Strange coreaudiod memory usage
11:50–12:00

My coreaudiod process is already using 45 GB of memory. I suspect something in the command line is leaking.

Right now I’m strongly suspecting it’s the voice announcements in CC.

Sure enough, in the post https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1n9wth1/why_does_running_claude_code_often_use_2040gb_of/ I also saw that someone added a hook to play sound effects, which caused a coreaudiod memory leak.

Now I need to remove Claude’s hook, and just configure things using my terminal’s own sound effects.

My terminal is Ghosty, so I’ll have to look into it.

First, uninstall peonping:

brew uninstall PeonPing/tap/peon-ping

Kept the previously downloaded sound pack /Users/rhett/.openpeon/packs/*

Then reconfigure based on the ghostty docs:

theme = Solarized Darcula

notify-on-command-finish = always
notify-on-command-finish-action = notify,bell
notify-on-command-finish-after = 1s


# 启用自定义音频 bell（必须 1.3.0+）
bell-features = audio,system,border,title

# 自定义音效路径（推荐先用系统自带，后面再换自己的）
# 格式：aiff/wav/mp3 均可
bell-audio-path = /Users/rhett/.openpeon/packs/ccg_china_dozer/sounds/Building_is_complete.mp3

bell-audio-volume = 1.0

And configured .claude/settings.json, keeping only the two hardcoded afplay hooks:

  "hooks": {
    "PermissionRequest": [
      {
        "matcher": "*",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "afplay /Users/rhett/.openpeon/packs/mambo_pack/sounds/review_this.mp3"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "Stop": [
      {
        "matcher": "*",
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "afplay /Users/rhett/.openpeon/packs/mambo_pack/sounds/done.mp3"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },