Both patches came out of this work and both are removed at the maintainer's
request. The finding was real - ssh2's WASM heap costs +14.0 MiB RSS on require,
and @grpc/grpc-js another 14.6 MiB across 61 files, neither of which a
socket-based Docker install ever uses - but patching a dependency means every
future dockerode or docker-modem bump fails until someone regenerates the patch,
and that recurring cost is not worth roughly 25 MiB.
The finding stays on record in SERVER-MEMORY.md because the fix belongs upstream:
both packages require a module at file scope while using it in exactly one
already-guarded branch, so a PR to each would fix it for every consumer with no
patch to maintain here.
The two remaining patches, @types/node-unifi and trpc-to-openapi, predate this
work and are untouched. allowUnusedPatches was already set on dev and is left
alone. Lockfile regenerated: patchedDependencies now lists only those two.
Also sharpens the Cache Components entry. The SqliteError was simply an unmigrated
build database, which is fixable - but feeding the build a database would be the
wrong fix, because serverSetting is per-installation data on the user's volume and
a shell prerendered against the build machine's database would bake one install's
settings into every other install's first paint. The error was Next.js correctly
reporting a request-time read sitting in the shell path.
This branch has repeatedly named a 16.10 MiB subtree of 460 files, reached by every API
route, as the one remaining server-side lever with real headroom, attributing it to the tRPC
router importing every integration eagerly. Both halves are wrong.
The integration creator was already fully lazy: every kind in creator.ts is
`() => import(...)`, so no integration class loads until one is constructed. The earlier
barrel diet had done this properly - the claim was never checked against the code.
The subtree was an artefact of route preloading, measured before preloadEntriesOnStart:
false shipped, when Next loaded all 74 routes' module graphs at startup. Re-measured on the
current build, boot is 706 files and 10.56 MiB:
3.73 MiB 28 files .next/server/chunks (the app's own boot graph)
2.16 MiB 14 files better-sqlite3 (2.1 MiB of it the native binary)
1.75 MiB 359 files next/dist
1.58 MiB 25 files next/dist/compiled
0.45 MiB 77 files mysql2 <- known, structurally blocked
0.07 MiB 13 files pg <- same
There is no single large server lever left. What remains is diffuse: a full multi-tab session
loads 15.44 MiB of app chunks across 241 files, and both the ~41 MiB of retained source and
the ~38 MiB of compiler zones scale with that. Reducing it means shipping less application
JavaScript per route, which is a broad refactor with no single target.
PHASE2-FINDINGS.md had grown past 1,200 lines mixing server memory, client rendering,
methodology and a long list of rejected experiments, which made it unusable as a
reference. Split under docs/perf/:
README.md headline results and the change-by-change ratio table
SERVER-MEMORY.md what the container's RAM is made of, layer by layer
CLIENT-PERFORMANCE.md dashboard cost in Chrome: DOM, fibers, images, paint
REJECTED.md ideas implemented, measured and abandoned, with numbers
METHODOLOGY.md the tools, and the measurement traps that gave wrong answers
PHASE2-FINDINGS.md is now an index so existing links keep working.
METHODOLOGY.md is the part worth keeping: every wrong number in this investigation came
from an instrument rather than the application, and each trap is written down - snapshots
cannot explain peaks, V8 truncates snapshot strings to ~1 KiB, snapshot objects are not
live handles, measuring without a forced GC measures V8's growth, taking a CDP snapshot
added 134 MiB to the process being measured, per-component React attribution silently
returns nothing on a production build, a fixed port can measure a leftover container, and
a server-side change that moves a client-side metric means the workload changed.
Thomas Camlong