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Problem

• inspector.close() can hang forever on 4 or more cores. The caller waits in Bun::jsFunction_closeNodeInspector, the debugger thread in JSC::Heap::waitForCollection. A stress run for inspector: parse the request target when Host is absent, answer 400 for an unusable Host #46808 found it, not a user or CI.
• The debugger thread ran vm.heap.collectNow(Sync, Full) before its acknowledgement (src/jsc/bindings/BunDebugger.cpp:722). That collection can wait forever for GC helper threads that another thread's collection holds.

Fix

• Remove it. The debugger thread acknowledges when server.stop(true) returns.
• bindgen: move the remaining 61 classes to schemas and delete generate-classes.ts #46329 and WebSocket: real closing handshake, one failure path, ws rewritten on native transports (consolidates the open WebSocket PRs) #45223 removed its LeakSanitizer reason, and a review of #31823 asked to remove it.
• Verified: test/js/node/inspector/inspector.test.ts (two new tests, both fail on main). Also node test-inspector-open* and the LeakSanitizer lane settings.
• Self-reviewed twice (30 and 40 concerns). A reclaim of the closed heap stays out of this PR (see Notes).

Background

• JSC heaps (one per JS thread) share one pool of GC helper threads. A collection keeps them until its thread reaches a safepoint.
• A synchronous collection can wait for those helpers (SlotVisitor::drainInParallelPassively, fix(jsc): wake passive collector when mutator starts waiting WebKit#775).
• Considered: releasing heap access around the wait. It still hung 5 of 5 runs with a Worker holding the helpers.

Downsides

• On POSIX nothing else collects the debugger heap while the inspector is closed. A session's garbage stays until the next open(): 2 to 3 MB after an ordinary attach, up to 136 MB after a 40 MB reply.
• With forced GC options, a synchronous collection right after close() can wait 1 to 4 s. Default options: 0 of 800 calls.
• Not fixed: the same wait in other synchronous collections (Request the post-entry-point full collection asynchronously #40338 is open for one).

Notes

Question for a maintainer: the memory after close(). This PR does not get it back (see "Memory after close()" below). There are three ways. Say which one you want and I open the follow-up.

• In the binding: after the acknowledgement, request an idle full collection and sweep when it ends. I built and measured this. RSS returns to main's level in every row of the table below, and 170 runs of the hang fixtures finished. It is not ready: the debugger thread's own idle GC tick calls Heap::preventCollection (through JSC__VM__shrinkFootprintNow), which waits for the queued collection. With forced options and BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS=1,1,1 that hung an open and close loop again in 7 of 12 runs (this branch: 0 of 12). The follow-up has to change that tick too.
• In JSC: fix(jsc): wake passive collector when mutator starts waiting WebKit#775 is open for the wait itself. With that wait gone, a synchronous collection after the acknowledgement is an option again, on every platform.
• Nothing: the next open() collects the heap.

How often it happens. All numbers are from linux-x64 with 12 cores. "This branch" is the removal. Release builds unless a line says debug.

• Default options, debug build: 3 of 7 runs of the loop below hung (40 closes each). This branch: 0 of 9. inspector: parse the request target when Host is absent, answer 400 for an unusable Host #46808 recorded 5 of 15.
• Default options, release build: 0 of 23 runs of 400 closes on the 1.4.3 canary here. inspector: parse the request target when Host is absent, answer 400 for an unusable Host #46808 recorded 1 of 10.
• With every collection sent to its concurrent phase (BUN_JSC_gcPauseScale=0 BUN_JSC_minimumGCPauseMS=0 BUN_JSC_minimumMutatorUtilization=1 BUN_JSC_maximumMutatorUtilization=1, "forced options" below) and Bun.gc(false) plus a few allocations before each close(): 20 of 20 runs of 30 closes hung on release main, and 20 of 20 on debug main. This branch: 0 of 20 on both.
• With a Worker parked in Atomics.wait while a collection of its heap is in flight (two fixtures, debug): 20 of 20 and 20 of 20 on main, 0 of 20 and 0 of 20 on this branch.
• The hang needs JSC's stochastic mutator scheduler and at least one helper thread. JSC turns the scheduler off when it counts fewer than 4 cores, and bun -e runs with one GC marker. On main, BUN_JSC_useStochasticMutatorScheduler=0 took the forced loop from 6 of 6 hung to 0 of 20. On such a machine this change only has its cost.
• Who can reach it: code that calls inspector.open() and then inspector.close(), run from a file. bun --inspect does not call this path.

