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Stacked. This branch is one commit on 644b9d362, which is main +
#9838's two commits
(0d9200542, 644b9d362) — not yet on main, so GitHub
shows all three. Review only 0846d672e. My commit touches
gc/idle_reclaim.rs, gc/mod.rs, gc/tests/idle_reclaim.rs and a changelog
fragment; it does not touch gc/policy.rs or
scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json, so it is not party to the pin conflict
described in #9853.

Priced on perrymaster (2026-09-06 11:34 CEST) — every registered falsifier
clause passes; see "Measured" below.
Landing order: #9838 → this PR →
#9845
. #9845 (the regex header move) is blocked on this change and lands
with or after it.

The problem: a declined idle compaction is a terminal state

Measured on the compiled claude-code TUI, one 400-char turn then a 120 s idle
window, quiet host (load < 0.1), both rounds of each arm:

arm after turn after 120 s idle idle CPU
A 757 / 759 MB 512 / 527 MB 2.63 / 2.60 s
R 738 / 742 MB 748 / 748 MB 1.09 / 1.07 s
C 747 / 746 MB 746 / 747 MB 1.10 / 1.05 s

R ends the turn 19 MB better than A and finishes 221 MB worse. The
reclaimer's own diagnostic says why, and it is a closed loop.

M1 — the compactor's residue gate declines, narrowly and reproducibly

idle_compact.rs::compaction_owed gate 1 is
residue < 8 MB || residue < occupancy / 100 * 25:

arm run occupancy after reclaim #1 residue ratio gate 1 [gc-idle-compact] start
A r1 105.47 MB 27.36 MB 25.94 % PASS 2
A r2 105.42 MB 27.36 MB 25.95 % PASS 2
R r1 92.41 MB 21.89 MB 23.68 % DECLINE 0
R r2 92.42 MB 21.87 MB 23.67 % DECLINE 0
C r1 92.40 MB 21.86 MB 23.66 % DECLINE 0
C r2 92.38 MB 21.87 MB 23.67 % DECLINE 0

Within-arm spread across rounds is 0.01–0.02 points. This is a stable
operating point 1.3 points under a threshold
, not a coin-flip, and A clears it
by 0.94.

M2 — the decline removes the only event that could revisit it

idle_reclaim.rs::start_reason wants 2^backoff collections the reducer did
not start, and external_collections() subtracts only the reducer's own
completions — so a compaction is what registers as external. A's trace shows
each one contributing exactly +1:

A r1: reclaim attempt=1 external_collections=13
      compact attempt=1  -> kept_promise=true, released 17.72 MB
      reclaim attempt=2 external_collections=14   <- the compaction
      compact attempt=2  -> kept_promise=false, released 0
      reclaim attempt=3 external_collections=15   <- the compaction
R r1: reclaim attempt=1 external_collections=9
      (no compaction, so no external collection, so no attempt 2 — ever)

The loop closes on itself: gate 1 declines → no compaction → no external
collection → since_attempt stays 0 → the reducer never runs again → nothing
moves the ratio gate 1 reads.

M3 — the young half, which this change does NOT address

arena/reset.rs rejects a block with DeallocReject::HasLive:

R r1 and r2:    examined=66 released=0   has_live=39 aging=22
A pre-compact:  examined=65 released=0   has_live=3  aging=57
A post-compact: examined=65 released=57  has_live=3  aging=0

39 of R's 66 arena blocks hold a live object against 3 of 65 in A. Only an
evacuation consolidates those. Stated plainly: this PR does not touch that,
and a second change may follow
— see "What is not addressed" below.

Where the 221 MB actually is

From the [gc-idle-reclaim] start lines' own arena_capacity / arena_live:

A r1 attempt 1 A r1 attempt 3 R r1 (only attempt)
arena_live 111.54 MB 34.73 MB 97.43 MB
arena_capacity 182.45 MB 81.79 MB 168.82 MB

A releases 100.7 MB of arena capacity across three observations; R releases
none on one.
Decomposition: arena capacity ~87 MB (168.8 − 81.8) + young
blocks ~57 MB + old-gen ~38 MB (17.7 compacted + 21.0 reclaimed) ≈ 182 of the
221 MB
, the rest being malloc and side tables. arena_right_size::owed() needs
multiple full observations, so the largest single piece sits downstream of M2.

