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test(renderer): settle the one-renderer baseline before the hide/reveal cycles - #14289

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GhosttySurfaceOverlayTests/testFiveTabRendererFootprintReturnsToOneRendererTargetAcrossHideRevealCycles failed on app-host shard 6 in three runs in a row on #14239, a PR that doesn't touch the renderer, with #14247 already merged in.

Cause

It isn't retention. The failing assertion is the precondition "The workload must distinguish five realized renderers from the one-renderer target". The job 107822414432 log:

renderer-memory cycle=1 one=232182336 five=297161344 target=209900096 ... retained_ratio=0.0
TerminalAndGhosttyTests.swift:4390: error: ... The workload must distinguish five realized renderers from the one-renderer target

The one-renderer baseline read 232 MB. One cycle later, the same single renderer settled at 210 MB, 22 MB lower. The baseline is taken right after the four initial releaseRenderer() calls, which only publish unrealize requests, so it includes memory that is still being freed. #14247 added a bounded reclaim wait for each cycle's target but not for the baseline. With the baseline inflated, cycle 2's five-renderer peak lands within 8 MB of it and the guard fails.

Fix

The baseline now samples within the same bounded 20 s window as the targets:

  • Only settled windows count.
  • Sampling stops as soon as a settled reading is no longer lower than the previous one by more than the noise allowance.
  • The lowest settled reading is kept.

The retention assertion is unchanged, and it gets stricter: a lower baseline raises every cycle's ratio.

A review follow-up requires two non-falling settled readings in a row before stopping. A pending release can plateau through one whole settle window.

Validation

This test runs only in the isolated renderer-memory step on app-host shard 6 (CMUX_RENDERER_MEMORY_REGRESSION=1). A test-only pull request runs changed suites instead, where the test is skipped, so this PR's own checks don't cover it. A full ci.yml dispatch on the branch (run 36062245739, head c9429fa) passed it:

renderer-memory cycle=1 one=141825024 five=209261568 target=175346688 reclaim_wait=0.95s retained_ratio=0.3727
renderer-memory cycle=2 one=141825024 five=209294336 target=175330304 reclaim_wait=0.95s retained_ratio=0.3723
renderer-memory cycle=3 one=141825024 five=209081344 target=174035904 reclaim_wait=1.00s retained_ratio=0.3542

With the settled baseline, the retained ratio reads about 0.37 against the 0.45 limit. The earlier inflated baseline hid this and reported 0.0. That's still a pass, but the margin is now real. If the renderer's release path regresses, this test will now catch it.

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…al cycles

The four initial evictions only publish unrealize requests, so the
baseline was measured while their memory was still being freed. On
#14239's shard 6 it read 232 MB while the same single renderer settled
at 210 MB one cycle later; with the baseline inflated, cycle 2's
five-renderer peak fell inside the noise allowance and the test failed
its "must distinguish five realized renderers" guard (three runs in a
row, with #14247's per-cycle reclaim wait already in place). The
baseline now samples within the same bounded 20 s window until settled
readings stop falling, and keeps the lowest.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review follow-up: a pending release can plateau through one settle
window, so one non-falling reading could still stop on an inflated
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The renderer-memory regression test now samples settled footprints for up to 20 seconds to establish its one-renderer baseline. It retains the lowest settled reading and requires two consecutive non-falling readings before proceeding.

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Renderer memory regression test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Establish the one-renderer baseline
cmuxTests/TerminalAndGhosttyTests.swift
The test samples for up to 20 seconds, retains the lowest settled median, and stops after two consecutive non-falling readings within the noise allowance. It fails if it obtains no settled sample. The hide/reveal cycles continue to compare retained memory against this baseline.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c9429

The renderer-memory test can still fail despite correct renderer behavior or miss retained memory. Establish eviction completion before accepting its baseline.

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settledBaseline = min(settledBaseline ?? sample.median, sample.median)
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Wait for initial renderer evictions before accepting the baseline.

If the renderer thread has not applied the four queued evictions, two stable footprint readings can end this loop while memory is still retained. The test can then record an inflated one-renderer baseline and fail its five-renderer distinction guard. Footprint stability is not the source of truth for renderer completion. Wait for a renderer-thread completion signal, or poll an authoritative completed-eviction state, before sampling the baseline. This first change would establish the lifecycle invariant; the existing samples could then handle measurement noise.

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In `@cmuxTests/TerminalAndGhosttyTests.swift` at line 4400, Update the
baseline-sampling loop guarded by nonFallingReadings to wait for completion of
the four queued renderer evictions before accepting footprint readings. Use a
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