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Run each terminal in its own cgroup so an OOM kill takes out only that terminal - #21
Until now the hub, the daemon and every terminal (with everything run in it: Claude, pytest-xdist workers, pyright…) shared the launcher's single cgroup. systemd-oomd kills whole cgroups, so on 2026-11-02 one terminal at 38 GiB made it kill the hub, the daemon and all 11 terminals at once.
What changes
With a systemd user manager that outlives the session (the process runs under user@<uid>.service, or the user lingers), each process worktree-term starts gets its own transient scope under app-wtd.slice:
each terminal: wtd-<h>-term-<instance>-<id>.scope, started through systemd-run --user --scope (same pid and environment, about 6 ms per spawn) with OOMPolicy=kill. Everything the shell starts, setsid children included, stays in it.
the daemon and the hub move themselves into wtd-<h>-daemon-<r>.scope / wtd-<h>-hub-<r>.scope as they start (via busctl … StartTransientUnit), under their start lock and before listening. This covers wtd ui, auto-start by dialing, wtd hub / wtd daemon in the foreground and wtd-dev-restart. A daemon running as worktree-term-daemon.service stays in that unit.
<h> is a hash of the state directory, so test daemons never collide with the real one.
An out-of-memory kill now takes out only the terminal that caused it:
Detection: after a SIGKILL exit the daemon reads the scope's Result. oom-kill sets oom: true on termExited and on the terminal's exit, so pages that connect later see it too.
Display: the tab, the pane header and the sidebar status say killed: out of memory.
Logging: memory.log gets an oom-kill line, and each terminal's record gains its scope's cgroup figures (current, peak, max, swapMax, oomKills, …).
System-wide OOM: terminal shells start with oom_score_adj ≥ 500, so a global kernel OOM also picks a terminal before the daemon or the hub.
Optional memory limits per terminal go in config.json:
The hub sends each preset with its effective limits (here tests gets {high: 16G, max: 24G, swapMax: 0}), and the page passes them in createTerm. A config whose effective high exceeds max is refused at load, naming the preset.
Fallback: without such a user manager (CI, SSH without lingering, no systemd), everything starts as before and limits are ignored. The daemon's stderr says terminal scopes: on or terminal scopes: off (<reason>). Tests that need a real user manager skip with a visible reason.
Wire: DAEMON_PROTOCOL_VERSION 8 → 9 and BROWSER_PROTOCOL_VERSION 11 → 12. Old daemons and pages get the existing version-mismatch handling.
The new platform.scopes component, its arrows and daemon principle 8 are in the architecture model. The full spec is in openspec/changes/dev-2190-….
Linear: DEV-2190
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New Features
Terminals run in separate systemd scopes when a persistent user manager is available; daemon and hub processes also receive dedicated scopes where supported.
Configure terminal-wide and preset-specific memory and swap limits using sizes or RAM percentages. Preset limits override matching terminal defaults.
Out-of-memory terminations are identified in terminal tabs, pane headers, and worktree status, and recorded in memory logs.
Bug Fixes
Terminal output remains readable after an out-of-memory termination.
When systemd scopes are unavailable, terminals continue to start using existing behavior; configured memory limits are ignored.
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The change adds systemd user scopes for the daemon, hub, and terminals when a lasting user manager is available. It adds configurable terminal memory limits and OOM exit reporting, extends memory samples, updates protocol versions, and displays OOM status in the web interface.
Changes: Terminal scope and memory handling
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Summary
Memory and exit protocol contracts openspec/changes/.../specs/protocol/spec.md, src/protocol/*, test/process/*, src/cli/run.test.ts
The protocol adds memory limits to terminal creation and presets, requires an oom value in exit data, and changes daemon and browser protocol versions to 11 and 14. Schemas, goldens, fixtures, and version checks follow the new contract.
The platform adds systemd user-manager detection, scope naming and placement, OOM outcome checks, and per-process cgroup memory readings. Architecture diagrams and tests cover the new platform unit and its behavior.
