GC controller: idle collections at 10 s, 2 min and 10 min, nothing paged out; the last drops re-decodable bytecode - #43174
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In `@test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts`:
- Line 230: Keep the 200-byte allocation inside the entry function so each
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked: the new JSC__VM__shrinkFootprintNow is only reached from the GC timer on the VM's own thread and takes a JSLockHolder, so thread affinity is fine; and BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE still has live readers in StandaloneModuleGraph.rs (the WILLNEED prefetch and DONTNEED source hint), so removing page_out does not orphan it. One thing I could not verify in this checkout (WebKit is not vendored here): that VM::ShrinkFootprint::{LeaveCollectionToCaller, KeepCodeInUse} exist in the WebKit revision this branch builds against, since upstream shrinkFootprintNow() takes no options.
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Findings were reported inline, so this body only records what else was examined. The FFI addition in src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp / src/jsc/VM.rs is called from idle_tick, which runs inside the controller's timer callback on the VM thread, and the C++ side holds the JS lock; the ignored bool return is benign because the timer never runs with JS on the stack. Deleting page_out from the trait and the madvise implementation leaves the DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISE feature flag with two remaining consumers, so it is not dead. The ShrinkFootprint option set passed to shrinkFootprintNow is not in upstream WebKit's signature and cannot be confirmed from this shallow checkout, so a human building against the pinned WebKit should confirm it compiles as intended.
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src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs— Programs on the 30 s slow tick get the 2-minute and 10-minute collections early, by up to 29 s each, and with a user spec whose rungs are less than 30 s apart two rungs collapse into one collection. GarbageCollectionController.rs:134 addsinterval_ms, which :211 passes asrepeat_interval()(30000 when slow), while :233 armed the timer withmin(repeat_interval, due_in). The counted quiet then exceeds the elapsed quiet. Fix: feed idle_tick the interval that was actually armed (store it beside the timer at :236-243 and pass it at :211), soquiettracks wall time and each due is crossed on its own tick. [also at: src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs:211 - Users on the new 10 min rung get the last collection, and now the bytecode drop, up to 29 s before the configured quiet time.]Extended reasoning...
Trace with the new defaults: quiet 40 s -> slow tick; ticks add 30 s: 70, 100; due_in = 20 s so :233 arms 20 s, but the next tick adds 30 s at :134, quiet = 130 at elapsed 120. Second rung fires on time but quiet is now 10 s ahead. After the 30 fast ticks and the slow ticks, quiet reaches 580 at elapsed 570; due_in 20 s arms 20 s; the next tick makes quiet 610 at elapsed 590, so the 480 s rung fires at 590 s. With a custom spec whose consecutive dues are < 30 s apart (e.g. "10,20,20" -> 10, 30, 50 s), one slow tick can cross two dues at once;
any(crossed)at :138 yields a single full collection andnextis None, so the shrink at :141 runs on what the user configured as the middle rung. The base commit computes quiet the same way (:132-133 of the base file), so the mechanism is pre-existing, but this PR multiplies the slow-tick drift by moving the dues to 110 s and 480 s, adds the shrink keyed onnext.is_none(), and re-enters fast mode after each rung, none of which was validated against the armed interval. Seven finders independently noticed the mismatch and let it go on…Verification: pre-existing. Triggering condition: the controller is on the 30 s slow tick (30 no-growth, no-full ticks) when the next idle rung is less than 30 s away. Mechanism verified in /home/claude/bun/src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs: line 211
this.idle_tick(vm_ref, grew, this.repeat_interval())feedsinterval_ms= 30000 in slow mode, and line 134 `let quiet =… | pre-existing. Trigger: the idle…
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 ~200 MB compiled command-line program (release build; a scripted run of 20 requests against a stub API, a pause, one more request; a request in steady state 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. Idle for 10 minutes right after start-up, its 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 one-off at start-up and unchanged.
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In `@test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts`:
- Around line 219-220: Update the GC cadence test to record which owner produces
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Assert collection ownership, not only the heap count. The helper records distinct GC<heap-id> values but does not map each ID to the main VM or Worker. Therefore, expect(heaps).toBe(1) passes when only the Worker performs idle collection. Record the VM-to-heap association and assert that the main VM performs the collection and the Worker performs none.
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In `@test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts` around lines 219 - 220, Update
the GC cadence test to record which owner produces each GC heap ID,
distinguishing the main VM from the Worker, and replace the heap-count-only
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I re-reviewed the new push and didn't find any bugs; because it changes the default idle-GC ladder for every main-thread program and adds a binding onto a fork-only VM::shrinkFootprintNow option set that isn't inspectable from this checkout, a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
idle_tick's decline path insrc/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs: rewindingidle_quiet_mstobeforere-crosses the same due on the next tick in both fast and slow mode, and the!fullguard keeps an idle-collection tick from counting toward the 30-tick drop to slow mode.- The
vm.is_main_threadgate:init_workerpassesfalseandinitwrites the field beforeensure_wakerruns the controller'sinit, so a Worker'sidle_gc_at_msstays zero. page_outremoval: no remaining callers orMADV_PAGEOUTreferences insrc/; the two start-up madvise hints behindBUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_STANDALONE_MADVISEare untouched.- The heap-pointer regex now accepts the Windows
%pform, and the smaps residency test with its 90 s timeout is gone.
