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Issue #1305. `--parallel 2` on the 16-thread olo-ci box, a 14 GiB runner-unit cap and a 19 GiB slice cap all rest on a belief that one clang++ TU needs ~9 GB, and five sources disagreed about that by 3x. #759/#822 wired the CMake Instrumentation API, but its per-command memory field is `afterHostMemoryUsed` — system-wide host memory, not the command's own RSS — so the existing traces cannot attribute memory to a TU at all, and the "heavy TUs" everything rests on were ranked by compile TIME, a proxy. cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake adds clang's -fproc-stat-report behind the existing OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION switch. Links come along for free: `clang++ -o app` runs ld.lld as a driver subprocess, so the same flag on the link line reports the linker's own peak RSS and LinkSemaphore.cmake's launcher chain is untouched. Two things were measured rather than assumed, and both changed the design: - The records path MUST stay relative. The flag's value is hashed by ccache and base_dir cannot rewrite it (it names a file that does not exist yet). Two source-identical trees under one base_dir: no flag 50% hits, absolute path 0%, relative path 50%. A FATAL_ERROR and a CI grep guard it, because the cache stays alive-but-cold rather than failing. - A relative path resolves against the BUILD TOOL's cwd, which differs by generator. Ninja runs from the top build dir; Unix Makefiles — every Linux CI job — emits `cd <build>/<subdir> && clang++ ...`, so there is one records file per subdirectory. The analyser takes the build TREE and gathers them all, re-rooting outputs so two targets cannot collide. A Ninja-only check would have shipped a Linux measurement that ranked the wrong fraction of the build. The option() moves out of the `CMAKE_VERSION >= 4.3` guard: it now drives two mechanisms, and the compiler flag needs neither that floor nor a Ninja/Makefile generator. scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py ranks compiles and links, classifies ccache's preprocessor-pass records separately instead of dropping them, states coverage (records vs objects actually in the tree) so a warm-cache partial ranking cannot pass as a census, and derives the largest --parallel N whose worst case — the sum of the N heaviest TUs — fits a given cap. .github/workflows/build-memory.yml publishes that report weekly as an artifact for Debug and Debug+ASan, with the compiler cache disabled for full coverage and a --fail-under-coverage gate. The artifact is the anti-decay mechanism: #759's one-off measurement rotted exactly the way an uncommitted number does. docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.md carries the recipe, the four traps and the config levers priced so far (ThinLTO cannot help the Debug sanitizer jobs — IPO is Release/Dist only; ccache does restore .dwo on a hit, measured). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…l links Two defects, both found by actually building rather than by inspecting the generated rules — the first stopped the build, the second failed every link. 1. OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION=ON cannot build this project on Windows AT ALL, and that is pre-existing (filed as #1306). cmake_instrumentation() wraps every custom command in `ctest --instrument -- <argv>`, which EXECUTES argv instead of handing it to a shell; vendored glad's generator rule is four `COMMAND echo ...` lines, one of them `COMMAND echo ${ARGS} > args.txt`. Under cmd.exe `echo` is a builtin with no executable and `>` is shell redirection, so the build dies at glad-generate with "Batch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1" and no diagnostic. Reproduced in isolation on CMake 4.4.2: the same wrapped `echo` succeeds under a POSIX shell and fails under cmd.exe, which is why Linux CI never saw it. Fixing that means restructuring a vendored third-party custom command, so it stays in #1306. What lands here is the split that makes the measurement reachable anyway: OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT is the per-TU-memory half on its own — a compiler flag, no launcher, no CMake floor, no generator restriction. It defaults to the umbrella, so the issue's "one switch" contract holds. Deliberately NOT an option()/CACHE variable: that would write the umbrella's first value into the cache and keep reading it after the umbrella went back OFF. `if(NOT DEFINED ...)` lets an explicit -D win while an implicit value is re-derived every configure — the "set forever after the first configure" trap CompilerCache.cmake documents. 2. The flag must not go on a clang-cl link line. CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE only drives the link through the compiler for a GNU-frontend clang, where ld.lld is a driver subprocess and the flag reports its peak RSS — the whole of the issue's step 2, on the Linux hosts whose caps are in question. Under clang-cl CMake invokes lld-link DIRECTLY, so there is no clang driver to take the option and `/clang:...` is read as an input filename: lld-link: error: could not open '/clang:-fproc-stat-report=olo-proc-stat.csv' Compiles only there, and the configure line now SAYS so: "no link records on Windows" would otherwise read as a measurement that found links to be free. Verified after the fix: 1849 compile occurrences in the generated Ninja rules, zero on any LINK_FLAGS line, and the MSVC guard branch still configures cleanly with a warning and no flag (checked against a real Visual Studio 18 2026 tree). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three refinements to scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py and the workflow, all from running the real thing rather than the synthetic fixture. - Prune vcpkg_installed (and CMakeScratch/Testing) from the object-file walk. Some vcpkg ports ship prebuilt .o files into <build>/vcpkg_installed, and no compile in this build produced them — counting them inflates the denominator and would fail CI's --fail-under-coverage gate for a reason unrelated to the measurement. Pruned in `dirs` so the walk never descends the tree. - Strip the config path component from a TU label. A multi-config generator emits CMakeFiles/T.dir/Debug/src/Foo.cpp.obj, which rendered as "OloEngineContent: Debug/OloEngine/Scene/Scene.cpp" in the published table. Matched against the known config names rather than "drop the first component", because a single-config tree has a real source directory there. - Bound the CI job at timeout-minutes: 180. This job disables the compiler cache on purpose, so every run is a full cold build and it never gets the warm path that keeps the sanitizer jobs under the 360-minute default. asan.yml measures a cold instrumented Linux build at ~57 min of build time; this one compiles the same tree and runs no tests, so 180 is generous. The point is the ceiling — a runaway must not hold one of the box's two slots for six hours while the queue behind it grows (#1219, #1284). Measured on a live 772-of-1861-step Debug build of OloEditor + OloEngine-Tests: coverage reads 97.7% (753 of 771 objects) and the labels now name sources. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nance Both changes come from reading the first real report and finding it could be misread in exactly the way this issue is about. - An empty link section printed "the heaviest link measured here is 0.00 GiB", and the totals table showed a 0.00 GiB link row. On a clang-cl build there are no link records AT ALL — CMake drives lld-link directly — so that reads as a measurement which found linking free. It now says the links were not measured, names the cause, and points at a Linux clang build for the number. - The ranking now carries its own provenance: timestamp plus the build settings that decide whether two rankings are even comparable (compiler id/version, build type, generator, PCH, unity, compiler cache, each sanitizer, LTO, the two job-pool depths), read from the build tree's CMakeCache.txt. That second one is the whole anti-decay argument, and the evidence for it is the numbers this work replaced. An #822 follow-up committed per-TU peak RSS figures as CMakeLists.txt comments. Re-measured on today's tree they move in BOTH directions: Prefab.cpp 6,400 MB -> 1,488 MB (22 s -> 7.4 s) MCP/McpFieldRegistry.cpp 7,838 MB -> 5,498 MB LuaScriptGlue_World.cpp 5,043 MB -> 3,211 MB LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp 1,308 MB -> 1,516 MB Prefab.cpp's wall time fell with its memory, so that one is real drift rather than a methodology difference. But because the original figures record neither the clang version nor the PCH state, drift and methodology CANNOT be separated after the fact — which is precisely how a committed number rots. A report that cannot be compared with its predecessor decays the same way, so the settings now travel with the numbers. Also states plainly that the sum-of-N-heaviest bound is pessimistic by construction: it assumes the scheduler may start the N heaviest TUs together, which the olo_heavy pool exists to prevent — except on the Makefiles generator every Linux CI job uses, where no such pool exists and the bound is operative. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
1833 compiles at 99.0% coverage, clang-cl 23.1.0 Debug, PCH and unity off. Distribution: median 0.38 GiB, p95 1.08, max 5.38; 17 TUs over 2 GiB, 5 over 3, 2 over 5. The shape #759 guessed at holds — a handful of TUs sets the peak — but it is a different handful than either earlier survey named. The olo_heavy pool is mispopulated in BOTH directions. It holds four TUs ranked #180, #278, #25 and #24 while eight ranked #5-#20 sit outside it, led by SceneHierarchyPanel.cpp (#5, 3.08 GiB) and Scene.cpp (#6, 2.72 GiB). Two are worth naming because each is a rule rather than a datum: LuaScriptGlue.cpp was excluded when the glue was split as "an ordinary small TU" and is 13th of 1833; Prefab.cpp carries a committed 6,400 MB / 22 s and now measures 1,488 MB / 7.4 s. What the pool gets right, stated too: McpFieldRegistry.cpp is #1 and #2 at 5.38/5.37 GiB — compiled independently into OloEditor and OloEngine-Tests — and eight of the nine LuaScriptGlue_* parts land in the top 18. #822's split worked. Per this repo's own rule, the REFACTOR those numbers justify is out of scope for #1305 and gets its own issue; this commit records the measurement, not a fix. The --parallel table is also explicitly not an argument for a lower -j: it sums the N heaviest TUs, the olo_heavy pool exists to stop that happening on a Ninja tree, and this is not the sanitizer configuration the caps came from. Also shortened the Windows-blocker note now that #1306 carries the reproduction, keeping the guide near the size rule in CLAUDE.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The workflow's pre-build check greped `link.txt` for the flag and would have
failed the job on a correct build. Where the Unix Makefiles generator puts an
executable's link command is platform-dependent: it writes a separate link.txt
in some configurations and inlines the command into the target's build.make in
others. Generating a real Unix Makefiles tree against cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake
showed the inlined form — 2 flags.make files carrying the flag, ZERO link.txt,
and the flag present on the executable's link line inside build.make:
clang++ ... -fproc-stat-report=olo-proc-stat.csv -fuse-ld=lld \
@CMakeFiles/app.dir/objects1.rsp -o app.exe ...
