will.anderson
c8cb425412
awareness_run's while-loop ran outside any request arena, so every allocation in every 1s tick (search JSON, heartbeat payloads, curiosity activations) was treated as permanent by the runtime — 7.5GB RSS in under a minute. Bracket each iteration with el_arena_push/el_arena_pop (same pattern the compiler emits for scoped blocks; state_set/state_get persist separately via el_strdup_persist and are unaffected). dist/soul.c carries the same change hand-patched at the compiled awareness_run site — elc is currently unsafe to run locally (pathological memory on sessions.el), so the generated C was patched to match the source, verified line-for-line against the compiler's own conventions. MUST be paired with el repo PR #64 (el_strdup_persist for stored engram fields): per-tick arena reclamation widens the write-corruption window without it. Verified together: 5h live soak on the recovered production snapshot, flat RSS, write-field-integrity clean. Note: dist/soul.c still needs a full elc regen to pick up PR #73's source changes (consent tiers) — tracked separately; this patch does not regress that (those changes were never in dist).