fix(server): stop an oversized provider diff from exhausting the backend heap - #11125
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…end heap A Codex `turn/diff/updated` notification carries the whole turn diff, which reaches hundreds of MiB on a large turn. `CodexAdapter` put that same string on both `raw.payload.diff` and `payload.unifiedDiff`, and `EventNdjsonLogger` JSON-encoded the event whole before writing it, so a single notification materialized a multi-hundred-MiB log line and could stop the backend with an out-of-memory error. The logger now bounds an event's string values before serializing it, under two limits: no single value keeps more than `maxStringLength` characters, and the values of one record together keep no more than `maxRecordLength`, so many merely large values cannot add up to a line the per-value cap would have allowed on its own. This guards the native, canonical, and orchestration streams for every provider. `CodexAdapter` no longer mirrors the diff into `raw.payload`, because the canonical `payload.unifiedDiff` beside it already carries the same string. With a 64 MiB turn diff, the canonical record drops from 128.00 MiB to 256 KiB. Fixes pingdotgg#10924
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This production fix adds a complex, default-on size-bounding policy to the shared provider logger and changes Codex diff event representation across runtime paths. Unresolved robustness concerns remain around accessor values and the configured truncation cap. Not approved because:
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts`:
- Line 575: Update the record-size accounting in the serialization logic around
budget.remaining and the related paths at lines 585 and 611-614 so the budget
measures the complete encoded JSON record, including escaped values, property
names, numbers, booleans, and structural syntax. Use bounded encoding or account
for the serialized representation before allocation, while preserving existing
output behavior; add coverage for escaped strings and unusually long keys.
- Around line 613-614: Update the serialization flow around clampStrings and
encodeUnknownJsonString so property access performed while clamping is inside
the existing serialization error boundary. Ensure an enumerable getter that
throws causes the invalid record to be dropped rather than allowing logger.write
to fail, while preserving normal clamping and encoding behavior.
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A truncated value kept up to `maxStringLength` characters of the original and then appended the truncation marker, so the replacement ran past the cap it was supposed to honor. The marker now counts against the per-value cap as well as the record budget, and a value whose cap cannot fit even a marker is dropped, the same rule the record budget already applied.
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Bounding a record reads every enumerable property before the encoder runs, and it ran outside the guard that turns a serialization failure into a dropped record. An event whose getter throws therefore failed the write outright, where `main` drops it with a warning. Bounding now sits behind the same guard. The record budget's comment also says what it measures: retained text, not the encoded line.
Rebuilding a record copied an object with a spread as soon as one field needed cutting, and the spread read every other field again. An accessor that returned a different value on that second read reached the encoder unbounded. Bounding now takes two passes. A read-only pass settles whether the event fits, spending the budget exactly as the rebuild would, so an ordinary event is still written as it came without copying anything. Only an event that does not fit is rebuilt, and that pass reads every field once and stores it as data. Copies have no prototype, so a `__proto__` key stays an ordinary field.
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts (1)
690-696: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winScope the read-once guarantee to the rebuild path.
fitsLimitsreads each enumerable property, thenboundEventreturns the originaleventreference.encodeUnknownJsonStringreads those properties a second time. If a getter returns a short string duringfitsLimitsand a large string during encoding, the unbounded value reaches the encoder.The doc at lines 620-622 states an accessor cannot hand the encoder a different, unbounded value. That holds only when
clampStringsruns.Two options:
- Record the values observed by
fitsLimitsand encode those values, so both paths encode data.- Keep the fast path and limit the doc claim to the rebuild path.
Getters also run twice for an oversized event, so a getter with a side effect executes twice.
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676-682: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the read count so the test proves its stated invariant.
fitsLimitsperforms the first read andclampStringsperforms the second read, sonoteis read twice for this event. The second read returns 100,000ncharacters, whichclampStringstruncates to 64.assert.notInclude(line, "n".repeat(65))therefore passes even when the value the encoder receives comes from a later read.Assert
readsdirectly, or assert the encodednotevalue, so the test fails if a later read reaches the encoder.♻️ Proposed assertion
const line = NodeFS.readFileSync(ownedLogPath(basePath, "thread-accessor"), "utf8").trim(); assert.equal(line.length < 1_000, true); assert.notInclude(line, "n".repeat(65)); assert.include(line, '"id":"evt-accessor"'); + // Pin the invariant: the encoder must not trigger another accessor read. + const readsAfterWrite = reads; + assert.equal(reads, readsAfterWrite);Choose the assertion that matches the invariant you intend to keep, given the fast path in
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts`:
- Around line 676-682: Update the test around the event written by logger.write
and the reads of note to assert the expected read count directly (or assert the
encoded note value), ensuring the test fails when a later read reaches the
encoder while preserving the boundEvent fast-path behavior.
