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Problem

  • A fetch() body stream that nothing reads (res.body touched but unread, or read once and then releaseLock()) was read to the end into memory with no bound: drop_backpressure_if_unobserved flipped the transport to BufferAll as soon as a chunk reached an unobserved stream. Against an endless body, RSS goes from ~30 MB to 1.8 GB in 2 s. Node stays flat.
  • A fetch() body piped natively into a Bun.serve response (a proxy returning the upstream Response) was only unhooked, not cancelled, when the client left, so the upstream fetch sat paused on its connection for good.

Fix

FetchTasklet keeps receiving an unobserved body only until the stream holds 256 KiB nobody has taken (UNOBSERVED_BODY_HIGH_WATER_MARK), then parks it:

  • the transport is left Paused (memory bounded),
  • the event-loop ref is released (an idle process exits, like Node once its socket is paused),
  • the tasklet stops rooting the stream's JS wrapper (NewSource::unroot_wrapper), so an abandoned stream can be collected. When it is, SourceContext::wrapper_finalized → SourceHandle::consumer_collected tells the tasklet, which aborts the request from native state only (no JS in the sweep).

A consumer that comes back — a reader draining the buffer, res.text()/.blob(), or a native sink (Bun.write, HTMLRewriter, a Bun.serve response) — unparks: re-ref, re-root, resume the transport. Bodies under the mark still complete unread, so their keep-alive connection is reused as before. Explicit cancel() still aborts immediately.

RequestContext::on_abort now cancels a natively piped body (ByteStream::detach_finished_sink) and releases the pipe's ref; end_chunk clears byte_stream first so that release cannot run twice.

Behavior vs Node (undici), checked by hand

shape Node 26 Bun 1.4 this PR
10× unread endless body, RSS after 3 s flat +1.6 GB +4 MB
process holding unread res / released reader / idle reader exits exits (by buffering) exits
stalled server, pending read() waits for body waits waits
stalled server, idle reader waits for body waits waits
body dropped unreachable GC → connection destroyed buffered forever GC → aborted
proxy client leaves mid-body n/a upstream leaks upstream aborted

Tests (all red on main)

  • fetch-backpressure.test.ts: unread / released bodies against a 1 GiB response leave the server blocked and a later reader resumes; a parked body picked up by res.text() or an HTMLRewriter transform drains fully; processes holding an unread Response, a released stream, or an idle reader exit; processes with a pending read() (incl. one re-acquired after a release) stay alive until the body ends.
  • fetch-stream-cancel-leak.test.ts: 20 abandoned bodies in four shapes (touched, read+released, pending read dropped, one partial read after parking) are collected and the server sees the aborts; a proxied upstream is aborted when the proxy's client leaves, reading or not, for both new Response(up.body) and returning up itself.
  • html-rewriter.test.js: a transform over a fetch body with only its output promise held survives GC while the body arrives.

Not changed here (follow-ups): moving the body keep-alive into ByteStream so S3 downloads get the same treatment; a bounded drain-and-discard for implicitly dropped bodies on h1 / RST_STREAM on h2+h3; splitting FetchTasklet's request/response state. Bun.write(file, res) after res.body was touched hangs on 1.4 already and still does; separate bug.


no test proof · iteration 2 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts test/js/workerd/html-rewriter.test.js

… is collected

A response body stream that nothing reads (res.body touched and left alone, or
its reader released) made the fetch switch to BufferAll on the next chunk: the
rest of the body was read into the ByteStream with no bound. The flip existed
because the tasklet rooted the stream (a Strong on it, and a counted ref that
also rooted the source wrapper), so an abandoned stream could only go away once
the body ended.

The tasklet now holds only the counted ref on the native source, and that ref no
longer roots the wrapper (SourceContext::NATIVE_REF_ROOTS_WRAPPER, off for
ByteStream). The body is delivered through the source. When the wrapper is
collected with no native consumer attached, ByteStream::finalize_detach tells
the producer, and the tasklet cancels the fetch from a queued task, the same
path as reader.cancel(). While the stream is alive but unread, the transport
stays paused.

