docs(porch-store): saturation gate leg closes out porch 1
- Add saturation leg (scripts/web-app-accept.sh): one-actor pool, WO_MAILBOX=2, 15 concurrent requests, exactly 3 served + 12 answer 503; execution count matches the 200 count, retry-after + real cause verified on the 503s - Guard make_pool(n<1) by clamping in make_pool itself, not pool_select's division -- that trap runs inside the middleware's own try/catch and would be swallowed as ordinary saturation forever - README: rate limiting + idempotency ledger rows moved to done, scoped to what the gate proves; documented Handler-decorator shape, Pool aliasing (WO-E222), call's scalar-only reply (WO-E226), pool size as a capacity decision - Story: Progress table filled with real hashes, 7/9 acceptance criteria marked verified with citations, 2 marked verified by construction (never gated even in the original plan), status: done - Status board: standup entry, porch 1 pending row updated - Recorded a pre-existing runtime hang (main() returns cleanly, OS process sometimes hangs under concurrent call()-parked callers) that also reaches the new leg's teardown; contained with kill -9 rather than asserted, so it can't flake the leg's actual subject Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit 21934b18910070a3f24b8bd4367fcb9d397dc1fb)
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| Rate limiting (fixed window, durable) | 🔶 tables + a first limiter exist (`middleware/store.wo`, `limiter.wo`); the counting path is being rebuilt to serialize through an actor pool, because read-modify-write from a handler fiber loses increments — [porch 1](../../stories/porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md) |
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| Idempotent replay of unsafe requests | 🔶 tables + a first middleware exist (`middleware/idempotent.wo`); being rebuilt to block on the in-flight owner rather than store-after-completion, which cannot detect a collision at all — [porch 1](../../stories/porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md) |
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| Rate limiting (fixed window, durable) | ✅ counting serializes through a per-key actor pool (`middleware/keypool.wo`, `limiter.wo`) — no handler-fiber read-modify-write left to lose an increment. Gate-proven: exact count under genuine concurrency (30 parallel requests, no lost increments), WAL-durable restart still limiting, `trust_proxy`'s peer fallback, and pool saturation failing closed (503, never a bypass) — [porch 1](../../stories/porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md) |
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| Idempotent replay of unsafe requests | ✅ the pool actor runs the route's `Handler` itself (`middleware/idempotent.wo`), so a duplicate blocks in the actor's mailbox until the owner's row commits — no in-flight heuristic, no window where a duplicate can see "nothing yet". Gate-proven: byte-identical replay, digest-mismatch refusal (422), concurrent duplicates never double-executing, a transient 5xx never replayed (solo or concurrent), ephemeral rows not leaking, and pool saturation failing closed (503) — [porch 1](../../stories/porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md) |
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| Transaction-per-request middleware (commit on 2xx, roll back otherwise) | ⏸ **v2** — needs iteration 18's `transaction { }` |
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| Cancellation → rollback | ⏸ arc landed; still needs v2's `transaction { }` (iteration 18) |
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| Migration generation + review workflow | ⬜ recorded future story (script-based destructive migrations) |
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| Eager-loading API (N+1) | ⬜ query-surface work (9-series), not framework code |
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| Tenant-scoped query roots | ⬜ future; wants the query surface to grow scoped roots first |
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Four things anyone wiring the rate limiter or idempotency into a real app
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needs to know, found in the course of building them ([porch 1](../../stories/porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md)):
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- **`Idempotent` is a `Handler` decorator, not a `Middleware`.** It holds
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`pool` + `inner` and implements `handle`, registered in place of the route's
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own handler (`app.post("/x", Idempotent { ..., inner: RealHandler {} })`),
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not via `app.use_mw`. This was forced, not stylistic: the actor has to be
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handed the route's `Handler` so it can run it inside `receive`, and only the
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handler slot exposes it.
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- **`Pool` cannot live in actor state or in a message.** It is demand-promoted
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to "traced" and WO-E222 refuses it there. A real fiber-per-connection porch
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app holds the bare `actor PoolMsg` handle in its connection-worker state and
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re-wraps it as `Pool { actors: [PoolSlot { a: handle }] }` wherever a
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`Limiter` or `Idempotent` needs one — see `ConnWorker` in the accept gate's
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own limiter/idempotent/saturation checks (`scripts/web-app-accept.sh`).
