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Pairs with #47491.

Problem

  • A thread-pool job keeps its input copy until the JS thread completes the call (src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs:1841). 300 pending fs.promises.writeFile calls with a 1.5 MiB string peak at 503 MB.
  • No user reported this. Node 26.3 holds 508 MB.

Fix

  • node:fs writes, Bun.Archive.write, Bun.zstdCompress and Bun.zstdDecompress drop a large copy on the pool thread, after their work. The burst peaks at 69 MB.
  • bun_core::vec::releases_on_pool is the size rule: over 512 KiB.
  • Correct: nothing reads the data later, and the pool thread frees only a Vec<u8>.
  • Verified: 14 new cases fail on main (test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js, test/js/bun/archive.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts). Also ran: fs, worker, bindgen. Self-reviewed: 24 concerns raised, 24 addressed.

Background

  • bun_jsc::Job runs run on a pool thread, then then on the JS thread, which drops the job.
  • A job copies a non-ASCII, literal or encoded string, and a view of a resizable ArrayBuffer or WebAssembly.Memory (Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021).
  • mimalloc gives a block over 512 KiB its own page, which every thread frees alike.
  • Considered a JobContext release hook: the same per-job code plus a trait method.

Downsides

  • Copies of 512 KiB or less stay: 1500 pending 300 KiB views hold 492 MB (37 MB on bun 1.4.2). A slow pool holds more copies: flush: true gives 369 MB.
  • Awaited 32 MiB writes peak one copy higher in 1 to 4 of 20 runs.
  • .text grows 1,280 bytes. Six pool bodies grow 14 to 56 instructions.
Notes

How this relates to #47491, #47602 and #46789

A question for a maintainer

The comment on #47491 asks it in two parts.

  1. May a pool thread free bytes that only the job owns? LibcBackend::run and the WebCrypto tasks do that today, at every size. The jobs of this PR and of Bun.write: free the write job's heap copy of the source when the write is done #47491 do not.
  2. From which size? The rule is bun_core::vec::releases_on_pool. The choices are 512 KiB (this PR), about 128 KiB, or no limit. The rule has no upper limit in any case.

The numbers for part 2 come from one more commit on top of this PR: robobun/7cdeade8/pool-release-limit-knob. It reads the limit from BUN_X_POOL_RELEASE_MIN and has the runner in bench/pool-release-limit/. It is not for merge. The builds are release builds of that commit.

A burst wants no limit. Peak RSS in MB of pending fs.promises.writeFile calls, the median of 5 runs. The command for the first row is BUN_X_POOL_RELEASE_MIN=<bytes> bun bench/pool-release-limit/burst.mjs string 1500 307200.

Pending calls 512 KiB 128 KiB No limit
1500 x non-ASCII string, 300 KiB copy 486 65 (61 to 68) 66
1500 x 300 KiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 485 67 80 (73 to 85)
300 x non-ASCII string, 1.5 MiB copy 68 (63 to 94) 70 (64 to 79) 72 (67 to 76)
300 x 1 MiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 68 (65 to 78) 63 (61 to 73) 64

Writes that are awaited pay little for a release under 512 KiB. Each table has chains that await their writes one at a time. A cell is the cost of one write of a non-ASCII string on the JS thread. The counters are from perf_event_open in user mode, and a cell is the median of 20 paired runs. The command for the first cell is bun bench/pool-release-limit/floor-study.mjs <bun> 20 string 16384 64 1280 chains.

64 chains:

Copy Cycles, JS thread frees -> pool thread frees Same setting again Page faults
16 KiB 21,096 -> 20,573 (-2.5%) +0.1% 0.39 -> 0.84
64 KiB 50,917 -> 52,893 (+3.9%) -3.5% 0.96 -> 2.48
128 KiB 100,391 -> 98,131 (-2.3%) +0.2% 2.01 -> 3.26
300 KiB 236,814 -> 229,621 (-3.0%) +0.9% 8.58 -> 7.55
600 KiB 463,959 -> 421,134 (-9.2%) +1.4% 16.22 -> 11.63

16 chains:

Copy Cycles, JS thread frees -> pool thread frees Same setting again Page faults
16 KiB 22,301 -> 21,097 (-5.4%) -3.5% 0.21 -> 0.21
64 KiB 44,322 -> 46,660 (+5.3%) +2.2% 0.36 -> 0.97
128 KiB 80,291 -> 80,509 (+0.3%) +3.1% 0.58 -> 0.58
300 KiB 235,633 -> 231,092 (-1.9%) -1.0% 2.96 -> 5.78
600 KiB 438,667 -> 426,133 (-2.9%) -0.8% 7.16 -> 12.45

1 chain:

Copy Cycles, JS thread frees -> pool thread frees Same setting again Page faults
16 KiB 69,613 -> 70,600 (+1.4%) -2.7% 0.34 -> 0.33
64 KiB 101,610 -> 105,433 (+3.8%) +4.6% 0.67 -> 0.68
128 KiB 134,688 -> 137,463 (+2.1%) +0.9% 0.80 -> 0.79
300 KiB 274,373 -> 286,658 (+4.5%) -0.6% 2.39 -> 2.44
600 KiB 469,761 -> 462,121 (-1.6%) -3.8% 6.69 -> 7.13

64 chains, a view of a resizable ArrayBuffer:

Copy Cycles, JS thread frees -> pool thread frees Same setting again Page faults
64 KiB 49,000 -> 51,276 (+4.6%) -1.6% 2.02 -> 4.62
300 KiB 185,613 -> 172,709 (-7.0%) -1.6% 8.35 -> 8.50
600 KiB 352,150 -> 320,713 (-8.9%) +1.3% 21.36 -> 12.02
  • A release on the pool thread changes the cycles of the JS thread by -10.1% to +5.3%. The same setting again changes them by -4.3% to +4.6%.
  • The 64 KiB row is slower in all four tables, by 3.8% to 5.3%. The other rows are slower by 4.5% at most, and in no more than two tables.
  • With 64 chains the JS thread takes more page faults for a copy of 128 KiB or less. From 300 KiB on it takes fewer.
  • Rounds of Promise.all of 64 writes get faster: -6.7% at 64 KiB and -8.0% at 300 KiB.
  • With 64 chains and a 300 KiB copy, Bun.Archive.write changes by +3.4% (again: -4.3%) and Bun.zstdCompress by -10.1% (again: -1.5%).