The event loop ref follows the consumers: a pull that goes pending or a sink
that is wired refs it, a delivered chunk that nothing waits for unrefs it, and
creating the stream no longer refs it. poll_ref becomes a JsCell because the
drain signal re-enters the tasklet through a shared ref.
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Updated 12:32 AM PT - Aug 19th, 2026

@robobun, your commit 31d2cc3 is building: #101122

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Fetch stream lifecycle

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Source lifecycle contract
src/runtime/webcore/ByteStream.rs, src/runtime/webcore/ReadableStream.rs
ByteStream reports buffered bytes, starts producers when consumers attach, and notifies producers during wrapper finalization. NewSource tracks wrapper rooting and invokes the new finalization callback.
Native fetch stream flow
src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs, src/runtime/webcore/streams.rs, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs, src/jsc/Weak.rs
Fetch streaming uses native source state, parks large unread bodies, updates keep-alive state during consumer attachment, and cancels collected bodies. Shared access supports state mutation and idempotent transport abortion.
Stream integration and validation
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts, test/js/web/fetch/fetch-stream-cancel-leak.test.ts, test/js/workerd/html-rewriter.test.js, src/jsc/event_loop.rs, src/js/internal-for-testing.ts
Tests cover backpressure, cancellation, process liveness, connection reuse, proxy buffering, and HTML transformation. Event-loop statistics expose queue and liveness state used by the tests.
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In `@src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs`:
- Around line 1749-1762: Update on_response_stream_collected to remain
pointer-based: access global_this through the raw this pointer without creating
a &FetchTasklet reference, and invoke
ThreadSafeRefCount::<FetchTasklet>::ref_(this.as_ptr()) directly. Preserve the
shutdown check and CollectedResponseStreamHop enqueue flow.

In `@test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts`:
- Around line 686-699: Start draining proc.stderr concurrently before entering
the proc.stdout for-await loop, retain its resulting promise, and await that
promise in the final assertion instead of beginning the stderr read afterward.
Keep process exit observation concurrent as required and preserve the existing
combined stderr, exitCode, and ordered lines assertions.

In `@test/js/web/fetch/fetch-stream-cancel-leak.test.ts`:
- Around line 247-253: Scale the collection deadline in the fetch cancellation
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it reworks GC-rooting, refcount ownership, and event-loop keep-alive semantics for the fetch body stream (removing the Strong root, adding a finalizer-driven cancel hop, and changing when poll_ref is held), a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Refcount balance on the CollectedResponseStreamHop — ManagedTask::new_owned installs a cleanup that drops the box, and the box's Drop calls FetchTasklet::deref, so the ref taken in on_response_stream_collected is released whether the task runs or the VM releases the queue unrun.
  • on_consumer_attached no longer needs the BufferAll → Paused transition since the only path that set BufferAll on a stream (drop_backpressure_if_unobserved) is removed; the other signal_consumer_attached callers (server request body, S3) hit no-op SourceHandle::start arms and are unaffected.
  • Terminal-delivery ordering in on_body_received: producer is unhooked before on_data, and decrement_count runs after, so a delivery into a source whose wrapper is already gone lands in memory the counted ref still pins.
  • on_wrapper_finalized correctly stays silent when a native sink or buffer_action is attached, since those consumers do not hold the wrapper.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR removes the ReadableStreamStrong GC root that FetchTasklet held on its response body stream and replaces it with a design where only consumers root the stream. The tasklet keeps only a counted native ref on the NewSource<ByteStream> and delivers into it directly. A new SourceContext::NATIVE_REF_ROOTS_WRAPPER const (false for ByteStream) prevents increment_count from upgrading the wrapper backref to Strong. When the wrapper is collected, ByteStream::finalize_detach → SourceHandle::consumer_collected → FetchTasklet::on_response_stream_collected queues a ManagedTask that runs on_stream_cancelled outside the GC sweep. drop_backpressure_if_unobserved is removed; a stream nobody reads now leaves the transport paused. poll_ref becomes JsCell<KeepAlive> and is ref'd/unref'd by consumer signals (on_consumer_attached, on_stream_drained, update_keep_alive_for_body_consumer) rather than at stream creation.

Files touched: FetchTasklet.rs (core logic), ByteStream.rs (finalize hook, pull-goes-pending signal), ReadableStream.rs (NATIVE_REF_ROOTS_WRAPPER gate in increment_count), streams.rs (consumer_collected dispatch), plus two test files with 8 new tests.

