The stale-readback bug fixed in f5917a0 was a class, not an instance. Two more:
- ram_optimizer's residency report cached for 15s and was never invalidated when
anything warmed a file, so warming a model and then looking at residency showed
the state from before the warm. warm_file_to_ram now invalidates it.
- _PID_KIND_CACHE was keyed on pid alone and never expired. Linux recycles PIDs, so
a stale entry could attribute a new process's VRAM to Ollama or ComfyUI -- inside
the very snapshot the yield barrier trusts to decide whether VRAM was released.
Now keyed by (pid, process start time) and bounded.
Unmanaged VRAM. Investigating a persistence-mode warning turned up a third GPU
consumer this service does not model: stt_relay.py, holding 842 MB for nearly three
days. It was bucketed as "system" alongside gnome-shell's 3.9 MB. That conflation
matters, because ComfyUI's memory can be reclaimed and a third party's cannot, and
the reclaim path assumed ComfyUI was always to blame for missing headroom.
Processes are now bucketed ollama | comfy | desktop | unmanaged. The breakdown
reports desktop_gb and unmanaged_gb separately and names the unmanaged processes;
when a reclaim-and-retry still fails, the error identifies them rather than
implying ComfyUI was at fault; and the dashboard shows the unreclaimable total, so
headroom the arbitrator can never give back is visible rather than inferred.
Checked and deliberately not changed: persistence mode reads Disabled, but
nvidia-persistenced is active and two clients hold the GPU open continuously, so
the driver never unloads. The nvidia-smi warning is legacy noise here and is not a
source of the profile drift.
Tests: 169 (was 164). The new ones cover the bucketing, and one existing test used
Xorg as its "unknown process" fixture -- correct before a display server had its own
bucket, wrong after.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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