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feat(engine): the largest project follows the computer's memory (#1615) - #1639
Fixes#1615. A project file was limited to 512 MiB whatever the computer, for opening and, since #1364, for saving.
A project of many layers loaded whole couldn't be saved.
A project v0.5.0 saved past the limit couldn't be opened again (the report: 659 MiB).
The limit now follows the computer's memory, as the other memory limits do since #1372 (#1291 step 2).
project::max_bytes() replaces the fixed MAX_BYTES:
On the desktop it's as much as a quarter of the memory holds open, at 5 bytes for each byte of project, between 512 MiB and 4 GiB.
512 MiB stays the limit in the web app, in a 32-bit build (an open project takes 2 to 5 times its file in address space), and wherever the memory isn't known.
It uses the same formula as rustgis_data::memory::scaled, the one the other limits use, worked out in u64, since scaled counts in usize.
Memory
Largest project
10 GB or less, the web app, a 32-bit build
512 MiB
16 GB
about 800 MiB
32 GB
about 1.6 GiB
64 GB
about 3.2 GiB
80 GB or more
4 GiB
Why 5 bytes for each byte, measured by opening projects of GeoJSON layers in the command line:
polygons of 40 vertices and 8 attributes: about 2. A 337 MiB project took 731 MiB, and 576 MiB more than an empty app to open and draw. A 674 MiB one, about the size in the report, saved and opened again with this branch at a peak of 1.41 GiB.
points with 12 short text attributes: about 4.4 (101 MiB took 449 MiB).
points with 30 one-letter attributes, about as much as a byte of file can cost: about 5.2 (87 MiB took 453 MiB).
With 5, an open project at the limit takes about a quarter of the memory, even for the most expensive data measured. A computer sold as 16 GB, which reports a little under 16 GiB, opens the 659 MiB project of #1615 (with 6 it didn't).
The text is never built past the limit.project::json_within writes the JSON into a buffer that stops at the limit. A project too large to save, keep as a recovery copy, package or exchange is refused before it is built whole. A buffer that can't grow is an error, not an abort.
One limit everywhere, so a project saved on a computer opens on it:
save and open;
check_format, which covers project text from the browser and from packages;
the recovery copy, and the app's reading of it;
project packages, which still stay within the zip reader's 1 GiB (256 MiB in the web app), README included.
Peer exchange stays at 512 MiB, what the web app on the other side opens.
saved role documents;
item files (Import Maps reads .rgis projects).
Refusals say the sizes. A file past the limit is refused before it is read, with its size, the limit here, and that the limit follows the computer's memory. The size is rounded up. For example: "… is 659 MiB, more than a project can be (maximum 512 MiB on this computer, a limit that follows its memory): a computer with more memory opens it". Past the 4 GiB ceiling, it says no computer opens it. On a 32-bit build, a file that a 64-bit one opens says so. The save, recovery copy and item refusals give their limit as well.
gp.env reports the limit as projectBytes, next to the other memory limits.
Docs:
Workspace › Projects says what makes a project file large, the limit and how it follows the memory, the limit for packages, and that data read in place stays out of the file.
The memory limits table in Analysis has a row for it.
Not in this PR: keeping a project only partly in memory, by saving the data of layers loaded whole beside it (a GeoPackage, say) and reading it in place, as the reporter suggested. That's a change to the project format to discuss separately.
Testing
New tests:
the_project_limit_follows_the_memory (unit):
the limit with unknown memory, 8, 16, 64, 80 and 1024 GiB and u64::MAX: the floor, the scaled values and the ceiling;
json_is_never_built_past_the_limit and serializing_stops_at_the_limit (unit): the text is whole within the limit and refused one byte under it, and a value after the limit is never serialized.
The gp.env test checks projectBytes.
By hand: the 674 MiB project above saved and opened with the release CLI, and gp.env gave projectBytes of 3.9 GiB on a 62 GiB machine.
cargo xtask ci: fmt, clippy, tests, layers and the wasm build pass. The only failures are the known box-only ones: filegdb with GDAL, and damaged shapefiles.