So the three choices are:

  • 512 KiB. A call with a smaller copy runs as on main: same instruction counts, same frees (see "What the change costs"). The bursts of smaller copies stay, and so does the regression for small views.
  • About 128 KiB. It fixes the 300 KiB burst. Its cost in these tables is +4.5% in one cell (300 KiB, 1 chain). The other cells from 128 KiB on show +2.1% or less.
  • No limit. It fixes every burst. Chains of 64 KiB writes cost the JS thread 4% to 5% more cycles. Each small copy is then a free from another thread.

The rule has no upper limit. 12 pending writes with a 32 MiB copy hold 519 MB with no release. With it they hold 231 to 294 MB. For a view the numbers are 455 MB and 214 to 327 MB.

The rule by kind: a heap copy goes on the pool thread above the limit. A memfd copy (#47491 only) stays with the JS thread, and the first question of #47491 is about it.

What the change buys

Release builds of main (3f3a9ff) and of this branch on that commit, bun 1.4.2, bun 1.4.4 and Node 26.3.0. Linux x64, 12 vCPU. Each row is one process that starts 300 calls in one turn and then awaits them. A cell is the peak RSS in MB (VmHWM), the median of 5 runs. A range is there when the runs differ by more than 6 MB. The copy of a call is 1 MiB, or 1.5 MiB for the UTF-16 string.

300 pending calls bun 1.4.2 bun 1.4.4 main this PR Node 26.3
fs.promises.writeFile, UTF-16 string 483 482 503 69 (65 to 76) 508
fs.promises.writeFile, ASCII string literal 335 334 354 70 (69 to 76) 359
fs.promises.writeFile, hex string 337 336 357 80 361
fs.promises.appendFile, UTF-16 string 483 482 503 73 (66 to 98) 509
fs.write(fd, string), UTF-16 string 485 482 503 72 505
fs.promises.writeFile, view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 36 333 353 75 (71 to 88) 58
fs.promises.writeFile, view of a WebAssembly.Memory 36 334 354 75 (70 to 77) 58
fs.write(fd, view, offset, length), view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 37 335 355 83 (76 to 87) 59
fs.write(fd, view), view of a WebAssembly.Memory 39 334 354 73 (70 to 82) 58
fs.writev(fd, [view]), view of a WebAssembly.Memory 36 334 354 76 (71 to 80) 58
Bun.Archive.write(path, { file }) 339 338 374 123 (102 to 131)
Bun.Archive.write(path, bytes) 336 339 358 104 (84 to 136)
Bun.zstdCompress, UTF-16 string of one character 483 482 503 65 1197
Bun.zstdCompress, view of a resizable ArrayBuffer of one byte 334 333 353 69 (63 to 72)
Control: fs.promises.writeFile, ASCII string that is not a literal 34 31 51 52 357
Control: fs.promises.writeFile, Uint8Array 33 31 52 51 57
Total time of the burst (ms) main this PR
fs.promises.writeFile, UTF-16 string 646 605
fs.promises.writeFile, ASCII string literal 494 269
fs.promises.writeFile, hex string 367 194
fs.promises.appendFile, UTF-16 string 703 487
fs.write(fd, string), UTF-16 string 626 418
fs.promises.writeFile, view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 518 346
fs.promises.writeFile, view of a WebAssembly.Memory 378 326
fs.write(fd, view, offset, length), view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 391 216
fs.write(fd, view), view of a WebAssembly.Memory 498 314
fs.writev(fd, [view]), view of a WebAssembly.Memory 462 261
Bun.Archive.write(path, { file }) 217 135
Bun.Archive.write(path, bytes) 176 114
Bun.zstdCompress, UTF-16 string of one character 670 371
Bun.zstdCompress, view of a resizable ArrayBuffer of one byte 376 313

Where the gain is smaller

The copy lives until the pool thread is done with the call. So a burst still holds the copy of every call that the pool has not finished. It also holds what the caller holds and what the job makes.

300 pending calls bun 1.4.2 bun 1.4.4 main this PR Node 26.3
fs.promises.writeFile, each call has its own UTF-16 string 788 785 806 392 811
fs.promises.writeFile, UTF-16 string, flush: true 484 482 503 369 (248 to 416) 509
Bun.zstdCompress, 1 MiB of source text, default level 434 437 458 (431 to 465) 201 (189 to 315)
Bun.zstdCompress, 1 MiB that does not compress 638 636 657 370 (366 to 379)
Bun.zstdDecompress, a 1 MiB frame that does not compress 637 636 658 359
Bun.zstdDecompress, a frame of 4 MiB of source text 1544 1538 1453 (1392 to 1567) 1343 (1325 to 1352)
  • A zstd job holds its output until the JS thread completes the call. Only the copy of the input goes. So the gain is the share of the input in input plus output.
  • With 2 CPUs (taskset -c 0,1) the writeFile burst of the UTF-16 string holds 178 to 230 MB. On main it holds 501 to 502 MB.
  • With 2 CPUs the Bun.Archive.write burst holds 128 to 185 MB. On main it holds 372 to 373 MB.
  • Bun.Archive.write with gzip goes from 377 MB to 97 MB.

