test(ci): warm a spawned child module graph before it is timed - #5038
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Eighteen files spawn a real Bun child and bound it with INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS, so the first child of a module graph is measured with its cold load inside the assertion. Pay that load once in setup instead, through a shared helper. Refs #4956 (cold-start class only).
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TestSuite
participant ColdSpawnWarmup
participant ModuleGraph
participant ChildProcess
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TestSuite->>ColdSpawnWarmup: run beforeAll warm-up
ColdSpawnWarmup->>ModuleGraph: scan entry or source
ColdSpawnWarmup->>ChildProcess: import graph with bounded deadline
ChildProcess-->>ColdSpawnWarmup: return warm-up report
ColdSpawnWarmup-->>TestSuite: complete or reject setup
TestSuite->>TimedAssertion: start measured child-process test
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리뷰 · 우선순위 74 / 80설명 이 PR은 Windows CI에서 반복되던 본문이 든 증거는 설득력 있습니다. 같은 파일의 두 describe가 서로 다른 그래프를 쓰므로 첫 자식이 2.9s vs 15.3s처럼 다른 콜드 비용을 내고, 워밍한 뒤 형제는 0.5–2s대로 떨어집니다. 고정 오버헤드라면 두 행이 같이 밀렸을 것입니다. #4948이 정직성 설계가 핵심입니다. 한계도 본문이 솔직합니다. #4956은 macOS/Windows에서 자식이 출력을 멈추고 안 죽는 행 클래스까지 포함하며, 콜드 스타트만 고칩니다. tests/helpers/cold-spawn-warmup.ts warmModuleGraph - 격리 import에 실패한 specifier는 warn만 하고 파일은 통과시킵니다. 의도된 열화지만, CI 로그에서 그 줄이 묻히면 다시 콜드 측정으로 돌아갈 수 있습니다. 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
너의 추천 현재 tip으로 rebase한 다음, Windows를 포함한 hosted 검증에서 콜드 행 시간이 워밍 베이스라인으로 떨어지고 예산·단언이 그대로인지 확인되면 merge하세요. 방향이 이 댓글은 grok-bot이 작성했습니다 |
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Run 35318878762 failed shards test 2/4 and windows 8/9 identically: the scan prepends module context, which moved src/cli/index.ts's shebang to line 2 and died with a syntax error before warming anything. Strip it first. The warm-up child also keeps its own budget now, so one module that never settles at import cannot consume the whole warm-up.
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In `@scripts/test-layout/layout.json`:
- Line 182: Rerun the required validation for the layout mapping near
"cold-spawn-warmup.test.ts": execute the focused scripts/test-layout tests, bun
run typecheck, bun run prepush, and applicable Windows cross-platform validation
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In `@tests/ci-workflows/cold-spawn-warmup.test.ts`:
- Line 110: Update the filter in the cold-spawn warmup test to require an actual
warm-up invocation, such as a call to warmColdSpawn or warmModuleGraph, rather
than merely matching the helpers/cold-spawn-warmup path. Ensure unused imports,
comments, and string literals do not satisfy the guard, while preserving the
existing repository source scan behavior.
In `@tests/helpers/cold-spawn-warmup.ts`:
- Line 135: Add focused warm-up graph test cases in moduleGraphSpecifiers for
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Rerun the required cross-platform validation.
This mapping is consumed by the cross-platform scripts/test-layout tooling. scripts/AGENTS.md therefore requires focused tests, bun run typecheck, bun run prepush, and platform-specific validation reporting.
Run 35318878762 used parent SHA fb9f02885d5c56e4c4cca3486ddedbe3e770ad1b, not the current SHA. It had test 2/4 and windows 8/9 fail at Test in fresh-process batches; five Windows jobs and both macOS jobs were cancelled. The current commit adds warm-up changes for that failure, so the old run does not show that this mapping caused a current failure. Rerun the focused layout tests, bun run prepush, and applicable Windows validation, then report the results.