Security risks

None identified. This is internal lifetime/backpressure plumbing; no untrusted input parsing, auth, or crypto is touched. The unbounded-buffering behavior being fixed was itself a resource-exhaustion vector.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is exactly the class of change the review guidelines flag as most-blocked: it removes a GC root, changes refcount ownership across a GC-finalizer boundary, adds code that runs inside a sweep and schedules deferred teardown, and redefines when the process stays alive. Each of those is individually memory-safety-sensitive; together they are an architectural change to how a fetch body stream's lifetime is managed. The reasoning in the PR description is thorough and the code is carefully commented, but the interaction surface (re-entrancy through JsCell, finalizer ordering, the residue case where a pending pull roots a dropped stream, the on_response_finalize path deciding from response_stream_source instead of the removed Strong) is large enough that a maintainer familiar with the #29831/#38457 history should confirm the design.

Other factors

  • The tests are well-structured: they cover both directions (paused body doesn't hold the process; a pending read does), the resume path after a later reader attaches, and GC-driven abort in three abandonment shapes. The PR description reports they fail on stock bun and pass with the change, and that the wider fetch/http/stream suites pass.
  • I verified the ManagedTask::new_owned cleanup path drops the boxed hop (which derefs the tasklet) so the ref is balanced when the VM tears down the queue unrun.
  • I checked that the other signal_consumer_attached call sites (RequestContext, S3 client, wire_native_sink) route through SourceHandle::start arms that are either the fetch arm or no-ops, so the semantic change to on_consumer_attached (now only refs the loop) does not break them.
  • The ReadableStreamStrong import is still used for the request-body variant at FetchTasklet.rs:181, so the removed field's type is not dead code.

…source across a delivery

wire_native_sink stores the sink's cell in the source wrapper's sinkOwner slot, so
the wrapper is what keeps a natively wired sink (HTMLRewriter) alive. With the
producer ref no longer rooting the wrapper, a transform whose JS handles were
dropped was collected while the fetch still delivered into it (use after free in
RewriterPipe::write). NATIVE_REF_ROOTS_WRAPPER becomes a context method:
ByteStream answers true while a sink is wired, and wire_native_sink re-evaluates
it when it wires one. decrement_count still drops the root once only the
wrapper's ref remains.

A non-terminal delivery now holds its own ref on the source. The sink's handlers
can cancel the body from inside on_data, which releases the producer ref, and a
collection in the same script then freed the source under on_data; before, the
stream handle that on_body_received kept on its stack happened to root it.

on_response_stream_collected no longer forms a reference to the tasklet. The
tests drain stderr concurrently and scale the collection deadline for slow
builds; a new one drops every handle to a transform over a fetch body and
collects while the body arrives.
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/ByteStream.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/ByteStream.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/ByteStream.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/ReadableStream.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/ReadableStream.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/ReadableStream.rs Resolved
…ventLoopStats

Adds tasks, immediateTasks, concurrentTasksEmpty, loopActive and
eventLoopAlive next to the existing counters, so a test that finds a
process unexpectedly alive can say why.

No-Verification-Needed: testing-only binding
No-Verification-Needed: dead-store removal, no behavior change
Comment thread src/runtime/server/RequestContext.rs Resolved
… transport

on_start_streaming flipped Paused->AutoPause and scheduled the resume
before it took scheduled_response_buffer under the mutex. A chunk the
HTTP thread appended (and paused for) in that window was drained into
the new stream here, its progress task then found the buffer empty and
returned early, and nothing was left to undo the pause: the body sat with
one chunk buffered and the process stayed alive. Drain first, then flip
and resume.

Reproduced locally as 2/60 hangs of `void res.body` against a flooding
server; 0/60 after.
The on_abort and end_chunk change in RequestContext, the
ByteStream::detach_finished_sink helper that only it used, and the
proxied upstream tests are the same fix that #36700 carries on its
own. This PR is about parking an unread fetch body. #36700 owns the
proxy abort case.
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c7df647 removes the proxy abort part of this PR. The RequestContext::on_abort and end_chunk change was the same fix that #36700 already carries on its own (same two hunks, same logic). #36700 keeps it. This PR no longer touches RequestContext.rs. The ByteStream::detach_finished_sink helper and the proxied upstream tests in fetch-stream-cancel-leak.test.ts went with it, since only that change used them. The description is updated to match.

