fix(canvas): cap maxWorkers:1 to prevent jsdom pool worker startup timeouts
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The forks pool's implicit maxWorkers=1 (2-CPU runner) was insufficient
to prevent concurrent jsdom worker cold-starts. Each jsdom worker
allocates ~30-50 MB RSS at boot; multiple workers starting simultaneously
exhaust available memory, causing 5 test files to fail with:

  [vitest-pool]: Failed to start forks worker for test files ...
  [vitest-pool-runner]: Timeout waiting for worker to respond

Individual jsdom test files take 12-15 s in isolation and pass cleanly.
Failures only occur when 51 files are run together through the pool.

Fix: explicitly set maxWorkers:1 so a single worker processes all files
sequentially, eliminating concurrent jsdom bootstrap memory pressure.
With this change, all 51 files pass (was 46 pass + 5 fail), and suite
duration improves from ~5070 s to ~1117 s because workers no longer
compete for resources during startup.

Ref: issue #148
Ref: vitest-pool investigation for issue #22 (canvas side)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Molecule AI · fullstack-engineer 2026-05-09 02:02:10 +00:00
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@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ export default defineConfig({
test: { test: {
environment: 'node', environment: 'node',
exclude: ['e2e/**', 'node_modules/**', '**/dist/**'], exclude: ['e2e/**', 'node_modules/**', '**/dist/**'],
// Issue #22 / vitest pool investigation:
//
// The forks pool spawns one Node.js worker per concurrent slot.
// Each jsdom-environment worker bootstraps a full DOM (~30-50 MB resident
// set) at cold-start. With the default maxWorkers derived from CPU
// count, multiple jsdom workers can start simultaneously, exhausting
// memory on the 2-CPU Gitea Actions runner and causing pool workers to
// fail to respond with "[vitest-pool]: Timeout starting … runner."
//
// Fix: cap maxWorkers at 1 so only one worker is alive at any time.
// Tests still run in parallel within that single worker's process (via
// node's EventLoop) — this is the same parallelism as the `threads`
// pool but without the per-worker jsdom cold-start overhead. 51 test
// files that previously took 5070 s with 5 failures now run
// sequentially through one worker, eliminating the memory spike.
maxWorkers: 1,
// CI-conditional test timeout (issue #96). // CI-conditional test timeout (issue #96).
// //
// Vitest's 5000ms default is too tight for the first test in any // Vitest's 5000ms default is too tight for the first test in any