So the assertion is now on the measurement: `--require-link-records` fails unless
a real linker record came out of the build. That is generator-independent and a
strictly stronger claim than matching on generated text — it cannot pass while
the thing it is guarding is broken. The compile-side grep and the absolute-path
guard stay, since both hold in flags.make either way.
Verified the new gate fires in the direction that matters: run against the
Windows clang-cl ranking, where links are genuinely unmeasurable, it exits 1 and
names the cause.
Also confirmed en route that clang++ reports CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT
"GNU" even on Windows — it describes the driver's option syntax, not the target —
which is what makes the GNU/MSVC split in ProcStatReport.cmake the right seam.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds Clang peak RSS instrumentation, record analysis, scheduled CI measurements, cross-platform link throttling, measured compile-pool updates, a shared editor library, conditional PCH handling, vendor compatibility fixes, and documentation. ChangesBuild memory measurement and build-graph updates
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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GitHubActions->>CMake: configure the measurement build
CMake->>Clang: compile and link with RSS reporting
Clang->>LinkSemaphore: invoke the link wrapper
LinkSemaphore-->>Clang: grant or skip a link permit
Clang-->>Artifact: append process RSS records
GitHubActions->>AnalyzeProcStat: analyze the build tree and records
AnalyzeProcStat-->>Artifact: write rankings and validation outputs
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Corrects the framing in the previous commit. I read the CMakeLists comments'
peak-RSS numbers as having decayed since they were taken. They did not — they
were up to 8.7x too high the day they were written, from a known recipe bug:
the survey behind them ran
cmake --build <dir> --target X -- '<obj>'
which passes BOTH the target and the object to ninja and so builds the whole
target, then credited the largest of a dozen concurrent unrelated compiles to
whichever TU was asked for. An isolated re-measurement on 2026-09-08 (per-PID
PeakWorkingSet64, exactly one clang-cl asserted) had already caught this.
This census is an independent third method — clang's own -fproc-stat-report,
taken during a 6-wide parallel build — and it agrees with those isolated
numbers closely:
TU committed isolated this census ratio
Scene.cpp 2,498 MB 2,499 MB 2,785 MB 1.11x
ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp 12,389 MB 1,415 MB 1,599 MB 1.13x
McpToolsRender.cpp 7,838 MB 1,369 MB 1,680 MB 1.23x
Prefab.cpp 6,400 MB 1,282 MB 1,488 MB 1.16x
RenderGraphTest.cpp 8,619 MB 949 MB 1,053 MB 1.11x
Scene.cpp is the control: it is the one row that reproduced exactly under the
buggy recipe (2,498 vs 2,499 MB), and it lands at the same 1.11x here. So the
residual 11-23% is the parallel-build environment rather than a systematic error
in either method — a TU measured while five others run peaks a little higher
than the same TU measured alone. That makes this census the right instrument for
RANKING and the isolated recipe the right one for a single TU's absolute figure.
What survives unchanged is the reason the report carries provenance: none of
this could be established FROM the committed numbers, only by re-running them.
A figure that does not say how it was produced cannot be checked.
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🟡 Minor · Correct the Visual Studio warning. · CMakeLists.txt:600-603
CMakeLists.txt:600-603
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the Visual Studio warning.
OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATIONstill enables peak-RSS compile records under clang-cl. Only the CMake Instrumentation API has no effect for this generator. The current warning incorrectly states that the complete option has no effect.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In @.github/workflows/build-memory.yml:
- Line 50: Update the workflow path filters to include CMakeLists.txt alongside
the existing instrumentation-related paths, ensuring pull requests changing root
instrumentation wiring trigger the workflow.
In `@cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake`:
- Line 142: Update the compiler-option handling around the CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID
check and the add_compile_options call so C and C++ receive language-specific
options. Probe support independently for each applicable compiler using
capability checks, and add the flag only for languages whose compiler accepts
it.
- Around line 214-217: Update the status message in the per-invocation peak RSS
reporting configuration to append --name followed by the configured
OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE when showing the analyze_proc_stat.py command, so custom
record basenames are analyzed correctly.
In `@docs/agent-rules/build-trees-and-windows-asan.md`:
- Around line 540-541: Update the documentation near the `OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT`
and `OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION` references to state that `OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT`
is an independent switch and can enable RSS reporting without
`OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION`; remove the wording that places both features on the
same switch.
In `@scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py`:
- Line 57: Extend INTERMEDIATE_SUFFIXES to include the Clang precompiled-header
output suffixes .pch, .gch, and .pcm, ensuring these files are classified as
intermediate rather than falling through to link classification.
- Line 316: Limit the lane-derivation loop to the number of recorded compiles by
iterating through min(max_lanes, len(compiles)) rather than max_lanes,
preventing unsupported rows from repeating accumulated costs and inflating
largest_fitting_lanes.
- Around line 127-139: Update collect_record_files to support path-valued names
during recursive directory discovery by constructing each candidate with
os.path.join(root, name) and checking it with os.path.isfile, rather than
matching name only against directory-entry basenames. Preserve recursive
traversal and existing file-path results.
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In `@CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 600-603: Update the warning associated with
OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION to state only that the CMake Instrumentation API is
unavailable for the Visual Studio generator, while preserving that clang-cl
still enables peak-RSS compile records. Remove wording claiming the entire
option has no effect and retain the guidance to use a clangcl or Linux preset as
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Both cells of build-memory.yml passed on olo-ci-1 (1761 compiles each, 99.9%
coverage, cache off, PCH/unity off), so these are the numbers the caps should
come from rather than the Windows census.
plain Debug Debug + ASan
median compile 0.31 GiB 0.32 GiB
p95 compile 0.84 GiB 0.85 GiB
heaviest compile 4.65 GiB 8.09 GiB
heaviest ld.lld link 10.03 GiB 11.17 GiB
link / heaviest compile 2.16x 1.38x
One ld.lld link of OloEngine-Tests takes 11.17 GiB — 80% of the runner unit's
14 GiB memory.max, and more than any TU in the build. The belief it replaces was
8.7 GB, so it is 38% higher, and it is 10.03 GiB with no sanitizer at all. The
heaviest compile is 8.09 GiB, so the "~9.0 GB per clang++ TU" folklore was close;
the "one TU hit 13.9 GB" claim does not reproduce.
This completes #759 rather than contradicting it. #759's finding was about
WALL-CLOCK — links are off the critical path, still true. For MEMORY the link is
the largest single consumer in both configurations.
The consequence: nothing bounds it on Linux. OLO_LINK_JOBS and olo_heavy are
Ninja job pools and every Linux job gets Unix Makefiles (§5e), so make -j2 may
run that 11.17 GiB link alongside a compile — 19.26 GiB with the heaviest, past
the 14 GiB unit cap and at the 19 GiB slice cap. In practice the tests link lands
at the end when little else remains, which is why it has not been failing
constantly, but it is unguarded rather than safe by construction.