Why the gate constant was not the fix — measured, not a matter of principle

Lowering IDLE_COMPACT_MIN_RESIDUE_PCT from 25 to 23 would have let R start a
compaction. The same R binary in a 5 s idle window did clear the gate, at
25.81 %, ran the compaction, and released 0
(kept_promise=false,
reusable unchanged, backoff_shift 0→1). Nor is that peculiar to R — A's own
second compaction releases 0 at 54.6 % residue:

A r1 compact attempt=2: selected=1852 selected_live=1145368 releasable=25165824
                        -> released=0 kept_promise=false productive=false

Half of A's compactions in this capture released nothing. The successful and
failed selections are near-identical (selected 1859 / 1852 / 2080; selected_live
1.16 / 1.15 / 1.07 MB), but the failures stop ~4x earlier (pause_us 107k and
161k against 442k), which looks like a budget abort. The knob is not merely
forbidden by the directive; on this binary's own evidence it does not work.

The fix extends an exemption that already exists twelve lines above it

StartReason::ArenaRightSize already bypasses this same gate, with a comment
naming the identical deadlock:

// Arena capacity release itself needs multiple full observations. Once
// sustained low utilization has created that bounded debt, requiring
// another mutator collection here recreates #9709's deadlock: the
// mutator is idle precisely because there is no more activity.

A's attempt 3 fires on exactly that reason (reason=arena_right_size). This adds
StartReason::IdleElapsed on the same reasoning: a requirement denominated in
mutator collections cannot be met by a heap whose mutator is idle, which is
precisely when the reducer is wanted.

Anti-spin needs no new rule

The wait is IDLE_RECLAIM_REARM_MS << backoff_shift — the same shift that
prices the activity arm — so an unproductive full doubles it: 15 s, 30 s, 60 s,
120 s, 240 s. And the arm is disarmed entirely at
IDLE_RECLAIM_MAX_BACKOFF_SHIFT
rather than merely slowed, because exponential
spacing alone still means a whole-heap mark every eight minutes on a permanently
idle process, which does not meet "no new collection in a heap with nothing to
give". Five bounded attempts, then silence until a productive full resets the
shift — bounded-while-unproductive by construction, unbounded while the heap is
still returning memory, which is the case this exists for.

IDLE_RECLAIM_REARM_MS (15 s) is deliberately larger than
IDLE_RECLAIM_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (10 s), so the rate floor is never the binding
constraint on this arm and the two gates cannot be mistaken for one another when
reading a diag.

Tests and sabotage matrix

cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- gc:: arena::1,143 passed, 0 failed.
All 12 pre-existing idle_reclaim tests still pass, including the two most
exposed to this change
(sustained_arena_slack_gets_one_bounded_followup_without_mutator_activity,
idle_reclaim_backs_off_after_an_unproductive_full).

guard removed a_parked_heap_… an_unproductive_streak_… failing assertion
none ok ok — (14 passed)
the IdleElapsed arm FAIL FAIL "a second attempt must start on elapsed idle alone"
<< backoff_shift on the wait ok FAIL "shift 1: must not re-arm before the doubled wait"
the backoff_shift < MAX disarm ok FAIL "at the maximum shift the elapsed arm is disarmed…"

Removing the arm fails both, and that is not separable: every follow-up in the
streak test is elapsed-driven, so deleting the arm deletes both tests' subject.
The other two guards fail exactly one test each.

The first test asserts which arm started the full, via a dedicated
idle_reclaim_elapsed_starts counter rather than the attempt count — the attempt
count alone cannot distinguish the three start reasons, which is exactly the
ambiguity that would let the test pass for the wrong reason. It also runs with
no external collection anywhere after the first, which is the production
condition.

