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maziggy c457cf54bf feat(support): record process memory, threads and children in bundles (#2734)
A bundle described everything except the process it runs in. So a report of
memory climbing over days until the OOM killer fires arrives with no way to
act on it: the numbers that name the mechanism only exist while it is
happening, and by the time anyone asks, the container has been restarted.

The new `process` section carries what actually separates the candidates.
Resident against virtual memory: 650MB RSS with 12.9GB VMS is address
space — thread stacks or allocator arenas — not a heap full of live data,
and that reading is the opposite of the one the reporter drew from the same
figures. Thread count and child-process count then split those two apart,
and a census of live objects by type names what a growing heap is filling
up with. Open files, sockets and uptime round it out.

Three constraints worth keeping:

The heap census is skipped above 2GB. gc.get_objects() materialises every
tracked object, so it costs most on exactly the process that can least
afford it — a bundle generated to diagnose runaway memory must not be the
allocation that tips the host over. Everything else is still collected, and
the skip is recorded with its reason rather than silently omitted.

Children are recorded by executable name only. An ffmpeg command line
carries the camera URL, and with it the camera's password.

Collection runs off the event loop and every metric is independently
best-effort. psutil raises on hardened kernels and in restricted
containers, and the bundle is how someone reports a problem in the first
place — it has to be produced even when half the numbers are unavailable.

This does not fix #2734, and nothing here should be read as having found
its cause. The bundle's own evidence contradicts both proposed causes: the
orphan janitor ran 7 times in 26 days over 725 stream-ends and killed no
orphaned ffmpeg, which is not the #776 signature; and the 5 "database is
locked" errors all fall between two OOM kills, making them a symptom of the
memory pressure rather than a source of it.
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