/compact and auto compact always time out

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Apr 15, 2026 by DaveHOnCode Closed Apr 15, 2026

What version of Codex CLI is running?

v0.120.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.4 xhigh, gpt-5.3-codex xhigh

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.17.0-20-generic aarch64 aarch64

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

_No response_

What issue are you seeing?

compact does time out regulary as soon as the context does run full, auto compact does not work either apparently

due to the regularity this issue occures I suspect a bug, and not an network issue or similar

Message: either normal message with very long context (or long context before, now just a follow up question) or just /compact
Answer: ■ Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit

also the indicator for the context window resets with "/compact" instantly, but it never actually works

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019d9136-8627-7851-b435-464e3375cb66
019d8649-f73a-7812-92b4-ee676b9792c3
019d86a5-8926-7472-8e19-6eaa7a2f0b10
019d90a5-2544-72e0-aa5d-e9614b291a25
019d86c2-3734-7323-9082-76ef42a0e881
019d8788-c920-7553-95bc-cd5e1cfc0e46

What is the expected behavior?

no error

Additional information

_No response_

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