An independent review went over the diff before this PR. Its fixes are in:
Import Maps follows the same limit;
no "a computer with more memory opens it" past the 4 GiB ceiling;
the recovery copy's refusal gives its limit;
the docs mention the package limit;
the test override is restored even if a test panics.
UI evidence
No visible UI change apart from the wording of the refusals.
Project size limits now adjust to available memory on desktop, from 512 MiB up to 4 GiB. Web projects remain limited to 512 MiB.
Environment limits now include the applicable project size limit.
Oversized projects and files are rejected with clearer messages showing the applicable limit. Project packages are limited to 1 GiB on desktop and 256 MiB in the web app.
Large supported data layers can be read in place rather than loaded entirely.
Documentation
Updated the user guide with project and package size limits and details on how project data is stored.
…geos#1615)
A project file was limited to 512 MiB, for saving (since opengeos#1364) and opening, whatever
the computer: a project of many layers loaded whole couldn't be saved, and one saved by
v0.5.0 past the limit couldn't be opened again. The limit now follows the computer's
memory as the other memory limits do (opengeos#1291 step 2):
- project::max_bytes(): on the desktop as much as a quarter of the memory holds open at
4 bytes a byte of project, from 512 MiB (the browser's, and where the memory isn't
known) up to 4 GiB; about 1 GiB of project for every 16 GB. Measured: a 337 MiB
project took 731 MiB to open from the command line, a 674 MiB one 1.41 GiB.
- Save, open, the recovery copy, packages, peer exchange, saved role documents and
item files (Import Maps reads projects) use it, so a project saved here opens here.
- A refused project says its size and the limit, that the limit follows the memory, and
that a computer with more memory opens it (or that none does, past 4 GiB); the
recovery copy's refusal says its limit too.
- gp.env reports it as projectBytes; the docs (Projects, the memory limits table) say it,
and that packages stay within 1 GiB (256 MiB in the web app).
- Tests: the limit at several memory sizes, a project just under the limit saved,
opened and imported, one past it refused with both sizes; the opengeos#1364 test runs at a
1 MiB limit.
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Project size limits now scale with physical memory, within a 512 MiB floor and a ceiling of at most 4 GiB. Project operations and related inputs use these limits. The environment response reports the project limit, and the user guide documents project and package size rules.
Replaces the fixed limit with a limit scaled to physical memory and bounded by a 512 MiB floor and a ceiling of at most 4 GiB.
Limit enforcement across project operations and inputs crates/engine/src/project.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/items.rs, crates/engine/src/peer.rs, crates/engine/src/roles.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/autosave.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs
Project loading, parsing, serialization, recovery, packaging, item inputs, peer text, and autosave recovery use size limits. Tests cover bounded serialization, project loading and saving, and oversized inputs.
Environment reporting and user documentation crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md, docs/user-guide/workspace.md
The environment response exposes projectBytes. Tests check the reported value. User documentation describes project and package size rules.
opengeos/RustGIS#1364: Adds save and package size checks that this PR updates to use the runtime limit.
opengeos/RustGIS#1415: Adds file-reading behavior used by project loading and item-file paths changed here.
opengeos/RustGIS#1472: Applies check_format on import paths and uses the size constant replaced by this PR.
Suggested reviewers:mavrick-f, giswqs, deniial00
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 49695
Larger projects can still exhaust memory during recovery copying, particularly when saving concurrently. Resolve or explicitly accept that risk before merging; remaining refusal-message defects have limited impact.
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Title check
The title names the main change: the project-file size limit now follows the computer's memory instead of a fixed 512 MiB. It matches the raw summary, which replaces MAX_BYTES with max_bytes() and sca…
Description check
The description follows the template sections: Summary, Testing, UI evidence, and Related issue. The Summary explains the problem, the new limit formula, the reasoning for the 5-bytes factor, the cons…
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[#1615] Requirement: a project of the reported size (659 MiB, above 600 MB in the title) saved as .rgis must open again, with the whole project loaded. The issue sets no other coding acceptance crit…
Out of Scope Changes check
Each changed area uses or reports the project size limit that #1615 requires, or supports that limit: - crates/engine/src/project.rs: max_bytes, max_bytes_for, json_within (bounded serialization…
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Docstring coverage is 88.24% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
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The title names the main change: the project-file size limit now follows the computer's memory instead of a fixed 512 MiB. It matches the raw summary, which replaces MAX_BYTES with max_bytes() and scales the limit by memory. The title uses the conventional feat(engine) prefix and references #1615, which the PR description also cites. It is clear and specific enough for a teammate scanning history.
