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fix(server): stop an oversized provider diff from exhausting the backend heap - #10968
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Pull request overview
This PR addresses a backend out-of-memory failure path where extremely large provider events (notably Codex turn/diff/updated) could be serialized into multi-hundred‑MiB NDJSON log lines, exhausting the V8 heap. It mitigates the issue centrally in provider event logging while also removing a known Codex-specific duplication of the diff string.
Changes:
- Add string-value clamping in
EventNdjsonLoggerso oversized strings are truncated before JSON serialization. - Stop mirroring Codex
turn/diff/updateddiffs intoraw.payload.diff, replacing it with a short omission marker that points atpayload.unifiedDiff. - Add focused tests covering both the logger truncation behavior and the Codex mapping change.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts | Adds configurable per-string truncation and applies it before serializing provider events to NDJSON. |
| apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts | Adds a regression test ensuring large diff-like strings are truncated and log lines stay small. |
| apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.ts | Removes duplicated diff storage by eliding raw.payload.diff for turn/diff/updated. |
| apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexAdapter.test.ts | Adds a test asserting the diff is carried once (full in payload.unifiedDiff, marker in raw.payload.diff). |
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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts:558
clampStringsusesObject.entries(fields)on every plain object, which allocates an entries array even when nothing is truncated. Since this runs on the log write path, consider iterating keys without allocating (e.g.,for…in+hasOwnProperty) so the fast path stays low-allocation.
for (const [key, entry] of Object.entries(fields)) {
const clamped = clampStrings(entry, maxLength, ancestors);
if (clamped === entry) continue;
clampedFields ??= { ...fields };
clampedFields[key] = clamped;
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change removes duplicated Codex diff data from raw event payloads and bounds oversized strings before NDJSON serialization. Tests verify diff elision, truncation markers, record limits, serialized size, and event ID preservation. ChangesProvider event memory handling
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Oversized provider events are bounded and duplicated Codex diffs are removed, but records with a large early field can lose later identifiers such as event IDs or types, reducing their diagnostic usefulness. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CodexAdapter
participant EventNdjsonLogger
participant NDJSONOutput
CodexAdapter->>CodexAdapter: Preserve payload.unifiedDiff
CodexAdapter->>CodexAdapter: Elide raw.payload.diff
CodexAdapter->>EventNdjsonLogger: Write canonical event
EventNdjsonLogger->>EventNdjsonLogger: Clamp strings within record limits
EventNdjsonLogger->>NDJSONOutput: Serialize bounded event
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698-700: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftThe clamp bounds each string, not the record.
clampStringslimits every string tomaxStringLength, but it does not bound the serialized record. An event that carries many strings, for example a per-file diff array, can still produce a record of tens of MiB with the 256 KiB default. Issue#10924asks for a per-record bound.Consider adding a record-level guard, for example a running character budget passed through the recursion, or a length check on the serialized
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts`:
- Around line 698-700: The serializeEvent flow must enforce a per-record size
limit in addition to the per-string clamp. Add a record-level character budget
or validate the serialized payload length before it is queued, using the
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and ensure oversized events are truncated or rejected without allowing unbounded
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts`:
- Around line 563-564: Update the truncation logic around truncateString so the
full replacement value, including its marker, is charged against
budget.remaining before returning it. When the remaining budget cannot fit the
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571-574: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPreserve short identifying values after the budget is exhausted.
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budget.remainingto 0 and return"". Every later string value is then emptied, including short fields such asid,type, andmethodwhen they are encountered after a large field. A record can therefore lose the identifiers that make it useful for diagnosis.Reserve a small allowance for short values, or keep values below a low threshold instead of clearing them.
