perf(gc): the allocator hand-back addressed the wrong allocator — an idle TUI held 355 MB it had already freed (+ PERRY_GC_CENSUS) - #9637
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…ss, slot tag + side tables Env-gated (off by default) observer that classifies the whole heap at the mark-complete point of a full collection and appends one JSON line per census. Triggers: explicit gc() and SIGUSR2 (serviced by the event loop on the main thread). Validated in gc::tests::census against a heap of known composition, including the negative control (dropped roots reappear dead). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DndJ3XnhyHRYqKLBZe8ygZ
…sized side tables; borrow image bytes The GC's hand-back step called malloc_trim/malloc_zone_pressure_relief while mimalloc is the global allocator, so a full collection freed objects the OS never got back (measured: 318 MB on an idle compiled claude-code TUI). Major collections now also mi_collect(true) at the same Reclaim point, kill switch PERRY_GC_MALLOC_PURGE=0. Also at that point: shrink the shape tables and the malloc-object registry, which hashbrown had kept at their startup peak (12.3%, 10.5% and 2.3% fill). And stop copying codegen's function names and source text out of the program image into Arc<[u8]> at module init. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DndJ3XnhyHRYqKLBZe8ygZ
…ates `page_meta_census` reads OLD_GEN_PAGE_OBJECTS / OLD_GEN_PAGE_META to report their size. Both gates demand a flush/expand first, and an observer must not mutate what it measures: a pending deferred registration is at most a handful of entries of under-estimate in a diagnostic byte count, and the census removes nothing, so the resurrection hazard the gates protect against cannot arise here. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DndJ3XnhyHRYqKLBZe8ygZ
…nown-answer test hash_table_bytes added 1 before next_power_of_two, doubling the bucket count for every table already sized at a power of two. capacity() is already buckets*7/8, so buckets = capacity*8/7. The GC heap walk is unaffected. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DndJ3XnhyHRYqKLBZe8ygZ
The first version carried both in one map through a two-variant value, which added 8 bytes to every one of the ~60,000 image entries to hold the handful of inferred ones: measured +0.31 MB, a net loss even though it removed 1.8 MB of copies. The image map is now a plain &'static [u8] and overrides live in their own small map, consulted on an image miss or an undecodable image entry. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DndJ3XnhyHRYqKLBZe8ygZ
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds an environment-gated heap census for synchronous full collections. It reports heap, arena, side-table, and process metrics. The change also purges mimalloc memory, shrinks retained tables, and borrows function metadata from the program image. ChangesGC census and collection integration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~75 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The idle-memory objective remains incomplete because a malloc sweep table can retain its peak allocation after full GC. Census output also under-reports several memory sources, so these issues should be addressed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Signal as SIGUSR2
participant EventPump as js_wait_for_event
participant Census as census_poll_signal
participant GC as js_gc_collect
participant Cycle as GC cycle
participant Output as JSONL census
Signal->>EventPump: Set SIGNAL_PENDING
EventPump->>Census: Poll pending signal
Census->>GC: Arm census and collect
GC->>Cycle: Run synchronous full collection
Cycle->>Output: Classify objects and append census
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/block.rs`:
- Line 1124: Update the block-pool bytes accessor around BLOCK_POOL_BYTES to
read BLOCK_POOL_PROCESS_BYTES so block_pool_bytes reports recycled bytes
retained across all thread-local pools; preserve the existing accessor interface
and process-level census behavior.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs`:
- Line 1863: Update the PAGE_GENERATIONS retained-size calculation around
hash_table_bytes to add the summed capacity of each PageGenerationSlot::Multiple
backing allocation, matching the existing OLD_GEN_PAGE_OBJECTS accounting. Keep
the base entry-size estimate and other memory accounting unchanged.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/builtins/formatting.rs`:
