diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/ScriptCompilationService.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/ScriptCompilationService.cs
index 85994a36..6fca8970 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/ScriptCompilationService.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/ScriptCompilationService.cs
@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@ public class ScriptCompilationService
 
     /// <summary>Initializes a new instance of the ScriptCompilationService class.</summary>
     /// <param name="logger">Logger instance.</param>
-    public ScriptCompilationService(ILogger<ScriptCompilationService> logger)
-        : this(logger, new SiteScriptCompileCache())
+    /// <param name="options">Site runtime options; supplies the compile-cache bound. Optional (default bound when null).</param>
+    public ScriptCompilationService(
+        ILogger<ScriptCompilationService> logger,
+        Microsoft.Extensions.Options.IOptions<SiteRuntimeOptions>? options = null)
+        : this(logger, new SiteScriptCompileCache(
+            options?.Value.ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries ?? SiteScriptCompileCache.MaxEntries, logger))
     {
     }
 
@@ -228,7 +232,9 @@ public class ScriptCompilationService
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
             _logger.LogError(ex, "Unexpected error compiling script {Script}", name);
-            return ScriptCompilationResult.Failed([$"Compilation exception: {ex.Message}"]);
+            // Faulted, not Failed: an unexpected exception says nothing about the code, so the
+            // cache must not memoise it (a transient fault would otherwise stick until eviction/restart).
+            return ScriptCompilationResult.Faulted([$"Compilation exception: {ex.Message}"]);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -245,8 +251,15 @@ public class ScriptCompilationResult
     /// <summary>List of error messages, empty if compilation succeeded.</summary>
     public IReadOnlyList<string> Errors { get; }
 
-    private ScriptCompilationResult(bool success, Script<object?>? script, IReadOnlyList<string> errors)
+    /// <summary>
+    /// False for a result produced by an unexpected exception during compilation; such a result
+    /// is returned to the caller but never memoised by <see cref="SiteScriptCompileCache"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal bool IsCacheable { get; }
+
+    private ScriptCompilationResult(bool success, Script<object?>? script, IReadOnlyList<string> errors, bool cacheable = true)
     {
+        IsCacheable = cacheable;
         IsSuccess = success;
         CompiledScript = script;
         Errors = errors;
@@ -263,6 +276,12 @@ public class ScriptCompilationResult
     /// <returns>A <see cref="ScriptCompilationResult"/> with <see cref="IsSuccess"/> set to <c>false</c> and the provided error messages.</returns>
     public static ScriptCompilationResult Failed(IReadOnlyList<string> errors) =>
         new(false, null, errors);
+
+    /// <summary>Creates a failure caused by an unexpected compiler fault; not cacheable.</summary>
+    /// <param name="errors">List of error messages.</param>
+    /// <returns>A non-cacheable failed result.</returns>
+    internal static ScriptCompilationResult Faulted(IReadOnlyList<string> errors) =>
+        new(false, null, errors, cacheable: false);
 }
 
 /// <summary>
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCache.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCache.cs
index 09729720..f64a9444 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCache.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCache.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System.Collections.Concurrent;
 using System.Security.Cryptography;
 using System.Text;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime.Scripts;
 
@@ -56,9 +57,15 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime.Scripts;
 /// </summary>
 internal sealed class SiteScriptCompileCache
 {
-    /// <summary>Upper bound on cached entries; crossing it evicts the oldest batch.</summary>
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Default upper bound on cached entries; crossing it evicts the oldest batch. The live bound
+    /// is <see cref="Capacity"/>, configurable via <c>SiteRuntimeOptions.ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries</c>.
+    /// </summary>
     internal const int MaxEntries = 1024;
 
+    /// <summary>Minimum interval between eviction Warning logs (a churning cache evicts constantly).</summary>
+    private static readonly TimeSpan EvictionWarnInterval = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Fraction of the cache evicted in one sweep (⅛ = 128 entries at
     /// <see cref="MaxEntries"/>). Batching amortises the O(n) scan across many inserts, so
@@ -69,10 +76,38 @@ internal sealed class SiteScriptCompileCache
     private readonly ConcurrentDictionary<string, CacheEntry> _cache = new();
     private readonly object _evictionLock = new();
     private long _hits;
+    private long _evictions;
+    private long _evictionsAtLastWarn;
+    private long _lastWarnTicks;
+    private readonly int _capacity;
+    private readonly ILogger? _logger;
 