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const marker = truncationMarker(value.length); if (marker.length > budget.remaining) { - budget.remaining = 0; - return ""; + // Short values still identify the record, so they keep a small reserve + // instead of being cleared once large values exhaust the budget. + if (value.length <= SHORT_VALUE_RESERVE && value.length <= budget.remaining) { + budget.remaining -= value.length; + return value; + } + budget.remaining = Math.min(budget.remaining, 0); + return ""; }Add a test that places the oversized field before
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts`:
- Around line 571-574: Update the truncation logic around the marker budget
check so short identifying string values such as id, type, and method are
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…end heap A Codex `turn/diff/updated` notification carries the whole turn diff, which reaches hundreds of MiB on a large turn. `CodexAdapter` put that same string on both `raw.payload.diff` and `payload.unifiedDiff`, and `EventNdjsonLogger` JSON-encoded the event whole before writing it, so a single notification materialized a multi-hundred-MiB log line and could stop the backend with an out-of-memory error. The logger now bounds an event's string values before serializing it, under two limits: no single value keeps more than `maxStringLength` characters, and the values of one record together keep no more than `maxRecordLength`, so many merely large values cannot add up to a line the per-value cap would have allowed on its own. This guards the native, canonical, and orchestration streams for every provider. `CodexAdapter` no longer mirrors the diff into `raw.payload`, because the canonical `payload.unifiedDiff` beside it already carries the same string. With a 64 MiB turn diff, the canonical record drops from 128.00 MiB to 256 KiB. Fixes pingdotgg#10924
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Superseded by #11125, the same change rebased onto current |
Fixes #10924.
Problem
A Codex
turn/diff/updatednotification carries the whole turn diff, which reaches hundreds of MiB on a large turn. Two things then multiply it:CodexAdapterattaches the native payload asrawand maps the same string ontopayload.unifiedDiff, so the canonical event holds the diff twice (CodexAdapter.ts~985, ~1646).ProviderService.publishRuntimeEventwrites that event to the canonical provider log before publishing it, andEventNdjsonLogger.writeJSON-encodes the whole event and holds the resulting line in memory.turn.diff.updatedis not transient, and there is no per-record size cap — rotation (10 MiB) and the flush watermark (1 MiB) both run after serialization.One notification therefore materializes a multi-hundred-MiB line, which is enough to stop the backend with an out-of-memory error.
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EventNdjsonLoggerbounds an event's string values beforeserializeEvent, under two limits: no single value keeps more thanmaxStringLengthcharacters, and the values of one record together keep no more thanmaxRecordLength(default 4 MiB of characters, configurable), so many merely large values cannot add up to a line the per-value cap would have allowed on its own. Truncation markers are charged against that budget like any other retained text, and once the budget cannot fit even a marker the remaining values are dropped, so a run of oversized values cannot walk past the limit on marker text alone. The budget is spent in encounter order, which is stable for a given event shape, and short values keep a reserve of it. That reserve matters becauseruntimeEventBaseputs a provider's bulkyrawpayload ahead oftypein key order, so without one a single large field would empty every identifier behind it and the record would no longer say what it is. Both limits are enforced during the walk rather than by measuring the encoded line, since measuring means the oversized string has already been materialized and the heap is already gone. A string longer thanmaxStringLength(default 262,144 characters, configurable) is replaced by its head plus[truncated by t3, <n> characters total], so the record keeps its shape, its type/method, and the original size. The budget is in UTF-16 code units rather than bytes becauseString.lengthis O(1), while measuring real bytes would scan every string on the write path.Events that already fit are returned by reference, so the ordinary path allocates nothing. Anything that is not a plain object or array is left alone, so
toJSONcarriers such asDatestill reach the encoder intact, and a cycle is returned untouched at the point it closes so serialization fails the way it did before. This guards the native, canonical, and orchestration streams for every provider, not only Codex.CodexAdapterno longer mirrors the diff intoraw.payloadforturn/diff/updated. It leaves a short marker pointing atpayload.unifiedDiff, which carries the same string.Effect
Serializing a canonical
turn.diff.updatedbuilt from a 64 MiB native diff:Tests
EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— a 200,000-character diff on both fields produces a record under 1 KB carrying the truncation marker, while short values in the same event are still written verbatim.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— ten values that each clear the per-value cap are still held to the record budget between them.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts— 200 oversized values against a 2,048-character budget stay within it; unbilled markers would have spent roughly 8,000. Confirmed the test fails when the marker charging is removed.EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts—typeandeventIdsurvive behind a 100,000-characterrawvalue. Confirmed the test fails when the short-value reserve is removed.CodexAdapter.test.ts— a mappedturn/diff/updatedkeeps the full diff onpayload.unifiedDiffand the marker onraw.payload.diff.vp test runoverEventNdjsonLogger,CodexAdapter,ProviderService, andProviderRuntimeIngestionpasses (220 tests).vp fmt --check,vp lint, andtsc --noEmitforapps/serverare clean.No UI surface changes, so no screenshots.