- Line 511: Update the snapshot logic around registered_name_string and
function_name_registry_entries so image entries with invalid UTF-8 do not
suppress the override created by register_function_name_if_absent. Exclude
undecodable image-map keys or emit their override entry instead, while
preserving normal entries.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/closure/dynamic_props.rs`:
- Around line 1313-1314: Update the deleted-key census near the set_bytes
aggregation to include the capacity of every String in the HashSet, adding those
capacities to the reported closure.deleted_keys byte total while preserving the
existing bucket and map accounting.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/census.rs`:
- Around line 590-592: Update the cfg gate for mimalloc_info to use
target_pointer_width = "64" together with the alloc-mimalloc feature, replacing
the Apple-only target_vendor condition. Preserve the function’s existing
behavior while allowing supported 64-bit non-Apple targets and excluding 32-bit
builds.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/malloc.rs`:
- Around line 751-753: Apply the same target-based capacity check and
shrink_to(target) call used for state.realloc_forwarding to
state.realloc_snapshot_headers, so its retained capacity is reduced during the
full-GC sweep.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/stack_maps.rs`:
- Line 2013: Update the stack-map census near the existing
“stackmap.sections(file-backed)” row to add a separate row for the heap-owned
ix.sections vector, using vec_bytes(&ix.sections) to report its backing
allocation while preserving the existing file-backed slice accounting.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1948-1968: Update object_tables_census to include rows for every
heap-backed allocation initialized by ObjectHotTables::new: the
shape_kind_cache, array_tail_forward, array_tail_reverse, and array_tail_direct
boxed slices, plus the shape_cache_overflow map. Use map_bytes for the map and
the boxed-slice lengths multiplied by their element sizes for the slice
allocations, matching the existing census row conventions.
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In `@changelog.d/gc-census.md`:
- Around line 24-33: Rewrite the changelog entry to describe only the shipped
corrected estimate: use HashMap::capacity() with the appropriate bucket
calculation, and mention validation across sizes including small-table edge
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| /// Bytes currently held in this thread's recycled-block pool (MADV_FREE'd, | ||
| /// still mapped). `PERRY_GC_CENSUS` reads it; nothing else should. | ||
| pub(crate) fn block_pool_bytes() -> usize { | ||
| BLOCK_POOL_BYTES.with(Cell::get) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Report process-wide recycled-block bytes.
BLOCK_POOL_PROCESS_BYTES tracks bytes retained by every thread-local pool, but this accessor reads BLOCK_POOL_BYTES for only the thread that runs the census. A worker can retain recycled blocks while block_pool_bytes reports zero, so the census underreports retained mappings.
Read the process counter for a process-level row, or rename the row and document that it is thread-local.
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- BLOCK_POOL_BYTES.with(Cell::get)
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| BLOCK_POOL_BYTES.with(Cell::get) | |
| BLOCK_POOL_PROCESS_BYTES.load(Ordering::Relaxed) |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/block.rs` at line 1124, Update the block-pool
bytes accessor around BLOCK_POOL_BYTES to read BLOCK_POOL_PROCESS_BYTES so
block_pool_bytes reports recycled bytes retained across all thread-local pools;
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| rows.push(( | ||
| "arena.page_generations", | ||
| m.len(), | ||
| hash_table_bytes(m.capacity(), std::mem::size_of::<(usize, PageGenerationSlot)>()), |
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Include PageGenerationSlot::Multiple backing storage.
Line 1863 estimates each PAGE_GENERATIONS entry with size_of::<(usize, PageGenerationSlot)>(). That size includes the Vec handle, but not the heap allocation owned by PageGenerationSlot::Multiple.
When a page has multiple ranges, arena.page_generations underreports retained bytes. Add the summed capacity() of each Multiple slot, as this function already does for OLD_GEN_PAGE_OBJECTS.