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- **A `call` reply is a copyable scalar only (WO-E226), and every `receive` in
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the program must agree on one return type.** That is why the stored response
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travels through the `@table` rather than the mailbox, and why outcome codes
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are packed into an `Int` (`pool_pack`/`pool_count`/`pool_begin` in
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`middleware/keypool.wo`).
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- **Pool size is a capacity decision, not a default to ignore.** `make_pool(n)`
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spawns `n` actors, sharded by hash of the key; a hot key's actor has a
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bounded mailbox (`WO_MAILBOX`, default 1024), and once it saturates under
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load every further request for that key answers 503 rather than being
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served uncounted or queued indefinitely. Undersizing the pool produces more
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503s under load — it does not silently let requests through uncounted, and
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it does not silently overshoot the limiter's or idempotency store's
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guarantees.
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### Security
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-- Spawns n identical actors and returns the pool. n is a capacity knob:
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-- too small and a hot key's mailbox saturates under load (a `call` trap,
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-- answered 503 by the middleware — never a silent bypass).
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-- answered 503 by the middleware — never a silent bypass). n < 1 is a
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-- caller misconfiguration, not a capacity choice, and guarding it HERE
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-- (not in pool_select's division) is what matters: every pool_select call
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-- runs inside the middleware's own `try ... catch (e) nil`, so a
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-- mod-by-zero trap there would be swallowed and misreported as ordinary
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-- 503 saturation forever, never surfacing the real bug.
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pub fn make_pool(n: Int) -> Pool {
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let count = n;
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if count < 1 { count = 1; }
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let actors: multi PoolSlot = [];
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let i = 0;
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while i < n {
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while i < count {
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push(actors, PoolSlot { a: spawn KeyActor {} });
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i = i + 1;
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}
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@ -67,112 +67,53 @@ behind this board; live Obsidian Dataview views:
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## ▶ NEXT PLAN
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### Landed 2026-09-01 — iteration 42, bounded subprocess (brainstorm to gate in one day)
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### Landed 2026-08-30 — porch 1 DONE, store-backed middleware closed out
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**Implemented last time (2026-09-01):** iteration
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[42](language-runtime-database/42-bounded-subprocess.md) end to end —
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`proc.run` reworked from shard-blocking to parked (pipe read ends +
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pidfd behind one epoll fd, the `_dl` retry mould), bounds everywhere
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(30 s / 1 MiB / 64 KiB defaults; per-shard ceiling 32; every violation
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kills the child and traps `WO_T_IO` naming the bound), owner-bound
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reaping (`fib_reap`/`wo_vm_destroy`/stop all sweep), and `proc.run_dl`
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(id 96) stating bounds per call. New suite `runtime/test/test_proc.c`
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(128 checks) and `docs/examples/subprocess` + `just subprocess`
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(12 checks). [Spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-09-01-bounded-subprocess-design.md)
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· [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-09-01-bounded-subprocess.md).
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**porch 1 (store-backed middleware) is `status: done`.** Task 5 added the
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last gate leg — pool saturation fails closed — and closed out the story: a
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one-actor pool with `WO_MAILBOX` shrunk to 2, 15 genuinely concurrent
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requests, exactly 3 served (1 running + 2 queued) and 12 answer 503 with
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`Retry-After` and the real cause named, and the execution count matches the
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200 count exactly (no overflow request runs uncounted). `scripts/web-app-accept.sh`
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is now 79 checks, 0 failures (`just web-app`). README's two ledger rows (rate
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limiting, idempotency) moved 🔶 → ✅, scoped to exactly what the gate proves,
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plus four API facts anyone wiring this into a real app needs (`Idempotent` is
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a `Handler` decorator not a `Middleware`; `Pool` cannot live in actor state or
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a message, WO-E222; a `call` reply is a scalar only, WO-E226; pool size is a
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capacity decision — undersizing means more 503s, never a silent bypass).