A copy of 512 KiB or less stays, as on main:

1500 pending calls bun 1.4.2 bun 1.4.4 main this PR Node 26.3
fs.promises.writeFile, UTF-16 string, 300 KiB copy 470 467 486 486 502
fs.promises.writeFile, 300 KiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 37 474 493 492 77

What the change costs

  • 6 of the 74 pool bodies (run_on_pool) get the release (nm -S and objdump on release builds):
Pool body Instructions Bytes
Bun.Archive.write 310 -> 324 1170 -> 1250
Bun.zstdCompress and Bun.zstdDecompress 157 -> 197 571 -> 753
fs.write 122 -> 164 490 -> 673
fs.writev 122 -> 178 496 -> 765
fs.appendFile 129 -> 164 515 -> 678
fs.writeFile 127 -> 162 493 -> 656
  • 37 other node:fs bodies change by -12 to +2 instructions (-52 to +3 bytes). AsyncFSTask::run now ends the scope of its NodeFS value before it stores the result. It is one generic function for every node:fs job.
  • 31 of the 74 bodies are identical. All 74 bodies together grow from 56,803 to 57,528 bytes.
  • The sync twins are identical: NodeFS::write_file_with_path_buffer, append_file, write, writev, and compress_to_box.
  • .text grows 1,280 bytes (size).
  • No type grows. Pinned, PinnedBytes and PinnedArrayBuffer are 56 bytes on main and on this branch (gdb, debug builds).
  • The change adds no allocation, no syscall and no queue entry.
  • A copy under the limit still waits for the JS thread. A gdb breakpoint on mi_free_block_mt counts the frees by a thread that does not own the page. 400 awaited writes, two runs each:
Copy main this PR
1.5 KiB 466, 461 466, 462
24 KiB 478, 492 476, 478
300 KiB 539, 520 558, 537
1 MiB 1078, 1134 1068, 1097
  • User instructions per awaited call, all threads (perf_event_open). A cell is the median of 5 runs. A run is 10,000 calls, or 1,000 calls for the rows of 1 MiB or more. "main again" is the same binary as main, so its column is the noise.
Awaited call main this PR main again
fs.promises.stat (control) 11,017 11,047 11,014
fs.promises.writeFile, 1 KiB ASCII string 12,233 12,158 12,142
fs.promises.writeFile, 1 KiB Uint8Array 12,140 11,953 11,850
fs.promises.writeFile with flag: "a", 1 KiB ASCII string 15,105 15,008 15,117
fs.promises.writeFile, 1 KiB non-ASCII string 14,393 14,532 14,622
fs.promises.writeFile, 1 KiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 13,795 13,978 13,848
fs.write(fd, string), 1 KiB ASCII string 12,812 12,857 12,927
fs.write(fd, string), 1 KiB non-ASCII string 15,231 15,147 15,273
Bun.zstdCompress, 1 KiB Uint8Array 20,921 21,039 20,987
Bun.zstdCompress, 1 KiB ASCII string 20,728 20,710 20,815
Bun.zstdCompress, 1 KiB non-ASCII string 22,893 23,494 23,181
Bun.Archive.write, one small file 15,062 15,025 14,915
fs.promises.writeFile, UTF-16 string, 1.5 MiB copy 1,682,555 1,681,788 1,677,459
fs.promises.writeFile, non-ASCII string, 1 MiB copy 1,415,050 1,400,719 1,408,685
fs.promises.writeFile, 1 MiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 386,465 380,128 382,750
fs.write(fd, string), non-ASCII string, 1 MiB copy 1,409,724 1,414,083 1,415,357
Bun.Archive.write, one 1 MiB file 142,869 142,041 142,693
Bun.zstdCompress, non-ASCII string, 1 MiB copy 2,870,594 2,870,625 2,872,216
Bun.zstdCompress, 1 MiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 1,848,299 1,841,928 1,848,785
  • The Bun.zstdCompress row of the 1 KiB non-ASCII string moved in these 5 runs. 9 more runs give 22,977, 23,012 and 22,813.
  • The rows that this PR does not change are 1 to 2 MB higher in the tables of peak RSS. The empty process of this build is 35.2 MB, and 34.1 MB on main. The difference is text of the binary that is in memory (24.8 against 24.0 MB). The build with the knob has the same code, and 23.6 MB.
  • Wall clock of main, this PR and main again, in turns. A cell is the median and the range of 9 runs. A cell is one round of all chains, with the minor page faults of 10 rounds.
In turns main this PR main again
16 chains of 8 awaited writes, 1 MiB UTF-16 string 132 ms (120 to 166), 3,514 faults 136 ms (92 to 170), 6,988 faults 144 ms (118 to 163), 4,211 faults
16 chains of 8 awaited writes, 1 MiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 116 ms (67 to 139), 2,540 faults 118 ms (86 to 136), 9,456 faults 122 ms (107 to 144), 2,187 faults
1 chain of 64 awaited writes, 1 MiB UTF-16 string 94 ms (86 to 105), 261 faults 88 ms (75 to 109), 631 faults 90 ms (79 to 101), 159 faults
  • Peak RSS in MB of a new process that awaits large writes one at a time. A cell is the median and the range of 20 runs (5 for the other runtimes):
One chain of awaited fs.promises.writeFile calls bun 1.4.2 bun 1.4.4 main this PR Node 26.3
16 writes of a 32 MiB view of a resizable ArrayBuffer 54 85 (85 to 118) 103 (102 to 103) 104 (103 to 136) 79 (77 to 80)
8 writes of a 64 MiB view 85 (85 to 86) 149 166 (166 to 231) 168 (167 to 200) 112 (110 to 112)
8 writes of a 96 MiB view 117 (117 to 118) 246 (213 to 246) 263 (230 to 327) 264 (231 to 328) 144 (142 to 145)
16 writes of a UTF-16 string with a 32 MiB copy 95 95 (95 to 128) 113 (113 to 124) 114 (114 to 146) 165 (164 to 165)
4 chains of 8 writes of a 32 MiB view 53 181 (181 to 213) 227 (198 to 263) 201 (200 to 232) 80
  • A copy of 32 MiB or more takes whole 32 MiB chunks of the allocator. A small block in a free chunk keeps the next large copy out of that chunk.
  • So the order in AsyncFSTask::run matters. An earlier form freed the copy and then dropped its NodeFS value. That drop allocates on a new pool thread, when it gives the path buffer back. The first row then peaked at 134 MB in most runs. run now ends the scope of the NodeFS value before the release.
  • In the first row, 1 run of 20 is one copy above the range of main. In the fourth row, 3 runs of 20 are. In the last row this PR is lower than main.
  • Bun.Archive.write has no such value in its pool body. 20 runs of a chain of 16 calls with a 32 MiB copy peak at 102 MB on main. Here 16 runs peak at 102 MB and 4 runs at 134 MB.
  • Bun.zstdCompress of a 32 MiB view peaks at 103 to 104 MB on main, and at 103 MB here.