Falsifier — registered before the arm is priced

On perrymaster, rotated against R, both lengths, 120 s idle rows:

  1. R's residue ratio must climb on attempts 2–3 the way A's does
    (25.94 → 54.61 → 54.97 %), and the arena-capacity release must follow.
    If the ratio does not climb, this change is inert and the young-evacuation
    route is the only fix.
  2. [gc-idle-compact] start ≥ 1 in R.
  3. reason=idle_elapsed present in [gc-idle-reclaim] start — confirming the
    new arm is what started them, not activity and not arena debt.
  4. has_live on the general-reclaim census falling toward A's 3.
  5. No regression at 3300, where R already settles (1035 → 512/590), and no new
    collection in a heap that is genuinely quiet with nothing to give.

Measured (perrymaster, idle rows, load < 0.3)

R = 86fa23d97 (#9845 alone), RA = c9b98b8f0 (#9845 + this change), one base
644b9d362, 120 s idle window, two rounds per arm rotated, PERRY_GC_DIAG=1.
RSS in MB, CPU in seconds:

400 chars turn CPU post-turn after 120 s idle CPU reclaim attempts (of which idle_elapsed) compactions has_live end arena_capacity end
R r1/r2 2.06/2.08 742/749 751/750 1.1/1.1 1 (0) / 1 (0) 0/0 37/39 of 66 170.9/168.8 MB
RA r1/r2 2.05/2.09 742/748 453/453 3.2/2.9 8 (4) / 8 (4) 3/3 2/1 54.5/57.7 MB
3300 chars
R r1/r2 11.46/10.91 1069/1074 628/623 14.6/15.2 2 (0) / 2 (0) 1/1 247.5/237.0 MB
RA r1/r2 9.97/9.90 1061/1057 521/644 12.9/13.6 7 (3) / 7 (3) 3/3 81.8/82.8 MB

Settled 453 vs 751 MB at 400 — the parked case is gone, and RA sits below the
base arm's own 512–527
(A's single-turn rows in "The problem" above) and below
A's session-then-settle 620/633.

And after a four-turn session, not just an isolated turn

Same host, four 400-char turns in one process with 5 s gaps, then 120 s idle,
order R/RA/RA/R:

run per-turn CPU RSS after each turn after 120 s reclaim attempts (idle_elapsed) / compactions / fulls / idle CPU
R #1 2.56 1.73 2.04 1.96 785 766 721 789 737 0 (0) / 0 / 0 / 0.02 s — parked
R #4 2.59 1.68 1.95 2.00 775 767 721 901 752 0 (0) / 0 / 0 / 0.02 s — parked
RA #2 2.51 1.69 2.26 1.94 779 764 706 778 557 8 (6) / 2 / 10 / 2.43 s
RA #3 2.54 1.66 2.54 1.89 777 768 701 778 574 8 (6) / 2 / 10 / 2.18 s

Both R draws park this time (737 / 752 MB) — an earlier capture had one R
run settle at 616 because its idle loop happened to produce a collection, and
that was the lucky draw, not the typical one. With this change the same session
settles at 557–574 MB, below the base arm's own 620/633. Six of the eight
attempts start on reason=idle_elapsed; the later done lines read
reclaimed_old=0 with reusable ~62 MB against old_in_use ~92 MB (67 %), i.e.
the reducer converges and the elapsed arm stops. Price: ~2.3 s of CPU inside
the 120 s window against 0.02 s parked
— level with what the base arm's own
attempts cost.

Raw: perrymaster /root/rig9831/multi_idle_ra.jsonl,
multi_idle_ra_{R,RA}_{1..4}.diag.

