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perf(desktop): low-risk fixes from the canary performance review - #9177
Six small, independent fixes from the canary performance review, one commit each:
React Query persister:throttleTime 20 s. It saved the whole persisted cache about once a second while idle.
Login-shell env (host-service): one shared in-flight spawn, a 15 min TTL, and rc-file stderr logged once per process. Before, concurrent callers each spawned their own zsh -i -l -c, and a real log had 7,462 spawns.
xterm image addon:storageLimit: 16 (MB) and pixelLimit: 2048². The defaults were 128 MB and 4096² per terminal, and up to 12 parked terminals stay alive. See Known Limitations: open question.
SQLite:synchronous = NORMAL after WAL in the chat-runtime, host-service and desktop local DBs. It was FULL, so every commit did an fsync.
app.asar:files excludes *.map, *.d.ts, *.d.mts and *.d.cts. 418 MB of the 1.13 GB asar is maps.
Auto-updater: download progress is logged at 25/50/75/100% only. It was 66% of a real main.log.
How It Works
Shell env: the cache is now createShellEnvCache(resolveEnv, now, ttlMs), so tests can inject the spawn function and the clock. A result that arrives after clear() is not cached, and a failed spawn clears the in-flight promise. Callers still get a copy.
Updater: a small createDownloadProgressMilestones() helper. It resets on update-available, which electron-updater emits before each download (autoDownload is the only download path).
Manual QA (before/after on a cloud dev box, same route and signed-in org)
Persister, running app, 2 min idle: 74 → 6 IndexedDB cache writes, 10.35 → 0.84 MB written. Renderer CPU did not change (6.5/18.2% → 6.6/19.3% script/task). This account's persisted cache is small (137 KB, about 4 ms per save), so the CPU gain for large PR/issue caches is not measured.
Shell env, real zsh and real module: 8 concurrent calls went from 8 spawns and 8 stderr logs to 1 and 1. With a failing shell, the next call spawns again, so the failure is not cached.
Image addon, the app's loadAddons() on a real xterm with scrollback: 5000, 100 × 1024² inline images: 126.5 → 14.6 MB held. A 3000² image is now dropped. This was a synthetic check on a test terminal, not a terminal opened through the UI.
SQLite: both createChatDb and the host-service createDb report synchronous = 1 (NORMAL). 2,000 single-row commits went from 122 to 20 µs each on xfs.
Updater: replaying 4,367 progress events gives 4 log lines. It logs again after a reset.
app.asar size: not tested. It needs a packaged build.
Source maps (fix 5)
Sentry still gets the maps. In build-desktop.yml, compile:app runs the vite build with SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN, and the Sentry vite plugin uploads during that step, before the separate bun run package step.
No runtime reader. Nothing loads .map or .d.ts files at runtime: no source-map-support, no --enable-source-maps, and worker execArgv is unset in production.
Partial coverage. Top-level ! patterns apply to dist/ and to the node_modules that electron-builder collects. They do not apply to the object-form copies in runtime-dependencies.ts (native modules), so those still ship their maps.
Testing
bun run typecheck in apps/desktop, packages/host-service and packages/chat-runtime: pass
bun run lint (root): pass
bun test:
apps/desktop: 8,981 pass, 0 fail
packages/chat-runtime: 430 pass, 0 fail
packages/host-service: 2,709 pass, 1 fail. The failure is health.test.ts, which reads the cloud box's real /opt/superset/bundle/current.bundle-hash. This PR does not touch that code.
New tests: clean-shell-env.test.ts (dedupe, failure not cached, TTL) and download-progress-milestones.test.ts.
Known Limitations
Image limits may be too tight (open).
Images larger than 2048² (for example a 2880×1800 Retina screenshot shown with imgcat or kitty) are now dropped without a placeholder.
storageLimit: 16 is 4,000,000 pixels, which is smaller than one image at the new pixelLimit. So one large image evicts all older ones.
A safer pair is roughly pixelLimit 3840×2400 and storageLimit 64.
Slower rc updates for git/gh. With the 15 min TTL, git/gh calls can use the old login-shell env for up to 15 min after a user edits their rc files. Terminals take their env once at startup and are not affected.
