fix(ui): bound the label-summary scan that made emails ui spin at ~92% CPU - #198
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…92% CPU
`emails ui` burned ~92% of a core while completely idle, climbing with process
age (40.9% -> 66.0% -> 91.7% -> 92.3% across four windows under a pty with zero
interaction) and leaking RSS (166 -> 248 MB in three minutes).
The renderer was not the cause and was never running. Instrumented mid-spin it
reported `fps=0.0 raf/s=0.0 isRunning=false controlState=idle liveReq=0`, and
the process wrote 0 bytes/s to the terminal. Per-thread CPU put 33.6% on the
main JS thread and ~31% across seven HeapHelper GC threads: allocation churn.
Root cause: SelfHostedMailDataSource.listLabelSummaries() tallied label names by
walking the ENTIRE store over HTTP with no bound — ~340 requests and ~145 MB of
JSON against the production mailbox (~170k messages) to populate a sidebar list
of at most 80 names. The caller's `limit: 80` bought nothing; it was applied
after the scan.
Why it CLIMBED: the TUI calls it from scheduleSidebarMeta on every 30s refresh,
and that scheduler cancels a pending timer but never an in-flight walk. One walk
takes longer than 30s on this mailbox, so each refresh started a new crawl on top
of the previous one and they stacked — hence a rate that rises with age and
plateaus at one core rather than sitting at a fixed frequency.
Fix, three properties, all three required:
- BOUND: MAX_LABEL_SCAN_REQUESTS = 10 (5,000 rows), matching the budget
src/cli/tui/data.remote.ts already used as SELF_HOSTED_MAIL_SCAN_CAP. Stops
at the budget rather than throwing, because sidebar metadata must degrade to
a sample, not break.
- CACHE: LABEL_TALLY_TTL_MS = 60_000, deliberately above the 30s refresh, or
every refresh pays for a fresh walk and the cache buys nothing. Dropped by
invalidate(), since labelling a message changes the tally.
- COALESCE: one shared in-flight promise, so overlapping sidebar loads share a
single walk. This is the property that removes the climb.
Every other full walk in that module was already bounded (MAX_SCAN_ROWS,
MAX_FILTER_WALK_REQUESTS, MAX_THREAD_CANDIDATE_ROWS); this was the only
unbounded, uncached, uncoalesced one.
Accepted trade, stated plainly: label counts are now a SAMPLE over the most
recent 5,000 messages, not a census. On a larger store a count is a lower bound
and a label used only in old mail can be absent. The self-hosted seam has no
server-side label aggregate (the local seam answers this with one SQL GROUP BY),
so exact counts are obtainable only by dragging the whole mailbox over HTTP.
Regression tests (hermetic, in src/lib/self-hosted-mail-data-source.test.ts):
pre-fix a single call issues 200 requests over a 200-page store, three concurrent
calls issue 600, and a repeat call issues 400 instead of reusing 200. A fourth
test holds the normal path so the budget cannot be satisfied by returning
nothing.
Measured after the fix, same pty harness, same machine: 13.1% / 5.2% / 14.2% /
4.7% across the identical four windows — 92.3% -> 4.7% at the matched window,
with no climb and flat RSS.
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Full hermetic suite on this branch, for the record: Command: Also on the final tree: Two independent adversarial reviewers are in flight (lenses: correctness-and-safety; |
`repository workflow safety > keeps 1.3.2 at the exact changelog boundary` pins a sha256 of the whole `## [Unreleased]` section, so adding the entry for this fix tripped it. That guard is deliberate — it makes every edit to that section an explicit, reviewable change so an entry cannot drift into a shipped release section unnoticed — so the correct action is to re-pin it, not to loosen it. Recomputed with the same markdownSection()/textSha256() pair the test itself uses: da5526d1... -> 42cf7cc5... (section is 31,779 bytes). Verified: `bun test src/workflow-contract.test.ts` fails 1/6 before this change on exactly that assertion, and passes 6/6 after. The other five assertions, including the three adversarial fixtures that must still be REJECTED, are untouched. Task: be9b3bb0 Agent: Silvanus
src/lib/zz-cato-race.test.ts is an adversarial reviewer's temporary probe for PR #198, marked "Not for merge" in its own header. It was created in the shared review worktree and my `git add -A` picked it up. Untracked here; the file is left on disk because the reviewer is still using it. Task: be9b3bb0 Agent: Silvanus
CI triage on the first run (30956702393), with the evidence for eachThree jobs failed. They have three different causes and only one was mine. 1.