The five registered clauses, one by one

  1. "R's residue ratio must climb on attempts 2–3 the way A's does, and the
    arena-capacity release must follow; if the ratio does not climb, this change
    is inert." — PASSES.
    R parks at 23.7 % after its single attempt; RA's
    later attempts read 18.1/46.3 = 39 % and 20.4/49.8 = 41 %.
    arena_capacity follows: 170.9 → 54.5 and 168.8 → 57.7 MB.
  2. "[gc-idle-compact] start ≥ 1 in R." — PASSES. 3 per run against
    0.
  3. "reason=idle_elapsed present in [gc-idle-reclaim] start." — PASSES.
    Attempts 5, 6 and 8 in both RA runs. Attempts 2–4 read
    reason=activity, because once the first elapsed re-arm has run, its own
    collections count as external and the activity arm carries the next few —
    which is the intended interaction, not a second mechanism.
  4. "has_live on the general-reclaim census falling toward A's 3." —
    PASSES.
    37–39 of 66 → 2 and 1.
  5. "No regression at 3300, and no new collection in a heap that is genuinely
    quiet with nothing to give." — PASSES.
    At 3300 the same mechanism runs with
    a smaller gap, because R already earns 2 attempts from its own collections:
    arena_capacity 237–247 → 82 MB, settled 521/644 vs 628/623, and RA's
    idle CPU is lower (12.9/13.6 vs 14.6/15.2 s). Bounded-while-unproductive
    holds: by attempt 8 the elapsed arm sits at backoff_shift 2 with
    old_in_use unchanged
    — it converges and stops, as designed. At 400 the
    attempts do cost idle CPU (3.0 vs 1.1 s per 120 s), which is level with
    the base arm's own 2.6 s.

The compactor is not what settles it

Every compaction RA ran was unproductivereleased=0,
kept_promise=false, backoff_shift 0→1→2. The 298 MB comes from the
reclaimer's repeated sweeps, general-block aging, and arena right-sizing,
not from compaction. What the compaction contributes is the external
collection
that used to be the only way to re-arm the reducer, which is the
loop M2 describes; this PR supplies that re-arm directly, so the release no
longer depends on a compaction being productive. The same reading held on the
A/R session-then-settle rows, where both arms' single compaction was
kept_promise=false as well.

Turn CPU is unchanged — the change does not touch it

The 3300 turn-CPU column above (RA 9.97/9.90 against R 11.46/10.91) looked like
a win and is noise. A dedicated sanity rotation, 3 rounds, load 1.3–1.8:

R RA per-pair delta
3300 turn CPU 9.88–11.22 (mean 10.75) 10.04–11.38 (mean 10.90) +1.39, +0.16, −1.11
400 turn CPU 2.01–2.09 2.04–2.05 −0.04, +0.04, −0.01 (flat)

The sign changes between pairs at 3300 and the 400 rows are flat. Turn CPU is
unchanged; this change does not touch it.
No CPU claim is made here — the
claim is the settled-memory and reclaim-schedule columns.

The 400 settle does not need the full 120 s

Same arms, a 30 s idle window: RA settles to 529–574 MB against R's
745–748−174…−216 MB in every pair — while post-turn RSS (739–743 vs
740–743) and peak RSS are identical. The re-arm acts early in the window, not
only at the end of a long one.

Raw: perrymaster /root/rig9831/idleRA.jsonl,
idleRA_{R,RA}_{3300,400}_r{1,2}.diag, and combRA.jsonl for the sanity
rotation and the 30 s rows.

What is not addressed

The young half. has_live=39 of 66 arena blocks is evacuation-bound and this
change does nothing for it. Whether an idle young evacuation (a copying minor at
an idle safepoint when the young generation holds few live objects across many
blocks) is also needed is a separate question and would be a separate
change. The session-then-settle rows now answer it: when the reclaimer gets its
second attempt, the young blocks age out and release on their own
(has_live 37–39 of 66 → 2 and 1 with this change), so a dedicated idle young
evacuation is likely not needed — but nothing here evacuates them, and that
statement stands.

