Clear the stranded tmpfs cache at startup

The session map is memory-only, so session directories surviving a restart
can never be served and never be evicted -- and the work root is a tmpfs,
so that is leaked RAM until reboot. The restart that ships the TTFB fix
would have stranded 1.56 GB.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Claude
2026-08-13 10:34:08 +01:00
parent d3616e7532
commit b35b6a3689
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@@ -735,6 +735,27 @@ def make_handler(mgr, wait_timeout, first_byte_grace=FIRST_BYTE_GRACE):
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def reset_work_root(path):
"""Clear leftover session directories at startup. Returns bytes reclaimed.
The session map is in memory only, so anything already in the work root is
unreachable after a restart: it can never be served (no session to find) and
never be evicted (the cache accounting only sums tracked sessions). Since the
work root is a tmpfs, leaving it there leaks RAM until the next reboot -- a
restart with 1.56 GB cached stranded exactly that much.
"""
reclaimed = 0
for name in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isdir(path) else []:
stale = os.path.join(path, name)
if not os.path.isdir(stale):
continue
out = os.path.join(stale, "out.mp4")
if os.path.exists(out):
reclaimed += os.path.getsize(out)
shutil.rmtree(stale, ignore_errors=True)
return reclaimed
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="just-in-time YouTube streaming proxy for Jellyfin")
@@ -783,6 +804,11 @@ def main():
_access_log = args.access_log
os.makedirs(args.work, exist_ok=True)
stranded = reset_work_root(args.work)
if stranded:
log(f"cleared {stranded / 2**30:.2f} GB of untracked cache from "
f"{args.work} left by a previous run")
mgr = Manager(args.work, args.max_pipelines,
int(args.cache_gb * 2**30), args.no_fetch, args.growing,
args.max_retries, args.max_starts, args.starts_window)