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Fixed en route: `make_pool(n)` with `n < 1` was a mod-by-zero in
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`pool_select`, guarded by clamping in `make_pool` itself — guarding the
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division alone would not have helped, since every `pool_select` call runs
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inside the middleware's own `try ... catch (e) nil` and would have swallowed
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the trap as ordinary saturation forever.
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**Key findings (measured, not asserted):** the suspected drain deadlock
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was REAL — a child writing 200 KB to stdout while holding stderr open
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hung the old `proc.run` until the test's 5 s alarm (stdout silently
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truncated at 8,192 bytes, exit code lost to SIGPIPE); the parked rework
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answers the same child in 15 ms. A `ping` request was answered in 2 ms
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while a `sleep 2` child was parked on the same shard. One thousand
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sequential spawns left the fd table byte-flat. SIGTERM with a `sleep 30`
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child live: clean exit 0, child pid verifiably gone from outside.
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**What did NOT fully land:** 2 of the story's 9 acceptance criteria
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(window-elapse pruning, clock-monotonicity) are implemented and verified by
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code inspection only, not by an integration leg — neither was gated even in
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the original phase plan, and gating them (waiting out a real window, faking a
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backward clock) is future work. Also unresolved, and explicitly NOT this
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task's to fix: a pre-existing C-runtime defect (recorded in Task 4's own
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notes) where concurrent `call()`-parked callers doing real per-request table
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I/O leave `main()` returning cleanly while the OS process itself sometimes
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hangs (~1-in-5). The new saturation leg is, by design, the sharpest
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reproducer of it yet; it and idempotent-check's own SIGTERM leg both contain
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it with an unconditional `kill -9` rather than asserting graceful shutdown, so
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it cannot flake either leg's actual subject.
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**Learned:** a new sysio builtin id is THREE registrations, not one —
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the wob.h enum, the loader's arity table, and builtin.c's dispatch
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range; missing any of them surfaces as `unknown stdlib builtin` from a
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perfectly valid image. And glibc 2.35 (the release build floor) has no
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pidfd wrappers — raw `syscall(SYS_pidfd_open/…_send_signal)` or the
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release build breaks.
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**.dev / reference projects used:** none — this task was internal-only
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(runtime/src/vm.c read directly for `wo_mailbox_cap`/`WO_MAILBOX` semantics to
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design a deterministic saturation leg).
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**Dependencies unblocked:** the streaming form (long-lived children,
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output as mailbox messages) now has its registry/pidfd/cap machinery
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built; the tmux/alacritty studies' stage A and the zen study's CDP
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driver (stage C′) queue behind that plus their own named gaps
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(PTY/termios/fd-passing; ws-client). Iteration 28's "bounded subprocess
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first" ordering item is spent.
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**Dependencies unblocked:** none newly technical — porch 2 (randomness and
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cookies) was already sequenced next, blocked only on its own CSPRNG builtin
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(language track). What porch 1 settles is the store pattern and gate shape
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2/3/4 inherit: serialize through an actor pool, persist in a `@table`, prove
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every claim with a gate leg scoped to exactly what it shows.
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**Next steps:** cherry-pick lang42 to master when declared ready; the
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startable set otherwise unchanged. The exploration studies' next
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builtin-sized item is the WebSocket client (zen C′).
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**`.dev/reference` used:** alacritty, tmux, zen-browser (the three
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parity studies that promoted this gap to an iteration); the kernel's own
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pidfd/epoll interfaces for the mechanics.
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### Landed 2026-08-30 — keys-resident delta updates DONE, loader refusal lifted
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**Implemented last time (2026-08-30):** the six-task
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[keys-resident delta updates](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-30-keys-resident-delta-updates.md)
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plan's final task — lifting the `runtime/src/loader.c` refusal of
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`resident: keys` and proving update end to end. The refusal (databasev2 2's
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Outstanding criterion) is now Met: a keys-resident row updates through a WAL
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delta record, read-modify-**append**, folded back to a value by
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`wo_wal_fold_row_at` on every read, replay and compaction. Proven four ways —
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the fold itself (earlier tasks), group-commit staging with the id-map re-point
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deferred to the post-barrier flush, replay/compaction folding delta chains the
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same way reads do, and this task's oracle test
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(`test_oracle_all_vs_keys_same_update_sequence`, `runtime/test/test_wal.c`)
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driving the SAME update sequence against a `resident: all` table and a
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`resident: keys` table and asserting byte-identical rows at every step.