Proposed fix
PAGE_GENERATIONS.with(|m| {
let m = m.borrow();
+ let inner: usize = m
+ .values()
+ .map(|slot| match slot {
+ PageGenerationSlot::Single(_) => 0,
+ PageGenerationSlot::Multiple(ranges) => vec_bytes(ranges),
+ })
+ .sum();
rows.push((
"arena.page_generations",
m.len(),
- hash_table_bytes(m.capacity(), std::mem::size_of::<(usize, PageGenerationSlot)>()),
+ hash_table_bytes(
+ m.capacity(),
+ std::mem::size_of::<(usize, PageGenerationSlot)>(),
+ ) + inner,
));
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| hash_table_bytes(m.capacity(), std::mem::size_of::<(usize, PageGenerationSlot)>()), | |
| PAGE_GENERATIONS.with(|m| { | |
| let m = m.borrow(); | |
| let inner: usize = m | |
| .values() | |
| .map(|slot| match slot { | |
| PageGenerationSlot::Single(_) => 0, | |
| PageGenerationSlot::Multiple(ranges) => vec_bytes(ranges), | |
| }) | |
| .sum(); | |
| rows.push(( | |
| "arena.page_generations", | |
| m.len(), | |
| hash_table_bytes( | |
| m.capacity(), | |
| std::mem::size_of::<(usize, PageGenerationSlot)>(), | |
| ) + inner, | |
| )); | |
| }); |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs` at line 1863, Update the
PAGE_GENERATIONS retained-size calculation around hash_table_bytes to add the
summed capacity of each PageGenerationSlot::Multiple backing allocation,
matching the existing OLD_GEN_PAGE_OBJECTS accounting. Keep the base entry-size
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| .collect(); | ||
| if let Ok(overrides) = function_name_overrides().lock() { | ||
| for (k, v) in overrides.iter() { | ||
| if !map.contains_key(k) { |
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Preserve the runtime override for an invalid image name.
register_function_name_if_absent creates an override when the image bytes are invalid UTF-8. registered_name_string uses that override. This snapshot suppresses it because the image map still contains the key. Consumers of function_name_registry_entries can then lose the recovered function name.
Filter undecodable image entries from the snapshot, or replace them with the override entry.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/builtins/formatting.rs` at line 511, Update the
snapshot logic around registered_name_string and function_name_registry_entries
so image entries with invalid UTF-8 do not suppress the override created by
register_function_name_if_absent. Exclude undecodable image-map keys or emit
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| let inner: usize = m.values().map(set_bytes).sum(); | ||
| rows.push(("closure.deleted_keys", m.len(), map_bytes(&m) + inner)); |
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Include deleted-key string allocations in the census.
set_bytes counts the HashSet<String> buckets, but not each String backing buffer. This makes closure.deleted_keys under-report memory while closure.dynamic_props includes equivalent key capacity.
Add the sum of String::capacity() for each deleted key.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/closure/dynamic_props.rs` around lines 1313 - 1314,
Update the deleted-key census near the set_bytes aggregation to include the
capacity of every String in the HashSet, adding those capacities to the reported
closure.deleted_keys byte total while preserving the existing bucket and map
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| // `libmimalloc-sys` is an Apple-only dependency of this crate (the OS-tag | ||
| // retag is what pulls it in), so the stats call is Apple-only too. | ||
| #[cfg(all(feature = "alloc-mimalloc", target_vendor = "apple"))] |
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Align mimalloc_info with the dependency target gate.
libmimalloc-sys is available whenever alloc-mimalloc is enabled on a 64-bit target, but this function is Apple-only. Use #[cfg(all(target_pointer_width = "64", feature = "alloc-mimalloc"))] so Linux reports mimalloc statistics and 32-bit Apple builds do not reference an unavailable dependency.
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gate for mimalloc_info to use target_pointer_width = "64" together with the
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| if state.realloc_forwarding.capacity() > target { | ||
| state.realloc_forwarding.shrink_to(target); | ||
| } |
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Shrink the sweep-snapshot registry too.
realloc_snapshot_headers grows to the malloc sweep high-water mark. Clearing it does not reduce capacity, and this pass does not shrink it. After a burst, its empty bucket allocation remains retained after the full GC that is intended to return idle memory.
Apply the same target-based shrink_to logic to state.realloc_snapshot_headers.
Proposed fix
if state.realloc_forwarding.capacity() > target {
state.realloc_forwarding.shrink_to(target);
}
+ if state.realloc_snapshot_headers.capacity() > target {
+ state.realloc_snapshot_headers.shrink_to(target);
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| if state.realloc_forwarding.capacity() > target { | |
| state.realloc_forwarding.shrink_to(target); | |
| } | |
| if state.realloc_forwarding.capacity() > target { | |
| state.realloc_forwarding.shrink_to(target); | |
| } | |
| if state.realloc_snapshot_headers.capacity() > target { | |
| state.realloc_snapshot_headers.shrink_to(target); | |
| } |
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| return rows; | ||
| }; | ||
| let ix = &g.index; | ||
| rows.push(("stackmap.sections(file-backed)", ix.sections.len(), ix.sections.iter().map(|s| s.len()).sum())); |
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Count the heap-owned sections vector separately.