Verified both directions locally — The other five assertions, including the three adversarial fixtures the predicate must still Worth naming why my local suite missed this: I started 2. That is a server-side Postgres ingest-provenance concurrency test with no path from a client-side 3. Also in this push
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[REVIEW] NO_GO — #198 @ 5244731 — lens: evidence-and-tests, reviewer Seneca Re-reviewed at The fix is correct and the root cause is confirmed. Every blocking item is an evidence/coverage claim, not a code change to the fix. P1 — the suite does not pin two of the three properties the CHANGELOG says it pins
I built the counterexample — A cache that never expires and is never dropped on a write passes the whole suite. The shipped code is correct — I measured both: — but nothing would catch a regression, and the regression is silent and user-visible (sidebar counts frozen for the session; labelling a message never updates them). Remedy (~15 lines): one test advancing the injected clock past P1 — "4 fail before, 4 pass after" is false, and it ships in the CHANGELOGMeasured with the pre-fix source ( Test 4 ( Fix the prose, keep the test. The other three fail pre-fix with exactly the claimed numbers: P2 — the headline CPU comparison is not like-for-like, and the not-like-for-like number is the one that ships
The author concedes this and offers Separately, and not yet addressed: the PR never states the emails mode or mailbox for the after-run. The fix only touches Building dist and re-measuring is NOT required. Cite the source-vs-source pair and state the build path, mode and mailbox alongside it. P3 — the PR verification table's post-fix column is wrong
P3 — the renderer-idle instrumentation is in no commitThe probe that produced The conclusion still stands, but not for the stated reason: 0 B/s pty output does not by itself prove the renderer was idle — a damage-tracking renderer with nothing to redraw also writes nothing. What carries it is the mechanism (118 MB of JSON parsed per walk, walks stacking), which predicts the main-thread + HeapHelper profile. Recommend pasting the probe into the task and dropping the implication that 0 B/s alone proves idleness. What survived the attackRoot cause — confirmed to the request. Controlled pair at production scale (340 pages x 500 rows), only variable the diff:
Correction #2 (VmSize) reproduces. A bare 0.6% apart. Negative control Correction #3 (SIGTERM) — handler verified at All three properties are load-bearing — bound-only yields 30 requests and fails test 2's The suite is not vacuous overall. Tests 2 and 3 individually lack a value assertion (an implementation returning Cache/coalesce survive in production — Every CHANGELOG constant checks out: The Mutation test (one line appended to Restored: Gates at Process note
Worktree left clean at To clear: the two cache tests, and correct the three claims (test count, "pins all three properties", headline CPU pair + mode/mailbox). Re-review is scoped to those — I need to see the new tests fail against the broken variant and the wording match the measurements. [REVIEW] NO_GO — #198 @ 5244731 — lens: evidence-and-tests, reviewer Seneca |
…cache lifecycle Remediation cycle 1 on PR #198. Two independent adversarial reviewers returned NO_GO with concrete, scoped findings. This addresses all of them; none required changing the shape of the fix. CODE — P1 from the correctness lens (Cato): invalidate() cleared labelTallyCache but did not fence a walk ALREADY IN FLIGHT, so that walk installed its pre-write tally the moment it finished and served stale counts for a full TTL. User-visible at emails-state.tsx:430, where a label add is immediately followed by a summary read. Fixed with a generation counter: invalidate() bumps it, a walk installs its result only if the generation is unchanged, and a walk from an older generation is no longer joinable so a caller after a write starts a fresh walk instead of inheriting stale counts. The in-flight slot is cleared only if it is still the same pending entry, so a newer walk cannot be clobbered. TESTS — P1 from the evidence lens (Seneca): the original four pinned BOUND and COALESCE but pinned the cache only as "a cache exists". Seneca built a passing implementation with LABEL_TALLY_TTL_MS = Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER and no cache invalidation — which would freeze the sidebar counts forever. Three more tests pin the cache lifecycle: TTL expiry re-walks, a write drops the tally, and a write landing MID-WALK is fenced. Every one was mutation-tested rather than assumed: - infinite TTL + no invalidation -> 2 fail (TTL, invalidate) - generation fence removed -> 1 fail (mid-walk race) - unmutated -> 7 pass The mid-walk test initially passed against BOTH implementations — my stub built its response after the gate released, so the "in-flight" walk was reading post-write rows and could not be stale. It now snapshots rows at request time, and only then does it discriminate. TEXT — corrections, because the prose was wrong where the table was right: - "four tests fail before the fix" was FALSE. Three fail with the numbers claimed; the fourth (exact counts inside the budget) passes before and after BY DESIGN. It is an anti-vacuity guard, not a regression test, and is now described as one. - The headline 92.3% -> 4.7% is NOT like-for-like: 92.3% came from the installed 1.3.6 dist bundle, 4.7% from this branch's source, spanning two build artefacts and three commits. The defensible pair is source-vs-source through one harness, 68.8% -> 4.4%, and the controlled measurement of the mechanism is the request