Every Time i copy files i get 16 fff-mcp processes spawning killing my cpu

[gorillabull]

What are they doing?

[gustav-fff]

[triage-bot] NEEDS INFO:

Cannot reproduce. fff-mcp binary itself does not spawn child processes (verified crates/fff-mcp/src/main.rs:194-327 + background_watcher.rs).

16 processes suggests MCP client misconfiguration. Need:

1. Which MCP client? (Claude Desktop, VS Code extension, custom integration)
2. MCP config file content (claude_desktop_config.json, mcp.json, etc.)
3. Output of ps aux | grep fff-mcp when issue occurs
4. Platform (macOS / Linux / Windows)
5. Does this happen when copying files OUTSIDE indexed repo or only inside?

[gorillabull]

yea not doing that no reason for a program that improves grep functionality by 5% to be doing this removing until future consideration

[teki]

Hi!
I have similar experience.
I do not think that it is fff-mcp's bug that if I run multiple AI tools (3-10 instances), they will spin up many mcp servers.
I have 10 instances of fff-mcp running now, some of them with the same directory.
The ones running in our monorepo are consuming ~1GB memory each.
Occasionally some of them seem to get stuck and is using a cpu fully.

16 processes suggests MCP client misconfiguration.

Does that mean there is a way for all the AI tools to use the same mcp process?