s8-steady.mjs: two nodes, one honest vmine miner at 1 block/s, no flood,
RSS and cache-build count every 60 s, vmmap -summary at 0, 500, 1,000 and
1,500 blocks. Both builds ran 1,500 blocks on the 60x profile: before
41 to 1,342 MB by 514 blocks (9 cache builds, five 256 MiB chunks resident:
KEEP 4 plus one evicted chunk the allocator keeps) then flat, 27 builds in
1,529 blocks; after 319 MB at 510 blocks (1 build), 589 at 1,029 (the second
day's cache, by design), 603 at 1,526, 2 builds. Residual 30 MB per 1,000
blocks on both builds, read as the consensus database and caches filling,
not the PoW cache. JSON and vmmap files under
docs/benchmarks/memory-floods-2026-10-04/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>