Provenance: secret-tests/cc-perf-campaign/COUNTER_idle_reclaim_parked.md;
captures perrymaster:/root/rig9831/idle400_{A,R,C}_r{1,2}.diag and
idle400.jsonl. Refs #9831.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved idle memory reclamation so declined cleanup attempts can be retried after sufficient idle time, with safeguards against repeated unnecessary attempts.
    • Reduced repeated garbage-collection activity during small JSON parsing operations, especially for applications with larger live memory sets.
    • Improved collection scheduling to avoid redundant cleanup requests and better adapt to recent reclaim effectiveness.
  • Performance

    • Reduced CPU usage during streamed responses involving frequent small JSON parses.

Ralph Küpper and others added 3 commits September 6, 2026 04:41
Issue PerryTS#9831 measured the ArenaBytes arm firing 51 times in one 66-delta
claude-code reply, each collection freeing a median 131 KB, while the
adaptive step sat saturated at 1 GiB. The issue located the discarded
backoff in the arm's own re-arm arithmetic; correcting that (the issue's
refuted branch) bought -10.8 % CPU for +22 % settled footprint and was
rightly rejected.

The arm's re-arm is not what re-fires it. Between two consecutive
firings the arena grows a few hundred KB, against a trigger armed 16 MB
(and below the ceiling, up to 128 MB) above the post-collection total.
What pulls the trigger back down is the tiny-parse pressure guard:
after every `JSON.parse` that grew the arena by <= 1 MB,
`gc_bump_malloc_trigger` (and `gc_schedule_parse_boundary_collection_
if_pressure`, and the boundary collector they arm) tests the absolute
`arena_in_use_bytes() >= 48 MB` and, if so, sets the trigger to "now".
That threshold is a quantity no collection can lower below the live
set, so on a program whose live set never drops under it every small
parse -- one per SSE delta -- forced a minor at the next safepoint.
The step those minors doubled was consulted by nothing.

The guard now also requires the arena to have grown, since the last
collection of any kind ended, by a headroom priced from the step:
the step rescaled so that its power-on value (128 MB, the ceiling)
buys the 16 MB floor, and each doubling the arm's ceiling clamp
discards buys the guard one more doubling, bounded by the same
ceiling. A productive collection halves the step and the guard keeps
the cadence it always had; an unproductive one earns it room. The
boundary collector re-prices a pending request so a collection that
already satisfied it is not followed by a second one.

Measured on the compiled claude-code TUI (cli_2.1.112.js, Linux, same
perry binary, runtime-only A/B, 7 interleaved rounds, 3300-char
streamed reply, chunk 50):

  turn CPU   base 30.2-41.5 s (mean 35.1)   fix 27.8-29.2 s (mean 28.6)
  post-turn RSS   base 754-1057 MB (mean 803)  fix 733-855 MB (mean 786)
  post-idle RSS   base 527-1073 MB (mean 736)  fix 517-843 MB (mean 722)
  peak RSS        1964-2062 MB both arms

The fix wins CPU in every pair (-8 % to -30 %); footprint is flat within
the base's own spread. The base arm is bimodal in both, which is what an
absolute in-use threshold does. PERRY_GC_DIAG on one reply: copying
minors 104 -> 84 (ArenaBytes 41 -> 13), old-gen fulls 19 -> 7, and the
guard forced exactly one collection, after a genuine 16 MB of growth
(`[gc-tiny-parse]` is the new witness line). test_memory_json_churn --
the guard's motivating shape -- is byte-identical in output and RSS in
all four GC modes; 48/48 test_gap_gc_* and 8/8 test_gap_json_* pass.

The arm's own arithmetic is left as it was and now says why.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015kqVkH6rHzfvXskGAj3tRv
…ctions

A declined idle compaction is currently a terminal state. The reducer's
activity gate wants `2^backoff` collections it did not start, and
`external_collections()` subtracts only its own — so a COMPACTION is what
registers as external. When the compactor's residue gate declines, no
compaction runs, nothing registers, `since_attempt` never reaches 1, and the
reducer never runs again. The decision removes the only event that could
revisit it.

