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Fixes #47009

Problem

• A fetch() body that is held unread costs about 1.8 MiB RSS per response on a 64 MiB loopback body (the issue's repro.ts, 32 responses, release build). The bytes it holds are 0.5 to 1 MiB: the 256 KiB mark plus one recv.
• The per-packet scratch on both sides of the HTTP thread hop is cleared and reused, never freed, while the stream is paused: decoded_body on the HTTP thread (src/http/lib.rs, the DECODED_BODY_RETAIN_CAP branch in send_one_progress_update) and the tasklet's scheduled_response_buffer (FetchTasklet::on_body_received). Each pins one recv of empty capacity, up to 512 KiB.

Fix

• Once per timeout sweep (4 s, LIBUS_TIMEOUT_GRANULARITY), the HTTP thread walks in_flight and, for each request whose body consumer is paused (Signals::is_receive_paused), calls HTTPClient::release_idle_scratch. It drops the empty decoded_body and compressed_body, the HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 stream's empty body_buffer, and, through a new optional hook on HTTPClientResultCallback, the tasklet's empty staging buffer (under the tasklet mutex).
• Correct because only empty buffers are dropped: bytes that wait for delivery stay, and the next packet reserves the capacity again. The loop ticks at least once per sweep while a socket is open, so a paused stream loses the scratch within 4 s.
• A prompt reader, which pauses for a moment on most packets (a 512 KiB recv fills the 256 KiB pull view), keeps reusing the scratch: it pays at most one reallocation per sweep if a sweep lands inside that moment.
• Verified: test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts, "memory of a held body stream" (h1 and gzip, 0 and 1 reads; all four fail on main). Also the rest of that file, fetch-leak.test.ts and the S3 stream tests.

Background

• Receive backpressure (http: couple fetch() receive backpressure to JS body consumption (h1/h2/h3) #29831, fetch/S3: one high-water-mark rule for response-body backpressure; Bun.write(dest, response) streams to disk #39690): a body stream whose consumer takes no bytes pauses the socket at BODY_HIGH_WATER_MARK. The JS side decides this after each delivery (ProducerHold::after_delivery) and flips the shared body_receive_mode to Paused; the HTTP thread reads that signal.
• The scratch reuse (fetch: deliver response body bytes as a borrowed slice; reserve Content-Length for buffered consumers #36570) was made for the flowing case: one recv is copied HTTP thread to hop buffer to stream per packet, and a clear() avoids a malloc per packet. A paused stream gets no packet until it resumes, so the reuse buys nothing there.
• Considered: key the release on the Paused signal at the retain site (the minimal patch). FetchTasklet::callback flips that signal on nearly every 512 KiB packet even for a prompt reader, so that version frees and re-reserves 512 KiB per recv on the streaming path. Also considered and built first: a message from the JS side when the stream parks. A prompt getReader() loop parks on most packets, so with 16 concurrent readers 15 to 25 percent of parks still freed the scratch, and the plumbing was 150 lines. The sweep needs neither a message nor a signal.

Downsides

• Per packet: nothing. Per sweep (4 s): one pass over in-flight requests, one atomic load each. Counted in a debug build on 16 concurrent prompt getReader() loops over 32 MiB bodies: 9 releases for 813 parks; on one loop, 0.
• A held body keeps the scratch for up to 4 s after it pauses.
• Binary size not compared: no release build of the merge base in this container (a release build takes about 70 min here), so bloaty had nothing to diff against.

Notes

Held response RSS, release builds, Linux loopback, repro.ts from the issue with 32 responses, 3 runs each. Baseline is the bun 1.4.2 binary in the container (no release build of the merge base). PR is a release build of an earlier revision of this branch that freed the same buffers at once instead of at the sweep; the debug build of the final revision measures the same as that revision did.

mode	baseline	PR
hold0	1.83 to 1.94	0.95 to 1.19
hold1	1.62 to 1.70	0.63 to 0.67
consumed	0.42 to 0.49	0.22 to 0.34
small (64 KiB)	0.18 to 0.32	0.13 to 0.14

MiB per held response in the new test (24 streams, 4 MiB bodies, the four cases at once), main vs PR: h1 0 reads 2.0 to 2.2 -> 1.1 to 1.2 (debug+ASAN 2.7 -> 1.5), h1 1 read 1.9 -> 0.95 (debug+ASAN 2.5 -> 1.3 to 1.35), gzip 0 reads 2.1 to 2.2 -> 1.4 (debug+ASAN 2.6 -> 1.8), gzip 1 read 2.4 to 2.5 -> 1.25 to 1.4 (debug+ASAN 3.0 -> 2.0 to 2.1).

What remains per held stream is live: the chunk staged before getReader() attached (the stream's JS queue), one recv in the ByteStream's buffer, and for gzip the decoder's input and its budgeted output. Tightening that needs the attach-time resume to respect the mark, which is a separate change.