The hub enters a scope before listening when a lasting user manager is available. Configuration supports terminal-wide and per-preset limits, validates merged size limits, and sends effective preset limits with terminal creation requests.
The daemon sets up scope placement, launches terminals with memory limits, classifies OOM exits, and records terminal scope data and OOM events. When terminal scopes are unavailable, terminals run directly and configured limits are ignored.
Web OOM status and terminal creation src/web/client/*, src/web/ui/*, test/e2e/oom.spec.ts, openspec/changes/.../specs/web/spec.md
The web client retains OOM status and displays killed: out of memory in terminal labels and status marks. Terminal creation sends the selected preset’s memory limits, or an empty object when none are set.
sequenceDiagram
participant View
participant HubSession
participant Daemon
participant TerminalProcess
participant SystemdUserManager
View->>HubSession: Send createTerm with memory limits
HubSession->>Daemon: Forward terminal creation request
Daemon->>TerminalProcess: Spawn terminal with launcher
TerminalProcess->>SystemdUserManager: Start terminal scope and shell
TerminalProcess->>SystemdUserManager: Query scope result after SIGKILL
SystemdUserManager-->>TerminalProcess: Return OOM outcome
TerminalProcess-->>Daemon: Report exit with OOM status
Daemon-->>HubSession: Send termExited
HubSession-->>View: Deliver terminal exit event
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MotleyAI/worktree-term#18: Adds daemon memory records that this change extends with terminal-scope figures and OOM-kill events.
MotleyAI/worktree-term#16: Defines terminal exit handling that this change extends with OOM classification and exit data.
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test/process/daemon-terminals-scopes.test.ts: 1
71-77: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value
Report invalid PID-file contents.
With systemd 258, scope argument expansion can turn $$ into $. Then pidIn returns NaN, and the test fails later on a /proc/NaN path without showing the file contents.
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- return text.endsWith('\n') ? Number(text) : undefined;+ if (!text.endsWith('\n')) return undefined;+ if (!/^\d+\n$/.test(text)) throw new Error(`${name} holds ${JSON.stringify(text)}, not a pid`);+ return Number(text);
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Update pidIn to validate completed PID-file contents before converting them to a
number; when the file ends with a newline but does not contain a valid PID, fail
immediately with an error that includes the filename and contents. Preserve
waiting for missing or incomplete files and return the numeric PID for valid
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Review comments at @src/platform/scopes/scopes.test.ts:
- Around line 322-336: Increase the timeout for the terminal-scope test and its
`waitUntil` call so the test can report a specific wait failure first. Update
the `waitUntil` description to include the captured `out` value, making stdout
available when the PID pattern does not match; preserve the existing PID parsing
and assertions.
Review comments at @src/platform/scopes/scopes.ts:
- Line 181: Add finite timeouts to the systemctl calls in outOfMemory and
resetFailedScopes and the busctl call in enterScope. Update failure to report
the timeout actually applied to each call rather than always using
PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS, while preserving the existing default for callers that use it.
- Around line 161-175: Update scopeCommand to preserve command arguments when
systemd expands them: determine whether the selected systemd-run supports
--expand-environment=no and add that option only when supported, since older
versions reject it. Apply the protection to all scoped commands rather than
special-casing test commands.
Review comments at @test/process/hub-cli.test.ts:
- Line 522: Validate the contents read for shell from sh.pid before converting
it to a number. In the test flow around readFileSync, reject non-plain-PID
content and include the actual file contents in the failure message so malformed
values are diagnosed at the read site.
