[robobun]

Part of #11083

Problem

• Under bun --hot, each reload keeps the http.Server of the earlier load and its app. Express 4.18.2, 150 saves: 150 servers alive, RSS 53 to 295 MB, no plateau.
• Bun.serve() answers a listen() on a served address with the same native server. Two listen() registrations keep the earlier http.Server: its connections-checking interval and a reaction on the native all-closed promise.

Fix

• listen() records which http.Server a native server with a hot id calls. The next listen() on it clears the interval of the earlier one, or leaves it until its last connection closes.
• close() registers the 'close' reaction. A listening server holds no promise, and getBunServerAllClosedPromise is deleted.
• Same run: 1 server alive, RSS plateau near 69 MB.
• Verified: test/js/node/http/node-http-server-close-drain.test.ts (5 --hot cases fail on main), 570 Node.js http and net tests. Self-reviewed: 38 concerns raised, 35 addressed.

Background

• Hot id: under --hot, Bun.serve() keys a native server by its configured address. Outside --hot, a node:http native server has none.
• 'close' still runs in the async context of listen(). Node uses the context of close() (node:http: run server 'close' in the closer's async context, not listen()'s #33719).
• Considered a WeakRef interval: setInterval captures the async context, so a server that listens inside an AsyncLocalStorage store stays.

Downsides

• Release binary: text +1,034 bytes.
• Kept as on main: a server whose listen({ signal }) signal outlives the load, and a server that a shutdown hook of its load holds.
• Under --hot, servers that share a native server and close in one tick emit 'close' in another order than on main.

Notes

Numbers (release builds of the first pushed head 242c43e and its base 5900354. Since then the source changed by one line, the captured WeakMap constructor: +11 bytes of builtin JS)

• Express 4.18.2 under bun --hot, 150 saves, Bun.gc(true) before each sample. Main: servers alive 150, RSS 53.3 to 295.4 MB, heap 3.3 to 163.6 MB. PR: servers alive 1, RSS 52.5 to 69.2 MB (flat from save 25), heap 3.3 to 4.0 MB. This is the unbounded growth that the closing comment of Memory Not Freed After Running bun --hot Command #14734 asks for.
• Alive after 6 loads (one WeakRef per server): http 1 (main 6), https 1, unix socket 1, ws WebSocketServer 1, two listen() per load on one address 1 of 14, http and https in turn on one address 1.
• Per listening server outside --hot: Function 7 to 6, Promise 2 to 0, protected Promise 1 to 0 (heapStats() over 200 servers).
• Cells allocated: listen() 37.3 to 34.4, close() 7 to 10, one cycle 44.3 to 44.4. The record of a listener stays at 48 bytes.
• require("node:http"): 6 more cells. require("node:net"): no change.
• Instructions (instructions:u, concurrent JIT and GC off, interleaved runs): one listen() + close() cycle 226,381 to 224,687 (run-to-run spread up to 1.6%). 200,000 keep-alive requests 8.2126e9 to 8.2164e9 (spread 0.16%). 20,000 connections 5.2016e9 to 5.2002e9. 20,000 Bun.serve() + stop() 1.8371e9 to 1.8329e9.
• Binary: text 106,753,900 to 106,754,934 bytes. Builtin _http_server.js +1,547 bytes. JS2Rust host functions 88 to 87.

What the release covers

• The next listen() on the same address: app.listen() of express, koa and fastify, https, ws, a unix socket path, a cluster worker.
• A second listen() on the same address in the same load gets the native server too. This is the hot map of Bun.serve() ([Bun.serve] EADDRINUSE is not thrown when running with --hot #7207). Three of the five tests use it, so that only one test needs reloads.
• An earlier server with an open connection stays until the connection closes. Its interval then stops at the next check (connectionsCheckingInterval, 30 s by default). Until then it still applies headersTimeout and requestTimeout to its connections, as on main.
• The earlier server keeps its handle, listening === true and address(). Its close() still stops the shared listener, as on main. The server that lost its listener this way is released at its next check.

