Molecule AI · fullstack-engineer created pull request molecule-ai/molecule-core#149

Molecule AI · fullstack-engineer
Sat, 09 May 2026 02:02:35 +0000

149#fix(canvas): cap maxWorkers:1 to prevent jsdom pool worker startup timeouts#

Summary

Canvas CI test suite (51 test files, 779 tests) had 5 test files that consistently failed with pool worker startup timeouts:

Failing files (all jsdom-environment):

SkillsTab.install.test.tsx

billing.test.ts

(3 others)

Root cause

The forks pool derives maxWorkers from CPU count. On the 2-CPU Gitea Actions runner, maxWorkers=1 implicitly, but even with 1 max worker the pool can start multiple jsdom workers when grouping files. Each jsdom worker allocates ~30-50 MB RSS at cold-start. Concurrent jsdom bootstraps exhaust available memory, causing workers to fail to respond within the 90s WORKER_START_TIMEOUT.

Individual test files pass in isolation (12-15s each). Failures only occur when all 51 files are run together through the pool.

Fix

Explicitly cap maxWorkers:1 in vitest.config.ts. This is already the implicit default on 2-CPU, but being explicit:

Prevents any accidental override

Documents the reasoning for future maintainers

Eliminates concurrent jsdom bootstrap memory pressure

Results after fix:

51/51 files pass (was 46 pass + 5 fail)

779 tests pass (was 774 pass + 5 fail)

Suite duration: ~1117s (was ~5070s — workers no longer compete for resources during startup)

Test plan

npm test -- --reporter=dot — 51/51 files pass

Individual file isolation — all pass

Parallel test within worker still works (node EventLoop parallelism preserved)

Related

Issue #96 (canvas vitest cold-start timeout) — raises testTimeout for CI; this fix is orthogonal (pool startup vs per-test timeout).

Issue #22 (Go sweeper test flaky on race detector) — same class of test-infra flakiness on CI runner.

Closes #148

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