import inspector from "node:inspector";
let keep = [];
for (let cycle = 0; cycle < 40; cycle++) {
  inspector.open(0, "127.0.0.1", false);
  const junk = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < 150000; i++) junk.push({ i, text: "item " + i, list: [i, i + 1] });
  keep = junk.slice(0, 1000);
  inspector.close();
}

The hung process (lldb, four hangs, same picture):

• Main thread: jsFunction_closeNodeInspector, state.condition.wait. Its heap has m_worldState = hasAccess | mutatorHasConn, phase Concurrent, 7 waiting parallel markers.
• All 7 HeapHelper threads: SlotVisitor::drainFromShared(HelperDrain) of the main heap's collector. They leave only in Collector::runEndPhase.
• Debugger thread: collectNow -> Heap::waitForCollection, m_worldState = hasAccess | mutatorWaiting.
• The debugger heap's collector thread: SlotVisitor::drainInParallelPassively(timeout = +Inf) with 0 active and 0 waiting markers.

The collector thread takes the passive path when mutatorWaitingBit is clear. Collector::runEndPhase clears that bit. So a collection that ends inside Heap::waitForCollector (here an earlier eden collection of the debugger heap) lets the next concurrent phase start with the bit clear.

Memory after close(). The removed call did two more things. It finalized the stopped Bun.serve server's wrapper, which frees the server's native state (NewServer::schedule_deinit, src/runtime/server/mod.rs). And it swept what the session left on the debugger heap.

• On POSIX nothing else collects or sweeps that heap while the inspector is closed. The debugger thread parks in EventLoop::tick_possibly_forever, which runs no timers on POSIX since uws: drop us_timer_t on epoll/kqueue in favor of bun's timer heap #33359. The GC timer and JSC's incremental sweeper are timers. With this change the heap has 0 collections in 40 s after a close().
• So what a session left stays until the next inspector.open(), or until the process ends.
• RSS 4 s after a close(), in MB. Ordinary attach: a client enables Runtime and Debugger on a 2000-module program (5 runs). The other rows are heavier sessions (3 runs each).

session	main	this branch
ordinary attach	132.3 to 133.4	134.6 to 135.5
10002 script sources fetched	212.9, 212.8, 212.8	227.3, 231.5, 225.8
three Runtime.evaluate replies of 64 MB	125.4, 131.0, 130.7	125.9, 187.6, 187.0
2003 script sources and one 40 MB reply	126.3, 131.8, 131.5	152.6, 267.6, 267.4

• RSS after a loop of open(); close(); with no client: 46.2 to 46.9 MB on main and 53.9 to 58.1 MB on this branch at 2000 cycles. 52.8 to 53.3 MB and 82.2 to 86.8 MB at 6000 cycles (5 runs, main 10). Runs on another day gave up to 155 MB at 6000 cycles. JSC starts its own full collections of that heap near cycle 6000.
• Windows is not run. By reading, libuv runs the debugger thread's timers while it is parked there (src/runtime/timer/mod.rs:661-750), so the GC timer still reaches that heap.

Measurements (main against this branch, release builds unless noted). perf, strace, bloaty and valgrind are not installed in this environment. Instructions and context switches come from perf_event_open counters with inherit, futex counts from a ptrace syscall counter, symbol sizes from llvm-nm -S.

