[Improve] Reduce chat memory retained during long sessions · Pull Request #1466 · Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code

ghost · 2026-08-31T18:57:39Z

Opened on behalf of @taltas. Follow up by mentioning @roomote, in the web UI, or in Discord.

What changed

Intern repeated strings in completed chat messages and task history. Bound each cache to 10,000 entries and 2,000,000 retained characters with FIFO eviction.
Skip partial messages and stale updates. Reuse unchanged flat messages across state pushes; messages with newly deserialized object or array fields still take the normal interning path.
Clear the message cache when the active task changes or is cleared, including when JSON serialization omits an undefined task ID. Rebuild the history cache when history is replaced.
Preserve task identity on stale pushes and on pushes without messages.
Keep cache writes outside React state updaters. Preserve chat and row instances across task changes and message completion.
Add focused coverage for cache routing, lifecycle, sequence boundaries, message-mirror synchronization, eviction limits, and row-instance preservation.

Why

State broadcasts repeatedly deserialize message and history strings. Sharing equal strings reduces retained allocations within a transcript and across successive snapshots. The cache limits bound its own retention; clearing a cache does not guarantee that other UI references release the same messages.

Heap measurements

Measured in real VS Code 1.100.0 under Xvfb using CDP forced GC on the Zoo Code webview renderer. Each workload loads a deterministic saved transcript of 602 UI messages, including 300 command/output pairs with 16.4–16.9 KiB outputs, then switches to a small task. A full-state refresh after hydration exercises sharing across broadcasts.

Three fresh measurement sessions per workload and variant produced 12 successful samples. The extension host, dependencies and styles are held constant; both webview builds use production minification without source maps. External downloads are blocked during the workload, and seed tasks use a local mock model.

Median loaded renderer heap:

Workload	Base	Candidate	Reduction
32 distinct outputs repeated across 300 commands	41.42 MiB	31.75 MiB	9.67 MiB (23%)
300 unique outputs	41.58 MiB	36.63 MiB	4.95 MiB (12%)

Base webview modules: 97228c7ca9b032e5fe466e57e24fe72fbf405192. Candidate: b9a6ba03cb93c0f92f06cfb00c82ae7d488db7cb.

These replace the earlier standalone synthetic 8.6 MiB estimate. The new measurements exercise the real extension/webview path with generated saved-task data; they are not an organic user session and do not measure CPU overhead, image-rich messages, continuously streamed execution, extension-host heap, or process RSS.

Task-switch finding

All six candidate post-switch snapshots contain zero old output strings in the StringCache maps. Old output strings remain reachable elsewhere in both base and candidate. An inspected strong retaining path runs through React props and onJumpToPreviousCheckpoint callback closure contexts into an old message array.

Cache cleanup is confirmed, but complete task-memory release is not. Investigating that existing callback retention remains a follow-up; these snapshots do not establish indefinite growth. Chat behavior and appearance are unchanged, and no forced remounts are introduced.

Validation and artifacts

Four focused webview suites: 104 tests pass; webview type checking and ESLint pass without increased suppressions.
Heap benchmark: 12 successful samples and 36 snapshots. One setup attempt using an earlier readiness check was excluded and successfully rerun.
Benchmark package type checking and ESLint pass.
The opt-in benchmark harness and results report are currently uncommitted local changes. They live under apps/vscode-e2e/src/heap/; raw snapshots, measurements and retaining-path evidence are gitignored under apps/vscode-e2e/heap-results/.

github-actions · 2026-08-31T18:57:53Z

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❌ Patch coverage is 96.51163% with 3 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
webview-ui/src/context/ExtensionStateContext.tsx	95.91%	1 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
webview-ui/src/utils/stringCache.ts	97.29%	0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

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…y-optimization-0lkgswz0njjgl # Conflicts: # webview-ui/src/__tests__/App.spec.tsx # webview-ui/src/context/ExtensionStateContext.tsx # webview-ui/src/context/__tests__/ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx

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Review comments at @webview-ui/src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatView.spec.tsx:
- Line 740: In the test around `mockPostMessage`, replace the second
state-message push with an awaited `dispatchExtensionMessage` call carrying the
completed message as a `messageUpdated` event; retain the existing row-text and
instance assertions.

Review comments at
@webview-ui/src/context/__tests__/ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx:
- Around line 166-190: Update TestComponent to expose clineMessages from
useExtensionState, then assert the rendered message contents after the relevant
task-switch, message-update, no-message, and stale-sequence dispatches. Keep the
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Review comments at @webview-ui/src/context/ExtensionStateContext.tsx:
- Around line 193-195: Update mergeExtensionState and currentTaskIdRef handling
so no-message state pushes also apply changes to currentTaskId; when the task ID
changes, invalidate the message cache and synchronize the ref so ChatView
receives the new task identity.

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   ✓   2 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code dark theme (12.0s)
   ✓   1 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/Announcement.links.visual.tsx:4:1 › announcement links open exactly once through the extension host (15.8s)
   ✓   3 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code light theme (6.2s)
   ✓   4 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code high-contrast theme (6.4s)
   ✓   5 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code high-contrast-light theme (6.2s)
   ✓   6 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/IgnoredDisabledToolsNotice.visual.tsx:6:2 › renders the ignored disabled-tools warning in the VS Code dark theme (10.5s)
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   ✓   8 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/IgnoredDisabledToolsNotice.visual.tsx:6:2 › renders the ignored disabled-tools warning in the VS Code high-contrast theme (6.3s)
   ✓   9 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/IgnoredDisabledToolsNotice.visual.tsx:6:2 › renders the ignored disabled-tools warning in the VS Code high-contrast-light theme (6.3s)
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 Running 78 tests using 2 workers
   ✓   2 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code dark theme (12.0s)
   ✓   1 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/Announcement.links.visual.tsx:4:1 › announcement links open exactly once through the extension host (15.8s)
   ✓   3 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code light theme (6.2s)
   ✓   4 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code high-contrast theme (6.4s)
   ✓   5 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/ChatTextArea.visual.tsx:7:2 › renders the production chat composer in the VS Code high-contrast-light theme (6.2s)
   ✓   6 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/IgnoredDisabledToolsNotice.visual.tsx:6:2 › renders the ignored disabled-tools warning in the VS Code dark theme (10.5s)
   ✓   7 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/IgnoredDisabledToolsNotice.visual.tsx:6:2 › renders the ignored disabled-tools warning in the VS Code light theme (8.3s)
   ✓   8 [chromium] › src/components/chat/__tests__/IgnoredDisabledToolsNotice.visual.tsx:6:2 › renders the ignored disabled-tools warning in the VS Code high-contrast theme (6.3s)
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