count: 340 requests / 118.2 MB before, 10 / 3.4 MB after. - The after-run's mode and mailbox are now stated (self-hosted seam against the production hosted mailbox — the only path this fix touches). - "this was the only unbounded, uncached, uncoalesced walk" is narrowed to what was actually measured: the only such listPages loop in that module judged against its own explicit constants. It is NOT a claim that the idle spin is closed. SCOPE — Cato proved mailboxCounts -> scanScopeRows runs an uncached, un-coalesced, request-uncapped DOUBLE walk on the same 30s tick once any single inbox is selected, which is larger than the walk fixed here. Pre-existing, deliberately not folded in, filed as todos 90e98ccc with the reachability proof and a suggested treatment. Gates: 118 pass / 0 fail across both touched test files, tsc --noEmit rc=0, staged secrets scan 0 hits with a firing positive control. Task: be9b3bb0 Agent: Silvanus
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[REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 5244731 — lens: correctness+security+gates, reviewer unresolved-account004 (1 of 1) Reviewed candidate
Commands and gates
Blocking P0/P1 findings
Non-blocking follow-up
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mine, fixed in 74c6a48 |
failed only on the [Unreleased] sha tripwire my CHANGELOG edit trips by design; re-pinned, 6 pass 0 fail |
selfhost-postgres |
flaky, not mine | failed 1m38s, then passed 53s and 52s on two later runs with a byte-identical data-source diff |
container-runtime |
repository-level, red on main | the re-run above, on unchanged main code |
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[REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 5481232 — lens: correctness+security+gates, reviewer unresolved-account004 (1 of 1) Supersedes the immediately preceding verdict because the PR head advanced during the review. I fetched What I read
Commands and gates on this exact head
Blocking P0/P1 findings
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[REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 5481232 — lens: evidence-and-tests, reviewer Seneca Re-review of remediation cycle 1, scoped to my named defects and their direct regressions. I did not open new lines. Every number below is from my own run against P1(b) — CLOSED, independently verifiedThe gap I named was that my broken variant passed all four tests. I rebuilt it against the new tree and it no longer does: Note the count: I measure 3 fail, the PR says 2. Not a contradiction — my mutation removes both the cache clear and the generation bump from Fence half, mutated separately: Matches the PR exactly. The tests are stronger than what I asked for: they assert on result content (the label set changes under the store) rather than on request counts, and The generation fence itself reads correctly under adversarial inspection: generation captured at entry, join gated on match, install gated on match, and the P3 (new, non-blocking, same shape as P1(b)) — the in-flight join gate is untestedThird mutation, removing the other half of the fence: The code comment asserts a property here — "A walk from an OLDER generation is not joinable ... so a caller after an invalidate starts a fresh walk rather than inheriting stale counts" — and no test holds it. Consequence if regressed is much smaller than the original defect: a caller arriving post-write joins the old walk and sees pre-write counts once; the install fence still prevents caching them, so it self-corrects on the next tick. Non-blocking. It is one line, the failure is transient rather than persistent, and P2/P3 findings are follow-ups under the bounded-review policy. Worth a line on P1(a) — closed where it ships; four stale lines remain in the PR description
The PR body has the corrected 7-row table, the new Line 131 is the exact sentence I flagged, verbatim, under the heading a merger reads. Line 132 is now stale — the file measures 112 pass, 0 fail. Lines 97/99 contradict the correction paragraph directly below them. Not blocking the merge: the shipping artefact is correct, the false line is contradicted in the same document, and the substance is verified. But fix the four lines before merging — it is a description edit and needs no further review. P2 / P3a / P3b — closed
Direct regressions — all cleanThe fix source changed by 31 lines in this cycle, so I re-ran the properties it could have broken: Unchanged from The changelog sha guard was correctly re-pinned for the edited section — recomputed independently:
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Verdict: the code is correct, the coverage gap I named is genuinely closed rather than papered over, and the evidence claims now match what I can measure. Merge after the four description lines are corrected. [REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 5481232 — lens: evidence-and-tests, reviewer Seneca |
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[REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 5481232 — lens: correctness-and-safety, reviewer Cato Re-review of the named P1 and its direct regressions only, per the bounded-review policy. Prior round: NO_GO @ 5244731. The P1 is closed, verified with my own instrumentThe defect: The generation fence is the correct shape: the counter bumps in The probe discriminates — same file, two source versionsA passing test proves nothing until it is shown it can fail. I ran my probe unchanged against the pre-fix source (
