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The second idle full collection (75 s after the heap stopped growing) also asks the kernel to reclaim the pages of a standalone
executable's embedded module graph (MADV_PAGEOUT, on a helper thread). This removes that: StandaloneModuleGraph::page_out, the
trait method, and the call in GarbageCollectionController::idle_tick. The idle collections themselves are unchanged.

Why

Those pages are clean and file-backed. They are not ours to evict: the kernel drops them by itself, at no cost, as soon as it
needs the memory, and until then they are a cache that makes the program's next action fast. Paging them out by hand only lowers
the process's RSS column, and the next thing the program does reads them back from the disk, one major fault at a time.
Deployments that run such executables in hosted sandboxes already set BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE=1 to turn it
off.

Measured

A large bundled CLI application as a standalone executable (release builds of main; 20 requests against a stub API, a pause, one
more request; every run on its own copy of the executable because MADV_PAGEOUT skips pages another process maps; faults from
/proc/<pid>/stat, instructions from perf stat; medians of 2-4 runs on a busy machine). A request in steady state is 224 ms,
0.9 G instructions and 4 major faults.

the request after a pause of wall instructions major faults
30 s (first idle collection only) main +19 ms 0 3
90 s (second idle collection + page-out) main +600 ms +1.55 G 262
90 s main, code aging off (BUN_JSC_forceCodeBlockLiveness=1): the page-out alone +291 ms +0.05 G 217
90 s main with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE=1: the collection alone +339 ms +1.98 G 0
3 min main / page-out alone / collection alone +671 / +241 / +216 ms +2.5 / +0.1 / +2.5 G 262 / 210 / 0

So the page-out costs the next request +240 to +290 ms and 210-220 major faults, for 57 MB of file-backed RSS (104 -> 46 MB;
anonymous memory is what the collection frees, 55 MB at that point, and is not affected by this change). The very first request
of a session that sat at its first prompt for 10 minutes: 1402 ms and 402 major faults with the page-out, 774 ms and 40 without.

What stays

BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE stays, because two other hints read it, both one-off and at start-up, both unchanged:
the read-ahead of the module graph's start-up pages (MADV_WILLNEED / F_RDADVISE, which overlaps the disk reads with JSC's
initialisation) and the MADV_DONTNEED hint for the embedded source text once the entry point has been evaluated. With this
change that flag gates only those two.

Test

gc-controller-cadence.test.ts: a standalone executable reads a 3 MB embedded file (so the module graph is resident), then sits
idle past both collections of BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS="1,1"; the mapping that holds the module graph keeps its pages (it is the test
that looks, at /proc/<pid>/smaps; Linux release lanes, disk-backed temp dir). A run in which the pages went is repeated up to
twice: the kernel takes freshly read pages now and then when memory is short, a page-out takes them every time. It fails on main
(752 KB left of 3444). The file: 13 tests, 9 s (the new one runs alongside the others). standalone-madvise-tla.test.ts unchanged. clippy on the three crates; cargo check for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin.

The second idle full collection (75 s after the heap stopped growing) also
asked the kernel to reclaim the pages of a standalone executable's embedded
module graph (MADV_PAGEOUT). Those pages are clean and file-backed: the kernel
drops them by itself, for nothing, when it needs the memory. Evicting them by
hand only lowers the process's RSS, and the next thing the program does reads
them back from the disk, one major fault at a time.

Measured on a large bundled CLI application (release build, 20 requests
against a stub API, then a pause, then one more request; a steady request is
224 ms and 4 major faults): after a 90 s pause the next request took +240 to
+290 ms and 210-220 major faults for the page-out alone (code aging switched
off), for 57 MB of file-backed RSS. After 10 minutes at its first prompt, the
first request took 1402 ms and 402 major faults with the page-out and 774 ms
and 40 without.

StandaloneModuleGraph::page_out and the trait method go with the call.
BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE stays: it still turns off the
start-up read-ahead of the module graph (MADV_WILLNEED / F_RDADVISE) and the
MADV_DONTNEED hint for the source text once the entry point has been evaluated.
Both are one-off hints at start-up that do not take anything away from a
program that is running, and are unchanged.