Persister CPU unproven. The persister still builds a cache snapshot on every cache event before the throttle. If idle CPU stays high, profile that next.
Summary by cubic
Picks six low-risk performance fixes from the canary review, targeting desktop idle CPU, shell spawn volume, SQLite write latency, packaged app size, and log volume.
The React Query IndexedDB persister now throttles to 20 s (was 10 s after a merge), cutting idle cache writes from about once a second to once per 20 s.
getStrictShellEnvironment now shares a single in-flight zsh -i -l -c spawn per process, keeps results for 15 minutes instead of 60 s, and logs rc-file stderr once per process instead of per spawn.
The xterm image addon now caps storage at 16 MB and pixels at 2048² per terminal; a real log previously had 7,462 concurrent shell spawns.
The chat-runtime, host-service, and desktop-local SQLite DBs now use synchronous = NORMAL with WAL, avoiding an fsync per commit.
The packaged app.asar excludes *.map, *.d.ts, *.d.mts, and *.d.cts, removing about 445 MB; Sentry still receives source maps because they upload during the build before packaging.
Auto-updater download progress logs only at 25/50/75/100% instead of on every chunk event.
Known limitations
Images larger than 2048² (for example a Retina screenshot) are dropped without a placeholder, and one max-size image exceeds the 16 MB storage limit so it evicts all older images.
git and gh calls can use a login-shell env up to 15 minutes stale after rc-file edits; terminals take their env once at startup and are unaffected.
Written for commit 027cc33. Summary will update on new commits.
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Bug Fixes
Improved terminal reliability by reusing shell environment results and refreshing them periodically; failed lookups can be retried.
Limited terminal image rendering to help prevent excessive resource use.
Performance
Updated local data storage settings and reduced the frequency of cache saves.
Other Improvements
Update download progress is logged at key milestones, while in-app progress updates keep their existing cadence.
getStrictShellEnvironment had no shared in-flight promise, so callers that
missed the cache at the same time each spawned their own `zsh -i -l -c`.
It runs for every `gh` call and for PR git diffs. A real host-service log
had 7,462 spawns (about 150 per hour), more than the 60 s TTL alone allows,
and the rc-file stderr logged on each spawn was about 40% of the log.
- Concurrent callers now await one spawn; a failed spawn is not cached.
- TTL is 15 minutes instead of 60 s.
- rc-file stderr is logged once per process.
The IndexedDB persister used the default throttleTime of 1000 ms. The
persist client saves on every query-cache event, also for queries that
are not persisted, and dozens of 2.5-30 s polls fire two events each. So
the whole persisted cache went through superjson.stringify and into
IndexedDB about once a second. This was a large part of renderer idle CPU
(median 20-98% per build, main thread 42% busy in JS).
The data is only a cache, so losing up to 20 s of it on a crash is fine.
ImageAddon was created with no options, so each terminal could keep up to
128 MB of image storage (storageLimit default) and decode images up to
4096x4096 pixels. Up to 12 parked terminals stay alive at once.
Set storageLimit to 16 MB and pixelLimit to 2048x2048.
WAL was on but synchronous stayed at FULL, so every commit did an fsync.
The chat journal appends one transaction per streamed event, about 10 per
second per streaming tool. NORMAL is the documented safe pairing for WAL:
the database stays consistent, and only the last commits can be lost on
power loss.
Applies to the chat-runtime chat DB, the host-service DB, and the desktop
local DB.
The shipped app.asar is 1.13 GB. Of that, 418 MB is *.map files (148 MB
from the app's own dist/, the rest from node_modules) and 27 MB is
*.d.ts/*.d.mts. Every canary update is a full 390-430 MB download.
Sentry still gets the maps: the vite plugin uploads them during
`compile:app`, before electron-builder packages the app. Nothing reads
.map files at runtime (no source-map-support, no --enable-source-maps).
electron-updater emits download-progress per chunk, and each event was
logged. Progress lines were 4,367 of the 6,571 lines (66%) in a real
main.log. Now each download logs once as it crosses 25%, 50%, 75% and
100%. The state resets on update-available, when a new download starts.
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- Around line 45-47: Apply the configured image storageLimit and pixelLimit when
createTerminalInWrapper constructs its ImageAddon, so terminals created through
v1TerminalCache.getOrCreate use the same image limits.