Verified with a debug build on c7df647: fetch-stream-cancel-leak.test.ts (7 pass) and fetch-backpressure.test.ts (the four pre-existing h3 cases time out when the whole file runs on a debug build and pass when run alone, as before).

The two PRs are independent. Either one can land first.

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@robobun don't do that. revert it back.

This reverts commit c7df647.

The proxy abort fix stays in this PR: RequestContext::on_abort cancels
a natively piped body, end_chunk clears byte_stream up front,
ByteStream::detach_finished_sink, and the proxied upstream tests.
The tree is the same as 8f3d32d again.
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Reverted in 31d2cc3. The tree is identical to 8f3d32d again: the on_abort and end_chunk change in RequestContext, ByteStream::detach_finished_sink, and the proxied upstream tests are back. The PR description is restored to the version before c7df647.

#36700 carries the same RequestContext change on its own and now overlaps this PR.

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…sponse is collected

A Response whose body nothing touches used to pause the transport behind
the first packet of the body, which pinned its connection until the
Response was collected. The collection then switched the transport to
BodyReceiveMode::Ignore and resumed it, so that the connection could be
pooled: the whole remaining body was downloaded to be thrown away,
however long it was.

callback() now keeps receiving such a body up to
UNOBSERVED_BODY_HIGH_WATER_MARK, the bound #39590 gave a body stream that
nothing reads, and pauses there. A short body completes on its own and
frees its connection at once. A body that is still underway when its
Response is collected is longer than that, or its origin has stalled, so
on_response_finalize aborts the fetch, as on_body_stream_collected does
for a collected stream. The resume-to-drain path in
ignore_remaining_response_body has no caller left and goes away.
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…sponse is collected

A Response whose body nothing touches used to pause the transport behind
the first packet of the body, which pinned its connection until the
Response was collected. The collection then switched the transport to
BodyReceiveMode::Ignore and resumed it, so that the connection could be
pooled: the whole remaining body was downloaded to be thrown away,
however long it was.

callback() now keeps receiving such a body up to
UNOBSERVED_BODY_HIGH_WATER_MARK, the bound #39590 gave a body stream that
nothing reads, and pauses there. A short body completes on its own and
frees its connection at once. A body that is still underway when its
Response is collected is longer than that, or its origin has stalled, so
on_response_finalize aborts the fetch, as on_body_stream_collected does
for a collected stream. The resume-to-drain path in
ignore_remaining_response_body has no caller left and goes away.
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…sponse is collected

A Response whose body nothing touches used to pause the transport behind
the first packet of the body, which pinned its connection until the
Response was collected. The collection then switched the transport to
BodyReceiveMode::Ignore and resumed it, so that the connection could be
pooled: the whole remaining body was downloaded to be thrown away,
however long it was.

callback() now keeps receiving such a body up to
UNOBSERVED_BODY_HIGH_WATER_MARK, the bound #39590 gave a body stream that
nothing reads, and pauses there. A short body completes on its own and
frees its connection at once. A body that is still underway when its
Response is collected is longer than that, or its origin has stalled, so
on_response_finalize aborts the fetch, as on_body_stream_collected does
for a collected stream. The resume-to-drain path in
ignore_remaining_response_body has no caller left and goes away.
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…n.write(dest, response) streams to disk (#39690)

### What this changes

`fetch()` response bodies now follow two rules, each implemented in one
place:

**1. Backpressure — one high-water mark.** Body bytes that no consumer
has taken yet live in exactly two places: the HTTP→JS hop buffer
(`scheduled_response_buffer`, HTTP thread) and the body
`ReadableStream`'s internal buffer (JS thread). Whichever side reaches
`BODY_HIGH_WATER_MARK` (256 KiB) flips the fetch `Flowing → Paused`;
whoever takes bytes out flips it back and schedules the resume. The
transport applies `Paused` after its next read (h1: stop polling the
socket; h2: withhold `WINDOW_UPDATE`; h3: `want_read(false)`).
`.text()`/`.json()`/`.arrayBuffer()`/`.bytes()`/`.blob()`,
`Bun.write(file, res)` switch to `BufferAll` (never pause, pre-reserve
`Content-Length`); `Bun.readableStreamTo*(res.body)` is never paused
either.