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The description follows the template sections: Summary, Testing, UI evidence, and Related issue. The Summary explains the problem, the new limit formula, the reasoning for the 5-bytes factor, the consistency across save, open, recovery, and packages, and the out-of-scope items. The Testing section lists new tests, manual CLI checks, and the cargo xtask ci result. The UI evidence section states that there is no visible UI change, as the template requires. The Related issue section cites #1615 and #1372. The description is thorough and mostly complete.
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[#1615] Requirement: a project of the reported size (659 MiB, above 600 MB in the title) saved as .rgis must open again, with the whole project loaded. The issue sets no other coding acceptance criteria.
Code at the reviewed head (crates/engine/src/project.rs):
For known memory, max_bytes_for computes memory / SHARE / MEMORY_PER_BYTE (5), clamped to BYTES_FLOOR (512 MiB) and ceiling() (4 GiB on 64-bit, 512 MiB on 32-bit). Unknown memory returns 512 MiB.
Project::load checks the file size against max_bytes() and then parses the whole file. No partial loading was added, so the whole project loads.
Save (project_text), the recovery copy and check_format use the same max_bytes(), so a project saved on a computer opens on it.
The incremental change adds memory_for, which gives the memory needed for a file size. For 659 MiB this is 13 GiB. The test the_project_limit_follows_the_memory checks that 13 GiB admits 659 MiB and 12 GiB does not (64-bit builds).
A 659 MiB file opens when memory is about 12.9 GiB or more. The issue does not state the reporter's memory. A computer with less memory refuses the file and names the memory needed. The reporter's CPU (9950X3D) is usually paired with 32 GB or more, so the requirement is likely met on that machine. This is an inference, not a measured result.
The PR description says the formula matches rustgis_data::memory::scaled. The code uses the same formula in u64 and does not call scaled. This is a description difference only. The author-reported tests and cargo xtask ci results were not run in this review.
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Each changed area uses or reports the project size limit that #1615 requires, or supports that limit:
crates/engine/src/project.rs: max_bytes, max_bytes_for, json_within (bounded serialization), limit_said, memory_for (refusal text), the pre-read size check in Project::load, the recovery-copy closure, and the tests and test-only override.
crates/engine/src/cmd/items.rs: item files use max_bytes(). Import Maps reads .rgis projects, so item files must accept the same size. Package serialization uses the room left after the README, within the zip limit.
crates/engine/src/peer.rs: peer exchange keeps BYTES_FLOOR, as the PR states.
crates/engine/src/roles.rs: saved role documents use max_bytes().
crates/ui-egui/src/autosave.rs: the recovery copy uses max_bytes() + MAX_HEADER.
crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs: gp.env adds projectBytes, as stated.
crates/engine/src/tests.rs: tests for the limit, the projectBytes value and the restored test override.
docs: the analysis.md limits row and the workspace.md Projects section.
The incremental changes since the previous review are limited to limit-related code: refusal wording for 32-bit builds and memory-needed figures, the recovery-copy check moved to bounded serialization, and tests for these. No change unrelated to the project size limit was found in the inspected incremental diff. The incremental diff for files other than project.rs was not inspected, and the workspace.md text was not checked against the code. These do not change the result, because the summary lists these files as limit-related.
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A rabbit checks the project size, And finds the limit scaled just right. The files pass through, or errors show, The bounded paths now clearly know. A README fits before the ZIP, Then hops away with one neat skip.
I found three things worth raising and two nits. The core logic is sound: max_bytes() uses a cached OnceLock, scaled gives memory/16 per project byte as documented, no fixed MAX_BYTES references remain in the repo, and the new let-chain is valid on edition 2024 with Rust 1.90. There were no prior review threads, so nothing was skipped as already raised. I could not build or run the tests here.