The bench snippet

bench/snippets/write-file-copied-data.node.mjs is new. It ran 9 times for each runtime, in turns and in different orders. After these runs a review fix made the UTF-16 source exactly size bytes. It was 1 or 2 bytes short for a size that is not a multiple of 3. "main again" is the same binary as main, so its column is the noise.

The rows of mitata await one fs.promises.writeFile at a time. A cell is the median of the 9 runs:

One awaited write main main again this PR bun 1.4.4 Node 26.3
12 B ASCII 337 µs 284 µs 312 µs 319 µs 951 µs
12 B UTF-16 310 µs 313 µs 285 µs 309 µs 900 µs
16 KB ASCII 300 µs 311 µs 342 µs 342 µs 963 µs
300 KB ASCII 369 µs 367 µs 392 µs 361 µs 1.71 ms
1 MB ASCII 479 µs 478 µs 466 µs 469 µs 3.34 ms
16 MB ASCII 4.25 ms 4.32 ms 4.17 ms 4.03 ms 45.77 ms
16 KB Latin-1 307 µs 322 µs 307 µs 349 µs 995 µs
300 KB Latin-1 396 µs 386 µs 361 µs 596 µs 1.73 ms
1 MB Latin-1 555 µs 536 µs 538 µs 1.14 ms 3.02 ms
16 MB Latin-1 6.24 ms 6.42 ms 6.67 ms 15.81 ms 38.60 ms
16 KB UTF-16 346 µs 313 µs 340 µs 318 µs 973 µs
300 KB UTF-16 435 µs 418 µs 441 µs 426 µs 1.95 ms
1 MB UTF-16 650 µs 657 µs 649 µs 640 µs 4.34 ms
16 MB UTF-16 7.96 ms 8.07 ms 7.83 ms 7.52 ms 57.43 ms
16 KB base64 295 µs 337 µs 335 µs 334 µs 948 µs
300 KB base64 392 µs 399 µs 381 µs 420 µs 1.79 ms
1 MB base64 550 µs 555 µs 560 µs 583 µs 3.29 ms
16 MB base64 6.08 ms 6.35 ms 6.40 ms 5.84 ms 42.64 ms
16 KB resizable view 321 µs 312 µs 320 µs 348 µs 958 µs
300 KB resizable view 393 µs 399 µs 388 µs 396 µs 1.64 ms
1 MB resizable view 541 µs 546 µs 550 µs 534 µs 2.88 ms
16 MB resizable view 6.50 ms 6.25 ms 6.39 ms 6.21 ms 35.15 ms
16 chains of 8 x 1 MB UTF-16 46.33 ms 41.01 ms 44.00 ms 53.72 ms 409.51 ms
  • The two main columns differ by 3% in the median row and by 16% at most.
  • This PR is above the two main columns in 7 rows, by 10% at most (16 KB ASCII). It is below the two in 8 rows and between them in 8.

The bursts start every write before they await one, and the chains await each write. Each of them is a new process. A cell is the median and the range of the total time, and the median peak RSS. These are the last 3 of the 9 runs, which have the final order of the bursts. The main column has the 6 runs of main and main again:

Burst in a new process main this PR bun 1.4.4 Node 26.3
300 x 1 MB ASCII at once 93 ms (73 to 124), 42 MB 116 ms (97 to 204), 40 MB 125 ms (65 to 223), 24 MB 281 ms (263 to 326), 353 MB
1500 x 300 KB UTF-16 at once 723 ms (552 to 925), 484 MB 770 ms (716 to 950), 484 MB 796 ms (783 to 834), 466 MB 1068 ms (1012 to 1078), 520 MB
300 x 1 MB Latin-1 at once 372 ms (345 to 473), 345 MB 340 ms (279 to 345), 60 MB 650 ms (618 to 691), 326 MB 336 ms (287 to 341), 355 MB
300 x 1 MB UTF-16 at once 432 ms (367 to 511), 345 MB 313 ms (208 to 373), 63 MB 511 ms (438 to 520), 326 MB 616 ms (615 to 676), 354 MB
300 x 1 MB base64 at once 433 ms (253 to 529), 346 MB 342 ms (231 to 353), 65 MB 432 ms (282 to 505), 327 MB 282 ms (282 to 342), 354 MB
300 x 1 MB resizable view at once 400 ms (376 to 503), 345 MB 289 ms (238 to 290), 66 MB 390 ms (314 to 396), 327 MB 129 ms (124 to 206), 54 MB
16 x 32 MB UTF-16 in a chain 341 ms (319 to 380), 112 MB 331 ms (310 to 368), 144 MB 328 ms (323 to 338), 96 MB 2352 ms (2219 to 2572), 167 MB
16 x 32 MB resizable view in a chain 253 ms (237 to 266), 134 MB 262 ms (224 to 282), 134 MB 231 ms (221 to 260), 118 MB 1202 ms (1157 to 1235), 82 MB