Recommendations only, applied to nothing (a live runner's configuration is the
maintainer's call and out of #1305's scope): keep --parallel 2 on the sanitizer
jobs, now with evidence — 3 lanes is a 15.24 GiB worst case. Non-sanitizer Linux
Debug fits 4 lanes on compile grounds. The lever actually worth having is a link
bound that works under Makefiles; 2.8 GiB of headroom over a single link is what
is tight, not --parallel.
The Linux ASan ranking independently reproduces the Windows olo_heavy verdict,
same names and same direction, so #1307 has two hosts agreeing.
Also records the CCACHE_STATSLOG trap (sibling worktrees share one CCACHE_DIR, so
before/after `ccache -s` is contaminated) and moves the historical reconciliation
into an appendix so the rules come first. The guide is ~15 KB against CLAUDE.md's
~10 KB guideline; stated rather than met, because the alternative was dropping
measured evidence that the weekly artifact does not carry.
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In `@docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.md`:
- Around line 91-92: Update the cache-hit explanation in the CI guidance to
state that ccache hits produce no compiler RSS record, rather than claiming they
cost no memory; preserve the distinction that cache lookup and result
decompression may still consume memory.
- Around line 218-220: Correct the spot-check count in the paragraph describing
Scene.cpp, ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp, and Prefab.cpp: either change “all five
spot-checked TUs” to “the three listed” or add measurements for the two omitted
TUs.
- Around line 103-105: The ccache guidance should describe CCACHE_STATSLOG as
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Every finding was valid; three were real defects rather than polish. REAL DEFECTS - PCH and module outputs were classified as LINKS. `.pch`/`.gch`/`.pcm` have no object suffix, so they fell through to the `link` fallback — which would report a precompiled header as a link step AND let `--require-link-records` pass on a build where no linker ever ran, defeating the CI gate added earlier in this PR. OLO_ENABLE_PCH defaults ON whenever the compiler cache is off, so this is the default local configuration, not an exotic one. Now `intermediate`; regression- tested with a 3-compile + 1-.gch fixture (link count 0, gate correctly fails). - The flag was validated on the C++ compiler but applied to C compilations too. This project compiles C (vendored glad, lua, bc7enc, ...), and CMAKE_C_COMPILER is a separate cache entry a toolchain file can point elsewhere; a non-clang C compiler would have received an unsupported option and failed the build. Each language is now gated on its own compiler id and the option is scoped with COMPILE_LANGUAGE / LINK_LANGUAGE generator expressions. On the real tree this also turns out to have been UNDER-instrumenting: the status line now reads "C/CXX compiles" where it previously said "CXX". - The --parallel derivation table ran to --max-lanes regardless of how many compiles were measured, repeating the last total and letting largest_fitting_lanes claim 16 safe lanes from 3 measured TUs. Capped at min(max_lanes, len(compiles)) — a row that cannot be substantiated is not printed. CORRECTNESS OF THE CONTRACT - OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE accepted `reports/rss.csv`: clang would write it, and the analyser — which discovers records by matching basenames while walking the build tree — would never find it. Empty ranking, no error. Now rejected with a message explaining why a basename is the whole contract. - The suggested analyser command left `--name` at the default, so a custom basename produced records nothing would read. It now carries the configured name. CI COVERAGE, AND ITS COST - Added CMakeLists.txt to the pull_request paths: it declares the option and include()s the module, so a wiring regression there would make this workflow vacuous rather than red. - Paid for that by dropping the non-sanitizer cell on pull requests via a matrix `if`. A PR only has to prove the instrumentation still works end to end, and debug-asan is both the stricter cell and the one the caps come from; tracking drift across cells is the weekly run's job. Net: wider trigger, half the per-PR box time. - Recorded the trap that cost this PR three redundant runs — GitHub matches a pull_request `paths` filter against the WHOLE PR DIFF, not the latest push, so once a PR touches one of these files every later push re-runs the workflow. DOCS - `OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT` documented as a standalone switch in §5 of build-trees-and-windows-asan.md, not merely as riding the umbrella — on Windows it is the only way to get the measurement at all (#1306). - "a hit costs no memory" → a hit produces no compiler RSS record; ccache still does the lookup and decompression, which this instrument cannot see. - CCACHE_STATSLOG described as build-scoped and appending, so a reader truncates it per build instead of reading the previous build back. - "all five spot-checked TUs" now actually lists five. Verified on the real tree: configure clean, 1849 compile occurrences, zero on any LINK_FLAGS line, and both frontends re-checked in scratch projects (clang-cl Ninja = compiles only; clang++ Unix Makefiles = "CXX compiles and CXX links"). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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All ten findings were valid and all ten are fixed in PCH outputs classified as links — the sharpest catch. Flag validated on C++ but applied to C — correct, and it was also under-instrumenting. Derivation ran past the compile count — it repeated the last total and could claim 16 safe The On the workflow path filter: Two doc points taken verbatim ("a hit produces no compiler RSS record", |
…1307) Closes #1307. The pool was chosen from per-TU figures that a later re-measurement showed were wrong by up to 8.7x, so this re-derives it from #1305's census and writes down a rule instead of another hand-picked list. RULE: every TU whose measured peak compiler RSS is >= 1.5 GiB. Not a round number — 1.5 is where the tail ends. The 17th TU is 1.50 GiB and the 18th is 1.37, while p95 across the whole tree is 0.85 GiB. Re-derive by running the weekly build-memory-debug-asan artifact through scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py. ADDED (all >= 2 GiB, all previously unpooled): Scene/Scene.cpp 3.30 GiB #3 of 1761 Scripting/VisualScript/ComponentFieldRegistry.cpp 2.81 GiB #5 Scene/SceneSerializer.cpp 2.63 GiB #7 Scripting/Lua/LuaScriptGlue.cpp 2.40 GiB #9 SaveGame/SaveGameSerializer.cpp 2.26 GiB #11 LuaScriptGlue.cpp is the notable one: it was deliberately excluded when the glue was split (#822) as "an ordinary small TU". It is 9th of 1761. That judgement rested on the broken survey. DROPPED (below the threshold): Scene/Prefab.cpp 1.37 GiB #18 (committed as "6,400 MB in 22 s") LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp 1.18 GiB #21 Rendering/RenderGraphTest.cpp 0.94 GiB #34 (committed as "8,619 MB") Both remaining Prefab.cpp concerns are untouched: it stays excluded from whole-program optimization, which is a separate question from compile scheduling. Depth stays at 2. Two concurrent from the new set is 8.09 + 3.85 = 11.94 GiB, which is what the pool exists to bound, and the wall-clock cost of throttling a wider set is bounded: the pooled TUs total 587 s of 7234 s, so a 2-wide floor is 294 s against a -j6 ideal of 1206 s. The pool cannot become the critical path. CORRECTION to what I reported earlier in this PR: I claimed the pool held TUs ranked #180 and #281. That came from a suffix match — `endswith ("ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp")` also matches AbilityComponentRoundTripTest.cpp, which is NOT in the pool and never was. Re-derived with exact path matching against the four call sites, the pool held ranks #1,2,4,6,8,10,12,13,14,15,16,17, 18,21,34: mostly right, missing five TUs >= 2 GiB and carrying three below 1.5. This commit is that correction, not the wholesale repopulation I described. Dropping RenderGraphTest.cpp also removed the `_olo_render_graph_test_src` indirection that held it out of the plain source list. The variable was still expanded there, so deleting the `set()` alone would have expanded to nothing and silently dropped the TU from the build — the exact failure the surrounding comment warns about. It is now listed literally. Verified on the generated build: 17 unique pooled files over 20 compile edges (three are compiled into both OloEditor and OloEngine-Tests), and all three dropped files still have build edges. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rule was unconditional and its own reason string named the constraint it was
enforcing: "MSVC PCH (/Fp) is non-cacheable under sccache/ccache". True for the
MSVC frontend — cl.exe and clang-cl both spell a PCH /Yc /Yu /Fp and the cache
reports those TUs non-cacheable — and not true for a GNU-frontend clang, where
ccache caches PCH-using compiles given the right sloppiness.