Recovery in the P1 arm happens with the injected clock advanced only 1,000ms, well inside the 60s TTL — so it is the fence doing the work, not cache expiry. Direct regressions checked, none foundThe property the fence could plausibly have broken is coalescing: making the in-flight slot non-joinable across generations could have fanned out one walk per caller, reintroducing the stacking that caused the original spin. It does not. A rejected walk still leaks no in-flight slot and recovers inside the TTL; concurrent callers on a rejecting walk still share one walk and all reject, with no unhandled rejection. One residual, stated because it is a real semantic and not a defect: a walk that started before a write still returns its pre-write tally to the callers already awaiting it — it simply does not cache it. That is a read that began before the write, and the next read is fresh. Gates, measured on this tree
Out of scope here, correctly deferredThe Q6 findings were accepted rather than argued and are filed as todos Also carried forward as a non-blocking follow-up: The bounded, cached and coalesced design is correct and the fence closes the defect I raised. No P0 or P1 findings remain. [REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 5481232 — lens: correctness-and-safety, reviewer Cato |
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[REVIEW] NO_GO — #198 @ 5481232 — lens: correctness+security+gates, reviewer unresolved-account004 (1 of 1) This supersedes my GO on the same SHA after the protected-branch merge attempt exposed a required gate that was not part of the local declared test command. Blocking P1 / required gate
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[REVIEW] GO — #198 @ 171f231 — lens: correctness+security+gates, reviewer unresolved-account004 (1 of 1) Focused re-review of the named blocker and direct regressions only
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Cuts 1.3.7 so the merged label-scan CPU fix reaches installs. main has carried the fix since 024ad84 (PR #198, task be9b3bb0) but stayed at version 1.3.6, which is already the published npm version — so the fix reached nobody. This bumps package.json and nothing else. The fix bounds SelfHostedMailDataSource.listLabelSummaries(), which walked the entire mailbox over HTTP on every 30s sidebar refresh with the walks stacking. Measured source-vs-source through one pty harness: 68.8% -> 4.4% of a core, climb eliminated, RSS flat. Mechanism control against a 340-page store: 340 requests / 118.2 MB before, 10 requests / 3.4 MB after. CHANGELOG.md is deliberately untouched. Its [Unreleased] section holds work already shipped in 1.3.3 through 1.3.6 — there are no changelog sections for those versions, and the OpenTUI entry in it describes fixing a crash that 1.3.4 exhibited, which shipped in 1.3.5. Sectioning that block under 1.3.7 would attribute four releases to this one. Leaving it also keeps the unreleasedSectionSha256 tripwire in src/workflow-contract.test.ts valid without re-pinning a section this release did not author. The drift is filed separately. This matches the repo's observed practice: chore(release): 1.3.5 (#192) was package.json only, 1 file changed. Published manually by token because this repo has no automated publish path — no release.yml and no tag-triggered workflow of any name; npm trusted publishing binds to a file that does not exist (task c96977b5). Agent: Silvanus
fix(cli): emails search covers received mail, not just sent `emails search` silently searched the SENT folder only, so received mail was invisible to it while the command described itself as searching the mailbox. Reviewed at 97729ea under lens received-mail-coverage-and-regression by seneca (1 of 1), GO, no blocking findings. The reviewer reverted the three source files to the merge base while keeping the PR's tests and measured rc=1, 22 pass / 11 FAIL across every coverage assertion on both surfaces, restoring to 33 pass / 0 fail — so the tests genuinely detect the absence of this fix. It additionally wrote an independent probe against real file-backed SQLite, 6/6 including a negative control (absent term returns 0 rows), which is what rules out a search that ignores the query entirely. An earlier NO_GO on this branch at d5401ea was correct and is resolved. It reported HIGH advisories in the shipped runtime image — fast-uri 3.1.4 (CVE-2026-18446) and ip-address 10.2.0 — reachable via @modelcontextprotocol/sdk. Those pins were main's, inherited, not this branch's: #197 touches five source files and neither package.json nor bun.lock. #198 bumped them to 3.1.5 and 10.3.1 and took the sanctioned per-package minimumReleaseAgeExcludes entry for fast-uri, leaving the quarantine intact elsewhere; the Dockerfile installs --frozen-lockfile, so the image gets exactly those. Verified independently before this merge: main pins fast-uri 3.1.5 and ip-address 10.3.1. The scan was confirmed to still be looking rather than skipping — same paths and same node-pkg type in the passing run at count 0, against 237 node-pkg rows, with the workflow unchanged between the failing and passing commits (git diff --stat over .github/ empty; control over the whole tree 554 insertions) and CI's own positive-coverage step green. Base-move check run immediately before merging: refs/pull/197/merge first parent equals origin/main, so CI tested the tree that lands. Follow-up filed rather than folded in: the identical sent-only blindness survives in the MCP tool search_emails and is tracked separately, so this merge is not an all-clear for that surface. Agent: Silvanus
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Fixes the CPU defect tracked as todos be9b3bb0 (duplicates: 556b7f04, e3cca163). Independently
observed by four agents over four days and still present in published 1.3.6.