The times of the bursts move a lot between runs. So I also ran only the bursts and the chains of the snippet. main, this PR and main again took turns, 8 times each:

Burst in a new process main this PR main again
300 x 1 MB ASCII at once 111 ms (100 to 156), 44 MB 104 ms (72 to 180), 44 MB 80 ms (70 to 179), 44 MB
1500 x 300 KB UTF-16 at once 714 ms (629 to 873), 485 MB 705 ms (543 to 767), 485 MB 750 ms (617 to 856), 485 MB
300 x 1 MB Latin-1 at once 401 ms (358 to 473), 346 MB 293 ms (216 to 380), 64 MB 429 ms (301 to 686), 346 MB
300 x 1 MB UTF-16 at once 489 ms (441 to 550), 346 MB 342 ms (295 to 370), 60 MB 450 ms (312 to 673), 346 MB
300 x 1 MB base64 at once 492 ms (422 to 608), 347 MB 285 ms (219 to 373), 63 MB 487 ms (419 to 559), 347 MB
300 x 1 MB resizable view at once 410 ms (359 to 608), 346 MB 290 ms (204 to 426), 64 MB 411 ms (273 to 492), 346 MB
16 x 32 MB UTF-16 in a chain 350 ms (315 to 367), 145 MB 330 ms (307 to 374), 145 MB 341 ms (319 to 362), 145 MB
16 x 32 MB resizable view in a chain 253 ms (240 to 329), 135 MB 251 ms (236 to 275), 118 MB 251 ms (249 to 314), 118 MB
  • The four bursts with a copy over the limit end sooner on this branch.
  • The ASCII burst, the 300 KB burst and the two chains do the same work on both builds. Their times are the same. The peak of a chain is one of two values from run to run. For the UTF-16 string they are 112 to 113 MB and 144 to 145 MB, on both builds. The chain table of "What the change costs" is another program. It writes to /dev/shm and makes one write before the chain.
  • Rows of one awaited write that look slower in the first table are not slower in turns. 9 runs of 8,000 writes, main, this PR and main again: 16 KB base64 348, 331 and 360 µs. 300 KB ASCII 352, 339 and 355 µs. 16 KB ASCII 310, 327 and 318 µs.
  • In the first 6 runs the 300 KB burst was the last burst. In those full runs it took 923 ms on this branch and 768 ms on main. In turns it did not differ (797, 853 and 721 ms). One binary with the release off and on gave 656 and 555 ms for it. I did not find what made the full runs differ, so that burst now runs second.

Why each drop is safe on a pool thread

  • Every helper returns a Vec<u8>. So the type says what the pool thread drops: plain bytes of the global allocator. It is never a WTF::StringImpl or a pin.
  • StringOrBuffer::take_owned_for_pool_release takes Utf8(Utf8Bytes::Owned) and the read-only copy inside a PinnedBuffer. The pin and its GC root stay for the JS thread.
  • PinnedArrayBuffer::take_copy_for_pool_release asserts in debug builds that the copy is not the scratch of a read. The JS thread writes that scratch back, and no job calls the method for a read.
  • node:fs: AsyncFSTask::then reads the arguments for write_back (read, readv) and for the AbortSignal. Nothing reads the data after NodeFS::dispatch. Error and abort returns come back through run.
  • fs.writev: VectorArrayBuffer::release_copies_on_pool takes the copy of each WebAssembly.Memory view and makes its iovec empty. Only the write reads the iovecs.
  • Bun.Archive.write: run_from_js reads only result. WriteData::Store is shared with the Archive or Blob and stays.
  • Bun.zstdCompress and Bun.zstdDecompress are one job. then reads only result.
  • A job that is handed back before it runs drops its input on the JS thread, as before. A job that ran and is released at a VM stop has only the empty Vec left.

Not fixed here

  • Copies of 512 KiB or less (the question above). That includes the copy of a small view, which is all of the regression of Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021 at that size.
  • A job that the pool has not finished holds its copy. A zstd job holds its output. See "Where the gain is smaller".
  • Inputs that a job shares with the caller: an ASCII string that is not a literal, a Buffer, a Blob store. Only the JS thread can release them.
  • fs.write and fs.writev on Windows are libuv requests. They have no step on the thread pool of bun.
  • fs.writev with several views: the limit applies to each copy. Four views of 256 KiB stay.
  • node:zlib with a string or a Buffer is not in this class. The stream makes a JS Buffer from a string, as Node does. The native write reads that buffer in place. 300 pending zlib.gzip calls of the UTF-16 string hold 598 MB on main and 597 MB here. Node holds 576 MB.
  • node:zlib with a view of a WebAssembly.Memory is in the class and not fixed. The stream keeps its own copy (Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021) for the next output chunk. 300 pending zlib.gzip calls hold 126 MB on bun 1.4.2 and 423 MB on bun 1.4.4. They hold 442 MB on main, 442 MB here and 125 MB on Node.
  • CompressionStream: the copy of a resizable buffer is on the JS side of the job. A chunk copy stays too.
  • Bun.write: Bun.write: free the write job's heap copy of the source when the write is done #47491.
  • crypto.sign and crypto.verify with a callback keep their copy of the data and of the signature. 300 crypto.sign calls of 1 MiB hold 354 MB on main and 355 MB here. Node 26.3 holds 358 MB and bun 1.4.2 holds 335 MB. The job context is C++. It can call releases_on_pool through an export, and it needs cases of its own. It waits for the ruling.
  • crypto.pbkdf2, crypto.scrypt, crypto.argon2, Bun.password, crypto.hkdf: a password, a salt or a key is never over the limit.
  • transpiler.transform: the job also holds its output and the parsed code. The first version of this branch had the release there. 300 pending transforms of react-dom.development.js (1 MB) held 710 to 750 MB with it. Without it they held 779 to 844 MB.
  • The first version of this branch also changed crypto.sign, crypto.verify, crypto.pbkdf2, crypto.scrypt and transpiler.transform. The first review removed them.