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The changes update shell environment caching and logging, updater download-progress logs, SQLite connection settings, Electron packaging exclusions, terminal image limits, and IndexedDB persistence throttling.
The cache shares in-flight resolutions, caches successful results for 15 minutes, and clears failed requests without caching them. Shell stderr is logged once when nonempty. Tests cover concurrent calls, retries after failure, and TTL expiry. clearStrictShellEnvCache delegates to the cache’s clear method.
Updater progress logging
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Progress milestone tracking and updater wiring apps/desktop/src/main/lib/download-progress-milestones.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/lib/download-progress-milestones.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/lib/auto-updater.ts
The milestone tracker logs when progress crosses 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent and can reset. The updater resets it when an update becomes available and logs progress only when a milestone is crossed. Renderer notifications retain their existing throttle.
The new terminal image memory limits only apply to part of the terminal code. Terminals created through the cached v1 path still use the default, larger limits, so the intended memory savings are incomplete. This is a small fix, and nothing in the change makes behavior worse than before.
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### Issue 1
packages/host-service/src/terminal/clean-shell-env.test.ts:96-103
The new `createShellEnvCache` tests never call `clear()`. They do not protect the checks that keep an old shell request from replacing a newer result or clearing a newer pending request.
Add tests that start a request, clear the cache, start another request, and then resolve or reject the old request. Assert that the old request neither fills the cache nor clears the newer request.
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Summary
This PR reduces cache writes, shell launches, terminal image memory, database disk flushes, packaged files, and updater logs.
Host-service callers share login-shell lookups and reuse results for 15 minutes.
Three SQLite databases use NORMAL sync mode with WAL.
Terminal images use a smaller storage cap and pixel limit.
The query-cache persister waits 20 seconds between writes.
The desktop package leaves out source maps and type declarations.
Updater downloads log progress only at four milestones.
Acknowledged by harshithmullapudi: large terminal images may disappear, shell configuration changes may take 15 minutes to appear, and shell stderr is logged once per process. These were not reported again. harshithmullapudi also notes that renderer CPU gains and packaged size remain unproven.
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Cache clearing lacks tests
The new createShellEnvCache tests never call clear(). They do not protect the checks that keep an old shell request from replacing a newer result or clearing a newer pending request.
Add tests that start a request, clear the cache, start another request, and then resolve or reject the old request. Assert that the old request neither fills the cache nor clears the newer request.
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**Cache clearing lacks tests**
The new `createShellEnvCache` tests never call `clear()`. They do not protect the checks that keep an old shell request from replacing a newer result or clearing a newer pending request.
Add tests that start a request, clear the cache, start another request, and then resolve or reject the old request. Assert that the old request neither fills the cache nor clears the newer request.
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- Around line 45-47: Apply the configured image storageLimit and pixelLimit when
createTerminalInWrapper constructs its ImageAddon, so terminals created through
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Apply the image limits to the wrapper-terminal path.
createTerminalInWrapper constructs new ImageAddon() without options. The shipped terminal lifecycle calls this path through v1TerminalCache.getOrCreate, so v1 terminals can bypass the new image limits.
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- const imageAddon = new ImageAddon();+ const imageAddon = new ImageAddon({+ storageLimit: 16,+ pixelLimit: 2048 * 2048,+ });
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Apply the configured image storageLimit and pixelLimit when
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Review verdict: minor issues. Five of the six fixes look right, and I confirmed them where I could run them. The image-addon pixelLimit should go up before merge.
apps/desktop/src/renderer/lib/terminal/terminal-addons.ts:46: pixelLimit is checked against the source size, but storage counts the copy scaled to the pane. So 2880×1800 Retina screenshots and exactly 2048² images (the IIP check is a strict <) are dropped with no placeholder, and memory barely improves. Keep storageLimit: 16 and raise pixelLimit to ≥ 3840×2400, or leave it at the default.
packages/host-service/src/terminal/clean-shell-env.ts:133: loggedRcStderr is never reset, so a later rc error is never logged in that process. Log again when the stderr text changes.
packages/host-service/src/terminal/clean-shell-env.ts:299: no test covers clear() during an in-flight spawn, which is the behaviour the description names.