Measured on the claude-code TUI, 400-char turn then 120 s idle, quiet host,
both rounds of each arm: A settles 757/759 -> 512/527 MB; R ends the turn 19 MB
BETTER at 738/742 and finishes at 748/748 — 221 MB worse. R's residue ratio is
23.68/23.67 % against a 25 % gate and starts zero compactions; A is at
25.94/25.95 % and starts two. Within-arm spread is 0.01-0.02 points, so this is
a stable operating point just under a threshold, not a coin-flip. The largest
piece of the loss is downstream: A right-sizes arena capacity 182.45 -> 81.79 MB
across three observations, R holds 168.82 MB on one.

This adds `StartReason::IdleElapsed`, extending the exemption that already sits
twelve lines above it for the identical deadlock — `ArenaRightSize` bypasses the
same gate because arena blocks need a second full observation an idle mutator
will never produce (PerryTS#9709). A requirement denominated in mutator collections
cannot be met by a heap whose mutator is idle, which is exactly when the reducer
is wanted.

The constant was not the fix, and that is measured rather than asserted: the
same R binary in a 5 s window DID clear the residue gate at 25.81 %, compacted,
and released 0 (`kept_promise=false`). A's own second compaction releases 0 at
54.6 % residue. Half of A's compactions in that capture released nothing,
aborting ~4x earlier on what looks like a pause budget. Lowering 25 -> 23 %
would have bought a compaction that releases nothing and a `backoff_shift` bump.

Anti-spin needs no new rule: the wait is `IDLE_RECLAIM_REARM_MS <<
backoff_shift`, the SAME shift that prices the activity arm, so an unproductive
full doubles it — 15 s, 30 s, 60 s, 120 s, 240 s — and the arm is DISARMED at
`IDLE_RECLAIM_MAX_BACKOFF_SHIFT` rather than merely slowed, so a heap with
nothing to give is asked five bounded times and then not again until real
activity resets the shift. A productive full resets it, so a heap still giving
memory back keeps being asked every 15 s.

Tests, both sabotage-proved and each failing on its own named assertion:
`a_parked_heap_is_re_armed_by_elapsed_idle_alone` (no external collection
anywhere in the test; asserts the REASON via a counter, not the attempt count)
and `an_unproductive_elapsed_streak_doubles_the_wait_and_then_disarms`.
Removing the arm fails the first; removing the backoff scaling fails "must not
re-arm before the doubled wait"; removing the disarm fails "at the maximum shift
the elapsed arm is disarmed". `cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib -- gc::
arena::` is green at 1,143 passed / 0 failed.

NOT addressed here, and measured rather than assumed: after R's single reclaim,
`[gc-general-reclaim] examined=66 released=0 has_live=39 aging=22` — 39 of 66
arena blocks hold a live object, against 3 of 65 in A. Only an evacuation can
consolidate those, and whether an idle young evacuation is also needed is a
separate change.

Refs PerryTS#9831.
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The PR adds elapsed-idle rearming for memory reclaim and productivity-priced tiny-parse pressure checks. It updates diagnostics, public exports, tests, changelogs, and GC root-holder metadata.

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Elapsed-idle reclaim rearming

Layer / File(s) Summary
Elapsed-idle rearm state and diagnostics
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/idle_reclaim.rs
Adds the rearm interval, IdleElapsed start reason, diagnostic counter, and public accessor.
Rearm selection and validation
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/idle_reclaim.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/idle_reclaim.rs, changelog.d/9831-idle-reclaim-elapsed-rearm.md
Starts reclaim after the backoff-scaled idle interval, doubles waits after unproductive attempts, and disarms at maximum backoff. Tests cover timing and attribution.