Not fixed here

• A plain Bun.serve() or export default { fetch } that takes the address of a node:http server: that http.Server stays, still gets 'connection' events and applies its timeouts. If the taker calls stop(), one http.Server stays per stop. The fix is native, in the hot-map arm of serve().
• Bun.serve() first, then node:http listen() on the same address under --hot, then closeAllConnections(): a crash on main when this PR was opened. Hardening follow-up: fix regressions from #46021 and more crashes #46270 fixed it on main. Its test is in the same test file and passes with this PR.
• The TLS options of the first https load stay (Bun.serve: reload() accepts tls (including ca) and silently ignores it — and there is no other way to rotate certificates in-process #43815). Timers of earlier loads stay (Timers are not canceled after --hot reload #8963). net listeners: hot: reuse Bun.listen/Bun.serve listeners across --hot reloads #30906. A way to close first: import.meta.hot.dispose() in Implement import.meta.hot for bun --hot #32856.
• User code can do this today for a server that it creates itself (globalThis.server ??= createServer().listen() and a new 'request' listener). It cannot for app.listen().

Why two tests assert the interval and not collection

• Two of the --hot tests first asserted that a server is collected after its own interval callback cleared the interval. Release builds did not collect it in a loop of setImmediate + Bun.gc(true) (8 lanes of build 128827). A deadline of 1 s in place of 10 turns did not help: the loop failed in 6 of 12 runs.
• The code has no retainer. A heap snapshot (generateHeapSnapshotForDebugging()) at turn 50 of that loop has 12 cells that can reach the Server. None is in roots. The Timeout and the native server wrapper each have one incoming edge, from the Server.
• Reduced case with no node:http: an object whose unref'd interval clears itself while the loop runs. With BUN_JSC_useJIT=0 it is not collected in 400 turns, on this build and on 1.4.4. One other timer callback ends it.
• Debugger session on the reduced case, stopped in JSC::MachineThreads::gatherConservativeRoots: the scanned stack range (10,304 bytes) has one word that holds the cell. The words before it are a dead JS call frame header: saved frame pointer, return address llint_call_javascript+6, CodeBlock, callee, argument count 1. The word is the this slot of that frame, the last call of the interval callback. It lies 184 bytes below the frame base of the live JSC::runInternalMicrotask frame, which does not write it.
• So these two tests now assert server[kConnectionsCheckingInterval]._destroyed, as the Node.js tests for this interval do. The tests for a reload and for two servers of one load still assert collection: no interval callback runs in them.

Why the owner is in a module WeakMap

• console.log(server) prints the own properties of the native server, so a property there would show in user output under --hot. The map is created on the first listen() that sees a hot id. Its constructor and its get and set are captured at module load.
• The row of node_http_binding.rs in rustIdentifierPaths (src/codegen/generate-js2native.ts) is removed: the deleted binding was its last reader.

Other pull requests

• node:http: closeIdleConnections() reads req.complete, and a destroyed request sets it #44310 adds its own nativeServerOwners map at the same lines and moves open connections to the new server. The two merge into two declarations. node:http: closeIdleConnections() reads req.complete, and a destroyed request sets it #44310 can restack on this PR and keep only the move.
• An earlier shape of this PR moved the connections. It is not here: with Bun.serve() first and two node:http loads after it, closeAllConnections() then crashed where main exits 0.
• The close()-time reaction comes from node:http: run server 'close' in the closer's async context, not listen()'s #33719. That PR also moved 'close' to the async context of close(). This PR does not: a test pins the context of listen() and links node:http: run server 'close' in the closer's async context, not listen()'s #33719.
• node:http: queue the server 'close' check from the connection's close handler, not from a socket 'close' listener #45257 and this PR both add tests at the end of the same test file.

Self-review: the 3 concerns not taken

• Use AsyncContextFrame.run() in queueCloseNTServer(): it takes rest arguments, so each close() would allocate an array.
• A keep-alive client in the test that reloads: a second listen() in one load takes the same path, and the reload test is the slowest one.
• A test for close() after a listen() that fails after the bind: the release reads the owner map only when it exists, and the one way to make listen() fail there is a maxHeaderSize of the wrong type. Checked by hand: close() returns and the port refuses, as on main.