Note: on TTL expiry, git/gh callers still block on a fresh spawn. Stale-while-revalidate would remove that wait (optional).
Verified at 027cc331: 8 concurrent env calls → 1 zsh spawn (base: 8); createDb/createChatDb report WAL + synchronous=1; image limits checked in headless Chrome with the real xterm addon. I could not run the desktop app over CDP (Electron native rebuild failed), so the persister and the asar size are not verified end to end. CI is green.
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Six small, independent fixes from the canary performance review, one commit each:
throttleTime20 s. It saved the whole persisted cache about once a second while idle.zsh -i -l -c, and a real log had 7,462 spawns.storageLimit: 16(MB) andpixelLimit: 2048². The defaults were 128 MB and 4096² per terminal, and up to 12 parked terminals stay alive. See Known Limitations: open question.synchronous = NORMALafter WAL in the chat-runtime, host-service and desktop local DBs. It was FULL, so every commit did an fsync.filesexcludes*.map,*.d.ts,*.d.mtsand*.d.cts. 418 MB of the 1.13 GB asar is maps.main.log.How It Works
createShellEnvCache(resolveEnv, now, ttlMs), so tests can inject the spawn function and the clock. A result that arrives afterclear()is not cached, and a failed spawn clears the in-flight promise. Callers still get a copy.createDownloadProgressMilestones()helper. It resets onupdate-available, which electron-updater emits before each download (autoDownloadis the only download path).throttleTime: 10_000. I kept its comment and used the 20 s from the review. Reviewers can choose either value.Manual QA (before/after on a cloud dev box, same route and signed-in org)
loadAddons()on a real xterm withscrollback: 5000, 100 × 1024² inline images: 126.5 → 14.6 MB held. A 3000² image is now dropped. This was a synthetic check on a test terminal, not a terminal opened through the UI.createChatDband the host-servicecreateDbreportsynchronous = 1(NORMAL). 2,000 single-row commits went from 122 to 20 µs each on xfs.Source maps (fix 5)
build-desktop.yml,compile:appruns the vite build withSENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN, and the Sentry vite plugin uploads during that step, before the separatebun run packagestep..mapor.d.tsfiles at runtime: nosource-map-support, no--enable-source-maps, and workerexecArgvis unset in production.!patterns apply todist/and to thenode_modulesthat electron-builder collects. They do not apply to the object-form copies inruntime-dependencies.ts(native modules), so those still ship their maps.Testing
bun run typecheckinapps/desktop,packages/host-serviceandpackages/chat-runtime: passbun run lint(root): passbun test:apps/desktop: 8,981 pass, 0 failpackages/chat-runtime: 430 pass, 0 failpackages/host-service: 2,709 pass, 1 fail. The failure ishealth.test.ts, which reads the cloud box's real/opt/superset/bundle/current.bundle-hash. This PR does not touch that code.clean-shell-env.test.ts(dedupe, failure not cached, TTL) anddownload-progress-milestones.test.ts.Known Limitations
imgcator kitty) are now dropped without a placeholder.storageLimit: 16is 4,000,000 pixels, which is smaller than one image at the newpixelLimit. So one large image evicts all older ones.pixelLimit3840×2400 andstorageLimit64.git/ghcalls can use the old login-shell env for up to 15 min after a user edits their rc files. Terminals take their env once at startup and are not affected.Summary by cubic
Picks six low-risk performance fixes from the canary review, targeting desktop idle CPU, shell spawn volume, SQLite write latency, packaged app size, and log volume.
getStrictShellEnvironmentnow shares a single in-flightzsh -i -l -cspawn per process, keeps results for 15 minutes instead of 60 s, and logs rc-file stderr once per process instead of per spawn.synchronous = NORMALwith WAL, avoiding an fsync per commit.app.asarexcludes*.map,*.d.ts,*.d.mts, and*.d.cts, removing about 445 MB; Sentry still receives source maps because they upload during the build before packaging.Known limitations
gitandghcalls can use a login-shell env up to 15 minutes stale after rc-file edits; terminals take their env once at startup and are unaffected.Written for commit 027cc33. Summary will update on new commits.
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