Bugs
None found.
Security
crates/engine/src/project.rs:70: the 4-bytes-per-byte memory estimate was measured on benign GeoJSON polygons. Attribute-heavy or hostile project files may use much more memory per byte, and the ceiling is now 4 GiB. Low to medium confidence; not measured here.
Performance
None beyond the estimate above.
Quality
crates/engine/src/project.rs:1170: the refusal size uses meta.len() >> 20, which rounds down. A file a few bytes over the limit reads as "is 512 MiB, more than … (maximum 512 MiB)". Nit, high confidence.
crates/engine/src/project.rs:105-119: with_max_bytes's restore guard sets the override back to None rather than the previous value, so nested calls would clear an outer override. Test-only; nit, high confidence.
AGENTS.md
crates/ui-egui/src/autosave.rs:737: the recovery-copy message now uses format!, not i18n::fmt. Its exact-match catalog entry (in all i18n/*.tsv files) no longer applies, so the message shows in English. Medium confidence.
Docs
docs/user-guide/workspace.md:22-23: says GeoPackage, FlatGeobuf and GeoParquet data "is read in place and stays out of the project file". data.md says only files over 100,000 features are read in place. High confidence.
Inline comments posted on the three findings above that carry a line anchor: workspace.md:23, autosave.rs:737, project.rs:70.
Change size
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/items.rs:
- Around line 670-673: Update the package-size check that uses `text` and
`limit` to include the inflated size of `README.txt` in the combined total
before writing the ZIP archive, and reject the package if that total exceeds the
existing limit.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/peer.rs:
- Around line 483-485: Update the exchange path around the text size check to
reject outgoing widget payloads above the receiver’s 512 MiB limit before
constructing the JavaScript transfer message. Measure the payload using the
receiver’s applicable limit and preserve the existing rejection behavior for
oversized projects.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/project.rs:
- Around line 86-89: Update max_bytes_for so its ceiling is not reduced to
usize::MAX on 32-bit targets; preserve a 4 GiB limit when reported memory
reaches the ceiling. Align the maximum-size reporting and ceiling test with that
same limit, including the 32-bit native case.
- Around line 1441-1443: Update the project serialization flow around max_bytes
and limit_said to stream JSON output while counting bytes, stopping once the
configured maximum is exceeded instead of first materializing the full output in
text. Preserve the existing size-limit error behavior and avoid retaining a full
serialized buffer during concurrent autosaves.
- Around line 1153-1174: Update the read_file refusal path in the
project-loading flow so a file that exceeds the limit while being read reports
its observed size, or the lower bound available when the bounded read stops, and
the applicable limit. Reuse the existing size and limit wording from the
metadata refusal path, and establish how read_file can provide the required size
information without weakening its read bound.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/autosave.rs:
- Around line 731-737: Update recovery-copy reading so header bytes are handled
separately from the project-text limit instead of rejecting the entire copy at
max_bytes() + MAX_HEADER; continue enforcing max_bytes() on project text. Bound
the header size when writing future recovery copies, using the MAX_HEADER
boundary consistently with the read and write paths.
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…r build its text past it
Review points on opengeos#1639:
- Measured attribute-heavy projects: points with 12 short text attributes take about 4.4
bytes of memory a byte of file, with 30 one-letter attributes about 5.2. The limit
now plans for 6 (about 680 MiB of project for every 16 GB), above the most measured.
- A project's text is written into a buffer that stops at the limit (json_within), so
one too large to save, package or exchange is never built whole first.
- Peer exchange stays within what the web app opens (512 MiB), whatever this computer
saves; a package counts its README within the zip's limit.
- The limit is worked out in u64, the same on a 32-bit build.
- The recovery copy's refusal is translatable (i18n::fmt); the docs say which files are
read in place (more than 100,000 features).
Inline comments did not post. Each of the four create_inline_comment calls failed with "pull_request_review_thread.path could not be resolved", so the findings are below instead. I checked the diff, the staged metadata, and the surrounding source (memory.rs, roles.rs, autosave.rs, items.rs, project.rs).
