Toggling datacenters, dams, or submarine cables off only set `show = false`
on their data sources. Cesium's DataSourceDisplay still walks every
visualizer of a hidden source each frame, and the ~11.5k hidden entities
(hundreds of MB) stayed resident, so the whole scene rendered ~2x slower
for the rest of the session after a single on/off round trip (owner field
test 2026-09-13).
disable() now removes the data sources from the viewer and drops the built
records; the parsed dataset (NDJSON features / TeleGeography JSON) is cached
so enable() rebuilds without a refetch or re-parse. A disable that lands
while a load is in flight releases the finished build instead of parking it
hidden. destroy() clears the cache.
Measured with a headful Chrome harness (flights+military+satellites on,
camera rotating, 250-frame windows), before -> after:
- entities resident after OFF: 11,537 -> 0
- DataSourceDisplay.update per frame after OFF: 1.09 ms -> 0.02 ms
- scene.render per frame after OFF: 13.9 ms (control 6.6 ms) -> 5.2 ms
(fresh baseline 5.0 ms in the same run)
- JS heap 30 s after OFF: 1.6 GB and climbing -> 342 MB after GC
Tests: the GeoJSON lifecycle and cables suites assert disable leaves zero
sources/contexts and re-enable rebuilds with fetch called once.
Two independent triggers turned the global status chip red while every layer
was still populated (reproduced at JFK in Cockpit; timeline in the issue).
adsb.lol proxy: a non-OK upstream status was relayed verbatim even with a
12 s-old cache in hand, and the browser layer answers a 429 with a 45 s
cooldown in which every refresh reports "adsb.lol rate limited" without a
network call. The proxy now serves its cached body as STALE on a 429/5xx and
backs off from upstream for Retry-After (bounded), mirroring the OpenSky
proxy. A failure with nothing cached is still relayed.
Mapped installations: the "zoom in" guidance was stored in `error`, so the
manager reported a refresh failure and the chip a LOAD FAILED whenever the
view could not be bounded (Cockpit looks at the horizon). The status is now
set without an error string; the row reads the prompt from `statusMessage`,
and the chip ignores `error` for guidance statuses, matching the carve-out
layerFeedState already has.
Use 64-point browser and upstream terrain batches to reduce cold-cache timeouts. Preserve successful chunk results, distinguish absent readings from malformed responses, and reject fabricated zero heights.
Original terrain resilience contribution by ItzDESTAQ, with browser batching, validation and regression follow-up by Sameh Khamis.
Validated with unit/build/format/boundary checks, 108 tracking checks, 5 terrain-outage checks, controlled slow-upstream comparison and live browser checks.
Co-authored-by: ItzDESTAQ <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Sameh Khamis <[email protected]>
Sameh Khamis