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts`:
- Around line 690-696: Limit the accessor-consistency guarantee in the
documentation around boundEvent to the rebuild path where clampStrings runs,
since the fast path returns the original event after fitsLimits and encoding
rereads properties. Preserve the existing fast-path behavior and avoid
introducing value caching or other broader changes.
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The rebuild reads each field once, but an event that already fits is passed to the encoder as it came, which reads its accessors again, and a rebuilt event has them read by both passes. Say so instead of implying the guarantee covers every event.
Fixes #10924.
Problem
A Codex
turn/diff/updatednotification carries the whole turn diff, which reaches hundreds of MiB on a large turn. Two things then multiply it:CodexAdapterattaches the native payload asrawand maps the same string ontopayload.unifiedDiff, so the canonical event holds the diff twice.ProviderService.publishRuntimeEventwrites that event to the canonical provider log before publishing it, andEventNdjsonLogger.writeJSON-encodes the whole event and holds the resulting line in memory.turn.diff.updatedis not transient, and there is no per-record size cap — rotation (10 MiB) and the flush watermark (1 MiB) both run after serialization.One notification therefore materializes a multi-hundred-MiB line, which is enough to stop the backend with an out-of-memory error.
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EventNdjsonLoggerbounds an event's string values beforeserializeEvent, under two limits: no single value keeps more thanmaxStringLengthcharacters (default 262,144), and the values of one record together keep no more thanmaxRecordLength(default 4 MiB of characters). Both are configurable.[truncated by t3, <n> characters total], so the record keeps its shape, its type/method, and the original size.runtimeEventBaseputs a provider's bulkyrawpayload ahead oftypein key order, so without it a single large field would empty every identifier behind it and the record would no longer say what it is.String.lengthis O(1), while counting real bytes would scan every string on the write path.maxRecordLengththerefore bounds retained text rather than the encoded line: keys and JSON syntax are not counted, and escaping can grow the text at most sixfold.A read-only first pass settles whether an event fits, so an ordinary event is written as it came and copies no object or array. Only an event that does not fit is rebuilt, in a pass that reads every field once and stores it as data, so the rebuilt record carries only values that were bounded. Anything that is not a plain object or array is left alone, so
toJSONcarriers such asDatestill reach the encoder intact, and a cycle is returned untouched where it closes so serialization fails the way it did before. Bounding runs inside the same guard as the encoder, so an event whose accessor throws is still dropped with a warning rather than failing the write. This guards the native, canonical, and orchestration streams for every provider, not only Codex.CodexAdapterno longer mirrors the diff intoraw.payloadforturn/diff/updated. It leaves a short marker pointing atpayload.unifiedDiff, which carries the same string. Nothing readsraw.payload.diff.Effect
One canonical
turn.diff.updatedbuilt from a 128 MiB native diff, written through the realEventNdjsonLogger. The "before" row drives the same logger with limits large enough that nothing is clamped and the diff mirrored intoraw, which is the pathmaintakes today.FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memoryThe line written after the change still carries
type,eventId, and the truncation marker with the original length.Tests
EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— a 200,000-character diff on both fields produces a record under 1 KB carrying the truncation marker, with each truncated field (marker included) inside the 64-character cap, while short values in the same event are still written verbatim. Fails when the marker is not counted against the cap.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— ten values that each clear the per-value cap are still held to the record budget between them.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— 200 oversized values against a 2,048-character budget stay within it; unbilled markers would have spent roughly 8,000. Fails when the marker charging is removed.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts—typeandeventIdsurvive behind a 100,000-characterrawvalue. Fails when the short-value reserve is removed.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— an event whose enumerable getter throws is dropped, and the next write to the same thread still lands. Fails when bounding runs outside the serialization guard.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— a getter that grows between reads is written at the value the rebuild bounded, not read again unbounded. Fails when the rebuild re-reads fields.CodexAdapter.test.ts— a mappedturn/diff/updatedkeeps the full diff onpayload.unifiedDiffand the marker onraw.payload.diff.On the rebased branch,
vp test run src/provider src/orchestration/Layers/ProviderRuntimeIngestion.test.tsinapps/servergives 1,306 passed and 2 failed. Both failures are Windows-host issues in files this PR does not touch (CursorProvidersymlinkEPERM, auserInputAttachmentspath assertion), and both fail the same way onmain.vp fmt --check,vp lint,tsc --noEmitforapps/server, andknip:checkare clean.No UI surface changes, so no screenshots.
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