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Review comments at @test/process/daemon-terminals-scopes.test.ts:
- Around line 71-77: Update pidIn to validate completed PID-file contents before
converting them to a number; when the file ends with a newline but does not
contain a valid PID, fail immediately with an error that includes the filename
and contents. Preserve waiting for missing or incomplete files and return the
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Sources consulted:
- systemd/src/run/run.c at v253 · systemd/systemd · GitHub — https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v253/src/run/run.c
- systemd/src/run/run.c at main · systemd/systemd · GitHub — https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/run/run.c
- systemd/src/core/main.c at main · systemd/systemd · GitHub — https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/core/main.c
- File: run.c | Debian Sources — https://sources.debian.org/src/systemd/232-25%2Bdeb9u12/src/run/run.c
- …and 18 more
Preserve scoped command arguments on systemd 258
With scopes enabled, systemd 258 expands arguments before the shell receives them. A command such as echo $$ therefore writes $ instead of the PID, and other preset commands can also change behavior.
Disable expansion in scopeCommand when the selected systemd-run supports --expand-environment=no. Check support first: the option was added in version 254, and older versions reject it. Escaping only the test commands would leave user commands affected.
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Review comment at @src/platform/scopes/scopes.ts around lines 161 - 175:
Update scopeCommand to preserve command arguments when systemd expands them:
determine whether the selected systemd-run supports --expand-environment=no and
add that option only when supported, since older versions reject it. Apply the
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@coderabbitai Fixed in 60aac58. Once the user manager is found lasting, the daemon reads systemd-run's major version from --version. scopeCommand then passes --expand-environment=no for systemd-run 254 or later, which covers 258's expansion by default. Older systemd-run rejects the flag, and its --scope mode never expanded arguments ("disabled by default for --scope, for backward compatibility"), so it gets no flag. Pinned by src/platform/scopes/scopes.test.ts: "turns off argument expansion for systemd-run 254 or later", "leaves argument expansion alone for an older or unknown systemd-run", and the real-manager test "passes a command its arguments as given" ($$ and ${HOME} arrive verbatim). CI on Ubuntu 26.04 is green.
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@ZmeiGorynych The version check covers a detected systemd-run 254 or later. One case remains: if --version fails or its output cannot be parsed, the daemon still enables scopes with version: null, and scopeCommand omits the flag. On systemd 258, that can still change command arguments.
Could you handle an unknown version safely, for example by checking option support or falling back to unscoped launches?
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@coderabbitai Fixed in 2401294. The daemon no longer reads the version. Once the user manager is found lasting, it runs the scope probe once more with --expand-environment=no added, and passes that flag to every terminal's systemd-run exactly when the probe exits 0 within 2 s. Every systemd that expands --scope arguments accepts the flag, and the versions that reject it never expand them, so an unknown or unreadable version can't leave arguments exposed. Pinned by src/platform/scopes/scopes.test.ts: "is found under the user manager when the scope probe succeeds, probing with the scope command, then for --expand-environment=no", "finds --expand-environment=no unsupported when its probe fails or hangs", and the real-manager "passes a command its arguments as given". Also pinned by test/process/daemon-terminals-scopes.test.ts "finds the user manager once, however many terminals it starts" (one plain probe, then one option probe).
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@ZmeiGorynych The option probe covers the normal supported and unsupported cases, but one case remains.
If the first scope probe succeeds and the second probe times out or fails for another transient reason, findUserManager sets noExpand to false. The daemon then continues to launch scoped terminals without the flag. On systemd 258, their arguments can still change.
Please distinguish an unsupported option from an inconclusive probe. For an inconclusive result, use a safe fallback, such as unscoped launches. A test can cover a successful first probe followed by a timed-out second probe.
I inspected the implementation and tests. I did not run the tests.
…ndings and port races in the tunnel tests
systemd-run on newer systemd expands $VAR and $$ in a --scope command by default;
pass --expand-environment=no when systemd-run is 254 or later. Address Sonar
findings, and pick hub test ports with the host ports above them free, observing
retired listeners on their connections rather than on freed ports.
…0 and 13, and send state changes in the order they were made
Re-base the daemon-link catalogue delta on main's text. The daemon sent a
layout change and a later prune written in one batch in reverse order, leaving
watchers on a layout holding a closed terminal.