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In `@scripts/test-layout/layout.json` at line 182, Rerun the required validation
for the layout mapping near "cold-spawn-warmup.test.ts": execute the focused
scripts/test-layout tests, bun run typecheck, bun run prepush, and applicable
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| test("a file recorded as warmed consumes the shared warm-up", () => { | ||
| const missing = Object.entries(DISPOSITIONS) | ||
| .filter(([, disposition]) => disposition.warmed) | ||
| .filter(([path]) => !readFileSync(repoPath(path), "utf8").includes("helpers/cold-spawn-warmup")) |
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Require a warm-up call, not only the helper path.
Line 110 accepts any source text that contains "helpers/cold-spawn-warmup". An unused import, comment, or string literal satisfies this condition.
If a beforeAll warm-up call is removed but its import remains, this guard still passes. The measured child then pays the cold graph cost again.
Inspect the source for a call to warmColdSpawn or warmModuleGraph, or use a structured scanner that verifies both the import and the call.
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minimal, and validate.
In `@tests/ci-workflows/cold-spawn-warmup.test.ts` at line 110, Update the filter
in the cold-spawn warmup test to require an actual warm-up invocation, such as a
call to warmColdSpawn or warmModuleGraph, rather than merely matching the
helpers/cold-spawn-warmup path. Ensure unused imports, comments, and string
literals do not satisfy the guard, while preserving the existing repository
source scan behavior.
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| // windows 8/9). It carries no import, so dropping it loses nothing. | ||
| const scanned = transpiler | ||
| .scanImports(transpiler.transformSync(`export {};\n${withoutShebang(source)}`)) |
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Add re-export cases to the warm-up graph tests. moduleGraphSpecifiers maps Bun.Transpiler.scanImports() results to paths for warmModuleGraph. Bun 1.4.0 records export { x } from "./module", export * from "./module", and export * as ns from "./module" as import records, but tests/ci-workflows/cold-spawn-warmup.test.ts:134-195 does not exercise them. A scanner regression could leave a re-exported module cold, or trigger “scanned no repository module” when it is the only repository module. Add focused assertions for all three forms.
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In `@tests/helpers/cold-spawn-warmup.ts` at line 135, Add focused warm-up graph
test cases in moduleGraphSpecifiers for named re-exports, star re-exports, and
namespace re-exports, verifying each referenced module is discovered and warmed
correctly. Keep the existing scanImports-to-path mapping and cover all three
export forms without changing unrelated behavior.
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One Windows red that lands inside your own scope, so I am holding rather than merging on the exception.
That file is in your diff — Either the warm-up does not cover the graph this particular child loads. Your own analysis established that the cold cost is per module graph rather than per file, and that one file can pay it twice — so a file with a warmed first child can still have a second describe whose child loads something else cold. If that is what this is, the remedy is the same one you already built, applied to the second graph. Or this case is not the cold-spawn class at all. 32.5s is well past Worth settling before this lands, because the claim the PR makes is that the class is handled. A file in the diff still failing on the symptom is the one result that would undercut it. If it turns out to be the second reading, say so and the PR stands on its own terms with that case named as out of scope. Everything else is green at this head: all four Linux shards, Separately: the per-module-graph observation, with two cold starts visible in one file at 2893.60ms and 15339.29ms against 571.90ms and 2162.84ms warm baselines, is a sharper statement of the problem than the one I gave you. Keep it in the final description. |
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The cold-graph diagnosis is useful, but exact head 486a2c806f still has two test-oracle gaps:
- The disposition guard accepts any source containing
helpers/cold-spawn-warmup. An unused import, comment, or string literal therefore passes after the realbeforeAllwarm-up call is removed, silently restoring the original flake. Verify an actualwarmColdSpawn/warmModuleGraphinvocation with a structured scan or an equivalent syntax-aware assertion. - The module-graph scanner must include re-export edges (
export { ... } from,export * from, and namespace re-exports). Otherwise a child can cold-load modules through a barrel that the warm-up never traverses, and the helper will report a misleading complete graph.
Please add regressions proving both failure modes and re-request review only after the dispatched Windows timing evidence and exact-head CI are green. This PR is intentionally about the measurement oracle, so that oracle cannot be string-presence based.
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Merging. This closes the question I held it on, and the answer is that the red is not this PR's class.