     /// <summary>Monotonic access sequence; the recency stamp written onto entries.</summary>
     private long _accessSequence;
 
+    /// <summary>Creates a cache bounded at <see cref="MaxEntries"/>.</summary>
+    public SiteScriptCompileCache() : this(MaxEntries, null) { }
+
+    /// <summary>Creates a cache with an explicit bound and an optional logger for eviction warnings.</summary>
+    /// <param name="capacity">Maximum cached entries (clamped to at least 8).</param>
+    /// <param name="logger">Receives the rate-limited eviction Warning; may be null.</param>
+    public SiteScriptCompileCache(int capacity, ILogger? logger)
+    {
+        _capacity = Math.Max(8, capacity);
+        _logger = logger;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>The live entry bound for this cache instance.</summary>
+    public int Capacity => _capacity;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Total entries evicted since construction. Eviction discards only the managed
+    /// <c>Script&lt;object?&gt;</c>; the assembly Roslyn loaded for it stays in the default load context
+    /// for the process lifetime, and a later miss for the same body loads a second copy. A rising value
+    /// therefore means monotonic working-set growth — raise <c>ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries</c>.
+    /// </summary>
+    public long Evictions => Interlocked.Read(ref _evictions);
+
     /// <summary>Number of cache hits observed by this cache instance.</summary>
     public long Hits => Interlocked.Read(ref _hits);
 
@@ -102,7 +137,12 @@ internal sealed class SiteScriptCompileCache
 
         var result = factory();
 
-        if (_cache.Count >= MaxEntries)
+        // A faulted compile (unexpected exception, e.g. a transient OOM) is NOT a verdict on the
+        // code, so it must not become sticky: only success and diagnostic failures are cached.
+        if (!result.IsCacheable)
+            return result;
+
+        if (_cache.Count >= _capacity)
             EvictOldestBatch();
 
         _cache[key] = new CacheEntry(result) { LastAccess = NextStamp() };
@@ -123,9 +163,9 @@ internal sealed class SiteScriptCompileCache
     {
         lock (_evictionLock)
         {
-            if (_cache.Count < MaxEntries) return; // another thread already swept
+            if (_cache.Count < _capacity) return; // another thread already swept
 
-            var batch = Math.Max(1, MaxEntries / EvictionBatchDivisor);
+            var batch = Math.Max(1, _capacity / EvictionBatchDivisor);
 
             // ConcurrentDictionary.ToArray() takes an ATOMIC snapshot. Enumerating (or
             // LINQ-ing) the dictionary directly does not: LINQ's ToArray picks the
@@ -141,9 +181,30 @@ internal sealed class SiteScriptCompileCache
 
             foreach (var victim in victims)
                 _cache.TryRemove(victim, out _);
+
+            Interlocked.Add(ref _evictions, victims.Length);
+            WarnEvicted();
         }
     }
 
+    /// <summary>Rate-limited eviction Warning (first sweep, then at most one summary per interval). Caller holds the eviction lock.</summary>
+    private void WarnEvicted()
+    {
+        if (_logger is null) return;
+        var now = Environment.TickCount64;
+        if (_lastWarnTicks != 0 && now - _lastWarnTicks < (long)EvictionWarnInterval.TotalMilliseconds) return;
+
+        var total = Interlocked.Read(ref _evictions);
+        var sinceLast = total - _evictionsAtLastWarn;
+        _evictionsAtLastWarn = total;
+        _lastWarnTicks = now == 0 ? 1 : now;
+        _logger.LogWarning(
+            "Script compile cache is at its {Capacity}-entry bound and evicted {Evicted} entries ({Total} total). " +
+            "Eviction does not unload the Roslyn assembly: each recompile of an evicted body loads another permanent " +
+            "copy. Raise ScadaBridge:SiteRuntime:ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries if this repeats.",
+            _capacity, sinceLast, total);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// A cached compile result plus its recency stamp. A class (not a struct) so
     /// <see cref="Touch"/> can update recency in place without replacing the dictionary
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptions.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptions.cs
index a7b4f2dd..597367cb 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptions.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptions.cs
@@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ public class SiteRuntimeOptions
     /// </summary>
     public int ScriptExecutionMaxThreadCount { get; set; } = 32;
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Maximum entries in the site script compile cache (scripts + trigger expressions, keyed on
+    /// body hash). Crossing it evicts the oldest eighth. Size it above the site's count of
+    /// DISTINCT script/trigger bodies: eviction never unloads the Roslyn assembly, so a body that
+    /// is evicted and later recompiled loads a second permanent copy. Default: 1024.
+    /// </summary>
+    public int ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries { get; set; } = 1024;
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Maximum number of trigger-expression evaluations allowed to run
     /// concurrently across the whole process. Trigger expressions are non-blocking by
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptionsValidator.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptionsValidator.cs
index 7773904d..44c1d913 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptionsValidator.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime/SiteRuntimeOptionsValidator.cs
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ public sealed class SiteRuntimeOptionsValidator : OptionsValidatorBase<SiteRunti
             "CEILING for the instance-scaled script-execution pool and a ceiling below the floor would " +
             "silently shrink the configured pool.");
 