Test: a standalone executable that reads an embedded file, then sits idle past
both collections of BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS="1,1", keeps the mapping that holds the
module graph resident (it is the test that looks, at /proc/<pid>/smaps).
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The change removes standalone module-graph page-out from idle GC and adds a Linux integration test that verifies executable mapping residency after idle collections.

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Idle GC page-out removal

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Remove module-graph page-out path
src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs, src/resolver/standalone_module_graph.rs, src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs
The idle GC path, public trait, and private implementation no longer describe, expose, or invoke module-graph page-out or MADV_PAGEOUT.
Validate executable residency
test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts
A Linux-only integration test builds an executable with a 3 MB embedded file, waits through two idle collections, measures /proc/<pid>/smaps, and checks that residency remains above half its initial value.

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The new residency test can fail without using its available retries when measured residency is exactly half the baseline. Correct that boundary and use the required static import pattern before merging.

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- Line 290: Update the retry loop condition in the cadence test so it also
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"app.js": `
import embedded from "./embedded.bin" with { type: "file" };
setTimeout(() => {
globalThis.read = require("fs").readFileSync(embedded).length;

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Replace the function-local require with a module-scope import.

The generated app.js is compiled and executed as a standalone executable. Its require("fs") only reads the embedded file to measure module-graph residency; it does not test dynamic loading. The test guideline requires a module-scope import here.

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       "app.js": `
+        import { readFileSync } from "fs";
         import embedded from "./embedded.bin" with { type: "file" };
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-          globalThis.read = require("fs").readFileSync(embedded).length;
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let result = await once();
for (let attempt = 2; attempt <= 3 && result.least * 2 < result.had; attempt++) result = await once();

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Retry the exact half-residency case.

The final assertion requires residency to be greater than half. The loop stops when residency equals half, so it does not use the remaining retries.

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-    for (let attempt = 2; attempt <= 3 && result.least * 2 < result.had; attempt++) result = await once();
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In `@test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts` at line 290, Update the retry
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings (both on the new test), I also checked the removal itself: no remaining page_out callers or implementors anywhere in src/, no docs describe the idle page-out, and the two surviving BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE readers (start-up MADV_WILLNEED and post-eval MADV_DONTNEED in src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs) are untouched, so the flag's remaining scope matches the description.

Extended reasoning...

The Rust-side change is a pure deletion of a Linux-only idle page-out (trait default method, concrete impl, and the spawn site in GarbageCollectionController::idle_tick), with the module and method doc comments updated to drop the page-out mention. A repo-wide grep finds no stale references to page_out, the "idle page-out" thread name, or MADV_PAGEOUT outside vendored sqlite and the new test's explanatory comment, and the feature flag's two remaining readers are unchanged. The only open concerns are the two inline findings on the test's robustness and its per-test timeout, which a human should weigh before merging.

Comment on lines +291 to +292
expect(result.had).toBeGreaterThan(3 * 1024);
expect(result.collections).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);

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🟡 (optional) Maintainers get a Linux release-lane test that can fail three times in a row on a memory-tight runner, turning a correct build red. The assertion at test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts:292 requires the freshly faulted 3 MB of clean file pages to stay at least half resident for ~3 s; on a runner whose page cache is under reclaim (a 100 MB executable was just written and read back in the same cgroup) the kernel evicts exactly those inactive-list pages, and the retry at line 291 only re-rolls the same conditions. Fix: make the assertion robust to kernel reclaim, e.g. touch the graph again before sampling and assert on major faults from /proc//stat, or mlock-free fallback: skip when the run's own RSS baseline drifts.

Extended reasoning...

once() compiles a ~100 MB executable into a disk-backed tmp dir (write goes through page cache), fsyncs it, spawns it, reads a 3 MB embedded file so its pages are resident, then samples the mapping's Rss every 50 ms until two FullCollection lines plus 1 s (lines 274-283). Pages read once and not touched again sit on the inactive file LRU; they are the first the kernel reclaims when the cgroup or host nears its memory limit. The retry loop (line 291) reruns the identical sequence up to three times inside the same runner and the same pressure window, so a loaded runner fails all three. The test is gated to non-tmpfs Linux release lanes (line 210), which is where Bun's CI packs several jobs per host. On the base every run fails, so this does not affect detection there; on the fixed branch it is a flake that a maintainer must retry. The dismissing finder wrote that runner memory pressure is a fact the repo does not hold; the repo does hold the fact that the test writes and reads 100 MB into the page cache just before measuring. Remedy: assert on the mechanism rather than residency (major…