That shape — a child that produces nothing for thirty seconds and has to be killed, once in three runs, with the warm-up already applied to its graph — is #4956, not a cold start. A cold start is a bounded delay at the front of a measured window; this is the absence of output. #4956 stays open and this PR says so. On the remedy itself: deriving the module graph from the child's own source at run time, through the same The measurement that convinced me the class is per module graph rather than per file is Declining the preload was also right, and for the reason given third:
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A test that spawns a real Bun child and bounds it with
INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSmeasures two things at once: the behaviour it asserts, and whatever that child had to load before it could run. The second is not a property of the code under test, it is a property of what else ran on the machine first. That is why this reads as flake and is not: whether a file passes depends on its shard's batch composition.The decay is in the log, and it is per module graph rather than per file. Run 35305115672, Windows 2/9, job 105475642050,
tests/cli/cli-connect-readiness.test.ts:Two cold starts in one file. The first describe's first child paid 2.9s against a 0.57s warm baseline. The second describe's first child was killed at 15.3s against a 2.1s warm baseline, because the
observedladder additionally loadssrc/codex/runtimeand probes generated runtime shims.spawnSyncreturns a null status when its own timeout kills the child, which is theExpected: 0 / Received: nullthat failed the shard while 308 other cases passed. That the two deltas differ by an order of magnitude in one process is the evidence that the cost tracks the graph: a fixed per-spawn overhead would have moved both rows equally. #4948 saw the same shape incli-status-json(15587, 13074, then 1518-1741ms).The remedy is a shared helper,
tests/helpers/cold-spawn-warmup.ts, that pays a graph's cold load once per process in abeforeAlloutside the measured window. No bound under test changes.How the warm-up stays honest. A warm-up that names its modules by hand stops working the first time an import moves, silently, because nothing fails when it warms the wrong thing. So nothing is named by hand.
moduleGraphSpecifiersreads the child's own source at run time and asks Bun's transpiler which modules it loads, the samescanImportspass already used by the import-boundary oracles inresponses-fetch-helpers-boundaryandapi-key-selection-capture. Type-only imports are erased first, so the scan reports what the child loads rather than what it mentions. Where a child script is built from a template, the import prologue is hoisted to a single constant that the template interpolates and the warm-up scans, so there is one definition rather than a copy. Where the cold cost includes work an import cannot reach, the warm-up replays the file's own child runner with a larger deadline instead, which is whatcli-connect-readinessandcli-status-jsondo: the warmed path and the measured path are the same call.What was rejected, and why. Raising
INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSis refused bytests/helpers/test-budget.ts, which records that movingSPAWN_BUDGET_MSfrom 45s to 90s halved the reporting speed of 339 Windows cases to fix one, and that one derivation chain reached 265s.watchdogMs()would raise the bound per call site to 45s on Windows CI;codex-retained-root-serializationalready uses it at one site, which is why that site has never failed this way, but it widens the window a wedged child hides in and still leaves a cold start inside a measured assertion. A runner-level preload intests/preload.tswould need no per-file edit and is rejected on three counts: it would run in all four workers of every shard including those with no spawning test; that file already documents an incident where a spawn added to it timed out, threw out of the preload, and left the real-home guard disarmed for the whole worker; and it cannot know which graph to warm, since the failure above happened in the second graph of a file whose first graph was already warm.Coverage.
tests/ci-workflows/cold-spawn-warmup.test.tsscans every test file that handsINTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSto a child-process timeout and requires each to carry a disposition, so the next one is classified when it lands rather than after it fails on a Windows shard. Six are warmed.codex-shim.test.tsis recorded unwarmed with its reason: its Windows children are a cmd.exe or PowerShell driver tree, so the cold cost is shell and process startup rather than a repository module graph and an import scan has nothing to warm, and the file also sits exactly on its 2388-line ratchet cap, which only moves downward.Files warmed beyond the scan's reach, where the deadline bounds a readiness marker rather than a spawn timeout:
cli-status-json,client-connect,oauth-refresh-lock-multiprocess,codex-history-lock,codex-history-worker,codex-write-lock,codex-retained-root-serialization,native-profile-manager.native-profile-startupalready handles its cold child explicitly throughCOLD_SPAWN_BUDGET_MS;native-profile-crash-boundaries,codex-prompt-text-probeandcodex-composed-acceptancebound an await against an already-running child and are not exposed.This fixes the cold-start class only. It does not close #4956, which also covers spawned children that produce nothing and never exit, and macOS shards that go silent for sixteen to eighteen minutes. A cold start is slow and finishes; a hang never does, and nothing here would help one.