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Overview
The diff (fd8422ce..HEAD, two commits) touches src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs (new default ladder 10,110,480, vm.is_main_thread field gate, shrink_footprint_now before the last rung with a rewind-and-retry when it declines, and !full excluded from the slow-mode tick count), a new FFI JSC__VM__shrinkFootprintNow in bindings.cpp/headers.h/VM.rs, the deletion of StandaloneModuleGraph::page_out (trait method, Linux madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) body, and the detached thread spawn), test/expected-durations.json, and ~200 lines of new tests in test/js/bun/gc/gc-controller-cadence.test.ts. This is the second pushed version; the prior version received inline comments from this system.
Security risks
None identified. No user input is parsed beyond the existing BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS env-var parsing (unchanged, bounded with .min(3600) and saturating adds). The removed code was the only unsafe in the diff; the new C++ binding takes a JSLockHolder and calls a VM method on the JS thread from the timer callback. The test that reads /proc/<pid>/status is Linux-only and skipped on ASAN/debug.
Level of scrutiny
Moderate-to-high, and not something I can fully close out. The Rust-side logic is small and I traced both new branches: the decline path returns (false, None), so the next tick re-crosses the last due from the same before (fast or slow interval) and the eden collection still runs; is_main_thread is written in init at the addr_of_mut! site before ensure_waker triggers the controller's init, and init_worker builds InitOptions { is_main_thread: false }. What I cannot verify from this checkout is the semantics of ShrinkFootprint::LeaveCollectionToCaller | KeepCodeInUse — WebKit is not vendored here and the pin (scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts) did not change in this diff, so the API must already exist in the fork; whether KeepCodeInUse really keeps source-only unlinked code (the case my earlier inline comment asked for a sibling test on) rests on the fork's implementation and the PR's description. That, plus the fact that this is a user-visible default change with performance claims backed by benchmarks rather than only tests, is why a human maintainer should still sign off.
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The new push addressed three of the five prior inline comments: the heap-pointer regex now matches Windows %p output, the ~100 MB smaps residency test guarding the removed page-out is gone along with its 90 s timeout, and the compiled executable is now built once and shared. The remaining explicit per-test timeouts (four at 15_000 ms), the Worker memory note, and the missing plain-script UnlinkedFunctionCodeBlock sibling test are still open in their inline threads and are not restated here. The bug hunt ran to a dry streak with no findings. The test file's expected durations were bumped to 6-12 s, which is at the file budget the repo guidance sets; the tests use bounded polls rather than bare sleeps except for the fixed windows inside child programs, which are inherent to measuring a wall-clock ladder.
…rops re-decodable bytecode The idle full collections (BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS) exist so that JSC can age out code that no longer runs and hand its memory back. That memory is anonymous: only the runtime can release it. What the program pays is a re-warm, once, the next time it does something: it compiles again what a collection aged out. Measured on a ~200 MB compiled command-line program (a request is 224 ms and 0.9 G instructions in steady state): the first collection, 10 s in, frees 56 MB of garbage and costs the next request nothing; the second frees 55 MB more and costs the next request +200 to +340 ms and +1.3 to +2.2 G instructions; the third frees another 24-34 MB. - The default list is "10,110,480": collections 10 s, 2 min and 10 min after the heap stopped growing (it was 10 s, 75 s, 140 s). The saving is the same; a program that is used again within two minutes no longer pays for the second collection. After a 90 s pause the next request took +600 ms (main, with its page-out) / +332 ms (without) and takes +6 ms now. - Before the last collection JSC lets go of what it can get back cheaply (VM::shrinkFootprintNow with LeaveCollectionToCaller | KeepCodeInUse): the unlinked bytecode of functions that have no linked code any more and that a bytecode cache can hand back (a --compile --bytecode executable's embedded bytecode), and the parser's caches. Nothing that would have to be parsed again, nothing that is in use. Deleting code waits for a collection that is under way, and JSC declines with JS on the stack: in either case nothing is dropped, this tick's quiet is not counted, and the next tick tries again. The collection that follows is the same requested, concurrent one. For every process: without embedded bytecode there is little to drop and nothing that costs anything to get back. - Every JS thread runs them, for its own heap, as it did: the controller was written for the main thread only, but `is_main_thread()` asks whether the VM has a Worker and a Worker's VM is initialised before it is given one, so the test was always true. It is gone rather than fixed: a pool of 8 Workers with 50 MB of garbage each gives 400 MB back 12 s after its burst, and held on to it for good with the ladder on the main thread only. Nothing the ladder does is process-wide any more. - An idle collection is requested, not run: it proceeds at the mutator's safepoints, which in a program that runs no JS are the timer's ticks. The second and third were requested on the 30 s tick, so a server held on to a burst's garbage for a minute and more after it. After an idle collection the timer is on its fast tick for the next 30. Nothing is paged out. "Busy" is what it was: the heap grew by more than 2 MB since the last tick. A wrong "idle" costs a concurrent collection and a re-warm, which does not justify more than that. Tests: a Worker's 100 MB of old-generation garbage are given back by the Worker's own idle collection; a --compile --bytecode executable loses its re-decodable unlinked code with the second collection of "1,1" and gives the same results afterwards, and still has it 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 (they stayed for half a minute). The last two of those behaviours are new. The file takes 6 s, as before.