Suites run (debug build): node-http-server-close-drain.test.ts (39 pass, 5 fail on main), module-graph-gc.test.ts, node-http-server-abort-events, -socket-end-drain, -timeouts, node-https-server, node-http-uaf, the --hot case of serve.test.ts, and 570 test/js/node/test/{parallel,sequential} http, https and net files (the same 6 fail on main and on the PR). Each new --hot clause fails a test when removed. Release build: the test file passes in 15 of 15 runs, and in 8 of 8 runs at a load average above 27 on 12 cores.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/http/node-http-server-close-drain.test.ts

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Walkthrough

The change updates Node HTTP server close handling for native server reuse across hot reloads. It tracks native listener ownership, associates close reactions with the async context captured during listen, removes the all-closed native binding, and adds module-graph GC and close-lifecycle tests.

Changes

HTTP server listener lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track reused native listeners src/js/node/_http_server.ts, test/js/node/http/node-http-server-close-drain.test.ts	The listener code records the owner of each identified native server and releases the previous owner’s connection-checking interval when applicable. Tests cover shared listeners, connection ownership, and requests across reloads.
Queue close reactions in listener context src/js/node/_http_server.ts, src/runtime/node/node_http_binding.rs, src/codegen/generate-js2native.ts, test/js/node/http/node-http-server-close-drain.test.ts, test/js/bun/module-graph/module-graph-gc.test.ts	Close handling registers the native stop promise’s reaction under the context captured during listen and skips registration after module-graph shutdown. The native all-closed binding and its identifier mapping are removed. Tests cover async-context behavior, graph disposal, and HTTP/HTTPS servers whose close waits for a request.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a3a3e

The change releases earlier http.Server instances under bun --hot and moves close handling into the listener's async context. The reported evidence shows retention dropping from 150 servers to one. The only open comment concerns clearer failure output in a test helper, so the change looks ready to merge.

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[robobun]

Status

How I reproduced it: bun --hot server.cjs. The script creates one http.Server, stores a WeakRef of it on globalThis, calls listen(0, "127.0.0.1"), and writes its own file again to start the next load. After 6 loads and Bun.gc(true), main (5900354) has 6 of 6 servers alive. With this PR, 1 of 6 is alive.

The same check with an express 4.18.2 app and 150 saves: main has 150 servers alive and RSS goes from 53 MB to 295 MB. With this PR, 1 server is alive and RSS stays near 69 MB.

PR: #46039

[robobun]

^{Updated 4:05 AM PT - Oct 22nd, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit a3a3e8d has 1 failures in Build #130834 (All Failures):

• step failed outside runner - exit 1 on 🍎 27 aarch64 - test-bun

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the moved 'close' reaction: server.stop() (stop_from_js in src/runtime/server/server_body.rs) returns the same all_closed_promise the deleted getBunServerAllClosedPromise handed out, so a JS close() still observes native drain, and get_all_closed_promise keeps that caller, so the Rust deletion leaves no dead remainder. The only path that loses a 'close' emission is a native server stopped by another http.Server's close() under --hot, which already behaved that way on main.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the node:http Server listen/close lifecycle in src/js/node/_http_server.ts and deletes one Rust binding; no security-sensitive surface. Verified findings were posted inline, so a human review is already signalled; this note only records the refactor-preservation check on the close reaction that was examined and ruled out.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

The new push addresses both points from my earlier review (the WeakMap constructor is now captured at module load, and collected() is bounded by a wall-clock deadline). Beyond the inline nit, I also checked two things in the new code and ruled them out: queueCloseNTServer reads generation.frame without a guard, but close() only reaches it when this[serverSymbol] is set, and kRealListen assigns the handle and the generation back to back with nothing fallible between them; and releaseListener(previous) on a server whose 'listening' has not fired yet is harmless, since kTrackedConnections is initialized in the constructor and clearInterval(undefined) is a no-op.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the node:http Server close/listen lifecycle in src/js/node/_http_server.ts (async-context swap around the 'close' reaction, a module-level WeakMap of native-server owners under --hot, connection-check interval release), deletes the getBunServerAllClosedPromise Rust binding, and adds --hot subprocess tests plus two ModuleGraph GC cases. It touches no injection, auth or data-exposure surface. The only finding this run is a dead codegen row left behind by the binding deletion; the earlier inline comments were addressed in commit 6d25a83. The change is still a non-trivial lifecycle and GC-reachability rework with a deliberate Node divergence on the 'close' async context, so a human look remains worthwhile.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