Tests

  • Each case runs a process that awaits one call and then starts 48 calls with a copy of 2 MiB. Its JS thread stays in that loop, so it completes no call. It starts a call when the pool thread is done with the call before it. It samples its RSS before and after the loop. If every copy stays, it gains 96 MiB.
  • The gain on main is 95 to 113 MiB (release build) and 98 to 116 MiB (debug build). With this PR it is 0.2 to 9.5 MiB (release build) and 1.5 to 21.4 MiB (debug build). The bound is 48 MiB on a release build and 64 MiB on a debug build.
  • 14 cases fail on main: 9 in test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js, 2 in test/js/bun/archive.test.ts and 3 in test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts.
  • The Bun.zstdDecompress case came from the review. Its input is a small frame and then a skippable frame. So the job has a 2 MiB input and a 5 byte output. Its gain is 98 to 101 MiB on the release build of main. I did not run it on a debug build of main.
  • The node:fs and Bun.Archive.write cases wait for the last byte of the file. They run on every platform. The exceptions are FileHandle.write and FileHandle.writev, which are libuv requests on Windows. A zstd job leaves no file, so the zstd cases wait until every other thread of the process sleeps (/proc). They run on Linux only.
  • On a debug build a case takes 0.8 to 2.1 s, with the cases of a file at once. On a release build it takes under 1 s. Each case is one process.
  • CI runs a changed test file alone. I also ran the cases with the environment of the ASAN lane (detect_leaks=1, BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1). The gains are 1.6 to 20.9 MiB, with no leak report.
  • A sampled RSS can miss a peak between the samples. Here the state is steady at the sample: the JS thread is in the loop, and every job is done.
  • I could not run the macOS and Windows cases here. CI ran them on macOS x64 and aarch64 and on Windows x64 and aarch64, and they pass.
  • Also ran on the debug build, all pass: test/internal/bindgen.test.ts, test/js/web/workers/worker-terminate-lifetime.test.ts, fs-write-offset-bound.test.ts, abort-signal-leak-read-write-file.test.ts, fs-promises-writeFile-async-iterator.test.ts, and 16 of Node's test-fs-write*, test-fs-writev*, test-fs-append-file* and test-zlib-zstd-from-string tests.
  • test/js/node/fs/fs.test.ts and worker-late-completion.test.ts have cases that reach their time limit on the debug build on this machine. They do so with the sources of main too: the recursive readdir x 100 cases, and the fs.readFile case that reads the 1.7 GB debug binary. The release builds of main and of this branch pass both files.
  • One case of fs.test.ts failed once in the release run of this branch: "keeps a non-throwing callback in the same place in the event loop". It races fs.stat against setImmediate. Alone, it fails in 20 to 25 of 30 runs on main, and in 19 to 24 here.

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no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js, test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts, test/js/bun/archive.test.ts

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A job that has its own copy of an input kept that copy until its
completion ran on the JS thread. A caller that starts many calls before
it returns to the event loop held every copy.

These jobs now drop a large copy at the end of the pool body: node:fs
writeFile, appendFile, write and writev, Bun.Archive.write,
Bun.zstdCompress and Bun.zstdDecompress. The copy is the UTF-8 form of a
string that is not ASCII or that is an atom, the bytes of a string with
an encoding, the bytes that Bun.Archive.write copies or builds, or the
copy of a view of a resizable ArrayBuffer or of a WebAssembly.Memory. A
smaller copy, a shared string and a pin stay for the JS thread.

bun_core::vec::releases_on_pool has the size rule: a copy of more than
512 KiB. Each helper returns a Vec<u8>, so a pool thread can drop only
plain bytes.
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I reproduced it on a release build of main (3f3a9ff, Linux x64, 12 vCPU) with this script. Run bun repro.mjs fs-utf16, or one of the other four names.

import fs from "node:fs";
import os from "node:os";
import path from "node:path";
const which = process.argv[2];
const dir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "sib-"));
const MB = 1024 * 1024;
const files = Array.from({ length: 300 }, (_, i) => path.join(dir, "out" + i));
const utf16 = Buffer.alloc(MB, "\u4e2d", "utf16le").toString("utf16le"); // 1.5 MiB as UTF-8
const u8 = new Uint8Array(MB).fill(0xab);
const resizable = new Uint8Array(new ArrayBuffer(MB, { maxByteLength: 2 * MB })).fill(0xab);
const wasm = new Uint8Array(new WebAssembly.Memory({ initial: 16, maximum: 32 }).buffer).fill(0xab);
const cb = fn => new Promise((resolve, reject) => fn((err, value) => (err ? reject(err) : resolve(value))));
let work;
if (which === "fs-utf16") work = files.map(f => fs.promises.writeFile(f, utf16));
else if (which === "fs-resizable") work = files.map(f => fs.promises.writeFile(f, resizable));
else if (which === "fs-writev-wasm") {
  const fds = files.map(f => fs.openSync(f, "w"));
  work = fds.map(fd => cb(done => fs.writev(fd, [wasm], done)).finally(() => fs.closeSync(fd)));
} else if (which === "archive-u8") work = files.map(f => Bun.Archive.write(f, { "a.bin": u8 }));
else if (which === "zstd-utf16") work = files.map(() => Bun.zstdCompress(utf16, { level: 1 }));
else throw new Error("fs-utf16, fs-resizable, fs-writev-wasm, archive-u8 or zstd-utf16");
await Promise.all(work);
const peak = Math.round(Number(/VmHWM:\s+(\d+)/.exec(fs.readFileSync("/proc/self/status", "utf8"))[1]) / 1024);
fs.rmSync(dir, { recursive: true });
console.log(which, "peak RSS", peak, "MB");