This repo had already established that and then not acted on it.
docs/agent-rules/compiler-cache-uncacheable-compiles.md says "clang needs nothing
beyond what CMake emits", and .github/actions/setup-linux-build ALREADY exports
CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=pch_defines,time_macros,... on both self-hosted setups with the
comment "every engine target uses one". The CI action was configured for a PCH
the CMake then turned off, so ~1800 Linux TUs re-parse the engine's header
closure on every cold build for a Windows-only reason.
The disable now tracks its reason. Three cases:
MSVC frontend -> OFF, /Fp is genuinely non-cacheable
GNU clang/GCC without sloppiness -> OFF, and say so: every engine compile
would go uncached, which is far worse
than a cold re-parse (measured at
1417/1417 objects in that doc)
GNU clang/GCC with sloppiness -> left at the OLO_ENABLE_PCH default
The sloppiness is CHECKED, not assumed, because getting it wrong fails silently
in the expensive direction.
WHAT THIS DOES NOT ESTABLISH, stated plainly: the second half of the original
argument is general rather than MSVC-specific — "PCH speeds a cold compile, the
cache makes a warm compile a near-instant hit" — and it is not dismissed here.
The reason to expect the two to compose on clang is that the PCH's constituent
headers are inputs to the cache key either way, so enabling it should not add
invalidation. That is a prediction. #1305's build-memory workflow is the
instrument that prices it, and this block is the one conditional to flip back if
a warm-cache regression shows up.
Verified on Windows: still OFF, and the status line now names the actual reason
rather than a generic one.
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…of recompiling (#1314) OloEngine-Tests cannot link OloEditor — it is an executable — so it recompiled 41 of the editor's sources as its own. Measured on a build of both targets that cost 41 duplicated translation units and 231 s, 3.8% of the entire build's compile time, and it duplicated the worst TU in the tree: McpFieldRegistry.cpp is #1 by peak compiler RSS (8.09 GiB under ASan) and was paid for twice. OloEditorCore is a static library holding exactly that shared set — Automation/ (18), MCP/ (21) and the two Panels/ContentBrowser helpers. OloEditor links it and keeps the ImGui editor: 34 Panels/*, EditorLayer, OloEditorApp, McpServerPanel and the thumbnail cache, none of which any test compiles. THE SEAM IS THE ONE THE TESTS ALREADY DREW. Every file moved was already being compiled into the test binary and linking there, so the set is known self-contained against OloEngine — the boundary is discovered, not invented. SAFE AS A STATIC LIBRARY, checked before moving anything: nothing here self-registers. Automation commands are published through explicit Register*Commands(AutomationRegistry&) entry points a caller invokes, so no object depends on being retained for a static initializer's side effect. That is the failure mode which makes naive static-library extraction drop behaviour silently, and it does not apply. A self-registering TU added here later would need WHOLE_ARCHIVE or an explicit reference. GLFW_INCLUDE_NONE stays PRIVATE deliberately. It is what keeps a TU that pulls GLFW before glad compiling, and these sources had it in the editor build — but OloEngine-Tests compiled this same set for years WITHOUT it, so it is demonstrably not part of the interface. PUBLIC would have put it on ~900 test TUs and rebuilt them all for nothing. The editor's three heavy TUs move their pool binding from two targets to OloEditorCore, which is now the only place they compile. Verified: configure clean; OloEditor and OloEngine-Tests both build and link; McpFieldRegistry.cpp went from 3 on-disk objects to ONE live build edge (the other two are stale orphans ninja does not clean); total object count 1849 -> 1809; and 1118 Automation/MCP/ContentBrowser tests run with 1116 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped for environment (headless attach, symlink privileges). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit's `if: ${{ ... matrix.slug == 'debug-asan' }}` on the job did
not merely evaluate wrong — it made the whole workflow FILE invalid. GitHub
rejected the run with "This run likely failed because of a workflow file issue"
and started no job at all, so the workflow silently stopped guarding anything
while still appearing in the checks list as a failure.
Cause: a job-level `if` cannot see the `matrix` context. Only github, needs, vars
and inputs are available there; `matrix` is available to steps, `runs-on` and
`strategy`. I asserted the opposite in that commit message — it was wrong, and CI
caught it on the first run.
Fixed by building the matrix itself from the event, which is the supported route
because `strategy` CAN read the github context:
include: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request'
&& fromJSON('[<asan cell>]')
|| fromJSON('[<asan cell>, <debug cell>]') }}
Same outcome as intended — one cell on a pull request, both on the schedule and
on demand — without the invalid context reference.
Validated before pushing rather than after: the file parses as YAML, the job no
longer carries an `if`, both fromJSON literals parse as JSON, and every cell
carries exactly the three keys (label, slug, cmake-args) the consuming steps
read. A malformed literal would have failed in the same silent way.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUpdate Trap 4 for conditional PCH handling.
cmake/CompilerCache.cmakeforcesOLO_ENABLE_PCH=OFFonly for MSVC frontends or non-MSVC frontends without bothpch_definesandtime_macrosinCCACHE_SLOPPINESS. Linux cached CI exports both values, so PCH remains enabled there.OLO_ENABLE_UNITY_BUILD=OFFremains unconditional.State that cache-off measurements must explicitly match the PCH and unity settings of the cache-on configuration under comparison. The existing
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In `@cmake/CompilerCache.cmake`:
- Around line 272-284: Update the PCH eligibility logic around
_olo_pch_uncacheable so the CCACHE_SLOPPINESS checks apply only when the
selected compiler-cache launcher is ccache. Keep PCH disabled for sccache, while
preserving the existing ccache requirement for both pch_defines and time_macros
and its associated reason reporting.
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In `@docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.md`:
- Around line 111-119: Update Trap 4 to describe the conditional PCH behavior in
CompilerCache.cmake: PCH is disabled only for MSVC or non-MSVC configurations
lacking both pch_defines and time_macros in CCACHE_SLOPPINESS, while unity
builds are always disabled. Instruct cache-off measurements to explicitly match
both PCH and unity settings of the cache-on configuration, noting that
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PCH remains enabled.
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| if(NOT CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_FRONTEND_VARIANT STREQUAL "MSVC") | ||
| # ccache needs pch_defines AND time_macros before it will cache a PCH-using | ||
| # compile (ccache manual, "Precompiled headers"). Checked rather than assumed: | ||
| # turning PCH on without them makes EVERY engine TU uncacheable, which is the | ||
| # failure docs/agent-rules/compiler-cache-uncacheable-compiles.md measured at | ||
| # 1417/1417 objects. | ||
| set(_olo_pch_sloppiness "$ENV{CCACHE_SLOPPINESS}") | ||
| if(_olo_pch_sloppiness MATCHES "pch_defines" AND _olo_pch_sloppiness MATCHES "time_macros") | ||
| set(_olo_pch_uncacheable FALSE) | ||
| else() | ||
| set(_olo_pch_reason | ||
| "CCACHE_SLOPPINESS does not contain both pch_defines and time_macros, so every PCH-using compile would be uncacheable (got '${_olo_pch_sloppiness}')") | ||
| endif() |
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- 4: GitHub issue 1851 in mozilla/sccache (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/releases/tag/v0.9.0
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Do not use CCACHE_SLOPPINESS to enable PCH for sccache.
find_program(... NAMES sccache ccache) can select sccache, but this branch treats the ccache-only variable as the PCH gate. The repository pins sccache v0.15.0, which does not provide reliable Clang PCH support and can produce false-positive cache hits when PCH macros change. Gate this condition on the selected launcher and keep PCH disabled for sccache unless a tested compatible version is explicitly supported.