**2. Abandonment — one path.** When nothing can ever read the rest of a
body — the `Response` was garbage-collected with nothing waiting on it,
the parked body stream was collected, `reader.cancel()` /
`res.body.cancel()`, or a null-body status (204/205/304/HEAD) that still
has content on the wire — `abandon_response_body()` marks the fetch
`Abandoned`, aborts the transport (h1: close the socket; h2/h3: reset
the one stream, session stays pooled), releases the event-loop ref and
the native response. Safe inside a GC sweep (no JS is touched).

`BodyReceiveMode` is `Flowing | Paused | BufferAll | Abandoned`. Gone:
pausing the transport after **every** chunk once a stream is attached
(#29831), the separate 256 KiB rule for streams (#39590) vs.
first-packet pause for untouched responses, the `Ignore` mode's "resume
and download the rest into the void" path, `is_buffering_body`, and
fetch's use of the `response_body_streaming` signal.

Also (from the earlier commits on this PR): `.body` / `.textStream()` on
a body that already failed now hand out *the* body stream and mark it
used (`Body.rs`), and a `Response` collected while `Bun.write(file,
res)` waits for it no longer drops the body (fixes #40278).

### `Bun.write(dest, response)` streams to disk

`Bun.write(path, response | request | readableStream)` used to collect
the whole body in memory (via `on_receive_value`) and write it at the
end; a bare `ReadableStream` was stringified to `"[object
ReadableStream]"`; a `new Response(jsStream)` never settled; and a
`Response` collected mid-download left the write pending forever
(#40278). Now:

- A body that is a stream, or whose producer can stream (fetch,
`Bun.serve` request bodies, `HTMLRewriter`), is piped into a `FileSink`.
Native `ByteStream` sources are wired straight to the sink
(`wire_native_sink`, no per-chunk JS); the fetch backpressure above
applies, so a download to disk holds at most the high-water mark. **128
MiB `fetch → Bun.write`: peak RSS +161 MB on 1.4.0 → +13 MB here**
(debug build).
- `FileSink` gains `truncate`/`mkdirp` options (so `Bun.write` replaces
the file and creates parent dirs, `writer()` is unchanged) and a
completion promise for a piped stream that resolves with the bytes
written or rejects with the error that ended the stream *or* the write
(sync write error, deferred flush error, `end()` flush error are all
recorded; on a write error the source is cancelled so the download
stops).
- The JS pump (`readStreamIntoSink`) treated a rejected `write()` as
success and carried on; it now fails the pump with that error. String
chunks are counted by UTF-8 length.
- A body that has already fully arrived (also behind an untouched
`.body` stream) is written as a blob. A used/locked/disturbed body
rejects with `ERR_BODY_ALREADY_USED` instead of writing an empty file.
- Types: `Bun.write`/`BunFile.write` accept `ReadableStream` and
`Request`.

### S3

- **Upload** (`Bun.write(s3file, response)`, `s3file.write(stream)`,
`s3file.writer()`): the multipart uploader's sink already returns
backpressure when its part queue is full, so with the fetch change the
origin is paced end to end (test: a 16 MiB fetch body through a one-part
queue stops the origin while the part PUTs are held). These now resolve
with the bytes written instead of `0` (#35671).
- **Download** (`s3file.stream()`, `Bun.write(file, s3file)`, `new
Response(s3file)`): had **no** receive backpressure — the S3 client
wired `Signals` without `body_receive_mode` and its producer's
`on_ready` was a no-op, so a slow or absent reader buffered the whole
object (fake 64 MiB object, stalled reader: origin sent all 64 MiB on
1.4.0). Now `S3HttpDownloadStreamingTask` uses the same
`BodyReceiveMode` and HWM rule; `S3DownloadStreamWrapper` does the
JS-thread half, resumes on drain, parks an unread stream (loop released,
wrapper collectable) and aborts on collection/cancel. Stalled reader →
origin stops at ~8 MiB (socket buffers + HWM); `Bun.write(file, s3file)`
resolves with the byte count (was `0`); a process holding an unread S3
stream exits.
- The source-ref + parked bit + HWM decision that fetch and S3 share is
one type, `byte_stream::ProducerHold`.
- **Aborting the source of an S3 upload no longer commits a truncated
object.** `ByteStream::on_cancel` left a wired native sink attached; the
producer's later error was dropped as "already done" but flagged the
last chunk, so the multipart sink saw EOF on its next drain and sent
`CompleteMultipartUpload`. A cancelled stream now fails its native sink
with an `AbortError` (pre-existing on main; test: abort mid-upload
rejects and nothing is committed).