Verification: nit — acknowledged in diff: the test's own header comment ("Pages that have just been read are the first the kernel takes when memory is short, which says nothing: a run in which the graph went is repeated") and the PR description name exactly this hazard and bound it with the in-test retry loop; the bound holds only for transient pressure, not for a runner under sustained reclaim, which is…

expect(result.least * 2).toBeGreaterThan(result.had);
expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
},
90_000, // It writes an executable of 100 MB and more, and waits out two idle collections.

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🟡 nit (optional): maintainers get a new test that sets its own 90 s per-test timeout, which test/CLAUDE.md forbids outright ("Do not set a timeout on tests") and REVIEW.md tells reviewers to reject in favour of shrinking the workload. The 90_000 third argument at test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts:296 is the only per-test timeout in this file; the sibling idle-release tests in the same describe run with the default. Fix: keep the test under the runner's default budget instead of raising the ceiling, e.g. build the executable once in a beforeAll shared by the file and shorten the 12_000 poll deadline, or state in the PR why this test is the rare outlier root CLAUDE.md allows.

Extended reasoning...

The new test at test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts:209-296 is registered as test.concurrent(name, fn, 90_000). test/CLAUDE.md line 120 says: CRITICAL: Do not set a timeout on tests. Bun already has timeouts. Root CLAUDE.md says setDefaultTimeout is a ceiling and a per-test timeout is only for the rare outlier. REVIEW.md says: Don't raise per-test timeouts to make a slow test pass; shrink the workload. The test compiles a 100 MB standalone executable inside the test body, then runs up to three attempts of a 12 s poll loop, so the 90 s ceiling exists to cover the build plus three 12 s windows. The PR description says the whole file takes 9 s, so in the normal case the ceiling is unused. If CI is slow (the file already skips debug and ASAN), a run that hits the ceiling burns 90 s before reporting. No other test in this file passes a timeout argument. This is a convention nit, not a runtime defect.

Verification: nit. Verified: the new test is registered as test.concurrent(name, fn, 90_000) — test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts:296 reads 90_000, // It writes an executable of 100 MB and more, and waits out two idle collections. — and it is the only per-test timeout in the file (a grep for numeric third arguments finds none elsewhere; the sibling "idle release" tests run on the default).…

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Folded into #43174, which has this commit as its first one: one PR instead of two.

Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
…ged out; the last drops re-decodable bytecode (#43174)

Replaces #42329, #42383 and #43167 (one PR instead of three). Two
commits: the first removes the module-graph page-out from the idle
collection, the second is the ladder.

The idle full collections (`BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS`) let JSC age out code
that no longer runs and give its memory back. That memory is
anonymous, so only the runtime can release it, and the price is a
one-off re-warm: the next thing the program does compiles again
what a collection aged out. This PR keeps that, makes it cheaper for a
program whose user comes back, and fixes what is around it.
`GarbageCollectionController.rs` is 248 lines (main: 260).

1. **The default list is `10,110,480`**: collections 10 s, 2 min and 10
min after the heap stopped growing (main: 10 s, 75 s,
140 s). What is freed is the same; a program that is used again within
two minutes no longer pays for the second collection.
2. **The last collection also drops what JSC gets back cheaply**: before
it, `VM::shrinkFootprintNow(LeaveCollectionToCaller |
KeepCodeInUse)` lets go of the unlinked bytecode of functions that have
no linked code any more (the earlier collections
unlinked what had not run) and that a bytecode cache can hand back (a
`--compile --bytecode` executable's embedded bytecode),
and of the parser's caches. Nothing that would have to be parsed again,
nothing in use. Deleting code waits for a collection
that is under way (`Heap::preventCollection`), which on a big heap in
the middle of a concurrent full collection is hundreds of
milliseconds of the event loop, and JSC declines with JS on the stack (a
timer fired from a nested event loop): the binding
declines in the first case and JSC in the second, nothing is dropped,
that tick's quiet is not counted, and the next tick tries
again. What the binding cannot see is a collection that has been
requested and has not started: the drop then waits for it,
which is at most the collection the previous tick requested, an eden
collection of a heap that has not grown. The collection
that follows the drop is the same requested, concurrent one. It is not
gated on standalone executables: without embedded
bytecode there is little to drop and nothing that costs anything to get
back.
3. **Every JS thread runs them for its own heap, as on main, and the
code now says so.** The controller was written for the main
thread only (`if vm.is_main_thread()`), but that asks whether the VM has
a Worker, and a Worker's VM is initialised before it is
given one: the test was always true and Workers have always run the
ladder. It is removed rather than fixed. Measured: a pool
of 8 Workers, each with 50 MB of old-generation garbage after a burst,
452 MB resident; 12 s later 40 MB, and 452 MB for good
when only the main thread ran the ladder (each Worker's collections are
its own; nothing the ladder does is process-wide any
   more, and the code drop is per VM).
4. **After an idle collection the timer stays on its fast tick for 30
ticks.** The collection is requested, not run: it proceeds at
the mutator's safepoints, which in a program that runs no JS are this
timer's ticks. The second and third were requested on the
30 s tick, where a server held on to a burst's garbage for a minute and
more.