Tiny-parse pressure pricing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pressure pricing and baseline state
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs
Prices headroom from the adaptive step and records the post-collection arena-use baseline.
Parse-trigger integration and metadata
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs, scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
Applies the growth predicate to parse-trigger paths, re-prices pending requests, emits diagnostics, and records the baseline cell as non-pointer data.
Pressure behavior tests and changelog
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, changelog.d/9838-tiny-parse-pressure-pricing.md
Tests pricing, growth thresholds, baseline updates, and the removal of repeated absolute-threshold collections. Registers the test module and documents the behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0846d

Published release notes would describe the idle-reclaim retry timing incorrectly. Correct the schedule before merge so operators receive accurate behavior documentation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IdleReclaim
  participant IdleTimer
  participant ReducerFull
  participant IdleElapsedCounter
  IdleReclaim->>IdleTimer: check backoff-scaled elapsed interval
  IdleTimer-->>IdleReclaim: report elapsed idle
  IdleReclaim->>ReducerFull: start with IdleElapsed
  ReducerFull->>IdleElapsedCounter: increment elapsed-idle starts
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  participant JSONParse
  participant ParseTrigger
  participant TinyParsePressure
  participant GCCollection
  JSONParse->>ParseTrigger: report arena growth
  ParseTrigger->>TinyParsePressure: evaluate trigger and priced headroom
  TinyParsePressure-->>ParseTrigger: return due state
  ParseTrigger->>GCCollection: schedule collection when due
  GCCollection->>TinyParsePressure: store post-collection baseline
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Comment on lines +143 to +149
/// This is the whole of the anti-spin argument and it needs no new rule: an
/// unproductive full doubles the wait, so a heap with nothing to give is asked
/// at 15 s, 30 s, 60 s, 120 s, 240 s and then — because the arm is disarmed at
/// [`IDLE_RECLAIM_MAX_BACKOFF_SHIFT`] — **not again until real mutator activity
/// resets the shift**. Five bounded attempts over ~8 minutes, then silence. A
/// PRODUCTIVE full resets the shift to zero, so a heap that is still giving
/// memory back keeps being asked every 15 s, which is the case this exists for.

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Correct the unproductive elapsed-retry schedule. note_cycle_completed raises backoff_shift before the elapsed arm evaluates IDLE_RECLAIM_REARM_MS << backoff_shift. Therefore, the first elapsed retry after an unproductive full waits 30 s, followed by 60 s, 120 s, and 240 s. The 15 s wait applies only at shift 0, such as after a productive full. Update both cited entries; the changelog fragment is folded into GitHub Release notes.

  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/idle_reclaim.rs#L143-L149
  • changelog.d/9831-idle-reclaim-elapsed-rearm.md#L50-L55
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/idle_reclaim.rs` around lines 143 - 149, Update
the anti-spin schedule documentation in idle_reclaim.rs and the corresponding
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proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…he LIFO handle stack

Four gate failures the assembled tree produced, and the rooting bug the
suite caught:

- The runtime handle stack is strictly LIFO (`Drop` truncates to the
  scope's base), so rooting into an OUTER scope while an inner one is
  live has the inner scope's drop discard the handle. #9869's
  `visited.push(&scope, ..)` sat inside #9864's per-level scope and hit
  "runtime handle used after its scope was dropped". The per-level scope
  now closes before the push. Caught by
  gc::tests::rooted_for_in::for_in_grown_result_and_receiver_survive_prototype_collection.

- shape_descriptor_census asserted `gc_malloc(.. GC_TYPE_REGEXP)` at
  `js_regexp_new`; #9845 deliberately moves that birth to the nursery, so
  the assertion now accepts either allocator. What it checks is unchanged
  and is the point: RegExp is born with its OWN GcHeader kind, never as a
  generic object something later re-identifies by payload magic. Verified
  the updated gate still fails when the birth kind is blunted.

- #9853's page-class table pushed arena/page_meta.rs to 2559 lines. Split
  into page_meta/{mod,page_class,tests}.rs; the page-class tests move next
  to their subject. Both feature configurations build.

- That split also stranded six frontier entries in
  gc_runtime_root_holders.json on the old path, and the PASS1_MARKED
  census pin needed its re-audit for #9860's and #9845's gc/mod.rs
  re-export additions before the hash could move.
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Landed on main via merge train #9883. Validated as a tree: 64/64 lint gates, and perry-runtime/codegen/hir/stdlib all green (5,910 tests, 0 failures). Thanks!

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