Peak RSS of 6 runs:

Case main this PR
fs-utf16 499 to 501 MB 63 to 71 MB
fs-resizable 349 to 350 MB 62 to 71 MB
fs-writev-wasm 351 MB 65 to 75 MB
archive-u8 367 to 371 MB 75 to 128 MB
zstd-utf16 500 to 501 MB 57 to 68 MB

PR: #47668

CI: the 14 new cases pass on every lane that ran them: Linux x64 and aarch64, Alpine, the ASAN lane, macOS x64 and aarch64, Windows x64 and aarch64. The red tests of build 136581 fail without this diff:

Waits for: the ruling asked in #47491 (comment). May a pool thread free bytes that only the job owns, and from which size?

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❌ @robobun, your commit 7ab8333 has 41 failures in Build #136581 (All Failures):

🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 47668

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47668 executable, so you can run:

bun-47668 --bun

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The change adds worker-pool cleanup for eligible copied input bytes in archive, zstd, and filesystem jobs. Regression tests measure RSS growth and verify output data. A benchmark exercises file writes with several source types and workload patterns.

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Pool-thread byte release

Layer / File(s) Summary
Owned byte extraction
src/bun_core/lib.rs, src/jsc/array_buffer.rs, src/jsc/bindgen.rs, src/runtime/node/types.rs, src/jsc/thread_isolated.rs, docs/project/bindgen.mdx		 Pool-release helpers select vectors by capacity. Pinned strings and buffers expose eligible copies for release. The safety and API documentation describes the cleanup behavior.
Job cleanup integration
src/runtime/api/Archive.rs, src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs, src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs		 Archive, compression, and filesystem jobs release owned input data after processing. Filesystem argument cleanup runs after dispatch and after the local NodeFS is dropped.
Memory and output regression tests
test/harness.ts, test/js/bun/archive.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts, test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js		 The harness measures RSS while calls are pending. Tests check memory bounds and verify archive, compression, and filesystem output.

Copied-data write benchmark

Layer / File(s) Summary
Write workload and benchmark cases
bench/snippets/write-file-copied-data.node.mjs		 The script runs burst and chain workloads for multiple source types and sizes. It reports elapsed time, minor page faults, and peak RSS, then removes the temporary directory.

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  • oven-sh/bun#47491: Frees a Bun.write job’s heap copy on the pool thread after the write completes. It handles a related cleanup path.

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test/js/bun/archive.test.ts: 1

1849-1851: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Check each write's output, or limit the test to memory release.

Each call truncates out before it writes. verify reads only the final file after Promise.all. A non-final write can resolve with wrong bytes and still pass. The done predicate checks one byte and runs inside the measured loop.

A per-write content check needs a distinct output path for each call. Run those checks after deltaMiB is measured. Do not add reads to done, and do not await calls inside the loop. Either change alters the RSS measurement.

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/archive.test.ts around lines 1849 - 1851:
Update the write-call setup and verification around `call`, `done`, and `verify`
so each concurrent write uses a distinct output path and its resulting content
is checked only after `deltaMiB` is measured. Keep `done` free of reads and do
not await calls inside the measured loop.
test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts: 1

909-909: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Check every compression result in the zstd input-release test.

The new zstdCompress frees its copy of %s when the compression is done case reads only results.at(-1). A wrong result at any other index passes. Each call compresses its own copy of data, so a premature release can affect any index. The harness error message refers to the calls in general. Checking every result closes this gap. The RSS delta is sampled before verify runs, so the wider check does not change the measurement.

Suggested fix 
-      verify: `Buffer.from(Bun.zstdDecompressSync(results.at(-1))).equals(Buffer.from(data))`,
+      verify: `results.every(r => Buffer.from(Bun.zstdDecompressSync(r)).equals(Buffer.from(data)))`,
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Review comment at @test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts at line 909:
Update the `verify` expression in the `zstdCompress frees its copy of %s when
the compression is done` test to decompress and compare every entry in `results`
against `data`, rather than checking only the last result.
test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js: 2

597-599: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Check the output of every write, not only the last one.

Each iteration truncates out before the next call starts. verify reads only the final file, so an earlier call's output is overwritten before any check of its full contents. Corruption that affects only an earlier call's output, for example corruption that depends on the call index or occurs intermittently, passes this test. A deterministic write defect still fails, because the final call uses the same data.

Write each call to its own file, and verify all files after the RSS sample. The pending calls stay in the existing loop, and the comparisons stay outside the measured window. Each case keeps 48 output files of about 2 MiB until the test ends.

Suggested change 
       {
         setup: `
-          const out = ${JSON.stringify(join(String(dir), "out"))};
+          const outOf = i => ${JSON.stringify(join(String(dir), "out"))} + i;
           const data = ${data};
           const written = ${written};
         `,
-        call: `(fs.writeFileSync(out, ""), ${call})`,
-        done: `byteAt(out, written.length - 1) === written.at(-1)`,
-        verify: `fs.readFileSync(out).equals(written)`,
+        call: `((out) => (fs.writeFileSync(out, ""), ${call}))(outOf(i))`,
+        done: `byteAt(outOf(i), written.length - 1) === written.at(-1)`,
+        verify: `Array.from({ length: ${count} }, (_, k) => fs.readFileSync(outOf(k)).equals(written)).every(Boolean)`,
         count,
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Review comment at @test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js around lines 597 - 599:
Update the write-test case setup and call generation so each iteration writes to
its own output file instead of truncating the shared file. Keep the pending
calls in the existing loop, and use the `verify` check to compare every
iteration’s file with `written` after the RSS sample; keep content comparisons
outside the measured window.

