The Mac mini shows the cloud brain, whose bots work on the brain's own
computer and borrow only this Mac's screen, browser and apps. Its local
box still ran, and the Lima VM under it had grown to its whole 6 GB: the
Mac never gets back memory a VM once used.
- On a screen the box stops after 2 idle minutes, and the Lima VM too when
nothing else runs in it. probe() no longer starts the VM there, and the
volume holder and scheduled updates run on brains only. Becoming a brain
again starts both (probe/ensure_running already wake the VM).
- Screen mode is decided from the settings before the box loop's first
look, which used to start the VM at launch.
- gvisor-vm.sh: 4 GB instead of 6 (box capped at 2 GB), and the VM's
ModemManager, udisks2 and multipathd are turned off.
Verified on this Mac: box and VM stopped by themselves 2 minutes after the
app started; the VM process (4.4 GB plus compressed pages) is gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uirha5F5gJt93t3yEx3XcS
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