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docs: document memory tuning (thread stacks + c_allocator)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## resource usage
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| memory | ~1.8 GiB steady state (1486 subscribers) |
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| CPU | ~1.5 cores peak |
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| limits | 8 GiB memory, 250m CPU request |
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| PVC | 20 GiB (events + RocksDB collection index) |
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| postgres | ~131 MiB |
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## memory tuning
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two changes brought steady-state memory from ~6.6 GiB down to ~2.9 GiB at 2,738 connected hosts:
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**thread stack sizes.** zig's default thread stack is 16 MB. with ~2,750 subscriber threads that maps 44 GB of virtual memory. most threads just read websockets and decode CBOR — 2 MB is generous. all `Thread.spawn` calls now pass `.{ .stack_size = 2 * 1024 * 1024 }`. the constant is defined in `main.zig` as `default_stack_size` for the threads spawned there; other modules use the literal directly.
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**c_allocator instead of GeneralPurposeAllocator.** GPA is a debug allocator — it tracks per-allocation metadata and never returns freed small allocations to the OS. since zlay links glibc (`build.zig:42`), `std.heap.c_allocator` gives us glibc malloc with per-thread arenas, madvise-based page return, and production-grade fragmentation mitigation.
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## resource usage
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| memory | ~2.9 GiB steady state (~2,750 hosts) |
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| limits | 8 GiB memory, 250m CPU request |
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| PVC | 20 GiB (events + RocksDB collection index) |
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| postgres | ~238 MiB |
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