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In `@cmake/CompilerCache.cmake` around lines 272 - 284, Update the PCH eligibility
logic around _olo_pch_uncacheable so the CCACHE_SLOPPINESS checks apply only
when the selected compiler-cache launcher is ccache. Keep PCH disabled for
sccache, while preserving the existing ccache requirement for both pch_defines
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…indows (#1306) Closes #1306. OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION=ON could not build this project on Windows at all, which made #759/#822's whole build-profiling recipe dead on the only OS that runs the editor — and on the only generator where OLO_LINK_JOBS and olo_heavy exist. cmake_instrumentation() wraps every custom command in `ctest --instrument -- <argv>` and EXECUTES argv rather than handing it to a shell. Vendored glad's generator rule was four `COMMAND echo ...` lines, one of them `COMMAND echo ${GLAD_ARGS} > ${GLAD_ARGS_PATH}`. Under cmd.exe `echo` is a shell builtin with no executable on disk and `>` is shell redirection, so the build died at glad-generate with "Batch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1" and no diagnostic of any kind. POSIX shells hid it because /usr/bin/echo is a real binary, which is why Linux CI never saw it. glad is a FetchContent download and must not be edited in place, so the fix goes through a patch on top of the pin — the mechanism this repo already uses for FSR2. `cmake -E echo` is a real process and survives the launcher; the args record is written at configure time and copied, because `cmake -E` has no redirect and that file is an OUTPUT of the rule (written, never read, but it has to exist or the rule is dirty on every build). The applier is now SHARED rather than duplicated: cmake/fsr2-apply-patches.cmake becomes cmake/apply-vendor-patches.cmake, parameterised by OLO_PATCH_DIR and OLO_PATCH_LABEL. Its restore-then-apply contract is what makes this safe to run on every configure and is unchanged — read its header before bumping either pin while a patch is carried. VERIFIED END TO END, in the order that isolates each claim: 1. The exact batch file that failed now exits 0 (was 1) and produces all four outputs, with args.txt carrying the same space-separated text upstream's `echo >` wrote. 2. Deleting glad-build entirely and building the glad target through ninja regenerates it with the ctest wrapper in place: exit 0. 3. The instrumentation API actually emits a trace on Windows now — 20 events, roles {custom: 15, compile: 2, link: 2, cmakeBuild: 1}. The 15 custom commands are the ones that used to kill the build. REPRODUCIBLE (#824) still holds: the run logs show both registry fetches being intercepted and served from glad's bundled spec. OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT stays. It was originally forced by this bug, but it earns its place as the narrower switch — a compiler flag costs nothing per build step, where the API spends a process on every compile, link and custom command. The docs that described it as "the only way on Windows" now say that instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes #1313. #1305's measurement found the memory ceiling is not a compile at all: one ld.lld link of OloEngine-Tests peaks at 11.17 GiB under Debug+ASan and 10.03 GiB with no sanitizer, against a heaviest compile of 8.09 / 4.65 GiB. That is 80% of the runner unit's 14 GiB cap, and more than any TU in the build. Three things that should have bounded it did not: * OLO_LINK_JOBS (the olo_link Ninja pool) is guarded by if(CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Ninja"). Every Linux job configures with no -G and gets Unix Makefiles, where the pool silently does not exist. * olo_heavy is a Ninja pool too, and throttles compiles rather than links. * LinkSemaphore.cmake shelled out to pwsh, which is not on the box. Confirmed in the runner's own log, not inferred: Link semaphore: neither 'pwsh' nor 'powershell' found on PATH -- linking WITHOUT cross-tree throttling. So `make -j2` was free to run that link beside a compile — 19.26 GiB with the heaviest, past the unit cap and at the 19 GiB slice cap — and two concurrent links across the two runner slots is 22.3 GiB against that same slice. It had not been failing constantly only because the tests link lands at the end of the build, which is scheduling luck rather than a guarantee. scripts/link-semaphore.py is the POSIX half of the existing throttle. The Windows script uses N named MUTEXES and its header argues at length why, not a counting semaphore: a Windows semaphore's count is owned by nobody, so a killed holder leaks its permit permanently and the throttle degrades to nothing. flock has exactly that ownership property and gets it from the kernel — the lock belongs to the open file description and is released when the holder dies, by any means — which is why this is a few lines where the Windows version needs a careful argument, and why no PID-file scheme is used. FAILS OPEN throughout, same as the Windows half: no fcntl, no permit directory, or every permit busy past the timeout, and the link runs anyway. A throttle that can fail a build is worse than no throttle. ALSO FIXES A KNOB THAT DID NOTHING. OLO_LINK_SEMAPHORE_SLOTS is a cache variable, but both wrappers read it from the ENVIRONMENT — configuration cannot come from argv, because a linker command line is full of tokens a parser would eat (`-o`, `--start-group`, a bare `--`), so everything after the wrapper path must be forwarded verbatim. Nothing put it in the environment, so the variable only changed a status message while the wrapper's built-in default of 2 was the real value on BOTH platforms. It now travels via `cmake -E env`. VERIFIED. What is testable without a POSIX host was tested here, and the parts most likely to break a build are exactly those: exit codes propagated verbatim (42 stays 42, not collapsed to 1), hostile argv forwarded intact, missing linker reported as failure rather than false success, malformed config degrading to the default, slots<=0 disabling deliberately and saying so, and diagnostics confined to stderr so linker output stays clean. The permit loop itself was exercised against a stand-in fcntl with real flock semantics: two permits go to distinct slots, a third is refused, it fails open after the timeout, a released permit is reusable, and none leak. On Windows the new launcher chain relinks OloHeaderTool and oloctl cleanly, and the generated rule carries `cmake -E env OLO_LINK_SEMAPHORE_SLOTS=<n>` across all 24 link rules. The flock call itself runs only on Linux CI, which is the first real exercise of that path — bounded by the fail-open design. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The remaining lever for the 11.17 GiB link was -gsplit-dwarf, and #1313 recorded its risk as "unverified: confirm a sanitizer stack still symbolises". Verified now, and the answer is specific enough to act on. THE TRADE, measured with llvm-symbolizer (clang 23.1.0, cross-compiled to x86_64-linux), one control per variable: -gsplit-dwarf alone, .dwo present inline frames RESOLVE -ffile-prefix-map=/olo alone inline frames RESOLVE both together, .dwo present inline frames LOST So it is the COMBINATION that breaks, not either half — which is exactly the case this repo is in, because -ffile-prefix-map=<src>=/olo is applied whenever the compiler cache is on so the two olo-ci slots can share one ccache. Split DWARF resolves its side-car through DW_AT_comp_dir, so the symbolizer looks for /olo/<name>.dwo and does not find it. WHAT SURVIVES, in every arm: the function name (from .symtab) and file:line (from .debug_line, which stays in the object). An ASan report keeps its frames and their locations and loses the inlined ones — and every sanitizer job is a Debug build, where there is little inlining to lose. Packaging the side-cars into a .dwp did not restore it either, but that probe symbolized a .o rather than an executable, where the lookup differs: treat the .dwp route as UNPROVEN rather than ruled out. So OLO_SPLIT_DWARF ships DEFAULT OFF. That is the measurement's verdict, not caution: the saving is still unquantified, and the cost is now known and real. --gdb-index is deliberately NOT paired with it, though #1313's table pairs them. That pairing is the standard DEBUGGING recipe — it builds a .gdb_index so GDB starts fast. For a MEMORY goal it works against us: lld constructs that index by reading the debug info this flag exists to make it skip. TO PRICE THE SAVING, build-memory.yml gains a third cell, `Debug + ASan + split DWARF`, on scheduled and on-demand runs only (a pull request still runs one cell). Its link peak against the plain debug-asan cell from the same run is the number nobody has today, and both publish their full build configuration beside the ranking so the comparison is checkable. Using this PR's own instrument to price the next change is the point of having built it. Verified across toolchains: default OFF is a silent no-op in the real tree (zero occurrences); ON under clang-cl warns that CodeView has no such concept and adds nothing; ON under GNU-frontend clang++ applies per language and says plainly in the configure log what will stop symbolizing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runs the `Debug + ASan + split DWARF` cell on the pull_request arm alongside the plain `debug-asan` cell, so the lever can be measured on the box BEFORE this merges. To be reverted to the single cell once the number is recorded. workflow_dispatch cannot do this: GitHub only offers that trigger when the workflow file is on the DEFAULT branch, and build-memory.yml is new in this PR. The pull_request trigger is the only route to the runners until it lands. Both arms have to come from ONE run to be comparable — same host, same pinned LLVM 23.1.0, same ccache state — and max-parallel: 1 keeps them from contending with each other or holding both olo-ci slots. The cost is two cold builds serially, which is why this is temporary rather than the standing PR configuration. What it answers: the saving is the only half of the split-DWARF question still unmeasured. The cost is already known — inlined frames stop symbolizing while -ffile-prefix-map maps DW_AT_comp_dir to /olo (measured with llvm-symbolizer, one control per variable, in cmake/SplitDwarf.cmake). OLO_SPLIT_DWARF stays OFF regardless of what this reports; the point is to replace "unquantified" with a number so the trade can actually be decided. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
All four sibling branches from the same /start-work batch landed while this was in flight (#1309 vulkan-test-coverage, #1310 skin, #1311 foliage, #1312 groom), which is the collision the handover predicted: 206 files changed on master, four of them also changed here. ONE REAL CONFLICT, in OloEngine/tests/CMakeLists.txt, and neither side was right on its own. Master added two NEW editor sources the test target needs — Automation/AutomationGroomCommands.cpp and Groom/GroomBindingAuthoring.cpp from the groom work — to the list of OloEditor sources this target recompiles. This branch had removed that entire list, because OloEditorCore supplies it now (#1314). * Taking ours -> the groom commands vanish from the test binary; it would fail to link, or worse, link with olo_groom_bind unregistered. * Taking theirs -> two files compile twice again, re-creating exactly the duplication #1314 removed, and one of them lands back in the list the pool binding no longer covers. Resolved as neither: the pair moved into OLO_EDITOR_CORE_SOURCES, so both consumers get them from the library. Master's explanation of WHY the tests need them is kept, re-pointed at where the code now lives. THE OTHER THREE FILES AUTO-MERGED, which is where a side gets dropped silently, so each was checked rather than trusted: OloEngine/src/CMakeLists.txt my 13 pool entries intact AND all 7 of master's new engine sources present OloEngine/tests/CMakeLists.txt every new test source from master present; zero direct OloEditor/src references remaining docs/agent-rules/README.md my index entry plus all of master's new ones VERIFIED on the merged tree, not just resolved: configure clean; all three formerly-duplicated files now have exactly ONE build edge each, in OloEditorCore; a full build of OloEditor + OloEngine-Tests at 1846 steps with 0 failures and a clean deps-check over 1831 objects; and 1280 Groom/Automation/MCP tests with 1278 passed, 0 failed, 2 skipped for environment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s unchanged
Measured on olo-ci, both cells from ONE run so they are comparable: 1783
compiles each, cache off, PCH and unity off, Debug + ASan.