Line 2013 reports only the lengths of the referenced file-backed slices. It omits the backing allocation for the heap-owned Vec<&'static [u8]> in ix.sections. Add a separate census row using vec_bytes(&ix.sections) so the stack-map index accounting includes both storage types.
Proposed fix
let ix = &g.index;
+ rows.push(("stackmap.sections", ix.sections.len(), vec_bytes(&ix.sections)));
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| rows.push(("stackmap.sections(file-backed)", ix.sections.len(), ix.sections.iter().map(|s| s.len()).sum())); | |
| rows.push(("stackmap.sections", ix.sections.len(), vec_bytes(&ix.sections))); | |
| rows.push(("stackmap.sections(file-backed)", ix.sections.len(), ix.sections.iter().map(|s| s.len()).sum())); |
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stack-map census near the existing “stackmap.sections(file-backed)” row to add a
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| /// `PERRY_GC_CENSUS`: per-thread object tables (`RuntimeState`): the fixed | ||
| /// caches, the overflow-field vectors and the descriptor tables. | ||
| pub(crate) fn object_tables_census() -> Vec<crate::gc::census::SideTableRow> { | ||
| use crate::gc::census::{map_bytes, vec_bytes}; | ||
| let st = crate::state::state(); | ||
| let mut rows: Vec<crate::gc::census::SideTableRow> = Vec::new(); | ||
| { | ||
| let m = st.object_hot.overflow_fields.borrow(); | ||
| let inner: usize = m.values().map(vec_bytes).sum(); | ||
| rows.push(("object.overflow_fields", m.len(), map_bytes(&m) + inner)); | ||
| } | ||
| rows.push(( | ||
| "object.transition_cache(fixed)", | ||
| TRANSITION_CACHE_SIZE, | ||
| TRANSITION_CACHE_SIZE * std::mem::size_of::<TransitionEntry>(), | ||
| )); | ||
| rows.push(( | ||
| "object.shape_inline_cache(fixed)", | ||
| SHAPE_INLINE_CACHE_SIZE, | ||
| SHAPE_INLINE_CACHE_SIZE * std::mem::size_of::<ShapeCacheEntry>(), | ||
| )); |
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printf '%s\n' '--- ObjectHotTables initialization ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- census helper definitions and nearby census code ---'
rg -n -C 8 'fn (map_bytes|vec_bytes)|map_bytes|vec_bytes|object_tables_census' crates/perry-runtime/src/gc crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rsRepository: PerryTS/perry
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Account for all heap-backed ObjectHotTables allocations in object_tables_census. ObjectHotTables::new allocates shape_kind_cache, array_tail_forward, array_tail_reverse, and array_tail_direct as boxed slices, and shape_cache_overflow as a map. The census reports none of them, so side_table_bytes can under-report retained per-thread object memory. Add rows using map_bytes and the boxed-slice sizes.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs` around lines 1948 - 1968, Update
object_tables_census to include rows for every heap-backed allocation
initialized by ObjectHotTables::new: the shape_kind_cache, array_tail_forward,
array_tail_reverse, and array_tail_direct boxed slices, plus the
shape_cache_overflow map. Use map_bytes for the map and the boxed-slice lengths
multiplied by their element sizes for the slice allocations, matching the
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Landed via merge train #9642 (rebase-merge, authorship preserved). Two file-cap splits carried (census rows out of stack_maps.rs, deep-equal out of formatting.rs). Excellent diagnosis — the trim-vs-mimalloc mismatch is the kind of thing that reports success forever. |
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An idle compiled claude-code TUI held far more memory than its live JS heap explains. This adds an env-gated heap census to find out where it actually goes, and fixes the three things the census found. The live JS heap was never the problem: it measures 22.5 MB.