Suites run with the debug build: test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts (the h3 cases and a few 5 s cases time out in this container on main as well; the same cases pass alone), test/js/web/fetch/fetch-leak.test.ts, test/js/bun/s3/s3-stream-cancel-leak.test.ts, s3-stream-error-gc.test.ts, s3-networksink-leak.test.ts. With the release build of the earlier revision: the whole backpressure file, including the release-only download-proxy memory window bound.

Self-reviewed: 5 concerns raised, 5 addressed (compressed_body on the unclaimed path, h2/h3 body_buffer, a gzip test case, the per-packet cost of the message plumbing and its size; the sweep replaced the messages). Not done: a wall-clock throughput A/B on bench/fetch/streaming-backpressure.mjs, which needs a release build of the merge base.

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^{Updated 10:15 PM PT - Oct 26th, 2026}

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Walkthrough

HTTP response processing now recycles decoded-body buffers after non-terminal progress and releases idle scratch for paused receives during throttled HTTP-thread sweeps. FetchTasklet registers an idle-release callback. A Linux test measures memory retention for held HTTP/1 and gzip streams, then checks that their bodies remain readable.

Changes

Response scratch lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scratch recycling and callback contract src/http/lib.rs, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs	The HTTP callback gains an optional idle-scratch release callback. HTTP/1 and multiplexed non-terminal progress recycle decoded-body buffers, dropping allocations above the retain cap.
Throttled idle-scratch release src/http/HTTPThread.rs, src/runtime/webcore/fetch/FetchTasklet.rs	The HTTP thread sweeps paused in-flight clients at most once every four seconds. FetchTasklet registers a callback that resets its response buffer when empty.
Held-response memory test test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts	A Linux test measures RSS for held HTTP/1 and gzip streams, then drains each body and checks its size.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Priority: Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to dc7d9

The memory test may miss corrupted body content and uses a prohibited timeout. Address these test issues before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: releasing per-packet body scratch when a fetch stream remains parked.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#47009] requires lower retained memory for large unread fetch response bodies. The PR releases empty HTTP-thread scratch, tasklet staging scratch, and empty HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 body buffers when …
Out of Scope Changes check		The source changes implement scratch release and preserve buffer reuse for active streams. The test measures the retained-memory case from [#47009] and verifies complete body delivery after release. N…
Description check		The description explains the problem, implementation, tradeoffs, and verification results. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it provides the required information, including how the ch…

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Explanation

Issue [#47009] requires lower retained memory for large unread fetch response bodies. The PR releases empty HTTP-thread scratch, tasklet staging scratch, and empty HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 body buffers when receive processing remains paused. The HTTP thread performs the release during its idle sweep. The added Linux test covers HTTP/1 and gzip responses with zero and one reads, checks RSS limits, and drains each body to verify correctness.

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Explanation

The source changes implement scratch release and preserve buffer reuse for active streams. The test measures the retained-memory case from [#47009] and verifies complete body delivery after release. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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The description explains the problem, implementation, tradeoffs, and verification results. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it provides the required information, including how the change was verified.

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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 whether a ReleaseIdleScratch drained after the request ended could dereference a freed AsyncHTTP through (*parent).result_callback in HTTPClient::release_idle_scratch: on h1/h2 the drain only reaches it through the abort-tracker lookup, and unregister_abort_tracker runs on every terminal path (success, error, abort) before the terminal callback frees the AsyncHTTP, so a stale message is dropped at the lookup. The h3 arm reaches it through the session's pending list instead, which is a different guard but likewise only holds live streams.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewires the HTTP thread's receive-resume queue to carry a second message type that frees empty per-packet scratch buffers for parked fetch and S3 body streams, touching src/http/HTTPThread.rs, src/http/lib.rs, the h2/h3 client sessions, FetchTasklet.rs and s3/client.rs, plus a new RSS regression test. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface; the sensitive part is cross-thread lifetime of the AsyncHTTP and tasklet dereferenced from the HTTP thread. The lifetime concern was ruled out because the abort-tracker lookup gates the h1/h2 dispatch and the tracker entry is removed on every terminal path before the owner is freed. The bug hunt was cut off at its bug cap and five findings are posted inline, so a human review is still needed.

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test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts-593-593: 1

593-593: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

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Remove the empty-stderr requirement.

If an ASAN or debug build emits a benign warning, this assertion fails even when the child returns the correct body lengths and memory result. This test does not use stderr to determine correctness. Keep stderr for failure diagnostics, but assert only short and perResponse here.

Proposed change

-          expect({ short, stderr, perResponse }).toEqual({ short: 0, stderr: "", perResponse: expect.any(Number) });
+          expect({ short, perResponse }).toEqual({ short: 0, perResponse: expect.any(Number) });

Based on learnings: “ASAN/debug builds can emit benign stderr warnings”; skip stderr assertions when correctness does not depend on stderr content.

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- Line 593: Update the held-stream test that drains responses into got to use
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