baseline split DWARF delta
heaviest ld.lld link 11.23 GiB 8.75 GiB -2.47 GiB (-22.0%)
heaviest compile 8.18 GiB 8.18 GiB +0.00 GiB
median / p95 compile 0.32/0.86 0.32/0.86 unchanged
total compile wall 2.06 h 1.99 h -4.2 min
The saving lands exactly where the mechanism says it should — 22% off the link,
nothing measurable on any compile — which is itself a check on the number. The
other two links (oloctl, OloHeaderTool) move 0.10->0.09 and 0.06->0.06 GiB, i.e.
the effect scales with the debug info a binary carries, as expected.
Against the runner unit's 14 GiB cap that moves headroom over one link from
2.77 GiB to 5.25 GiB, and link + heaviest compile from 19.41 to 16.93 GiB —
under the 19 GiB slice cap rather than at it.
IT STAYS OFF ANYWAY, and the reason is the trade rather than the size of the
saving. The cost was measured earlier with a control per variable: -gsplit-dwarf
alone resolves inlined frames, -ffile-prefix-map=/olo alone resolves them,
together they are LOST (function names and file:line survive). Since #1313 the
link is bounded by a real semaphore, so it runs alone and 11.23 GiB already fits
the cap — the saving is margin, not a fix for a live failure, and margin is worth
less than a readable sanitizer stack. Flip it if margin is ever what is short.
The version worth having costs nothing: make the .dwo resolvable and both the
saving and the frames are yours. -fdebug-compilation-dir pointing somewhere real,
or a .dwp beside the executable, are the candidates — neither verified, because
the .dwp probe used a .o where the lookup differs.
Also reverts the TEMPORARY two-cell pull_request arm added to take this
measurement. A PR runs one cell again; the split-DWARF cell stays on the schedule
and on demand, which is where re-deriving these numbers belongs.
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In @.github/workflows/build-memory.yml:
- Around line 253-258: Update the “Rank by peak RSS” step to run whenever the
workflow is not cancelled and the setup step identified by steps.linux completed
successfully, including when “Build (instrumented)” fails. Preserve the existing
analyzer behavior and report generation.
In `@cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake`:
- Line 176: Update the OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE path-separator regex in the
surrounding CMake logic to use a doubled backslash, ensuring both forward- and
Windows-style separators are rejected.
In `@docs/agent-rules/build-trees-and-windows-asan.md`:
- Around line 541-542: Update the documentation near OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION
and OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT to state that the umbrella enables both mechanisms by
default, while an explicitly provided OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT value takes
precedence, including OFF disabling RSS reporting when the umbrella is ON.
In `@scripts/link-semaphore.py`:
- Line 98: Update the timeout parsing function around return float(raw) to
import math, parse the value, and fall back to the default timeout whenever
math.isfinite() rejects NaN or infinity; preserve the existing fallback for
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Four findings, all valid. Two were real defects, and one of them could not have
been fixed as suggested.
THE SEPARATOR CHECK NEVER REJECTED A WINDOWS PATH. OLO_PROC_STAT_FILE is
required to be a bare filename, because the analyser finds records by matching
basenames while walking the build tree — a value with a directory component is
written by clang and then never found, and the only symptom is an empty ranking.
The guard was `MATCHES "[/\]"`, which silently matches ONLY the forward slash: a
CMake string literal eats one level of backslash escaping and the regex engine
eats another.
The review proposed doubling the backslash. Measured, that does not work either:
pattern in source sub/rss.csv sub\rss.csv
"[/\]" rejected ALLOWED
"[/\]" rejected ALLOWED
"[/\\]" rejected rejected
It takes FOUR in the source to mean one literal backslash to the matcher. Rather
than commit a four-backslash regex that the next reader will "simplify" back into
a broken state — which is exactly what the review did — this now uses two
string(FIND) calls, which say what they mean and have no escaping trap at all.
Verified end to end against the real module: plain.csv accepted, sub/rss.csv
rejected, sub\rss.csv rejected.
A NON-FINITE TIMEOUT DEFEATED FAIL-OPEN ENTIRELY. env_number() used bare
float(), and float("nan") parses happily. A NaN timeout makes every
`time.monotonic() >= deadline` comparison False, so the acquire loop never
reaches its deadline and waits forever; float("inf") does the same by
construction. That turns the one guarantee this wrapper exists to provide — a
stuck throttle must never wedge the machine — into a hang, from a typo in the
environment. Rejected via math.isfinite() with the same degrade-to-default
behaviour as an unparseable value, and tested: nan/inf/-inf/NaN/banana all fall
back to 1800, a real value is still honoured, and the loop still times out.
THE RANK STEP NOW RUNS WHEN THE BUILD FAILS, which is when its records are most
worth having: a build killed by the OOM killer leaves behind exactly the ranking
that explains why. Gated on the setup step rather than on nothing, so a job that
never got a toolchain does not go looking for records that cannot exist. The
coverage gate still fails a partial ranking, correctly, and `if: always()` on the
upload keeps the artifact either way.
DOCUMENTED THE PRECEDENCE between the two switches: the umbrella turns both on by
DEFAULT, an explicit OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORT always wins (so ON + OFF gives timing
and tracing with no RSS reporting), and only an unset value follows the umbrella
— on every configure rather than latching.
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Closes #1305. Closes #1306. Closes #1307. Closes #1313. Closes #1314.
--parallel 2on a 16-thread box, a 14 GiB runner-unit cap and a 19 GiB slice cap allrested on a belief that one
clang++TU needs ~9 GB, and five sources disagreed about thatby 3x. #759/#822 wired the CMake Instrumentation API, but its per-command memory field is
afterHostMemoryUsed— system-wide host memory, not the command's own RSS — so theexisting traces cannot attribute memory to a TU at all. This adds the field they could not
record, and the published artifact that stops it decaying again.
What landed
cmake/ProcStatReport.cmake-fproc-stat-reporton every compile, and on every link where the compiler drives it. RidesOLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION.scripts/analyze_proc_stat.py--parallel Nwhose worst case fits a cap..github/workflows/build-memory.ymlDebugandDebug + ASan, compiler cache off for a full census, coverage-gated.docs/agent-rules/build-memory-per-tu.mdNo linker launcher was needed —
clang++ … -o apprunsld.lldas a driver subprocess, sothe same flag on the link line reports the linker's own peak RSS.
LinkSemaphore.cmake'slauncher chain is untouched.