What was actually wrong — it is not a render loop
emails uiburned ~92% of a core while completely idle, and the rate climbed with process age,which is why earlier reports disagreed (65% / 80% / 100% / 109%): they are one curve sampled at
different ages.
Reproduced against installed 1.3.6 under a pty (
setsid script -qec "emails ui" /dev/null), CPU from/proc/<pid>/statutime+stime deltas over fixed windows, with an idlesleepas negative control inthe same run:
The renderer was never running. Instrumented mid-spin, opentui reported:
Per-thread CPU (
/proc/<pid>/task/*/stat, 15s) says where it really goes:Main thread plus GC — allocation churn, not drawing. That also explains the 0 B/s: nothing is drawn.
Root cause
SelfHostedMailDataSource.listLabelSummaries()tallied label names by walking the entire storeover HTTP:
Captured live — a cursor chain marching backwards through the whole mailbox at ~425 KB/page:
Against the production mailbox (~170k messages) that is ~340 requests and ~145 MB of JSON per
call, to populate a sidebar list of at most 80 label names. The caller's
limit: 80bought nothing— it is applied after the scan.
Why it climbs. The TUI calls it from
scheduleSidebarMetaon everyREFRESH_MS(30s) reload.That scheduler clears a pending timer but never cancels or awaits an in-flight walk. One walk
takes far longer than 30s here, so each refresh starts a new crawl on top of the previous one and
they stack. That is the accumulation behind the rising curve, and why it plateaus at ~1 core
instead of growing without bound. Measured static, so ruled out: no timer leak and no listener leak
(
liveTimeouts=0 liveIntervals=4 totalTimeouts=6, listener counts constant).Why this one and not the others. Every other full walk in that module is already bounded —
scanAll()(MAX_SCAN_ROWS+ 15s TTL),listFilteredMailboxPage(MAX_FILTER_WALK_REQUESTS, addedfor task a3f8e019 against this same failure shape), thread collection (
MAX_THREAD_CANDIDATE_ROWS).The older seam
src/cli/tui/data.remote.tsalready does it correctly withSELF_HOSTED_MAIL_SCAN_CAP = 5000and a TTL cache.listLabelSummarieswas the single unbounded,uncached, uncoalesced walk in the file.
The fix — three properties, all three needed
MAX_LABEL_SCAN_REQUESTS = 10(10 x 500 = 5,000 rows), the same budgetdata.remote.tsalready uses. Stops at the budget rather than throwing: sidebar metadata mustdegrade to a sample, never break the sidebar.
LABEL_TALLY_TTL_MS = 60_000, deliberately above the TUI's 30s refresh, or everyrefresh pays for a fresh walk and the cache buys nothing. Cleared by
invalidate()on writes.This is the property that actually removes the climb.
The tally is store-wide and option-independent (
search/limitapply to its output), so one cachedtally correctly serves every caller whatever options they pass.