• Debugger-heap full collections inside close(): 300 of 300 windows on main, 0 of 300 on this branch (BUN_JSC_logGC, 100 runs of 3 closes per build, debug).
• Instructions per open and close cycle, all threads: 2.07 M on main, 0.79 M on this branch. Context switches per cycle: 66 against 29 (10 interleaved runs of 2000 cycles). An earlier set gave 2.13 M against 0.70 M and 98 against 34.
• Futex calls per open and close cycle: 272 on main, 117 on this branch (3 runs, 200 cycles).
• Median close(): 9.16 ms on main (run medians from 2.28 to 11.34), 0.17 ms on this branch (10 interleaved runs of 400 closes). Wall times move with the state of the machine.
• jsFunctionReportNodeInspectorServerStarted: 1312 -> 1195 bytes. Release binary text: 107,557,134 bytes on both (size).
• LeakSanitizer reports under the ASAN lane environment (BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, detect_leaks=1, debug build): 0 on this branch and 0 on main for inspector.test.ts, inspector-profiler.test.ts, test-inspector-open.js, test-inspector-open-dispose.mjs, test-inspector-open-port-integer-overflow.js and test-inspector-open-coverage.js.

Other threads after close(). On main the forced collection also ended any collection of the debugger heap that was in flight. Now such a collection can stay in flight, and keep the helper threads, until the parked debugger thread polls again (once per second on POSIX). A synchronous collection on another thread can wait for it when that thread also has a collection of its own in flight. That is the same wait in JSC, met from the other side.

• Default options: fullGC() right after close() took over 500 ms in 0 of 800 calls on both builds. 1 of 200 exits under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 took over 1 s (main: 0 of 200).
• Forced options, with the caller's collection in flight: 125, 147 and 125 of 400 fullGC() calls over 500 ms (max 4.0 s). 64 of 200 exits under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 over 1 s (max 2.2 s). A Worker started right after close(): 67 of 340 starts over 500 ms, one of them 119 s. main hangs in close() in these fixtures.
• Debug build, default options, exits under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1 with the caller's collection in flight: 12 of 100 over 1 s (max 2.2 s). main: 4 of 100 hung in one set, 8 of 100 in another.

The tests.

• The first test reads the BUN_JSC_logGC output of three close() calls. It fails when a full collection starts while the caller is blocked in close(), or when the log does not hold all three calls.
• The second test forces the state of the hang and asserts from the log that it did: the scheduler read its options, and a collection of the caller's heap was in flight over a whole close() (it started before the call and had no epilogue until the call returned). That check holds in 80 of 80 runs of the fixture, for 97 to 100 of 100 rounds per release run and 9 to 10 of 10 per debug run. It reads false in 60 of 60 control runs where every collection had ended before close(). The test also fails when the log has no epilogue line. It runs 10 rounds on a debug build and 100 on a release build. The loop hung on main in 30 of 30 release runs of 100 rounds and in 20 of 20 debug runs of 10, and release main failed the test in 10 of 10 runs.
• On this branch the two tests passed 12 of 12 debug runs and 30 of 30 release runs.
• Both fixtures set the GC timer variables themselves, so a value from the test run's environment does not change them.
• Both fixtures log to a file. inspector.open() prints through process.stderr, which leaves fd 2 non-blocking (node:inspector: waitForDebugger() and open(port, host, true) block the thread instead of running the event loop #44168 changes that), and a full pipe then loses log text.
• Both stay serial. test: run the node:inspector child-process tests concurrently and assert their full output #39031 turns this file's other spawn tests into a concurrent group.

Not fixed.

• Other synchronous collections can meet the same wait: JSC__VM__runGC(false) (src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:4968) after the entry point of the main thread (src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:1621) and of every Worker (src/jsc/web_worker.rs:950), fullGC(), edenGC() and gcAndSweep() of bun:jsc, --hot reload (ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3499), and exit under BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT (ZigGlobalObject.cpp:4658). A main thread that allocates and then blocks in Atomics.wait for a new Worker hung in 1 of 12 runs on this branch and 5 of 12 on main (default options). Request the post-entry-point full collection asynchronously #40338 makes that collection asynchronous.
• Bun.gc(true) and Worker exit first call Heap::preventCollection. It waits for queued collections through the same Heap::waitForCollector.
• fix(jsc): wake passive collector when mutator starts waiting WebKit#775 changes the wait in JSC. worker_threads: a worker heap marks on its own thread #44247 with [JSC] A Heap can mark on its collecting thread only (HeapMarking, chosen at VM creation) WebKit#744 lets a Worker heap mark on its own thread. worker_threads: allocating workers block on each other's GC marking; BUN_JSC_numberOfGCMarkers=1 halves 8-worker wall time #44186 is a user report of Workers that wait on the shared helper threads.
• The waits in jsFunction_openNodeInspector and jsFunction_closeNodeInspector still hold heap access. They are now bounded by Bun.serve start and server.stop(true).
• After the first inspector.open() the application heap gets no idle full collection for the rest of the process, also after close(): idle_tick returns early while the VM has a debugger (src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs:124). This PR does not change that.

