G1: accept a ~12 KB heap dip during a fetch with IRC connected (Q86 revised)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT

docs/milestones/G1.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Gemini (geminiprotocol.net): one request per TLS connection on port 1965, the re
 | Q82 | `s` saves the page on screen as a **Saved Page**: `/gemini/saved/<host>/<path>.gmi`, the gemtext as received plus a first line with its URL and save date. Saving again replaces it, and says so. |
 | Q83 | `S` saves the page and the pages it links to, one level deep: gemtext only, same host only, at most 30 pages, in the background with a progress Toast. |
 | Q84 | The start page lists Saved Pages, newest first, grouped by capsule; they open with no network. In a Saved Page, a link to another Saved Page opens the saved copy; other links fetch online if Wi-Fi is up, or say "not saved, offline". A Saved Page shows when it was saved; `r` refreshes it. |
-| Q86 | *Decided after step 1.* **Two floors:** free heap stays above 40 KB in steady state, and above 20 KB for the second or two of a TLS handshake (measured: 24 KB with IRC connected). A fetch refuses to start below **55 KB** free ("not enough memory: stop IRC or retry"), so nothing pushes lower. |
+| Q86 | *Decided after step 1, revised after Q88.* **Two floors:** free heap stays above 40 KB in steady state; a fetch refuses to start below **55 KB** free ("not enough memory: stop IRC or retry"). The firmware's own allocations during a fetch (a page in RAM, a window) keep 20 KB free. With IRC connected, the TLS connection itself can briefly take the heap lower, depending on the server's record sizes: measured 24, 19.5, 15.5 and **13 KB**. *Accepted:* about 12 KB for a moment during a fetch with IRC up, rather than refusing most fetches (a 70 KB start floor) or dropping IRC's connection for each page. |
 | Q87 | *Decided in step 3.* **With a card, every page streams to `/gemini/cache/page.gmi`** in 1 KB pieces while its TLS connection is open; once the connection closes and its ~45 KB is back, the page is loaded into RAM as far as the 40 KB floor allows. The whole page stays on the card (Saved Pages copy it). Without a card, the page goes straight to RAM under the same two floors. Pages are held as lines in 4 KB chunks, never one large block (the largest free block with IRC connected is about 31 KB). |
 | Q88 | *Added after step 6.* **A page bigger than memory allows is read from the card as you scroll.** Opening it, one pass over its file counts the lines, records where every 64th starts (and whether it's inside a preformatted block), and loads the first window. Scrolling near either end of the window reads the next or previous one in the background, keeping the line on top of the screen where it is; the scrollbar follows the whole page. Display pages alternate between two cache files, so the one on screen is never overwritten by the next fetch; background jobs use a third. |
 | Q85 | Saved Pages are deleted from the App only (`d`, with confirmation), never by Storage Clean-up's age rules, like Notes. |
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Gemini (geminiprotocol.net): one request per TLS connection on port 1965, the re
 - **Steps 4–6 on the device:** Project Gemini and its relative links, Back with the scroll restored, a refused YouTube link; `b` bookmarks, `s` saves (and says when it replaced an older copy), `S` saved 6 of 6 pages, the start page lists both; a Saved Page opens from the card with its origin, its saved links open saved copies, `r` refreshes, `d` asks first; Kennedy's input prompt sent "cardputer" and got 87 results; emoji drawn as `?`.
 - **A bug found there:** refreshing first loaded the whole Saved Page into RAM just to read its origin, next to the App's copy and a TLS connection: the heap fell to 436 bytes. Now only the first line is read, and every fetch (pages, saves, refreshes) checks the 55 KB start floor. Lowest since boot afterwards: 53.8 KB.
 - **Windowed pages (Q88), Cosmos with IRC connected:** 226 of 419 lines in memory at first; paging down loaded lines 192–419 in one window, scrolling back up loaded 64 onwards, then 0 onwards. Window budgets count the memory the old window gives back.
-- **Open:** with IRC connected, the lowest free heap during a Gemini fetch was 13–15.5 KB in later runs (24 and 19.5 KB earlier): the TLS receive buffers vary with the server's records. That's under Q86's 20 KB transient floor; the 55 KB start floor doesn't guarantee it.
+- **Heap during a fetch with IRC connected:** lowest 13–15.5 KB in later runs (24 and 19.5 KB earlier), the TLS receive buffers varying with the server's records. Accepted (Q86, revised).
 - Antenna (`warmedal.se`) doesn't answer, from the PC either; the default aggregator becomes Cosmos (`gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/`, which redirects to `cosmos.skyjake.fi`).
 
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