Accepted trade, stated plainly
Label counts are now a sample over the most recent 5,000 messages, not a census — on a larger
store a count is a lower bound, and a label used only in old mail can be missing. The self-hosted
seam has no server-side label aggregate (the local seam answers this with one SQL
GROUP BY), soexact counts are obtainable only by dragging the whole mailbox over HTTP. For a sidebar "top 80
labels" list this is the right trade, and it is the same one
data.remote.tsalready made.Regression tests — they measure the pathology before the fix
Four hermetic tests in
src/lib/self-hosted-mail-data-source.test.ts, all failing pre-fix with thedefect's own numbers:
Correction to an earlier claim in this PR: it is three of the original four that fail pre-fix, not
four. The fourth passes before and after by design — it is an anti-vacuity guard so the budget
cannot be satisfied by returning nothing. The prose said "each measures the pathology"; the table
was right and the prose was wrong.
Every test was mutation-tested rather than assumed:
The mid-walk test initially passed against BOTH implementations — my stub built its response after
the gate released, so the "in-flight" walk was reading post-write rows and could not be stale. It
now snapshots rows at request time, and only then does it discriminate.
Verification
bun test src/lib/self-hosted-mail-data-source.test.ts— 109 pass, 0 fail.tsc --noEmit— clean, rc=0.AKIA....emails uifrom this branch, same pty harness, same machine):The climb is gone — 4.7% at t+160 is lower than 13.1% at t+10, where before it rose
monotonically. RSS flat. Mode and mailbox, which this PR previously failed to state: the
self-hosted seam (
SelfHostedMailDataSource) against the production hosted mailbox atemails.hasna.xyz — the only path this fix touches. A local-mode run would route to the SQLite seam
and never exercise it.
Honest correction on the headline pair.
92.3% -> 4.7%is NOT like-for-like: 92.3% was measuredagainst the installed 1.3.6 dist bundle and 4.7% against this branch's source, spanning two build
artefacts and three commits. Quote it as an order-of-magnitude indication only. The two defensible
numbers are:
variable):
340 matches this PR's independently-derived claim exactly.
Three corrections to the record in be9b3bb0
Measured, not argued:
(
15449 -> 15449). The process writes nothing while spinning, so a fix aimed at the write pathwould have been aimed at the wrong layer.
VmSizeis already 74,656,380 kB at t+10s and moves~35 MB over the next three minutes — address space reserved at startup, not growth. The real
growth is
VmRSS(166 -> 248 MB in ~3 min), which is what reaches 10 GB of swap over 35 hours.runtime.tsx:36does installprocess.once("SIGTERM") -> renderer.destroy(). The earlier SIGTERM-deafness did not reproduceand is not addressed by this PR. (Review notes the handler sets
exitCoderather thanforce-exiting, so an unbounded in-flight walk could delay exit — a plausible mechanism for the
original report, which this fix reduces without claiming to close.)
On the renderer evidence specifically: the probe that captured
fps=0.0 isRunning=falsewas atemporary script and is in no commit, so that line is not independently reproducible from this
branch. The conclusion survives on the other two measurements — the per-thread CPU split and the
allocation mechanism — but not on the 0 B/s pty capture alone, which does not prove idleness: a
damage-tracking renderer with nothing to redraw also writes nothing.
Not in scope — including one that is BIGGER than what this fixes
mailboxCounts->scanScopeRowsis still an unbounded-by-requests, uncached, un-coalescedDOUBLE walk on the same 30s sidebar tick, and adversarial review proved it reachable in the ordinary
configuration —
sourceForSelection(emails-state.tsx:106) populatessource.addressfrom theselected inbox, so selecting any single inbox rather than "All inboxes" puts every idle tick into
that path, bounded only by
MAX_SCAN_ROWS = 100_000(~200 requests per filter set, run twice forthe to/from union). A state bug makes it sticky:
setAddress(:516) commitsselectedAddressIdbefore
persistSetting(:518), which throws in self-hosted mode, so the scoped state lands eventhough the action aborted. A third walk —
listFilteredMailboxPage'ssort === "oldest"branch(
:1178-1204) — has no early break on match count by construction.So this PR does not close the idle spin on its own, and the CHANGELOG sentence has been narrowed
accordingly. All three are pre-existing, on a different code path, and deliberately not folded in;
filed as todos
90e98cccwith the reachability proof and a suggested treatment (the same threeproperties, including the generation fence, that
labelTallynow has).Also not in scope
scheduleSidebarMetanot awaiting its own in-flight work is a real second-order issue in the TUI;the data-source coalescing makes it harmless, but the UI-side scheduler is left as-is deliberately
so this diff stays at the owning layer.
is a larger change across server + client + version compat.
Task: be9b3bb0