The finding
The GC's allocator hand-back step addresses the wrong allocator.
run_malloc_trimcallslibc::malloc_trim(0)on glibc andmalloc_zone_pressure_reliefon macOS, whilelib.rsinstalls mimalloc as the#[global_allocator]on every 64-bit target. So on both production platforms the step ran, reported success, and could not touch the pages a collection had just freed.Telemetry proves it: three explicit full collections each executed
malloc_trim(0)in 16-23 us and moved RSS by 0 MB. UnderMIMALLOC_PURGE_DELAY=0the same collection returned 318 MB. The collector was already freeing the memory; mimalloc was holding it.Idle compiled TUI, default configuration, no env vars, forced major collection:
What changed
mi_collect(true)at the existing Reclaim site, next to the trim, major-only so the cost is paid once per full cycle instead of on every free the way the env knob would. Measured at 32-59 us against cycle times of 380-6500 us. Kill switchPERRY_GC_MALLOC_PURGE=0.libmimalloc-sysmoves off its Apple-only target gate; the Apple-only part was always the VM-tag retag (#6882), not the crate.Shrink the tables hashbrown never gives back.
remove/retaindo not release, so the shape tables and the malloc-object registry kept the allocation of their startup peak for the process lifetime, the latter behind a one-wayheavy_capacity_reservedlatch nothing ever cleared. Both nowshrink_to(2 * len)at the same point, keeping one doubling of headroom so an oscillating table does not re-grow on the next insert.Stop copying the program image into the heap. Codegen emits function names and source text as
private unnamed_addr constantglobals: read-only, file-backed, already resident at zero private cost.js_register_function_nameandjs_register_function_sourcecopied all of it intoArc<[u8]>at module init, a second dirty copy of 21.6 MB of source and 1.8 MB of names. Both registries now borrow the image; the FFI safety contracts require'staticinstead of promising a copy. Runtime-inferred names (a symbol description,get <key>) stay owned in their own small map — the first attempt carried both in one map through a two-variant value and lost 0.31 MB, because 8 extra bytes on 60,000 image entries costs more than the copies it removed.Side tables end at 58.9 MB, down about 38 MB in real terms. The live JS heap is unchanged.
The instrument
PERRY_GC_CENSUS=<path>appends one JSON line per census. Off by default; when unset nothing is installed or armed and the residual cost is one relaxed atomic load per event-loop wait. Triggers are an explicitgc()andSIGUSR2, serviced by the event loop on the main thread.It runs in two passes inside a synchronous full cycle, because a post-sweep walk cannot tell live from dead (the sweep resets whole blocks and keeps headers). Pass one snapshots reachability at the end of mark propagation; pass two classifies at sweep entry into live, late-marked (retained by the block-persistence window, reachable from nothing) and dead. It reports live/dead per space, per GC type, per class with inline-slot capacity versus used, a NaN-box tag histogram of every live slot, the block accounting that separates live from free-but-dirty, and the entries and bytes of every runtime side table outside the GC heap.
Validated against a heap of known composition in
gc::tests::census: 1000 rooted strings and 500 rooted 8-slot objects appear with exactly those counts and header-inclusive sizes, and reappear as dead once their roots drop.One correction, self-inflicted
The first
hash_table_bytesadded 1 before rounding to a power of two.HashMap::capacity()is alreadybuckets * 7/8, so that doubled the reported storage of every table already sized at a power of two. The heap walk was never affected. It is fixed with a known-answer test against realHashMaps, which failed on its first run and taught me hashbrown does not apply the 7/8 factor below 8 buckets (4 hold 3, 8 hold 7). That edge is now in the test.Worth stating for anyone reading the numbers: the estimator fix and the behaviour fixes are in the same branch, so per-row before/after deltas mix a reporting correction with a real reduction. The RSS figures above come from
smapsand are unaffected, and the copied-byte savings are exact in both estimators.Verification
PERRY_GC_TRACEaccounting.Found along the way, filed separately
gc()resurrects the whole recent-block window. Block persistence has an early-out for cycles that ran the full conservative scan and names explicitgc()as one of them, but gc(): the forced conservative stack scan makes every retained-heap reading nondeterministic, and 16% too large on a 50 MB live set #7558 removed that scan frommanual_gc_collect_now, so the early-out no longer fires. 13,364 dead objects marked live in a 30-line fixture.remembered_set.newly_markedexactly.Neither is fixed here; both interact with the idle-memory picture and are for whoever owns the generational invariants.
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PERRY_GC_CENSUS=<path>, producing detailed JSON memory reports after explicit garbage collection orSIGUSR2.PERRY_GC_MALLOC_PURGE=0.