Bugs
Medium confidence, depends on reported memory: the fix may not cover [Bug]: project is too large, rustgis open big project fail #1615's 659 MiB project on a "16 GB" machine. Under MEMORY_PER_BYTE = 6 and a quarter share, that file needs about 15.45 GiB of reported memory (659 MiB × 24). Machines sold as 16 GB can report slightly less, so they would still refuse it. The test only checks exactly 16 GiB (project.rs:92, max_bytes_for). Consider lowering the factor (measured peak was about 2 bytes per byte, 5.2 at most) or stating the threshold clearly.
Security
None found. Input is capped before it is read, the refusal paths don't drop data silently, and no new command ingress was added.
Performance
Low: json_within stops at the limit, which is the right fix. The Vec buffer still grows by doubling, so its capacity can briefly reach about 2× the text for texts over 2 GiB. This is transient and minor.
Quality
High confidence: the file-size refusal rounds down (project.rs:1204, meta.len() >> 20). A 512 MiB + 1 byte file reads "is 512 MiB, more than a project can be (maximum 512 MiB)". Suggested fix: meta.len().div_ceil(1 << 20).
High confidence, the PR body is stale: the code, docs and tests use 6 bytes per byte (project.rs:75), but the body says 4. Under the code, a 12 GiB machine gets 512 MiB, not the 659 MiB the body claims. The body's table (16 GB → 1 GiB, 32 GB → 2 GiB, 64 GB → 4 GiB) also doesn't match the code (about 683 MiB, 1.33 GiB, 2.67 GiB). workspace.md ("about 680 MiB for every 16 GB") does match. The body is likely to become the merge commit message, so it should be corrected.
Medium-low confidence, design question:max_file() (items.rs:20) was 512 MiB for every item file and now follows the project limit, up to 4 GiB, for all item reads (styles, tasks, and so on), not just .rgis projects. If that's intended, the comment should say so. Otherwise keep 512 MiB for non-project items.
AGENTS.md
No violations found in the changed code. There are no unwrap, expect, panic or unsafe calls in non-test code. Engine error strings are plain English, which matches the rest of the engine, which doesn't use tl!. Refusals return errors instead of being silent. Both the lossy and clean paths are tested. The docs and the gp.env key are updated.
Earlier review threads (9 total)
Left alone, still open and not re-raised: the 32-bit ceiling (project.rs:123), the read_file refusal that gives no size when a file grows during the read, and the autosave header bound (autosave.rs:737). The header risk is mostly bounded because project names are capped at 200 characters, but path is not capped.
Six threads were answered or are outdated and were not re-raised. The peer payload and serialization-memory concerns are addressed by json_within and the 512 MiB peer cap.
Change size
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/project.rs:
- Line 93: Update the memory-derived byte limit in this expression to respect
the platform’s allocation limits, including a safe limit on 32-bit builds. In
the project-saving path, handle JSON buffer allocation failures by returning an
error rather than panicking or aborting.
- Around line 1506-1507: Extend the tests for json_within with an instrumented
Serialize value whose later element records when serialization reaches it; set a
limit exceeded by an earlier element and assert the later element is not
visited.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/autosave.rs:
- Line 737: Update the oversized recovery-copy refusal in the autosave flow to
format the known-memory explanation using a translatable template before
interpolating the memory value. Preserve the existing size-limit message and
behavior when memory is unknown.
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… build's limit fits its buffers
Review points on opengeos#1639:
- The limit plans for 5 bytes of memory a byte of project (the most measured is 5.2):
a computer sold as 16 GB reports a little under 16 GiB, and at 6 it refused the
659 MiB project of opengeos#1615. About 800 MiB for every 16 GB now.
- On a 32-bit build the ceiling stays within what a buffer can grow to (half of
isize::MAX), and a buffer that can't grow is an error, not an abort.
- A refused file's size is rounded up, so one a byte past 512 MiB isn't "512 MiB".
- The recovery copy's refusal is one translatable message with its limit in MiB.
- A test proves serializing stops at the limit (a value after it is never visited);
the item reader's comment says every kind of item follows the project limit.