### What your server sees, before → after

| Client code | Before (main) | After |
|---|---|---|
| `const r = await fetch(u); if (!r.ok) return;` — body **≤ 256 KiB**,
`r` still reachable | Transfer stalls after the first packet; connection
pinned until `r` is GC'd, then the rest is read and the connection
pooled | Transfer completes immediately; connection back in the
keep-alive pool immediately |
| same, body **> 256 KiB** (or endless), `r` later GC'd | Stalls after
first packet; on GC the **entire remaining body is downloaded and
discarded** (a 1 GiB or infinite body is read in full), connection
pooled | Stalls at ~256 KiB + kernel socket buffers; on GC: h1
connection closed (server sees `ECONNRESET`/`EPIPE`), h2/h3
`RST_STREAM(CANCEL)` on that stream only |
| `for await (const c of r.body)` / `getReader()` loop that keeps up |
Socket read-poll disabled after every read and re-enabled from the JS
thread (2× `epoll_ctl` + timer reset + cross-thread wake per read) | No
pausing at all while the reader keeps up; server sees a smoother,
un-stuttered send |
| reader stalls (slow consumer, `pipeTo` to a slow sink, `Bun.serve`
proxy `return fetch(u)` to a slow client) | Paused after each chunk |
Paused once 256 KiB is waiting; resumed when it drains. Server sees
TCP/h2 flow control kick in the same way, slightly later |
| `r.body` touched but never read, `r` kept | Paused at 256 KiB (#39590)
| Same |
| `reader.cancel()` / `AbortSignal` | Connection closed / stream reset |
Same |
| `205` (or other null-body status) framed **with** content | Extra
bytes drained, connection pooled | Connection closed (RFC 9110 forbids
content here) |
| `r.text()`, `Bun.write(path, r)`, `Bun.readableStreamToText(r.body)` |
Never paused | Never paused |

### RSS / memory

- **Streaming consumer that keeps up:** unchanged (bytes pass straight
through), minus the per-read syscalls.
- **Stalled stream / untouched-but-reachable `Response`:** bounded at ≤
256 KiB per side + one socket read (worst case ~512 KiB + one read if
the JS thread is blocked while the stream already holds data). Before:
an untouched `Response` held one packet (but pinned a connection per
response); a touched-but-unread stream held 256 KiB.
- **Abandoned + collected long body:** before, bandwidth and CPU for the
whole remaining body (nothing retained, but it was all received,
decompressed and thrown away); now nothing further is received.
- Holding thousands of unread `Response` objects alive now costs up to
256 KiB each instead of one packet each — in exchange their connections
are returned instead of pinned. Read or drop responses you don't need.

### Other observable changes

- Chunk sizes seen by `getReader()` on a fast link are closer to
wire/read granularity (more, smaller chunks) because the transport is no
longer stop-and-wait per chunk. Total bytes and ordering are unchanged.
- A `Response` collected while a *short* body is still mid-flight is
aborted rather than finished-and-pooled. In practice a sub-256 KiB body
that is `Flowing` completes in the same few milliseconds, well before a
GC finalizer runs; we chose one rule over a "drain if small" special
case (this is also what undici and Chromium do).
- Bodies error earlier: a truncated/invalid short body is now detected
as it arrives rather than when a reader first attaches (hence the
`Body.rs` change so `.body`/`bodyUsed` behave on an already-failed
body).

