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Martin Vogel 63fb7b3db5 perf(mem): recommit purged memory on macOS so phys_footprint drops
81264814 built the production allocator as mimalloc's release build
(-DMI_DEBUG=0). That bought a large speed-up, but it raised what macOS
charges an index worker, its phys_footprint:

| peak phys_footprint | v0.11.0 | main |
|---|---:|---:|
| TypeScript | 1.25 GB | 1.94 GB |
| dotnet/runtime | 4.5 GB | 12.7 GB |

The 2026-10-09 bench missed most of this, because it sampled RSS.

The difference is one compile-time branch in mimalloc's unix decommit.
With MI_DEBUG or MI_SECURE>2, a purged range is mprotect(PROT_NONE)'d
and flagged needs_recommit. A release build leaves it "committed".
When the arena hands such a range out again, it is re-accounted as a
whole with MADV_FREE_REUSE (arena.c, _mi_os_reuse). macOS then charges
every page of it to the footprint, touched or not.

On macOS, take the recommit path in every build. Linux and Windows keep
upstream's behaviour; there MADV_DONTNEED already drops RSS at once.

Measured on Apple arm64 (macOS 26.6), main ec4fbd3a vs this change, cold
full indexes interleaved with main (C#: 2 runs each, in the same session
as main):

| corpus | footprint before | footprint after | change | wall time |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---|
| TypeScript | 1.98 GB | 1.09 GB | -45 % | unchanged |
| kubernetes | 2.92 GB | 1.88 GB | -35 % | unchanged |
| dotnet/runtime | 12.6 GB | 4.9 GB | -61 % | unchanged |
| linux kernel | 16.0 GB | 13.5 GB | -16 % | 574 -> 559 s |

The graph is byte-identical: TypeScript, kubernetes and django give
the same nodes, edges and CALLS-set hash.

dotnet/runtime is now close to v0.11.0's 4.5 GB.

Measured but not taken:
- the whole debug build, which costs ~5 % wall time on C#;
- MI_STAT=2, MI_PADDING=1 or MI_ENCODE_FREELIST=1 alone, none of which
  moves the footprint;
- MIMALLOC_PURGE_DELAY=0, which is already set.

Vendored file changed in place (precedent 1f674c80); its hash in
scripts/vendored-checksums.txt is updated and security-vendored.sh passes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
2026-10-10 16:38:53 +02:00
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scripts/ — the canonical leg entries

The doctrine (enforced, not advisory): a venue may provision a machine; only a canonical leg script may exercise the product. Local CI, PR CI, the dry run and the release all call the SAME files below — venues differ only in host specs, architecture and inputs, never in what a leg does. Platform differences (arm64 sanitizer flags, native Windows behavior, the Linux portable binary) live INSIDE these scripts, once, never per-venue. tests/test_venue_parity_contract.sh (run as Step 0j of every test leg) turns any violation — inline harness logic in a workflow, a bypassed wrapper, a missing --help — into a red build.

Every entry answers --help (authoritative, agent-oriented: modes, env, exit codes) and rejects unknown flags with exit 2 + Please consult --help.

The legs

leg entry what a run gives you
test test.sh DEFAULT = the venue leg: static contracts (Step 0a–0r) + CLEAN ASan+UBSan build + all suites via the parallel harness + prod-binary guards. --suites a,b = iteration mode (incremental rebuild, subset, seconds). --tsan = the ThreadSanitizer leg. --contracts-only = the static contract steps alone (PR CI's contracts job for docs-only and non-product changes). CLANGARM64 gets CI's trap-UBSan flags automatically.
package wrappers ci/test-package-wrappers.sh Go, npm, and PyPI runtime-set publication/lock suites on the current host. CI runs the same entry on Linux and Windows so both platform lock implementations gate.
build build.sh CLEAN production runtime set (native executable + authenticated integration asset; --with-ui adds one content-addressed UI pack). ccache via env.sh makes repeats fast; CCACHE_COMPILERCHECK=content guarantees a hit is byte-identical to a cold compile — never stale. --version, STATIC=1, BUILD_DIR=.
lint lint.sh clang-tidy + cppcheck + clang-format (+ no-skips policy). --ci = the CI gate set (no clang-tidy). Drives the same make targets as make lint/lint-ci.
smoke (unix) smoke-local.sh Stages a full release fixture, serves it on a kernel-assigned port, runs smoke-test.sh (ALL phases incl. download/install/update E2E) inside a disposable HOME/XDG/TMP sandbox. ui variant makes a missing verified UI pack a FAILURE. CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR = smoke an extracted release artifact verbatim (release mode).
smoke (windows) ../test-infrastructure/vm/vm-smoke.sh Same verified runtime-set contract on the real Windows VM, plus the user-PATH registry guard (prepare/verify/cleanup).
smoke-invariants smoke-invariants.sh Production-path resilience battery (MCP handshake, all tools invocable, malformed-input handling, supervised crash/hang recovery) — no fixture server or install E2E. smoke.yml runs an explicitly seam-enabled build on the WIDEST source matrix; release artifacts remain seam-free and use the release-shaped smoke legs above.
soak soak-legs.sh The release-gating soak SEQUENCE: quick then query-leak (the #581 detector — never reindexes, so RSS growth = query-path leak), each guarded by a completion-summary check. --legs quick for the ASan single-leg variant. Duration is per leg.

Internal harnesses — never called directly by a venue (the contract forbids it): smoke-test.sh (phases; wrappers provide fixture server + sandbox), soak-test.sh (one soak run; soak-legs.sh provides the sequence + guards), run-tests-parallel.sh (reached through test.sh).

Conventions

  • Exit codes: 0 = pass · 2 = usage error · 90 = guard (a run died without its completion summary — never counts as green) · anything else = the leg's real failure.
  • Iteration is a flag, not a side-tool: the fast paths (--suites, --legs) are modes of the SAME entry the gates run, so a dev loop can never drift from the venue behaviour.
  • Env sandboxing: the smoke wrappers neutralize every agent-config destination override; a smoke can never scribble on your real config.
  • Iterating on a change: scripts/test.sh --suites <suite> (seconds, incremental, same ASan+UBSan flags as the gate). List suites: build/c/test-runner --list-suites. Debugging a Windows-on-ARM trap: re-run with SANITIZE= for a plain build, or use the emulated win.sh ubsan-* pair for full diagnostics.
  • Before any push (the 3-OS ladder): scripts/test.sh (macOS, full) → ./test-infrastructure/run.sh full (Linux + TSan + smoke) → test-infrastructure/vm/win.sh test-par + guards + smoke-install (+ soak when the change touches memory/daemon paths).
  • Concurrency-touching change: add scripts/test.sh --tsan early — the same leg CI gates on.
  • Release-shaped verification: CBM_SMOKE_ARTIFACT_DIR=<extracted artifact> scripts/smoke-local.sh <binary> [ui] smokes exactly what would ship.
  • A leg is red in CI but green locally: first suspect environment shape, not code — the preflights (win.sh automatic; scripts/ci/preflight-docker.sh) and test-infrastructure/README.md's residuals list cover the knowable differences.

See scripts/ci/README.md for the CI plumbing and test-infrastructure/README.md for the venue map.