5. **Nothing is paged out.** Main's second idle collection also asked
the kernel to reclaim the pages of a standalone executable's
embedded module graph (`MADV_PAGEOUT`). Those pages are clean and
file-backed: they are not ours to evict. The kernel drops them
by itself, at no cost, as soon as it needs the memory, and until then
they are a cache that makes the program's next action
fast; paging them out by hand only lowers the RSS column, and the next
thing the program does reads them back from the disk, one
major fault at a time (numbers below).
`StandaloneModuleGraph::page_out`, the trait method and the call are
gone.
`BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE` stays, because two other
hints read it, both one-off at start-up and unchanged:
the read-ahead of the module graph's start-up pages (`MADV_WILLNEED` /
`F_RDADVISE`) and the `MADV_DONTNEED` hint for the
embedded source text once the entry point has been evaluated. After this
PR it gates only those two.

"Busy" is what it is on main: the heap grew by more than 2 MB since the
last tick. A wrong "idle" now costs a
concurrent collection and a re-warm, which does not justify a finer
rule.

## What each collection saves, and what the next request pays

A ~200 MB compiled command-line program: a scripted run of 20 requests
against a stub API, a pause, one more request (release
builds; every run on its own copy of the executable; faults from
`/proc/<pid>/stat`, instructions from `perf stat`; medians of 2-4
runs on a busy machine, so wall times are noisy and instructions are
not). In steady state a request is 224 ms, 0.9 G instructions,
4 major faults. "main, no page-out" is main with
`BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE=1`; "the page-out alone" is
main with
`BUN_JSC_forceCodeBlockLiveness=1` (no code aging, so the collection
costs the next request nothing).

| collection | anonymous memory freed | the next request pays |
|---|---|---|
| first (10 s) | 56-60 MB (the run's garbage; with code aging switched
off it is the same) | nothing measurable (+4 to +35 ms, no extra
instructions) |
| second (main 75 s, here 2 min) | 55-57 MB (none of it with
`BUN_JSC_forceCodeBlockLiveness=1`: it all hangs off aged-out code) |
+200 to +340 ms wall, +1.3 to +2.2 G instructions, +15 K minor faults,
no major faults; the request after it +20 to +60 ms |
| third (main 140 s, here 10 min) | 24-34 MB (34 with the code drop) |
+0.4 to +0.9 G instructions on top of the second's when both have run |
| all of it | 90 MB of 257 idle after the scripted run; 12 MB of 104
idle after start-up | |
| main's module-graph page-out (with the second collection) | none: 57
MB of file-backed RSS (104 -> 46 MB) | **+240 to +290 ms wall and
210-220 major faults** (the page-out alone, after 90 s and 3 min) |

| the request after a pause of | main | main, no page-out | this PR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 s | +19 ms | -4 ms | not measured (nothing differs before 2 min) |
| 90 s | **+600 ms**, +1.55 G instr., 262 major faults | +332 ms, +1.98
G, 0 | **+6 ms**, +0.1 G, 3 |
| 3 min | +671 ms, +2.51 G, 262 | +209 ms, +2.53 G, 0 | +205 ms, +2.18
G, 0 |
| 11 min | +768 ms, +2.67 G, 188 | +348 ms, +2.35 G, 0 | +197 ms, +1.75
G, 0 |