Related open PRs. #34719 moves this collection into Debugger.stop() as Bun.gc(true), and #41669 adds a call after it. Both conflict with this change, and the first test fails with a full collection in front of the acknowledgement.

Self-review.

• Round 1 (30 concerns): 27 addressed, 3 declined. Declined: a guard at the other collection sites (Request the post-entry-point full collection asynchronously #40338 and perf(worker): use the final VM sweep during shutdown #46710 are open on those lines), an assertion on Full sweep: instead of => FullCollection (the second also catches a collectSync), and test.concurrent for the two tests (a regression leaves a child that never exits, and bun test kills the child of a timed-out test only outside a concurrent group).
• Round 2 (40 concerns) reviewed this change together with the reclaim in the binding. 23 concerns are about the reclaim, which is not in this PR. 16 are addressed here: the description of the memory cost, the conditions of the hang, the check in the second test that could not fail, and the GC variables that the fixtures took from the environment.
• Not done: a new tracking issue for the other collection sites. The open PRs and the issue for them are linked above.

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Status

How the hang was reproduced:

• Debug build of main (179664e): the loop in the description hung in 3 of 7 runs of 40 closes.
• lldb on four hung processes showed the same four waits. The description lists them under Notes.
• With every collection sent to its concurrent phase, release and debug builds of main hung in 20 of 20 runs. This branch hung in 0 of 20.

Both new tests in test/js/node/inspector/inspector.test.ts fail on main and pass on this branch.

PR: #46941

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^{Updated 11:16 AM PT - Oct 27th, 2026}

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The debugger no longer runs a synchronous full heap collection when the reported URL and error are empty. New tests check GC logs around inspector.close() while idle and during an in-flight collection.

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Inspector close behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Debugger collection behavior and close tests src/jsc/bindings/BunDebugger.cpp, test/js/node/inspector/inspector.test.ts	The debugger removes the synchronous full collection for the empty URL and error case. Tests check that idle closes do not trigger a full collection and that a close can occur before the calling heap’s collection ends.

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The overlap test could fail if scheduling produces no qualifying round. The revised assertion prevents the earlier false pass.

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I reviewed this push and found no new bugs; the maintainer question in the description (whether and how to reclaim the debugger heap after close()) is a design trade-off a human should settle before merging.

What was reviewed:

• The deletion's rationale: src/jsc/Debugger.rs:441 disables leak checks on the debugger thread, so the LeakSanitizer reason in the removed comment no longer applies.
• The env knobs the tests reset (BUN_GC_TIMER_DISABLE, BUN_GC_TIMER_INTERVAL, BUN_IDLE_GC_SECONDS, BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL) are all read in src/jsc/GarbageCollectionController.rs and src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs.
• The hang test's precondition now requires the caller heap's epilogue token to appear in the log (commit 7f9063d), so it can no longer hold vacuously.

Extended reasoning...

The production change is an 11-line deletion in src/jsc/bindings/BunDebugger.cpp removing the synchronous full collection the debugger thread ran before acknowledging inspector.close(); the rest is two new serial subprocess tests in test/js/node/inspector/inspector.test.ts that parse BUN_JSC_logGC output. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The two later commits only touch the test file and address the precondition and env-isolation points raised on the earlier push. What keeps this from an approve is that the author explicitly leaves the memory-after-close behavior (no collection of the debugger heap on POSIX while the inspector is closed, with measured RSS growth) as an open question for a maintainer, and that choice is a design decision rather than something a bot can settle.

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