Four inline comments are posted. One item is in the summary only: the read_file refusal wording at crates/engine/src/project.rs:1264 is untouched by this PR, so GitHub would not take an inline comment there.
Bugs
32-bit open can abort instead of refusing (crates/engine/src/project.rs:100, medium confidence). ceiling() lets a 32-bit build accept about 1 GiB of project text. The PR's own measurements put a parsed project at 2 to 5 times its file size, and the reader's allocations are infallible. The try_reserve change covers only the save path. This is a new concern about the open path, not the save buffer that an earlier thread discussed.
Refusal text is wrong on 32-bit (crates/engine/src/project.rs:1207, low impact, medium confidence on the logic). For files between ceiling() and BYTES_CEILING, the message "a computer with more memory opens it" is false on a 32-bit build.
Security
No findings. Input sizes are still bounded by read_file, json_within and the metadata pre-check.
Performance
No new findings. physical() is cached in a OnceLock, so calling max_bytes() per document in roles.rs is cheap.
Quality (left for the release quality pass)
crates/engine/src/cmd/items.rs:673: the local too_large closure shadows the module-level too_large() function.
crates/engine/src/project.rs:94: max_bytes_for reimplements memory::scaled rather than calling it, though the PR text and the max_bytes doc both say it is built on scaled. The reason (scaled returns usize) is sound, but the comment should say so.
crates/engine/src/project.rs:1264 (not posted inline, since it is outside the diff): the item-import refusal from read_file gives neither the file's size nor the memory note, which conflicts with the PR's claim that refusals give sizes.
AGENTS.md
The "never silent" and "never crash" rules are met on the paths I read. Every new limit path has a test for both sides, and hostile_params_never_panic is unaffected.
The i18n rule is followed in the UI autosave message.
The docs claims about package limits (1 GiB native, 256 MiB web) match zip::MAX_TOTAL.
Earlier review threads
I left 12 earlier threads alone. Nine were fixed or answered, one was withdrawn, and two were deferred to the quality pass. One earlier concern remains open: a save can overlap an autosave, and FolderStore::write copies the recovery text. The code is unchanged and the author did not reply, so I did not post it again.
Design notes (not posted)
Inline text and data parameters, and item files, now accept up to 4 GiB on large machines. Previously the limit was 512 MiB. The parameter text is already in memory, so the added cost is the parse. I'd want that stated in the PR.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/project.rs:
- Around line 1211-1217: Update the refusal message in the size-checking logic
around `limit_said(max)` to clarify that when the project exceeds the 32-bit
`ceiling()`, it must be opened with a 64-bit build, in addition to any existing
memory guidance. Preserve the current size reporting and refusal behavior.
- Around line 1495-1509: Update the 64 GiB expectation in
the_project_limit_follows_the_memory test to apply the same ceiling as
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Review points on opengeos#1639:
- An open project takes 2 to 5 times its file in address space, which a 32-bit build
doesn't hold past about 512 MiB: such a build keeps the floor whatever the memory,
as before this change, rather than about 1 GiB.
- A file a 32-bit build refuses but a 64-bit one opens says so ("a 64-bit RustGIS on
a computer with more memory opens it"); past 4 GiB, that no computer does.
- The limit test expects each value within this build's ceiling.
- The formula's comment says why it is worked out here rather than by memory::scaled
(which counts in usize); the package's refusal closure no longer shadows too_large.
- Docs: a 32-bit build keeps 512 MiB.
limit_said (project.rs:140) says "a limit that follows its memory" on 32-bit builds, where the limit is always 512 MiB. The save, package, check_format, recovery and item refusals all use it. Low impact. Confidence: high on the logic, low on impact. Inline comment posted.
Security
No new findings. The change adds no unbounded reads or writes. Reads are capped by read_file, and the metadata check runs before the read. Serialization stops at the limit through json_within.
Performance
Autosave's FolderStore::write (autosave.rs:679) holds the recovery text twice: once as text, and again copied into bytes. The reader's comment says a copy near the limit "isn't held twice", but the writer does. The code predates this PR, but the 4 GiB ceiling makes it reachable. Peak use is about 7 times the file (project, text, bytes), against the 5 times the limit plans for. That is about 35% of memory at the limit, not a quarter. Confidence: medium. CodeRabbit raised this copy in an open thread, so I did not re-post it.
