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perf: keep the durable event log open across flushes - #14829
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe event log writer now retains a file handle across flushes while the log path identifies the same file. It opens the current path when that identity changes, creates missing parent directories, and closes cached handles on specified error and rotation paths. Tests cover reuse and external file changes. ChangesEvent log handle lifecycle
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Refactor Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A deferred event-log write failure can be hidden during rotation, risking loss of durable event records; restore close-error propagation before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The shared log gains safeguards for external file changes and appends, with no identified new privileged access path. Batching may, however, increase the number of records lost if a flush is interrupted or fails. Retained concerns
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Full details: Cmux Swift Package BoundariesExplanation The PR materially expands independent event-log persistence logic in the app target. Resolution Extract the writer and its file-rotation logic into a small macOS SwiftPM target named
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In `@Sources/CmuxEventLogWriter.swift`:
- Line 216: Update CmuxEventLogWriter.closeOpenLog to propagate FileHandle.close
failures and clear the stored handle with defer. Use throwing close calls before
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Apple documents `FileHandle.close()` as a **throwing** Swift method:
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It disallows further access to the file or communication channel; for writable channels, it also signals end-of-file. Handle any error with `try` or `do`/`catch`. After closing, don’t read from or write to the handle. [Apple documentation][1]
```swift
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Apple’s current Foundation API declares **`FileHandle.close()` as `throws`**. Its contract is to disallow further access to the file or channel; on writable communications channels, it also signals end-of-file. After closing, don’t read, write, or use the handle to operate on the descriptor—those attempts can raise an exception. ([developer.apple.com](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/filehandle/close%28%29?utm_source=openai))
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Propagate close failures before rotation.
FileHandle.close() is throwing. closeOpenLog() suppresses its error, clears the handle, and lets rotate remove or move log files. The merge-base code propagated this error before rotation. Keep CmuxEventLogWriter as the single owner of handle completion, and use best-effort close only during error cleanup.
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- closeOpenLog()
+ try closeOpenLog()
try rotate(fileManager: fileManager)
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- closeOpenLog()
+ try? closeOpenLog()
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- closeOpenLog()
+ try closeOpenLog()
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- private func closeOpenLog() {
+ private func closeOpenLog() throws {
guard let openLog else { return }
- try? openLog.handle.close()
- self.openLog = nil
+ defer { self.openLog = nil }
+ try openLog.handle.close()
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In `@Sources/CmuxEventLogWriter.swift` at line 216, Update
CmuxEventLogWriter.closeOpenLog to propagate FileHandle.close failures and clear
the stored handle with defer. Use throwing close calls before rotation and
best-effort closing only during error cleanup, keeping CmuxEventLogWriter
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Each durable event flush reopened ~/.cmuxterm/events.jsonl, created its directory, seeked, and stat'ed it. The first test fails until the writer keeps its handle open across flushes. The second pins the safety condition for that change: after another process rotates or deletes the shared log, the next flush lands in the file now at the path. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every event flush (agent hooks, feed items, sidebar metadata; about 75 per minute on a busy machine) opened ~/.cmuxterm/events.jsonl, seeked, wrote, and closed it. manaflow-ai#14828 already dropped the per-flush stat and mkdir; this keeps the descriptor open on the event-log queue instead. The log is opened with O_APPEND | O_CREAT, so writes always land at the current end of file even when another cmux process sharing the log appended since the last flush; a seek-then-write handle could overwrite those lines. The rotation size comes from fstat on the open descriptor. The handle is reused only while the path still names the same file (device and inode match) and is reopened after an external rotation, deletion, or write failure. Directory creation still runs only when the open reports a missing parent. Rotation limits are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@cmuxTests/CmuxEventLogWriterTests.swift`:
- Around line 209-215: Add a replacement-file rotation case to the tests around
`logHandleForAppending`: move the first log to `rotatedURL`, create a new file
at `url`, then flush the second record. Assert the first record remains in the
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413ece1 CI tooling, guard and test hardening (manaflow-ai#14864) a4e4aa4 Keep set-buffer text exact and read it from stdin (manaflow-ai#14836) 83ed511 Tighten welcome, cmux-cua build, and codex wrapper follow-ups (manaflow-ai#14857) 8c9d2c9 perf: keep the durable event log open across flushes (manaflow-ai#14829) 6d876f9 Send the PTY paste test's Cmd+V to a first-responder terminal (manaflow-ai#14825) f190c87 Re-supply user-declared external agent launchers on resume (manaflow-ai#10503) d522606 web: render changelog features as patch notes cards (manaflow-ai#14869) b5d0bff Stop other bundles and scripts from killing the running cmux (manaflow-ai#14831) # Conflicts: # .github/workflows/ci-main-full-suite.yml
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Summary
Every durable event flush opened
~/.cmuxterm/events.jsonl, seeked, wrote and closed it. Flushes are usually one or a few lines: agent hook events, feed items and sidebar metadata. That was about 75 events a minute over an hour on a machine running around 15 agent sessions. #14828 already removed the per-flush stat and mkdir. This change keeps the descriptor open on the event-log queue instead of reopening it for every flush.open(path, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND | O_CREAT | O_CLOEXEC, 0644)and wrapped inFileHandle(fileDescriptor:closeOnDealloc: true). Other cmux processes, such as tagged dev builds, share this log. A seek-then-write handle could overwrite a line another process appended between our seek and our write; withO_APPEND, every write lands at the current end of file.fstaton the open descriptor.Before and after, the same syscall shapes replayed in Python on the loaded reporting machine (load avg about 100 on 10 cores, 3000 flushes each):
That's a syscall-level proxy, not an in-app measurement. The "before" pattern predates #14828, which already cut part of that cost.
Testing
02d54cc582aaddsconsecutiveFlushesReuseOneOpenHandle, which is expected to fail on that commit. It also addsexternalRotationOrDeletionBetweenFlushesWritesToCurrentPath, the safety condition, which should pass on both commits.c3e145d828fadds the fix andconcurrentExternalAppendIsNotOverwritten. That test appends from a second handle between this writer's positioning and its write, and requires both lines to survive. The existing rotation, limit and failure-recovery tests inCmuxEventLogWriterTestscover the unchanged paths.python3 scripts/verify-local.pypassed swift-syntax, test-wiring and feature-flags onc3e145d828f.Checklist
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