I reviewed the latest push and didn't find any bugs; the two new commits cover what the earlier inline comments pointed at (the WeakMap constructor is captured at load, the --hot fixtures poll on a deadline, the codegen row is gone). Because this changes 'close' wiring, async-context swapping and --hot lifetime in node:http, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• close() now registering the 'close' reaction on the promise server.stop() returns: checked the --hot case where two http.Servers share one native server and both close in one tick — the second stop() reaches get_all_closed_promise after is_closed(), which hands back an already-resolved promise, so both still emit 'close' (order differs from main, as the description says).
• queueCloseNTServer's swap of $asyncContext field 0 is bracketed by try/finally and matches the pattern in async_context_frame.ts; isStoppedModuleGraphRunning() is only consulted when a listen-time frame exists.
• nativeServerOwners is keyed by the native wrapper, which Bun.serve() returns as the same JS object on a hot reload; lostListener/releaseListener are reached only from paths where kTrackedConnections is the constructor-initialized Set, and clearInterval(undefined) before 'listening' is a no-op.
• node_http_binding.rs after the deletion: JsLocal, JsScope, JSValue, JsResult are still used by the two ws functions; no remaining reference to getBunServerAllClosedPromise or the removed rustIdentifierPaths row.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches src/js/node/_http_server.ts (moves the 'close' reaction from listen() to close(), adds a per-native-handle owner WeakMap for bun --hot, reorders checkConnections), deletes a Rust host function and its codegen row, and adds subprocess --hot fixtures plus Bun.ModuleGraph cases. It touches no injection, auth or data-exposure surface. The bug hunt ran dry and the earlier inline comments are addressed in the new commits, but the code involves async-context mutation, GC-lifetime reasoning and hot-reload server sharing in a core node compat module, so it is not simple enough to approve without a human reviewer.

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Keep stderr and exitCode visible when the fixture prints no JSON.

runHot parses each stdout line before the caller runs its assertions. A fixture can crash, or exit before console.log. In that case, stdout is "" and "".split("\n") returns [""]. JSON.parse("") then throws a SyntaxError, so the test reports a JSON parse error. The CI log does not show the stderr text or the exit code that explain the failure. This matters here because the author could not run these platform-specific --hot cases locally and relies on CI.

Skip empty lines. If a line is not valid JSON, keep the raw text so that toEqual shows it in the diff together with stderr.

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[claude]

I reviewed the latest push (5c83ccb, a3a3e8d) and found no bugs; the points from earlier runs are addressed here (the WeakMap constructor is captured at module load, the collection poll is deadline-bound, the dead js2native row is gone). Because this reworks the 'close' lifecycle of node:http Server, swaps the async-context frame around a promise reaction, and adds hot-reload ownership semantics, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• queueCloseNTServer: frame swap is try/finally-restored and mirrors AsyncContextFrame.run; stop() always returns the all-closed promise (stop_from_js), including on an already-stopped native server, so the reaction registered at close() still fires.
• Non-hot path pays nothing: handle.id is only non-empty when the hot map computes it (BunObject.rs), and lostListener short-circuits on the undefined map.
• Checked whether generation can be undefined when queueCloseNTServer reads .frame -- serverSymbol and kListenerGeneration are set together in kRealListen with no JS in between, so no.
• The kConnectionsCheckingInterval export the tests import is pre-existing on the base; no production code was added for the tests.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches src/js/node/_http_server.ts (close() now registers the 'close' reaction, a module-level WeakMap tracks which http.Server a hot-reloaded native server calls, interval release on displacement), deletes the getBunServerAllClosedPromise host function from src/runtime/node/node_http_binding.rs and its codegen row, and adds hot-reload and ModuleGraph tests. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface; the security-relevant aspect is only the primordial-safe WeakMap access in a builtin, which is done via captured constructor and $call. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files and the bug hunt ran dry, but the lifecycle, async-context and --hot ownership semantics are design-level choices (including a deliberate divergence from Node on the 'close' context) that a maintainer should weigh, so defer rather than approve.