Quality
The recovery-copy size check (project.rs:1131–1134) can never fire, because output_owned(self, project_text) already enforces the same limit. The autosave dialog therefore reads "the project is too large to save" for a recovery copy. Inline comment with a suggestion posted. Per AGENTS.md this is a quality point and may wait for the release quality pass.
autosave.rs:737 says "on this computer" even in the web app and on 32-bit builds, where the limit doesn't follow memory. Nit. Quality pass.
The PR body still describes a 32-bit ceiling of about 1 GiB and a memory::scaled basis. The code no longer matches either. The body is not in the repo, so this is only a note for the author.
AGENTS.md
Checked and compliant: no new unwrap, expect or panic in non-test code; no unsafe; i18n::fmt used for the translatable autosave message; refusals give their size and limit; lossy and clean paths are tested; docs updated for projectBytes, package limits and the read-in-place threshold. The usize::BITS and std::fs usage builds on wasm32 (read_file is already used there).
Earlier review threads: I checked all 18. Nothing was re-posted. The open autosave copy concern and the hostile-file memory-ratio concern were left alone because they were already raised and answered in part. Only the limit_said 32-bit wording is new, and it sits in a function those threads did not fix.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/project.rs:
- Around line 1208-1210: Update the `meta.len() > ceiling()` message to state
the detected-memory requirement for opening the project instead of suggesting
that more memory is sufficient. Derive the requirement from the project size and
preserve the stated threshold: a 1 GiB project requires at least 20 GiB of
detected memory on a 64-bit build.
Review comments at @docs/user-guide/workspace.md:
- Line 18: Update the workspace size-limit statement to clarify that the 256 MiB
limit covers the inflated project and map entries, not the package file size;
state that a larger package can open when those inflated entries fit within the
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Review points on opengeos#1639:
- A file past the limit is told how much memory a computer needs to open it ("a
computer with at least 13 GiB of memory opens it" for 659 MiB), not just "more".
- On a 32-bit build, whose limit stays at 512 MiB, refusals no longer say the limit
follows the memory.
- The recovery copy is refused as one, not with the save message: its size check
moved into the writer, where it can fire.
- Docs: a package's 1 GiB (256 MiB in the web app) is what it holds unzipped.
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Design question (medium-low confidence): the planning ratio now sits below the densest measured case. The doc comment measures 5.2 bytes of memory per byte of file for 30 one-letter attributes, and this constant is 5. The earlier thread's answer planned 6, "above the most measured". The change to 5 is new since that answer, and it removes the margin. At the limit, the densest measured data takes about 26% of memory rather than a quarter, and a denser hostile file takes more. The doc line "about as much as a byte of file can cost" is also not established by one measured shape. Either keep 6 (which still opens #1615's 659 MiB file on 16 GB) or soften the comment to say the ratio was measured on the shapes listed and is not a bound.
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Bug (high confidence): a refusal read by path doesn't give the file's size, though the PR says it does. The path branch of the item reader calls read_file (project.rs:1278, unchanged by this PR), which says only "<path> is too large (maximum N MiB)". It omits the file's size and the "limit follows this computer's memory" wording that limit_said gives for the other refusals. The PR description says item refusals give "both sizes", but this assertion only checks contains("too large"), so the gap isn't caught.
Suggested direction: have read_file's refusal report the observed size and limit_said(max), and assert the size here, e.g. contains("is 3 MiB, too large (maximum 2 MiB"). The inline-text refusal in items.rs:27 gives the limit but not the size, so the same wording applies there.
Refusals read by path don't give the file size, though the PR says item refusals do (Import Maps and the item reader go through read_file, which says only "is too large (maximum N MiB)"). The test at tests.rs:2169 only checks "too large". Posted inline. Confidence: high.
The inline-text refusal in items.rs:27 gives the limit but not the size. Same wording gap, minor. Confidence: high.
Security
No new issues found. The new non-test code has no unwrap/expect/panic, and json_within bounds the buffer before writing. Confidence: medium-high.