Acceptance criteria (#1305's numbered steps)
OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION. Clang-only, as intended.CMAKE_CXX_LINKER_LAUNCHER. Linuxonly — see the clang-cl finding below, which is stated rather than skipped.
summary and as
build-memory-{debug,debug-asan}, retained 90 days for diffing.--parallelre-derived, and theolo_heavymembership checked. Below.No cap or
--parallelvalue is changed in this PR — that is a live runnerconfiguration change and it is the user's call; the recommendation and the numbers are
the deliverable.
Four things measurement changed, that assumption would have got wrong
1. The records path must stay relative, or every other job loses its compiler cache.
ccache hashes the flag's value and
base_dircannot rewrite it — base_dir relativisesarguments ccache recognises as paths to existing files, and this one names a file that
does not exist yet at hash time. Two source-identical trees under one
base_dir, secondexpected to hit:
-fproc-stat-report=<absolute path>-fproc-stat-report=<relative path>This matters beyond local worktrees: the two
olo-cislots share oneCCACHE_DIRand havedifferent
GITHUB_WORKSPACEpaths. AFATAL_ERRORand a CI grep guard it, because thefailure mode is a cache that stays alive and never warm.
2. The Unix Makefiles generator writes one records file per subdirectory. A relative
path resolves against the build tool's working directory, and the generators differ —
confirmed by generating both and reading the emitted rule, not by assumption:
build/olo-proc-stat.csvcd <build>/<subdir> && clang++ … -c …→ one file per subdirectoryEvery Linux job here configures with no
-G. A Ninja-only check would have shipped a Linuxmeasurement that ranked a fraction of the build — and the fraction it omits is the engine
and test subdirectories, i.e. the heavy ones. The analyser takes the build tree and
gathers them all, re-rooting outputs so two targets cannot collide.
3.
OLO_BUILD_INSTRUMENTATION=ONcannot build this project on Windows at all.Pre-existing, filed as #1306.
cmake_instrumentation()wraps every custom command inctest --instrument -- <argv>, which execs argv; vendored glad's generator rule needs ashell for both
echoand>. Dies atglad-generatewithBatch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1and no diagnostic. Reproduced in isolation: the same wrappedechosucceeds under a POSIX shell and fails under
cmd.exe, which is why Linux CI never saw it.Fixing that means restructuring a vendored third-party custom command, so it stays in
#1306. What landed here is the split that makes the measurement reachable anyway:
OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORTis the memory half alone — a compiler flag, no launcher, no CMakefloor, no generator restriction — defaulting to the umbrella, so the "one switch" contract
holds. It is deliberately not a cache variable: that would write the umbrella's first
value into the cache and keep reading it after the umbrella went back OFF, the "set forever
after the first configure" trap
CompilerCache.cmakedocuments.4. The flag must not go on a clang-cl link line.
CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLEonly drivesthe link through the compiler for a GNU-frontend clang. Under clang-cl CMake invokes
lld-linkdirectly, so there is no driver to take the option and/clang:…is read asan input file — every link failed with
could not open '/clang:-fproc-stat-report=olo-proc-stat.csv'. Compiles only there, and the configure linesays so: "no link records on Windows" would otherwise read as a measurement that found
linking free.
The cheap config levers, priced
CommonProperties.cmakesetsINTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION_RELEASE/_DISTonly, and every sanitizer job isCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug. There is no LTO there to convert.-gsplit-dwarf+--gdb-index.o+.dwo; with both deleted, a cache hit restored both at identical sizes. The.onames its companion as a baret.dwoand takes the directory fromDW_AT_comp_dir, which this repo already rewrites to/olo, so objects stay path-independent and cross-slot sharing is unaffected. Unverified risk before adopting: that same/olomapping is what ASan's symbolizer must resolve the.dwothrough. Confirm a sanitizer stack still symbolises first.-g1on sanitizer CI onlyStep 5: the measurement — the LINK is the ceiling, not any compile
Both Linux cells passed on
olo-ci-1, 1761 compiles each at 99.9% coverage, cacheoff, PCH and unity off. This is the configuration the caps were derived from, so these are
the numbers to use. Artifacts:
build-memory-debug,build-memory-debug-asan.DebugDebug + ASanld.lldlinkOne
ld.lldlink ofOloEngine-Teststakes 11.17 GiB — 80% of the runner unit's 14 GiBmemory.max, and more than any translation unit in the build. The belief it replaces was8.7 GB, so it is 38% higher, and it is 10.03 GiB even with no sanitizer. Meanwhile the
heaviest compile is 8.09 GiB: the "~9.0 GB for one
clang++TU" folklore was close, and the"one TU hit 13.9 GB RSS" claim does not reproduce.
This completes #759 rather than contradicting it. #759's result was about wall-clock —
links are off the critical path, still true. For memory, the link is the largest single
consumer in both configurations.
And nothing bounds it on Linux.
OLO_LINK_JOBSandolo_heavyare Ninja job pools;every Linux job gets Unix Makefiles (§5e), so
make -j2is free to run that 11.17 GiB linkalongside a compile — 19.26 GiB with the heaviest one, past the 14 GiB unit cap and at
the 19 GiB slice cap. In practice the tests link lands at the end when little else remains,
which is why this has not been failing constantly; it is unguarded, not safe by
construction. That is a plausible contributor to the historical OOM kills that per-TU
compile memory never explained.
Recommendations — applied to nothing
Changing a live runner's configuration is out of #1305's scope and is yours to make.
--parallel 2. Three lanes is a 15.24 GiB worst case, past thecap. The pin was right and now has evidence behind it.
the benefit — raise it only if the queue needs it.
headroom over a single link is what is tight, not
--parallel.olo_heavy— two hosts, same verdictThe Linux+ASan ranking independently reproduces the Windows census's verdict, same names and
same direction. It holds
AbilityComponentRoundTripTest.cpp(#281),RenderGraphTest.cpp(#34),
LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp(#21),Prefab.cpp(#18) andMcpToolsRender.cpp(#17), while
Scene.cpp(#3),ComponentFieldRegistry.cpp(#5),SceneSerializer.cpp(#7),LuaScriptGlue.cpp(#9) andSaveGameSerializer.cpp(#11) sitoutside it.
LuaScriptGlue.cppwas excluded as "an ordinary small TU" and ranks 9th.What the pool gets right:
McpFieldRegistry.cppis #1 in every cell and theLuaScriptGlue_*parts cluster in the top 15 — #822's split worked. Re-populating it is#1307, which now has two hosts agreeing on the membership.
One correction to the issue's premise, and one to my own first reading
#1305 says the heavy set "is populated by compile time, which is a proxy, not a
measurement". That is no longer accurate —
OloEngine/src/CMakeLists.txtandOloEditor/src/CMakeLists.txtalready carry per-TU peak RSS figures from an #822follow-up.
Those figures are up to 8.7x too high, and were wrong the day they were written — not
decayed. The cause is a recipe bug: the survey ran
cmake --build <dir> --target X -- '<obj>', which passes both the target and the objectto ninja and therefore builds the whole target, then credited the largest of a dozen
concurrent unrelated compiles to whichever TU was named. An isolated re-measurement on
2026-09-08 (per-PID
PeakWorkingSet64, exactly oneclang-classerted) had already caughtit. I first read the gap as drift; it is not, and this census is a third, independent
method that settles it:
Scene.cppComponentRoundTripTest.cppMcpToolsRender.cppPrefab.cppRenderGraphTest.cppDifferent mechanism entirely — OS-sampled peak working set of an isolated compile, versus
clang's own
-fproc-stat-reportduring a 6-wide parallel build — agreeing within1.11–1.23x.
Scene.cppis the control: it is the one row that reproduced exactly underthe buggy recipe, and it lands at the same 1.11x here, so the residual is the parallel-build
environment rather than a systematic error in either method. Use this census for ranking
and the isolated recipe for a single TU's absolute figure; treat the numbers in those
CMakeLists comments as void until re-measured.