Memory, anonymous | file-backed MB, seconds after the scripted run's
last request:

| | +5 s | +30 s | +80 s | +135 s | +150 s | +300 s | +610 s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| main | 315 \| 104 | 259 \| 105 | 199 \| 46 | 199 \| 47 | 167 \| 47 |
165 \| 47 | 168 \| 54 |
| main, no page-out | 324 \| 106 | 264 \| 104 | 201 \| 104 | 200 \| 104
| 167 \| 104 | 166 \| 104 | 169 \| 104 |
| main, no code aging | 321 \| 105 | 265 \| 105 | 258 \| 48 | 257 \| 49
| 257 \| 49 | 257 \| 49 | 259 \| 55 |
| this PR | 317 \| 105 | 265 \| 105 | 254 \| 105 | 197 \| 105 | 197 \|
105 | 196 \| 105 | **162** \| 105 |

Idle after start-up: 115 | 97 at +5 s, 100 | 97 at +135 s, 89 | 97 at
+610 s (main without the page-out: 108, 91, 86).

The first request of a program that was idle for 10 minutes after
start-up: 1402 ms and 402 major faults on main, 774 ms and
40 without the page-out.

So between 75 s and 2 min after it was last used the program holds 55 MB
more than on main, and from 10 minutes on a few MB less;
in exchange the second collection's re-warm is only paid by a program
that really was left alone.

## A server at scale

Half an LRU Map of objects, half retained 16-512 KiB buffers; 2,000
requests a second for 60 s, then silence. Anonymous RSS in MB:

| live | | under load avg / max | end | +10 s | +14 s | +15 s | +70 s |
p50 / p99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 MB | main | 1680 / 2470 | 2470 | 2385 | 803 | 803 | 803 | 0.22 /
14.5 ms |
| 800 MB | this PR | 1681 / 2470 | 2470 | 2385 | 1159 | 803 | 803 | 0.22
/ 13.8 ms |
| 80 MB | main | 215 / 337 | 196 | 104 | 103 | 103 | 103 | 0.20 / 6.8 ms
|
| 80 MB | this PR | 213 / 355 | 185 | 125 | 108 | 108 | 107 | 0.20 / 6.9
ms |

The first idle collection comes 10 s after the load as on main and what
it frees is back within 5 s. (With that collection requested
on the 30 s tick, as the second and third are on main, an earlier state
held 2.36 GB until 92 s after the traffic had stopped; that
is what the fast ticks after a collection are for.)

## What was tried and dropped

#42329 and #42383 also paged out the module graph and, on the last rung,
the executable's own code and constants: measured, that
bought 57 + 36 MB of file-backed RSS, which the kernel reclaims for free
under pressure, for +240 to +530 ms and 210-560 major
faults on the next request. Because a wrong "idle" was then expensive,
#42383
grew a classifier (the program's allocation rate against its own
history, several clocks, a wake from the slow tick) that four
rounds of review kept finding edge cases in, and that no allocation-only
signal can get right for a server whose traffic never
touches the JS heap. Without page-outs and without a synchronous
collection a wrong "idle" is cheap, so all of that is gone.

## Tests

`gc-controller-cadence.test.ts`, 16 tests, 6 s for the file, as on main
(the new ones run alongside the existing ones;
`test/expected-durations.json` still said 2 s and has estimates now,
until it is regenerated): a Worker's 100 MB of old-generation
garbage are given back by the Worker's own idle collection (nothing else
asks for a full collection of its heap; this pins what
main does); a `--compile --bytecode` executable (one, shared) loses its
re-decodable unlinked code with the second collection of
`1,1` and gives the same results afterwards, and still has it right
after the first of `1,30` has been logged; 300 MB of
old-generation garbage next to 50 MB of live data are back within
seconds of the idle collection on a 20 ms tick. The last two
behaviours fail on main.
No test for the page-out: it would assert the absence of code that is
deleted. Release build, 3 runs and twice with
`BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1`; clippy on `bun_jsc`, `bun_standalone_graph`
and `bun_resolver`; `cargo check` for
`x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` and `aarch64-apple-darwin` (before the last
small change to `idle_tick`).
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