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Beyond the inline finding, I checked the shrink_footprint_now decline path in src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs (quiet is rolled back to before, so the same due is re-crossed on the next tick rather than skipped) and the new FFI declaration across src/jsc/VM.rs, src/jsc/bindings/headers.h and src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp — signatures agree and the binding takes the JSLock. One thing for a human to reconcile: the title and description item 3 say a Worker's VM does not run the ladder, but the code removes the is_main_thread() gate and the new Worker test asserts the Worker's idle collection does run.
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A confirmed source-lint finding is posted inline, so this body only records what else was examined. The rollback logic in idle_tick is sound: crossed compares before < due && quiet >= due, and restoring idle_quiet_ms to before when JSC declines means the next tick recomputes quiet = before + interval and crosses the same due again; full is also cleared so the tick's collection stays eden-only. The FFI wrapper is declared consistently in the three files and guards heap.collectionScope() under a JSLockHolder. The PR text, however, describes the opposite Worker behaviour from what the code now does (the gate was removed and the doc comment and test say every JS thread runs the ladder), which a human merging this should reconcile with the title and description.
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🔴 Maintainers get a red "Source lints" GitHub check on this PR: test/internal/source-lints/vm-thread-door.test.ts fails for src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs. The diff deletes the file's only std::thread::Builder::new() (the "idle page-out" spawn) but test/internal/source-lints/vm-thread-door.inventory.json:19-21 still records "thread spawn": 1 for it. Fix: regenerate the inventory in this PR so the frozen thread-crossing list matches the sources, e.g. bun ./test/internal/source-lints/vm-thread-door.test.ts --update, which drops the GarbageCollectionController.rs entry.
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The lint scans every tracked src/jsc/**/*.rs file with the pattern \bthread::(?:Builder::new\s*\(|spawn\s*\() (vm-thread-door.test.ts:51) and compares the per-file result with the committed inventory (vm-thread-door.test.ts:96-113). On the base commit GarbageCollectionController.rs:146 contained std::thread::Builder::new(), so the inventory entry "src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs": { "thread spawn": 1 } was correct. The PR removes that spawn together with graph.page_out(); the current file has no thread:: occurrence at all (grep confirms), and git diff fd8422ce HEAD --stat -- test/internal shows the inventory was not touched. The test iterates the union of inventory keys and found keys (line 99), so for this file expected is {"thread spawn":1} and actual is {}; Bun.deepEquals is false and the test throws "src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs: thread-crossing inventory changed" (lines 103-111). .github/workflows/source-lints.yml runs bun test test/internal/source-lints/ on every pull_request that touches src/**/*.rs (lines 37-39, 87), which…
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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 isanonymous, 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.rsis 248 lines (main: 260).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.
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 collectionsunlinked what had not run) and that a bytecode cache can hand back (a
--compile --bytecodeexecutable'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 ofmilliseconds 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.
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 isgiven 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).
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.
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 themby 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_MADVISEstays, 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 theMADV_DONTNEEDhint for theembedded 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 fromperf stat; medians of 2-4runs 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 withBUN_JSC_forceCodeBlockLiveness=1(no code aging, so the collection costs the next request nothing).BUN_JSC_forceCodeBlockLiveness=1: it all hangs off aged-out code)Memory, anonymous | file-backed MB, seconds after the scripted run's last request:
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:
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.jsonstill said 2 s and has estimates now, until it is regenerated): a Worker's 100 MB of old-generationgarbage 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 --bytecodeexecutable (one, shared) loses its re-decodable unlinked code with the second collection of1,1and gives the same results afterwards, and still has it right after the first of1,30has been logged; 300 MB ofold-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 onbun_jsc,bun_standalone_graphandbun_resolver;cargo checkforx86_64-pc-windows-msvcandaarch64-apple-darwin(before the last small change toidle_tick).