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sys: use host page size for darwin memory stats - #404
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Problem: On macOS, readMemHost() multiplied Mach page counts by a hardcoded 4KiB page size, but Apple Silicon uses 16KiB pages. Free memory was undercounted 4x, so playground nodes raised OOM alerts and GetBatch returned 429s.
Fix: Get the page size from host_page_size(). Acquire the host port once per sample and release it with mach_port_deallocate(), fixing a send-right leak.
Testing:go test ./sys: the extended TestMemoryStats cross-checks ActualFree against vm_stat, and fails with a 4KiB page size. On a local playground, MEM AVAIL went from 1.52GiB to 5.59GiB, matching vm_stat. A low-memory alert remains because darwin doesn't set BuffCache (separate PR).
AI assistance: Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) helped find the bug, write the fix and test, and draft this description. I reviewed and tested the changes.
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Darwin memory statistics now use the host-reported page size for memory calculations. The Darwin memory statistics test compares ActualFree with a value calculated from vm_stat output.
Changes: Darwin memory statistics
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Read and use the host page size sys/mem_darwin.go
readMemHost acquires a host send right and passes it to readVMStat and readPageSize. The reader uses the host-reported page size to calculate free and inactive memory.
Cross-check Darwin free memory sys/sys_test.go
The Darwin test runs vm_stat and compares ActualFree with the calculated value. It logs and returns if vm_stat cannot run. It fails if required values cannot be parsed or the comparison is outside the specified range.
The Darwin free-memory cross-check now accounts for speculative pages. No outstanding issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 52ee4
The change corrects memory accounting while preserving existing pressure and admission policies. No introduced security defect was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns downstream behavior across memory-pressure transitions, which the new test does not directly exercise.
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No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The effective reach is host-level memory accounting and dependent node resource controls on Darwin. Workloads can affect memory pressure, but the corrected page-size input comes from the local host rather than request data. The inspected change does not add tenant-specific authority or expand the admission interface.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Native host acquisition remains private to sys, while pressure grading and request enforcement retain their existing owners. A failed page-size lookup returns an error and a zero-valued sample; the inspected Pressure path that obtains a fresh sample maps that failure to extreme pressure rather than treating it as available memory.
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- Line 109: Update the vm_stat comparison that computes expected from free and
inactive pages to also parse and add Pages speculative before applying the
existing tolerance. Preserve the current page-size conversion and comparison
behavior.
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Thanks for tracking this down. A separate PR for "BuffCache" makes sense.
Do you have any plans for the other Darwin paths - e.g., "fs/*_darwin.go" and disk discovery and stats in the ios pkg?
Today we keep AIStore buildable on macOS for development, with stubs. So I’m just curious what you’re using the macOS playground for and whether you want to consider all those other stubs..
Hey @alex-aizman I do not have a production use case. I'm new to the project and found it very interesting. I took #403 as a starter contribution and came across this issue along the way. Beyond that, I would be happy to continue exploring other Darwin paths as future contributions but may also look elsewhere for interesting work. Thanks for review!
* readMemHost() multiplied host_statistics(HOST_VM_INFO) page counts by a
hardcoded 4KiB page size; Apple Silicon uses 16KiB pages, so Free,
ActualFree, Used, and ActualUsed undercounted free memory 4x (spurious
OOM alerts and 429 throttling on macOS playground clusters)
* query the page size via host_page_size(), matching the host the counts
come from
* acquire the host port once per sample, pass it to both queries, and
release it with mach_port_deallocate (previously leaked a send-right
reference on every sample)
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* TestMemoryStats: on darwin, cross-check ActualFree against `vm_stat`
(free + speculative + inactive) * page size
Signed-off-by: Isiah Preston Williams <prestonwilliams987@gmail.com>
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A separate PR for BuffCache makes sense.
Maybe start with the file-backed page count from HOST_VM_INFO64 and look at ActualFree at the same time.
Notice the semantics:
Free: pages that are entirely unused and idle
BuffCache: used by the kernel for file system buffers and disk caching. Because the OS can instantly reclaim these pages they are counted as available memory
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Problem: On macOS,
readMemHost()multiplied Mach page counts by a hardcoded 4KiB page size, but Apple Silicon uses 16KiB pages. Free memory was undercounted 4x, so playground nodes raisedOOMalerts and GetBatch returned 429s.Fix: Get the page size from
host_page_size(). Acquire the host port once per sample and release it withmach_port_deallocate(), fixing a send-right leak.Testing:
go test ./sys: the extendedTestMemoryStatscross-checksActualFreeagainstvm_stat, and fails with a 4KiB page size. On a local playground, MEM AVAIL went from 1.52GiB to 5.59GiB, matchingvm_stat. Alow-memoryalert remains because darwin doesn't setBuffCache(separate PR).AI assistance: Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5) helped find the bug, write the fix and test, and draft this description. I reviewed and tested the changes.