### How this compares

| | Backpressure | Unread body, handle dropped |
|---|---|---|
| **undici (Node `fetch`)** | Pull-based: socket `pause()`d whenever the
body stream's queue is non-empty (effectively per-chunk stop-and-wait,
single thread) | `FinalizationRegistry` on `Response` → `body.cancel()`
→ request aborted → **socket destroyed**. undici docs tell you to always
consume or cancel the body for this reason |
| **libcurl** | No internal buffering; write callback per chunk,
`CURL_WRITEFUNC_PAUSE` stops reading | Removing/cleaning up an easy
handle mid-body = premature end → **h1 connection closed** (not
reusable), h2 stream reset |
| **Chromium** | Network service fills a 512 KiB data pipe; stops
reading when full | Body/Response dropped → loader cancelled → **h1
connection closed** unless the body already completed, h2 `RST_STREAM` |
| **Go `net/http`** | Reads on demand from `resp.Body` | `Body.Close()`
with unread bytes → **connection not reused** |
| **Bun (this PR)** | 256 KiB high-water mark across the two internal
buffers; HTTP thread keeps reading while under it | ≤ 256 KiB bodies
complete on their own and pool the connection; longer ones are aborted
on GC / cancel (h1 close, h2/h3 stream reset) |

So Bun ends up on the Chromium model (bounded pipe + cancel on drop),
with the extra property that small bodies never need the consumer to
show up for the connection to be reused.

### Tests

No sleeps or quiescence polling in the tests this PR adds: waits are
promises from the origin/bucket (first blocked write, Nth close/request,
first part), `proc.exited`, `fs.watch`, or a `WeakRef` going empty with
one full GC per event-loop turn.


`test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts` (blocks "a Response whose
body nothing touches", "body stream nothing is reading", "does not hold
the process", "buffered consumers are not throttled", "peer … while
receive is paused"), `fetch-backpressure.test.ts` block "S3 receive
backpressure" (stalled reader pauses, Bun.write(file, s3file) byte
count, unread stream doesn't hold the process, collected stream aborts —
all fail on 1.4.0), `test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js` (block
"Bun.write(path, response) streams the body to the file": streaming
proof via bytes-on-disk before the origin finishes, collected Response,
touched body, JS-stream body, Request body, bare ReadableStream,
`/dev/full` rejections, used-body rejection),
`body-mixin-errors.test.ts` (failed-before-read `.body` /
`.textStream()`), `body.test.ts` (205 with content),
`regression/issue/33227`, `fetch-response-finalizer-sweep`,
`fetch-stream-cancel-leak`, `fetch-abort-stream-body`,
`fetch-http2-client`, `fetch-keepalive`, `fetch-tcp-keepalive`,
`body-stream` (9086), `stream-fast-path`, `body-clone`, `proxy.test.ts`,
`filesink`, `spawn-stdin-readable-stream`, `streams.test.js`,
`serve.test.ts` pass on the debug build. Pre-existing on this machine's
debug build and unchanged by this PR: the four h3 "stalled …" cases and
`fetch.stream` "multiple parts" brush the 5 s default under full-file
concurrency (pass in isolation), `abort-signal-leak` (2×2500 aborted
fetches take ~8 s in debug), `fetch-abort-socket-close-race` TLS case.

Fixes #40278. Fixes #13237.
Closes #40333. Closes #32906. Closes #31739. Closes #31689. Closes
#38184. Closes #35671.

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**no test proof** · iteration 4 · platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-response-finalizer-sweep.test.ts,
test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts,
test/js/web/fetch/body.test.ts, test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js

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tombii added a commit to tombii/better-ccflare that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
…n drain deadline

drainReaderWithDeadline() called reader.releaseLock() immediately after a
deadline win, discarding the still-pending reader.read() promise. Per
WHATWG Streams, releaseLock() during a pending read only rejects that JS
promise — it does not signal the underlying native source that the stream
is abandoned. On Bun's native fetch this is the "touched then abandoned"
shape that can trigger unbounded off-heap buffering (oven-sh/bun#39590),
matching the flat-JS-heap, unbounded-RSS signature reported in #382.

Now aborts first (so the losing read has a chance to actually settle via
the torn-down connection), then waits for it to settle within a bounded
grace window before releasing the lock, instead of racing ahead of it.
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The "one read() after it parked" test from this PR went red on darwin aarch64 (builds 110683 and 110902, 5 of 20 bodies survived the 3 s wait). The survivors come from a stale stack slot, not from the fetch code. #41607 clears the slot in the test.

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