634-634: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Assert the resolved bytesWritten in the FileHandle write cases.

The FileHandle.write and FileHandle.writev cases check only file contents in verify. The resolved bytesWritten values in results are never checked. A write that reports zero bytes or a wrong count still passes.

Suggested fix 
-        verify: `(await handle.close(), fs.readFileSync(out).equals(written))`,
+        verify: `(await handle.close(), results.every(r => r.bytesWritten === written.length) && fs.readFileSync(out).equals(written))`,
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Review comment at @test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js at line 634:
Update the FileHandle.write and FileHandle.writev test cases’ verify checks to
assert that each result in results reports bytesWritten equal to written.length,
while preserving the existing file-content verification.
src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs: 1

2036-2036: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a pending zstdDecompress RSS case beside the zstdCompress case.

The RSS test at test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:897-914 covers only Bun.zstdCompress. The shared cleanup at src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs:2036 runs for both directions, so a change that limits it to compression would pass this test. Add a case that calls Bun.zstdDecompress on a resizable compressed input over 512 KiB and checks the retained memory with expectRssDeltaOfPendingCallsBelow. Only inputs above 512 KiB take the pool-release path.

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Review comment at @src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs at line 2036:
Add a pending-call RSS case beside the existing zstdCompress case in the zstd
tests, using Bun.zstdDecompress with a resizable compressed input larger than
512 KiB and verifying retained memory with expectRssDeltaOfPendingCallsBelow.
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Review comments at @bench/snippets/write-file-copied-data.node.mjs:
- Line 20: Update the “UTF-16” source generator so its output encodes to exactly
size UTF-8 bytes, including when size is not divisible by three. Preserve the
UTF-16 character generation for complete three-byte units and add the required
remainder bytes to the generated source.

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Review comments at @src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs:
- Line 2036: Add a pending-call RSS case beside the existing zstdCompress case
in the zstd tests, using Bun.zstdDecompress with a resizable compressed input
larger than 512 KiB and verifying retained memory with
expectRssDeltaOfPendingCallsBelow.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/archive.test.ts:
- Around line 1849-1851: Update the write-call setup and verification around
`call`, `done`, and `verify` so each concurrent write uses a distinct output
path and its resulting content is checked only after `deltaMiB` is measured.
Keep `done` free of reads and do not await calls inside the measured loop.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts:
- Line 909: Update the `verify` expression in the `zstdCompress frees its copy
of %s when the compression is done` test to decompress and compare every entry
in `results` against `data`, rather than checking only the last result.

Review comments at @test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js:
- Around line 597-599: Update the write-test case setup and call generation so
each iteration writes to its own output file instead of truncating the shared
file. Keep the pending calls in the existing loop, and use the `verify` check to
compare every iteration’s file with `written` after the RSS sample; keep content
comparisons outside the measured window.
- Line 634: Update the FileHandle.write and FileHandle.writev test cases’ verify
checks to assert that each result in results reports bytesWritten equal to
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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 that the pool-thread release can never reach a write-back scratch (the debug_assert in take_copy_for_pool_release is the only guard): release_data_on_pool is wired only to the write-side args (Write, Writev, WriteFile, AppendFile) plus Archive/zstd, and none of the read/readv types implement it, so the release-build case is unreachable today. The new Pinned::Utf8 variant is covered in both Deref and the release match.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds pool-thread freeing of large (>512 KiB) owned input copies across node:fs writes, Bun.Archive.write and zstd, touching unsafe thread-affinity contracts in src/jsc/bindgen.rs, src/jsc/array_buffer.rs and src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs; no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed inline findings (a resizable non-wasm writev view copy gap, and Windows write/writev not releasing) plus one unposted verified finding mean this is not approvable.

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- zstd.test.ts: a third case starts Bun.zstdDecompress calls on a view of a
  resizable ArrayBuffer. The input is a small frame and then a skippable
  frame, so the job has a large input and a small output. Each case now
  checks every result, not only the last one.
- promises.test.js: the FileHandle cases check bytesWritten of every call.
- bench/snippets/write-file-copied-data.node.mjs: the UTF-16 source is
  exactly `size` bytes as UTF-8 when `size` is not a multiple of 3.
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Review follow-up in 7ab8333:

  • test/js/bun/util/zstd.test.ts: each case now checks every result. A third case covers Bun.zstdDecompress with a view of a resizable ArrayBuffer. Its input is a small frame and then a skippable frame. So the job has a 2 MiB input and a 5 byte output. The 48 pending calls hold 98 to 101 MiB on main and 1.7 MiB here (release builds).
  • test/js/node/fs/promises.test.js: the FileHandle.write and FileHandle.writev cases check bytesWritten of every call.
  • bench/snippets/write-file-copied-data.node.mjs: the UTF-16 source is exactly size bytes. It was 1 or 2 bytes short when size was not a multiple of 3. The numbers in the description are from the source before this fix.

No change for these:

  • One output file per call (promises.test.js, archive.test.ts). These cases test when the copy is freed. A check of every file needs 48 files of 2 MiB per case. The 9 cases of promises.test.js run at once. The loop already checks the last byte of every call, and the last file in full. The release is the statement after the write, in the same function. So a call cannot free its copy before its own write ends.
  • fs.writev with a view of a resizable ArrayBuffer. fs.writev makes no copy of such a view, so the job has nothing to release. That is the behavior of main, and it is outside this PR. I ran the trigger on release builds of main and of this branch (Linux x64): fs.writev(fd, [view], 0, cb) and then buffer.resize(0). The callback gets EFAULT with 0 bytes written. The process does not crash, and the file gets no freed bytes.
  • fs.write and fs.writev on Windows. The description has this under "Not fixed here", and the test comment gives the reason for the skip. A release in the libuv completion callback frees no sooner, because that callback runs on the JS thread.

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