…formed pid files in the scope tests
A timed-out call settles even while a descendant holds its output. Give the
real user-manager tests room on a loaded host, and wait for the local host to
connect rather than reading its status at once.
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- Line 36: Update the OOM-preference requirement in the design so the terminal
trampoline’s adjustment of 500 does not guarantee that a launched hub or daemon
remains less preferred during OOM selection. Address inherited adjustments in
the hub and daemon launch paths, or explicitly document the preference as best
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2. **Scope of the change includes issue items 5 (per-terminal cgroup figures in the memory log, additive to the process grouping) and 6 (configurable limits).** (user)
3. **`OOMPolicy=kill` for terminal scopes.** Any kernel OOM in a terminal kills the whole terminal with `Result=oom-kill`, the same as an oomd kill; `memoryHigh` is the throttle-without-kill option. Rejected: `stop` (systemd sends SIGTERM, which interactive shells ignore, so the scope hangs up to 90 s), `continue` (no oom result; the test would not model oomd). (user)
4. **CI: no user-manager step; tests needing a lasting user manager skip where none is reachable.** (user) The skip prints a visible reason (`skipped: no lasting systemd user manager`), so a local run that lost the user bus is noticed. (default)
5. **Terminal shells get `oom_score_adj` ≥ 500**, so a global kernel OOM picks a terminal process before the daemon or hub (an unprivileged process can raise, not lower, the score). (user) It is set by a `/bin/sh` trampoline before the shell runs — `read a </proc/self/oom_score_adj && [ "$a" -lt 500 ] && echo 500 >/proc/self/oom_score_adj; exec "$@"` — in both modes, so no child can be forked before the write; without `/proc` it does nothing, and an unexpected failure prints in the terminal rather than being swallowed. (codex)
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Preserve the daemon and hub’s OOM preference.
If a terminal starts a hub or daemon, that process inherits the terminal’s adjustment of 500. Moving it to another scope does not reset the adjustment. The kernel can then select the hub or daemon before a smaller terminal process. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Also, an unprivileged process can lower an adjustment that was raised without privilege, subject to its inherited minimum. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Handle inherited adjustments for these launch paths, or document the preference as best effort rather than a guarantee.
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Update the OOM-preference requirement in the design so the terminal trampoline’s
adjustment of 500 does not guarantee that a launched hub or daemon remains less
preferred during OOM selection. Address inherited adjustments in the hub and
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@coderabbitai Fixed in 855b3f3. At start, in every mode, the daemon and the hub lower their own oom_score_adj to the lowest value the kernel permits them, which is their inherited minimum (100 under the user manager here). A binary search over /proc/self/oom_score_adj writes finds it, with EACCES marking values below the floor. So one started from a terminal no longer keeps that terminal's 500. Design decision 5 and the daemon and hub placement requirements now say so. Pinned by test/process/daemon-terminals-scopes.test.ts ("puts a daemon started in a terminal of another daemon into a daemon scope, not that terminal's scope, without its adjustment"), test/process/hub-cli.test.ts (the hub equivalent) and the "lowering oom_score_adj" unit tests in src/platform/scopes/scopes.test.ts.
For Linux kernel 6.8, how does oom_badness calculate the OOM victim score from memory usage and oom_score_adj? Does a process with oom_score_adj 500 always get selected before a process with a lower adjustment? Prefer the Linux v6.8 kernel source mm/oom_kill.c.
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@ZmeiGorynych Thanks. I verified that both startup paths call lowerOomScoreAdj, and the reported tests cover the inherited adjustment. I did not run the tests.
One part of the original concern remains: design decision 5 says a global OOM picks a terminal before the daemon or hub. Linux also includes memory usage in its OOM score calculation, so a lower adjustment does not guarantee that order. The permitted floor can also be 500 or higher.