Verification
~/.opencodex. Hosted CI is the executable verification.baae9057b6(dev). Exact head486a2c806f48446ecef259f17c0170be4f63f4e1, fulllane=alldispatch 35320336886. Thepull_requestevent does not run the nine Windows shards, and Windows is where both confirmed instances appeared.cli-connect-readinessfirst row#4207 connected-client readinessconnected-client runtime probe scopeThe observed-ladder row is now indistinguishable from its three siblings (2342.90, 2253.01, 2556.50ms), and the two warm-ups that absorbed the cold start are logged outside the window at 2061ms and 2308ms. Run 35328066105 reproduces the flat shape on the same shard: warm-ups at 1575ms and 1753ms, then 1800.77, 1716.50, 1580.64 and 2089.49ms.
cli-modelsshows the same: warm-up 2776ms, then every case 376-690ms with no first-row penalty.src/cli/index.ts:cli-index/models loaded=65/65,main-account-policy-startup-child loaded=12/12,client-lifecycle-fixture loaded=9/9,client-connect/transaction-eval loaded=6/6,bounded-auth-read-child 2/2,native-profile-lock-child 2/2,codex/quota-provenance-eval 2/2, and the single-module graphs 1/1. No module failed to import in isolation, so the per-specifier fail-soft path was never taken.oauth-store/evalwarmed in 9691ms on Windows 2/9. Measured inside that file's 15-second readiness deadline it would have consumed two thirds of the bound; it is now paid in a hook with a 45-second budget.fb9f02885dfailedtest 2/4andwindows 8/9identically and for one reason: the scan prepends module context, which movedsrc/cli/index.ts's shebang off line 1. Fixed by stripping it, covered by a regression case, and both shards are green at the current head.windows 5/9failed onmain quota policy at native admission > ... (retained-unknown-binding)at 32514.25ms, SIGTERM, empty stderr. The same case with the same warm-ups in place ran 3724.31ms and passed in run 35318878762 (job 105516876880), where that shard was green; its seventeen siblings in the failing run took 2.8-9.6s. A child that produced nothing for thirty seconds and had to be killed is the hang, not a slow start. A second fulllane=alldispatch at the identical head, run 35328066105, has all nine Windows shards and all four Linux shards green, with that case back at 3620.05ms. Three runs, one occurrence.macos controlis the separate 30-minute lane tracked in [Bug]: macOS control is cancelled near its 30-minute limit in full dispatch CI #4905.requireand dynamic import as well as static import, that erased types are not warmed, that builtins are skipped, that a specifier resolves against the directory the child resolves it against, that a shebang does not stop it, and that a real child entry resolves to real repository modules. Failure policy is covered too: a scan that finds no repository module throws rather than silently warming nothing, one warm-up runs per graph per process, and a failed warm-up is not retried.INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSvalue, spawn timeout, assertion or test budget was changed, and no test was deleted. The 25s warm-up child deadline is the value test(cli): measure cold status setup before timed projections #4948 derived by hand, now derived from the hook budget it reserves teardown and reap out of, and pinned by a test.tests/ci-workflows/cold-spawn-warmup.test.tsis registered in bothscripts/test-layout/layout.jsonandtests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json. No file crosses the 2000-line ratchet threshold and the one capped file is untouched.Checklist
docs-site/is unaffected.HOME/OPENCODEX_HOME/CODEX_HOMEand the armed real-home guard exactly as every other spawned child in the suite does; it logs module paths and elapsed times, never credentials or request bodies. One reordering inclient-connect's Desktop fixture was split into two prologues specifically so every module still loads after the synthetic Windows principal and icacls stubs are installed, preserving the original order.