The three heavy 3D-viewer specs (3d-viewer, 3d-viewer-deadlock, 3d-viewer-models)
crashed on CI (run 28604015154): "Target crashed", "browser has been closed", and a
black frozen canvas. Each boots the 3D-enabled pcbnew build, which pre-warms
~hardwareConcurrency*2+8 (~68 on the 30-core VM) Web Workers AND runs a multi-threaded
CPU raytracer over SwiftShader software-WebGL. Under fullyParallel the three spec FILES
run in separate browser processes concurrently, and the simultaneous raytrace tabs
exhaust the shared GPU process's ~16 live-WebGL-context limit / renderer memory. The
pool pre-warm (the deadlock fix, 7630c7e) is correct and present in the tested binary;
per-file isolation prevented in-process Worker accumulation but NOT this cross-process
concurrency — the gap these specs' first CI exposure hit.
Fix (test-orchestration only; no wasm/submodule changes):
- Route the three specs to a dedicated `chromium-ci-3d` Playwright project (own
outputDir=pw-artifacts/kicad-3d so its failure traces survive the later perf run's
wipe; the existing tests/pw-artifacts/** upload already captures it).
- test:kicad:ci runs it as a SECOND `playwright test` pass with --workers=1, so at most
one raytrace tab is alive at a time (the environment in which a single 3D load is
reliably green — docs/features/3d-raytracer/README.md §7). An exit-code-aggregating
sequencer runs both phases and fails if either fails (no silent skip of the 3D pass).
- Cap phase-1 CI workers to 12 as headroom under the WebGL-context cap.
- Log a resource-diagnostic snapshot (hardwareConcurrency, pthread pool, GL-canvas
count, wasm/JS heap) before each 3D interaction so any recurrence is attributable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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