Performance
json_within buffers up to the limit. Vec doubling can take capacity to 4 GiB even when the limit is 3.2 GiB, so a save can briefly hold about twice the limit. Low impact. Confidence: low-medium.
physical() is cached in a OnceLock, so calling max_bytes() per document in roles.rs is cheap. No issue there.
Quality
MEMORY_PER_BYTE = 5 (project.rs:77, posted inline). The measured densest case is 5.2, and the earlier thread's answer planned 6, "above the most measured". The change to 5 is new since that answer, and the claim that 30 one-letter attributes is "about as much as a byte of file can cost" rests on one measured shape. Confidence: medium-low.
AGENTS.md
Unwrap/unsafe rules hold in the new non-test code. Refusals say what, how much and where, except the gaps above. The i18n::fmt use in autosave is correct. Confidence: medium-high.
Earlier concerns
I left 22 earlier threads alone: 21 are resolved or answered, and one (the concurrent-autosave memory buffer) was raised again by CodeRabbit without a reply from the author. I posted one new concern on the 5-per-byte ratio because the change from 6 to 5 is new since the answer.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/project.rs:
- Around line 146-147: Update limit_said and its call site to pass the limit’s
origin, then report that it follows the computer’s memory only when the limit is
memory-dependent; preserve the existing explanation for fixed limits.
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Summary
Fixes #1615. A project file was limited to 512 MiB whatever the computer, for opening and, since #1364, for saving.
The limit now follows the computer's memory, as the other memory limits do since #1372 (#1291 step 2).
project::max_bytes()replaces the fixedMAX_BYTES:rustgis_data::memory::scaled, the one the other limits use, worked out inu64, sincescaledcounts inusize.Why 5 bytes for each byte, measured by opening projects of GeoJSON layers in the command line:
With 5, an open project at the limit takes about a quarter of the memory, even for the most expensive data measured. A computer sold as 16 GB, which reports a little under 16 GiB, opens the 659 MiB project of #1615 (with 6 it didn't).
The text is never built past the limit.
project::json_withinwrites the JSON into a buffer that stops at the limit. A project too large to save, keep as a recovery copy, package or exchange is refused before it is built whole. A buffer that can't grow is an error, not an abort.One limit everywhere, so a project saved on a computer opens on it:
check_format, which covers project text from the browser and from packages;Peer exchange stays at 512 MiB, what the web app on the other side opens.
.rgisprojects).Refusals say the sizes. A file past the limit is refused before it is read, with its size, the limit here, and that the limit follows the computer's memory. The size is rounded up. For example: "… is 659 MiB, more than a project can be (maximum 512 MiB on this computer, a limit that follows its memory): a computer with more memory opens it". Past the 4 GiB ceiling, it says no computer opens it. On a 32-bit build, a file that a 64-bit one opens says so. The save, recovery copy and item refusals give their limit as well.
gp.envreports the limit asprojectBytes, next to the other memory limits.Docs:
Not in this PR: keeping a project only partly in memory, by saving the data of layers loaded whole beside it (a GeoPackage, say) and reading it in place, as the reporter suggested. That's a change to the project format to discuss separately.
Testing
New tests:
the_project_limit_follows_the_memory(unit):u64::MAX: the floor, the scaled values and the ceiling;a_project_within_the_limit_saves_and_opens_and_one_past_it_says_both_sizes(engine), at a 2 MiB test limit:check_formatand the item reader, with both sizes.json_is_never_built_past_the_limitandserializing_stops_at_the_limit(unit): the text is whole within the limit and refused one byte under it, and a value after the limit is never serialized.gp.envtest checksprojectBytes.By hand: the 674 MiB project above saved and opened with the release CLI, and
gp.envgaveprojectBytesof 3.9 GiB on a 62 GiB machine.cargo xtask ci: fmt, clippy, tests, layers and the wasm build pass. The only failures are the known box-only ones: filegdb with GDAL, and damaged shapefiles.An independent review went over the diff before this PR. Its fixes are in:
UI evidence
No visible UI change apart from the wording of the refusals.
Related issue
Fixes #1615. Builds on #1291 step 2 (#1372).
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