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Problem

The health monitor's memory status measures heapUsed / heapTotal (#1223). heapTotal is V8's current allocation, which V8 grows on demand — a healthy process routinely runs at 85–95% of heapTotal while sitting far below the actual ceiling. The ratio therefore reports "degraded"/"critical" on processes that are nowhere near out of memory, and it can never distinguish "V8 hasn't grown the heap yet" from "we're about to OOM".

Fix

Measure against getHeapStatistics().heap_size_limit — the hard ceiling V8 will actually enforce — captured into the snapshot as memory.heapLimit (optional field on HealthSnapshot, so existing persisted snapshots stay valid; the thresholds fall back to the old ratio when it's absent).

Tests

Threshold-side tests for the new ratio (including the fallback when heapLimit is absent), plus a producer-wiring test comparing the persisted snapshot's memory.heapLimit against the real unmocked getHeapStatistics().heap_size_limit — verified to fail (undefined vs. the real value) when the wiring line in monitor.ts is deleted, since nothing else pins it.

Full suite: 1714 passed / 1 skipped. tsc --noEmit unchanged at the 30 pre-existing errors (none in touched files).

Known limitation, deliberately out of scope: heap_size_limit excludes native allocations (buffers, stacks, code memory), so a process under native-memory pressure can show a healthy heap ratio. Watching for that properly means comparing RSS against the effective process/container memory budget, and the codebase has no budget source (cgroup awareness) today — the existing memoryRssFloorBytes config only gates alerts from below. Worth its own issue; this PR stays scoped to removing the false-positive ratio, which made /health return 503 on healthy processes. Note the old ratio did not cover native pressure either — its numerator was heap-only too.

One operational caveat documented in the commit rather than code: in a container, V8 sizes heap_size_limit from host memory, not the cgroup limit — --max-old-space-size should be set to the container's budget for the ratio to reflect a ceiling V8 will respect. (An .env.example note about this rides with the upcoming configurable-thresholds PR, which owns that doc section.)

Closes #1223.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Health monitoring now measures memory usage against the runtime’s maximum heap limit when available.
    • Snapshots without valid heap-limit data continue using total heap size.
    • Health statuses and alerts now more accurately reflect memory pressure.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming heap-limit data is captured in health snapshots.
    • Added threshold tests for both heap-limit calculations and fallback behavior.

…itg00#1223)

heapTotal is what V8 has committed and it grows to meet demand, so
heapUsed/heapTotal can only over-report. On a host with
--max-old-space-size=8192 this reported degraded at 10% real pressure
and returned 503 from /health on a healthy process. Falls back to
heapTotal for snapshots persisted before this change.
The heap commit changed the ratio thresholds.ts computes, but nothing
pinned collectHealth's producer side - deleting
`heapLimit: getHeapStatistics().heap_size_limit` from
src/health/monitor.ts would restore the rohitg00#1223 regression with a fully
green suite. One producer-harness assertion compares the persisted
snapshot's memory.heapLimit against the real (unmocked)
getHeapStatistics().heap_size_limit; confirmed it fails (undefined vs.
the real value) when that line is removed.
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The health monitor now records V8’s heap limit in each memory snapshot. evaluateHealth uses this limit for memory utilization and falls back to heapTotal for older snapshots. Tests cover persistence and both denominator paths.

Changes

Heap limit health monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Heap limit snapshot collection
src/types.ts, src/health/monitor.ts, test/health-monitor-heap.test.ts
HealthSnapshot.memory retains an optional heapLimit. collectHealth populates it from V8 heap statistics. The producer test verifies persistence and stops the monitor after execution.
Heap utilization threshold evaluation
src/health/thresholds.ts, test/health-thresholds.test.ts
evaluateHealth uses a positive heapLimit as the memory denominator and falls back to heapTotal when absent or non-positive. Tests cover both denominator paths.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 08704

Health checks will compare heap usage with V8’s configured ceiling, reducing false degraded or 503 responses for healthy processes. The change is mergeable with owner awareness that the producer test should follow the established SDK mock contract to avoid future test drift.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HealthMonitor
  participant V8
  participant KV
  participant evaluateHealth
  HealthMonitor->>V8: Read heap_size_limit
  V8-->>HealthMonitor: Return heap limit
  HealthMonitor->>KV: Store memory.heapLimit
  KV-->>evaluateHealth: Provide health snapshot
  evaluateHealth->>evaluateHealth: Select heapLimit or heapTotal denominator
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR fixes the backend health calculation, stores heapLimit, preserves fallback behavior, and adds relevant tests for issue [#1223]. However, the viewer still calculates heapUsed / heapTotal, so it … Update the viewer's heap ratio calculation to use memory.heapLimit when present and positive, with a heapTotal fallback. Add or update tests for the viewer calculation.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: measuring heap usage against V8's heap size limit instead of heapTotal.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation, tests, and comment updates are related to correcting heap memory evaluation and preserving compatibility for issue [#1223]. No unrelated code changes are identified.
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The PR fixes the backend health calculation, stores heapLimit, preserves fallback behavior, and adds relevant tests for issue [#1223]. However, the viewer still calculates heapUsed / heapTotal, so it can continue to report false heap pressure.

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In `@src/types.ts`:
- Around line 228-231: Remove the explanatory comments at src/types.ts lines
228-231, src/health/monitor.ts line 73, and src/health/thresholds.ts lines
62-63; leave the surrounding identifiers, types, and behavior unchanged.

In `@test/health-monitor-heap.test.ts`:
- Around line 10-28: Replace the local mockKV and mockSdk fakes in the
health-monitor heap test with a vi.mock("iii-sdk") mock, providing mocked
sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list methods; remove the as-never workaround
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Comment on lines +10 to +28
function mockKV() {
const store = new Map<string, Map<string, unknown>>();
return {
get: async <T>(scope: string, key: string): Promise<T | null> => {
return (store.get(scope)?.get(key) as T) ?? null;
},
set: async <T>(scope: string, key: string, data: T): Promise<T> => {
if (!store.has(scope)) store.set(scope, new Map());
store.get(scope)!.set(key, data);
return data;
},
};
}

function mockSdk() {
return {
trigger: async () => ({ workers: [] }),
};
}

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Use the required iii-sdk Vitest mock.

This test uses local fakes with as never and omits kv.list. Use vi.mock("iii-sdk") with mocks for sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list.

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In `@test/health-monitor-heap.test.ts` around lines 10 - 28, Replace the local
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Comments trimmed in 0870424 — the three added blocks are down to the rationale the code cannot carry (why heapTotal is the wrong denominator, why heapLimit is optional).

On the Vitest mock: declining, because the suggested pattern is not this repository's convention. Of 153 test files, 53 define a local mockSdk/mockKV and 2 call vi.mock("iii-sdk") — and both of those use importOriginal to keep the real TriggerAction rather than replacing it. Local fakes are the established pattern here, and the test passes against the real module, which is a stronger guarantee than a mock would give.

Happy to switch if there's a written convention I've missed — I checked AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md and found nothing on this.

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Health reports critical from heapUsed/heapTotal, so /agentmemory/health returns 503 on a healthy process

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