up when the app starts, leaving only one instance of each process type.
Environment
- OS: macOS
- App: OpenWork Desktop
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github-actions commentedon Feb 5, 2026
This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.
Micpol commentedon Feb 8, 2026
It's not only Desktop app, although I'm not 100% sure - i just noticed I have 40 orphaned opencode processes, I'm using mostly CLI through Android Studio + Ghostty, and opencode desktop for copying larger chunks of text If have to. It's 25gb ram total.
zehuiHuang commentedon Feb 26, 2026
me too ,终端上没啥问题 ,desktop打开直接就是白屏~
atuizz commentedon Apr 2, 2026
brew install opencode
sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.local
opencode web --port 4096
rekram1-node commentedon Apr 9, 2026
I dont work on desktop but im p sure the process is opencode-cli
github-actions commentedon Jul 3, 2026
To stay organized issues are automatically closed after 60 days of no activity. If the issue is still relevant please open a new one.