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hyperhive/nix/agent-modules/memory-cap.nix
atlas eaca3c4eb3 agents: always write the memory cap, infinity for none
The cap file was removed for a cap of `infinity` or a RAM percentage,
so the boot check warned on every start of such an agent, for a
legitimate config. The file is now written on every start:

- a size: its byte count, as before;
- `infinity`: the literal `infinity`. The generators set no JSC heap
  ceiling and no subagent MemoryHigh=, and the boot check is quiet;
- a percentage: resolved on the host the way systemd resolves
  MemoryMax=N% for the container@ unit. That is permyriad (at most two
  decimals, at most 100%) of sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES) *
  sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE), rounded down to a page;
- a value systemd ignores (zero, over 100%, more than two decimals,
  unparseable) leaves the unit uncapped, so it is `infinity`.

The file is missing only when hive-c0re can't tell the cap: the
limits file and the kept drop-in are both unreadable, or a percentage
meets an unknown host memory size. The boot check now warns only for
a missing file or a first line that is neither a byte count nor
`infinity`.

Part of #5081 (slice S0-2).
2026-10-12 10:59:12 +02:00

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# The container's memory cap, read at boot rather than built in, so a changed
# cap needs no rebuild.
#
# The cap is `MemoryMax=` on the host's `container@` unit, which nothing in
# here can read: `/sys/fs/cgroup/memory.max` reads `max` at every level from
# inside. Before every start hive-c0re (`lifecycle::host_config`) writes it to
# `/run/hive/memory-max-bytes` as a byte count, a percentage resolved against
# the host's RAM as systemd resolves it, or `infinity` for no cap. Two values
# are derived from a byte count, and neither is set for `infinity`. A missing
# or malformed file sets neither too, and `hyperhive-memory-cap-check` logs a
# warning at boot:
#
# - `BUN_JSC_forceRAMSize`, 75% of the cap. Bun/JavaScriptCore, the runtime
# under claude-code, sizes its heap ceiling off `/proc/meminfo`, which under
# nspawn is the host's RAM, so without it the heap grows well past the real
# wall before GC kicks in hard and choom sessions hang. An environment
# generator hands it to every unit of the container's systemd, `machinectl
# shell` sessions (`hivectl choom`) included; `/etc/set-environment` exports
# it in login shells that no unit starts (`nixos-container root-login`).
# `hive-agent` and `hive-subagent-daemon` spawn `claude` as a plain child,
# which inherits it, so neither unit may set or unset it.
# - `MemoryHigh=` on `hive-subagent-daemon`, two thirds of the cap, as a
# generator drop-in. The daemon spawns nested `claude` sessions as plain
# children, so its cgroup already is the "all subagents" cgroup. `High`, not
# `Max`: past it the kernel reclaims hard and the subagents slow down, so the
# last third stays free for the agent's own turn, but a subagent that needs
# more still gets it when the container has memory to spare.
#
# Tested by `checks.script-test-agent-memory-cap` and
# `checks.module-eval-agent-memory`.
{ pkgs, ... }:
let
# Sets `bytes`. Exits for `infinity`, and runs `noCap` when there is no file
# or its first line is neither `infinity` nor a plain byte count. A leading
# zero would read as octal, and 16 digits or more could overflow
# `bytes * 75`. Shell builtins only.
readCap = noCap: ''
bytes=
[ -r /run/hive/memory-max-bytes ] && read -r bytes < /run/hive/memory-max-bytes
case "$bytes" in
infinity) exit 0 ;;
"" | 0* | *[!0-9]* | ????????????????*) ${noCap} ;;
esac
'';
envGenerator = pkgs.writeShellScript "hyperhive-memory-cap-env" ''
${readCap "exit 0"}
printf 'BUN_JSC_forceRAMSize=%s\n' "$((bytes * 75 / 100))"
'';
# `$1` is the generator's normal-priority output dir. A drop-in there merges
# with the unit's own file in /etc.
unitGenerator = pkgs.writeShellScript "hyperhive-memory-cap" ''
${readCap "exit 0"}
dir="$1/hive-subagent-daemon.service.d"
${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/mkdir -p "$dir"
printf '[Service]\nMemoryHigh=%s\n' "$((bytes * 2 / 3))" > "$dir/50-memory-high.conf"
'';
# The generators run before the container's journal starts and an nspawn
# container has no /dev/kmsg, so the boot warning for a missing or malformed
# cap file comes from a unit. `<4>` is the journal's warning priority.
check = pkgs.writeShellScript "hyperhive-memory-cap-check" ''
${readCap ''
if [ -e /run/hive/memory-max-bytes ]; then
why="holds neither a byte count nor infinity"
else
why="is missing"
fi
echo "<4>/run/hive/memory-max-bytes $why: no BUN_JSC_forceRAMSize heap ceiling and no MemoryHigh= on hive-subagent-daemon; the host's MemoryMax= on the container still applies." >&2
exit 0
''}
'';
# Sourced by every shell's `/etc/set-environment`, so POSIX sh only.
profile = pkgs.writeText "hyperhive-memory-cap.sh" ''
__hyperhive_cap=$(${envGenerator})
case "$__hyperhive_cap" in
BUN_JSC_forceRAMSize=?*) export "$__hyperhive_cap" ;;
esac
unset __hyperhive_cap
'';
in
{
environment.etc."systemd/system-environment-generators/50-hyperhive-memory-cap".source =
envGenerator;
systemd.generators.hyperhive-memory-cap = unitGenerator;
systemd.services.hyperhive-memory-cap-check = {
description = "Warn when the container's memory cap is unusable";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
ExecStart = check;
};
};
environment.etc."hyperhive/memory-cap.sh".source = profile;
environment.extraInit = ". /etc/hyperhive/memory-cap.sh";
}