infra/scripts/t3-serve@.service
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devvm containment: drop the MemoryHigh throttle band, straight to MemoryMax OOM
t3.viktorbarzin.me went down 2026-07-02 15:42-16:35 UTC: an agent-spawned
12.3G ugrep plateaued inside t3-serve@wizard's MemoryHigh(12G)..MemoryMax(16G)
band. With MemorySwapMax=0 its anon pages were unreclaimable, so the kernel
throttled every task in the cgroup indefinitely (memory.pressure full ~80%,
oom_kill never fired) - the t3 event loop starved, the accept queue rotted,
and the terminal was dead until the hog was SIGKILLed by hand.

The 2026-06-22 design assumed 'throttle to a crawl, then OOM locally'; a hog
that stabilises between high and max never OOMs, so the throttle band is a
livelock zone, not a safety layer. Viktor asked to close that gap: MemoryHigh
is now explicitly infinity on all three work cgroup definitions (t3-serve@
unit, user-<uid>.slice drop-in, docker.slice) so a runaway is cgroup-OOM-
killed at MemoryMax immediately - OOMPolicy=continue already keeps the t3
server alive when a child dies. MemoryMax/MemorySwapMax=0/earlyoom unchanged.
Applied live to the devvm the same day (daemon-reload + runtime set-property
on running cgroups, no session restarts). Post-mortem addendum + runbook
updated in the same commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-02 16:59:38 +00:00

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[Unit]
Description=T3 Code server for %i (t3 serve, per-user)
Documentation=https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=%i
Group=%i
Environment=HOME=/home/%i
Environment=PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/%i/.local/bin
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
EnvironmentFile=/etc/t3-serve/%i.env
# Optional per-user long-lived CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN, materialized by
# claude-auth-sync from the user's own Vault path. Non-rotating, so t3's
# concurrent agent sessions can't race on OAuth refresh-token rotation and wipe
# the shared ~/.claude/.credentials.json. Leading '-' = optional (absent for
# users on the normal per-user Enterprise-SSO credential flow).
EnvironmentFile=-/home/%i/.config/claude-auth-sync/claude-oauth.env
WorkingDirectory=/home/%i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/t3 serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port ${T3_PORT} --base-dir /home/%i/.t3
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
# Memory containment (2026-06-10, amended 2026-07-02): agent children live in
# this cgroup; a runaway agent (10.8G anon on a 23G host) swap-thrashed the
# whole devvm — every >20s stall fires the t3 client watchdog (visible
# "disconnects") — then global-OOMed. Cap the cgroup so a runaway OOMs early
# and locally, and forbid swap so stalls can't smear into minutes-long freezes.
# MemoryHigh is DELIBERATELY infinity — do not add a soft band below MemoryMax:
# with swap=0 a hog that plateaus between high and max is unreclaimable but
# never OOMs, and the kernel's high-throttle stalls EVERY task in the cgroup
# (the t3 event loop included) indefinitely. A 12.3G agent ugrep livelocked
# this unit for ~50min on 2026-07-02 exactly this way. Straight-to-OOM at
# MemoryMax is the containment; OOMPolicy=continue below keeps the server up.
# See docs/post-mortems/2026-06-22-devvm-mem-io-overload-containment.md addendum.
MemoryHigh=infinity
MemoryMax=16G
MemorySwapMax=0
# Default OOMPolicy=stop kills the WHOLE unit (8.5min outage 2026-06-10
# 19:56) when ANY child is OOM-killed; continue = runaway dies, server stays.
OOMPolicy=continue
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target