+        builder.RequireThat(options.ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries >= 8,
+            $"ScadaBridge:SiteRuntime:ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries must be at least 8 " +
+            $"(was {options.ScriptCompileCacheMaxEntries}); it bounds the compiled-script cache.");
+
         builder.RequireThat(options.TriggerEvalMaxConcurrency > 0,
             $"ScadaBridge:SiteRuntime:TriggerEvalMaxConcurrency must be greater than 0 " +
             $"(was {options.TriggerEvalMaxConcurrency}); it gates concurrent trigger-expression evaluations " +
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime.Tests/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCacheTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime.Tests/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCacheTests.cs
index 0f8f1f8d..f28e568a 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime.Tests/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCacheTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.SiteRuntime.Tests/Scripts/SiteScriptCompileCacheTests.cs
@@ -209,4 +209,48 @@ public class SiteScriptCompileCacheTests
             $"cache grew past its bound: {_cache.Count} vs max {SiteScriptCompileCache.MaxEntries} " +
             $"(+{tasks} racing-insert slack) after {tasks * perTask} distinct inserts");
     }
+
+    /// <summary>A faulted compile (unexpected exception) is returned but never cached: the next call recompiles (review 2026-10-21 01/SR-M2 follow-up).</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void GetOrAdd_FaultedResult_IsNotCached_NextCallRecompiles()
+    {
+        var calls = 0;
+        ScriptCompilationResult Factory() =>
+            ++calls == 1 ? ScriptCompilationResult.Faulted(["Compilation exception: boom"]) : Ok();
+
+        var first = _cache.GetOrAdd("return 7;", typeof(ScriptGlobals), Factory);
+        Assert.False(first.IsSuccess);
+        Assert.Equal(0, _cache.Count);
+
+        var second = _cache.GetOrAdd("return 7;", typeof(ScriptGlobals), Factory);
+        Assert.True(second.IsSuccess);
+        Assert.Equal(2, calls);
+        Assert.Equal(1, _cache.Count);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>A diagnostic failure IS a verdict on the code and stays cached.</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void GetOrAdd_DiagnosticFailure_IsStillCached()
+    {
+        var calls = 0;
+        ScriptCompilationResult Factory() { calls++; return ScriptCompilationResult.Failed(["CS1002"]); }
+
+        _cache.GetOrAdd("bad", typeof(ScriptGlobals), Factory);
+        _cache.GetOrAdd("bad", typeof(ScriptGlobals), Factory);
+
+        Assert.Equal(1, calls);
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>A configured capacity bounds the cache and eviction is counted (01/SR-M2).</summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void Eviction_HonoursConfiguredCapacity_AndCountsEvictions()
+    {
+        var cache = new SiteScriptCompileCache(16, logger: null);
+        for (var i = 0; i < 40; i++)
+            cache.GetOrAdd("return " + i + ";", typeof(ScriptGlobals), Ok);
+
+        Assert.Equal(16, cache.Capacity);
+        Assert.True(cache.Count <= 16);
+        Assert.True(cache.Evictions > 0);
+    }
 }