procclean

Interactive TUI for exploring and cleaning up processes - find orphans, memory hogs, and kill them.

Features

Memory overview - Real-time total/used/free/swap display
Multiple views - All processes, Orphaned, Process Groups, High Memory (>500MB)
Orphan detection - Finds processes whose parent died (PPID=1)
Tmux awareness - Won't flag tmux processes as orphan candidates
Batch operations - Select multiple processes and kill them at once
Process grouping - Find duplicate/similar processes consuming resources
CLI mode - Scriptable commands with JSON/CSV/Markdown output

Install via uv as a tool:

# Install
uv tool install procclean
# or from source
# uv tool install git+https://github.com/kjanat/procclean

Run without installation:

uvx procclean
# or: uvx git+https://github.com/kjanat/procclean

Launch TUI

procclean

CLI usage

procclean list -o  # Show orphans
procclean kill -k -y  # Kill all killable orphans