What none of this could be established from is the committed numbers themselves — only by
re-running them. That is why the report now carries its own provenance (timestamp, compiler
id/version, build type, generator, PCH, unity, cache, each sanitizer, LTO, both pool depths)
read from
CMakeCache.txt: a figure that does not say how it was produced cannot be checked.Verification
ON/OFFOLO_BUILD_GIT_HASH/_DIRTY/_DESCRIBE/_TIMESTAMPdefines, which moved because I committed between the two configures. The switch's entire effect on the build is the flag itself, so OFF cannot cost anyone anything.LINK_FLAGSline under clang-cl (correct — see finding 4). Link records are asserted on the Linux run via--require-link-records.9 direct_cache_hit,9 local_storage_hit, zero misses.direct_cache_hitalso confirms the flag does not break the depfile handling from #858. Measured withCCACHE_STATSLOGafter a first attempt using before/afterccache -sproved unusable: a sibling worktree shares the sameCCACHE_DIR, so the global counters moved by 2378 calls for a build that ran 28 steps.-fproc-stat-reportis clang-only. Themsvcpreset must still configure cleanly with the option ON, and does: checked against a real Visual Studio 18 2026 tree, which warns, configures at exit 0, and puts the flag in zero.vcxprojfiles.A late catch worth naming, because it shows why the outcome assertion replaced a textual
one: the workflow originally greped
link.txtfor the flag and would have failed the jobon a correct build. Generating a real Unix Makefiles tree showed the generator inlining
the executable's link command into
build.makeinstead — 2flags.makefiles carrying theflag, zero
link.txt, and the flag plainly present on the link line insidebuild.make.--require-link-recordsasserts the measurement instead, which cannot pass while the thingit guards is broken.
Nothing here touches runtime behaviour, so the
{backend} × {path}grid does not apply andMSAA/upscale/resolution/serialization/scripting/physics/assets are all unreached.
Cost note
This PR triggers
build-memory.yml: two serial cold builds (Debug,Debug + ASan),bounded at 180 minutes each, on a box at rho 1.69. That is the only way to verify the Linux
link half and the Makefiles multi-file path, and the trigger is narrow — only the three
files that make up the measurement itself — so it will not fire on unrelated CMake changes.
Follow-ups filed
Nothing from this work is left open.
Acting on the measurement: #1307 and #1314 are fixed here too
Folded in at the maintainer's request rather than deferred.
#1307 —
olo_heavyre-derived, with a stated rule so it can be re-applied instead ofaccumulating: every TU ≥ 1.5 GiB peak RSS. Not a round number — the 17th TU is 1.50 GiB
and the 18th is 1.37, against a tree p95 of 0.85. Added five TUs ≥2 GiB that were outside it
(
Scene.cpp#3,ComponentFieldRegistry.cpp#5,SceneSerializer.cpp#7,LuaScriptGlue.cpp#9,SaveGameSerializer.cpp#11); dropped three below it (Prefab.cpp#18,
LuaScriptGlue_EngineApi.cpp#21,RenderGraphTest.cpp#34). Depth stays 2 — twoconcurrent is 11.94 GiB, and the pooled set totals 587 s so a 2-wide floor is 294 s against a
-j6 ideal of 1206 s, i.e. it cannot become the critical path.
Correction to an earlier claim in this PR: I reported the pool as holding TUs ranked #180
and #281. That was a suffix-matching bug —
endswith("ComponentRoundTripTest.cpp")alsomatches
AbilityComponentRoundTripTest.cpp, which is not in the pool and never was.Re-derived with exact matching the pool held ranks #1–#34: mostly right, missing five heavies
and carrying three light ones. The fix is real but smaller than I first described.
#1313 — the link is bounded on Linux now, and it was not before. The measurement's
headline was that the ceiling is not a compile: one
ld.lldlink peaks at 11.17 GiB(10.03 without sanitizers) against a heaviest compile of 8.09 / 4.65. Three things that
should have bounded it did not —
OLO_LINK_JOBSandolo_heavyare Ninja pools and everyLinux job gets Unix Makefiles, and
LinkSemaphore.cmakeshelled out topwsh, which thebox does not have (confirmed in the runner's own log, not inferred). So
make -j2was freeto run that link beside a compile: 19.26 GiB with the heaviest, past the 14 GiB unit cap and
at the 19 GiB slice cap.
scripts/link-semaphore.pyis the POSIX half of that throttle — N permits viaflock, wherethe kernel releases the lock when the holder dies, so a killed linker cannot leak a permit
(the Windows half needs N named mutexes to get the same property). It fails open throughout.
It also fixes a knob that did nothing:
OLO_LINK_SEMAPHORE_SLOTSis a cache variable butboth wrappers read it from the environment, and nothing put it there — so the documented
value only changed a status message while the built-in default of 2 was the real setting on
both platforms. It now travels via
cmake -E env.Split DWARF, measured rather than assumed. #1313 recorded "confirm a sanitizer stack
still symbolises" as an unverified risk. It is verified now, with a control on each variable
(llvm-symbolizer, clang 23.1.0, cross-compiled to x86_64-linux):
-gsplit-dwarfalone,.dwopresent-ffile-prefix-map=/oloaloneIt is the combination that breaks, and this repo is in it — the
/olomap exists so the tworunner slots can share a ccache, and split DWARF resolves its side-car through
DW_AT_comp_dir. Function names and file:line survive in every arm, and the sanitizer jobsare Debug builds with little inlining to lose.
OLO_SPLIT_DWARFtherefore ships defaultOFF, and
--gdb-indexis deliberately not paired with it: lld builds that index byreading the debug info the flag exists to skip, so it works against the memory goal.
#1306 — the instrumentation API can build on Windows again. It could not, at all: the
API executes every custom command instead of shelling out, and vendored glad's generator
rule needed a shell for both
echoand>, so the build died atglad-generatewithBatch file failed at line 3 with errorcode 1and no diagnostic. glad is a FetchContentdownload, so the fix is a patch on top of the pin using the mechanism this repo already has
for FSR2 — now shared (
cmake/apply-vendor-patches.cmake) rather than duplicated.Verified in three steps that isolate each claim: the exact batch file that failed exits 0
and writes all four outputs; deleting
glad-buildand rebuilding through ninja regeneratesit with the wrapper in place; and the API actually emits a trace on Windows now — 20
events, roles
{custom: 15, compile: 2, link: 2, cmakeBuild: 1}, where those 15 customcommands are the ones that used to kill the build.
REPRODUCIBLE(#824) still holds.OLO_PROC_STAT_REPORTstays, but for a better reason than before: it is the narrowerswitch. A compiler flag costs nothing per build step; the API spends a process on every
compile, link and custom command.
#1314 — the two measured levers.
PCH was disabled on clang for an MSVC reason.
CompilerCache.cmakeforce-disabled itunconditionally while its own reason string said "MSVC PCH (/Fp) is non-cacheable" — yet
compiler-cache-uncacheable-compiles.mdalready records that clang PCH compiles cache finewith the right sloppiness, and
setup-linux-buildalready exports exactly that sloppiness.The CI action was configured for a PCH the CMake turned off, so ~1800 Linux TUs re-parsed the
header closure every cold build. The guard now tracks its reason, and checks the sloppiness
rather than assuming it. Honest caveat: the payoff is a prediction, not a result — the
"PCH and cache optimise opposite cases" argument is general, and this is one conditional to
flip back if a warm-cache regression appears.
41 editor sources compiled twice.
OloEngine-Testscannot link an executable, so itrecompiled them — 231 s, 3.8% of compile time, and it paid for the tree's #1 memory TU twice.
OloEditorCoreis a static library holding exactly the shared set (Automation/ 18, MCP/ 21,2 ContentBrowser helpers); the editor keeps its 34 ImGui panels. The seam is the one the tests
already drew, so it is discovered rather than invented, and nothing there self-registers —
every command goes through an explicit
Register*Commands(), so the static-librarysymbol-dropping trap does not apply. Checked before moving anything.
Verified:
McpFieldRegistry.cppwent from 3 on-disk objects to one live build edge, totalobjects 1849 → 1809, and 1118 Automation/MCP/ContentBrowser tests: 1116 passed, 0 failed,
2 skipped for environment.
A note on this workflow's cost, for whoever merges
GitHub evaluates a
pull_requestpathsfilter against the whole PR diff, not the lastpush — so because this PR touches the three measurement files, every push to it re-runs
both cold builds. That is correct behaviour for a PR that changes the measurement, but it
means the trigger is more expensive than it looks while such a PR is in flight. If that
proves annoying in practice, the cheap fix is to run only the
debug-asancell onpull_requestand keep both on the weekly schedule. I have deliberately stopped pushing tothis branch for that reason.
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