Please describe this as a preference rather than a guarantee, and qualify the below-500 scenarios by the permitted floor.
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@coderabbitai Addressed in 2401294. Design decision 5 now says a global kernel OOM prefers a terminal process to the daemon or hub, noting that this is a preference because the kernel also weighs memory use. The two placement scenarios now say each process's oom_score_adj "is the lowest value the kernel permits it, below 500 where that floor is lower". The process tests assert exactly that: atOomFloor (in test/support/scopes.ts) checks the value is -1000 or that writing one less is refused with EACCES. "Below 500" is asserted only when the test runner's own value, which shares the user manager's floor, shows that the floor is lower.
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@ZmeiGorynych Thanks. I checked commit 2401294. Decision 5 now describes an OOM preference, and both placement scenarios qualify the below-500 assertion.
One unconditional claim remains in the daemon and hub placement requirements: each says the process “does not keep the terminal’s adjustment.” If the permitted floor and terminal adjustment are both 500, it keeps that value. Please qualify those sentences and the corresponding scenario titles.
…version, and state the OOM preference as a preference
An unreadable version no longer leaves arguments to be expanded. The daemon and
hub placement tests check each sits at the lowest oom_score_adj it is permitted.
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Why
Until now the hub, the daemon and every terminal (with everything run in it: Claude, pytest-xdist workers, pyright…) shared the launcher's single cgroup. systemd-oomd kills whole cgroups, so on 2026-11-02 one terminal at 38 GiB made it kill the hub, the daemon and all 11 terminals at once.
What changes
With a systemd user manager that outlives the session (the process runs under
user@<uid>.service, or the user lingers), each process worktree-term starts gets its own transient scope underapp-wtd.slice:wtd-<h>-term-<instance>-<id>.scope, started throughsystemd-run --user --scope(same pid and environment, about 6 ms per spawn) withOOMPolicy=kill. Everything the shell starts,setsidchildren included, stays in it.wtd-<h>-daemon-<r>.scope/wtd-<h>-hub-<r>.scopeas they start (viabusctl … StartTransientUnit), under their start lock and before listening. This coverswtd ui, auto-start by dialing,wtd hub/wtd daemonin the foreground andwtd-dev-restart. A daemon running asworktree-term-daemon.servicestays in that unit.<h>is a hash of the state directory, so test daemons never collide with the real one.An out-of-memory kill now takes out only the terminal that caused it:
SIGKILLexit the daemon reads the scope'sResult.oom-killsetsoom: trueontermExitedand on the terminal'sexit, so pages that connect later see it too.killed: out of memory.memory.loggets anoom-killline, and each terminal's record gains its scope's cgroup figures (current,peak,max,swapMax,oomKills, …).oom_score_adj ≥ 500, so a global kernel OOM also picks a terminal before the daemon or the hub.Optional memory limits per terminal go in
config.json:{ "terminalMemory": { "high": "16G", "max": "32G" }, "presets": [ { "name": "shell", "command": null }, { "name": "tests", "command": "pytest -n auto", "memory": { "max": "24G", "swapMax": "0" } } ] }The hub sends each preset with its effective limits (here
testsgets{high: 16G, max: 24G, swapMax: 0}), and the page passes them increateTerm. A config whose effectivehighexceedsmaxis refused at load, naming the preset.Fallback: without such a user manager (CI, SSH without lingering, no systemd), everything starts as before and limits are ignored. The daemon's stderr says
terminal scopes: onorterminal scopes: off (<reason>). Tests that need a real user manager skip with a visible reason.Wire:
DAEMON_PROTOCOL_VERSION8 → 9 andBROWSER_PROTOCOL_VERSION11 → 12. Old daemons and pages get the existing version-mismatch handling.The new
platform.scopescomponent, its arrows and daemon principle 8 are in the architecture model. The full spec is inopenspec/changes/dev-2190-….Linear: DEV-2190
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