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refused" to "the program runs and `place_order`'s stock decrement survives a
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restart" (11 checks, 0 failures).
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**A second bug surfaced auditing the request path before lifting the
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refusal** — the same audit class that caught `delete`'s memory corruption
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in the prior session. `idx_hash`, `idx_cols_equal` and `wo_idx_probe`
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but a keys-resident borrow was handing back VM-decoded `wo_str*` — a
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different struct layout, reproduced as a genuine ASan heap-buffer-overflow,
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not merely wrong values. The same bug was independently present in `db.c`'s
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because nothing could reach a keys-resident row through them while the
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annotation was refused. Fixed at the root: a keys-resident borrow now hands
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**What did NOT land, by design — three limitations documented, not fixed:**
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drain as an earlier request's in-flight update to it may see the last durable
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value, not that write; (2) replay is O(N²) in a row's delta-chain length,
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since each replayed delta re-folds the whole chain; (3) compaction triggers on
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byte ratio only, with no per-row delta-count signal, so one hot row (a single
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popular SKU — this feature's own motivating workload) can grow a long chain
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without moving the aggregate ratio enough to checkpoint. Item 3 is the
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sharper finding: the design's decision not to cap chain length rests on
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compaction bounding it, and for a hot-row workload it does not. Recorded in
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**Dependencies unblocked:** none newly technical — databasev2 2's own tasks 6
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close out) were already the next items and do not depend on this.
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**Next steps:** databasev2 2 tasks 6/7, as before. `database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md`
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**Next steps:** databasev2 2 tasks 6/7 remain the language-track's own
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critical path (unaffected by this session); on the porch track, porch 2's
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brainstorm (CSPRNG builtin id 96+, then repeated response headers) is next
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whenever that track resumes.
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### Landed 2026-08-29 — databasev2 2 tasks 5c/5d, and a branch consolidation
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| 8 | [Query grammar from corpora](databasev2/08-query-grammar-corpus.md) *(was 27)* | ⬜ whole-query `count`, `exists`; independent |
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| 9 | [Cross-program tables](databasev2/09-cross-program-tables.md) *(was 20)* | ⏸ hold — attach to a running program's database over local IPC |
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| 10 | [Keypair attach auth](databasev2/10-keypair-attach-auth.md) *(was 21)* | ⏸ hold — program identity as a keypair; needs 9 |
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| 11 | [Bounded delta chains](databasev2/11-bounded-delta-chains.md) | ✅ **LANDED 2026-08-30.** A `resident: keys` row's delta chain is bounded in the UPDATE path, because the checkpoint is blind to per-row chain length — it thresholds on whole-log bytes, so one hot row can grow an unbounded chain inside a log that never trips compaction. The fold now reports hop count (free — the walk already visited every hop), and past `WO_DELTA_MAX_HOPS` (16) the update writes a full row image instead of a delta, resetting depth to 0. **Two things the tests corrected.** The flattened image is a `WO_WAL_UPDATE`, not an `INSERT`: the row's original INSERT is already in a live log, so a second one for the same id is a duplicate that replay correctly refuses as corruption — INSERT is right only for compaction, which builds a *fresh* log. And the **proportional ceiling was removed as dead code**: with the absolute term at 64 MiB, garbage large enough to reach a 256 MiB ceiling has already tripped it, so the branch was unreachable. Borrowing both constants from postgres was the wrong inference — PG needs two because it thresholds on *tuples* with its pair at opposite ends (base 50, max 1e8); this thresholds on *bytes*, where one constant does both jobs. Found by trying to write a test for the ceiling and finding no input could reach it. Four tests: depth stays bounded across 2K+2 updates, a flattened chain replays, a delta on an **indexed** column composes with flattening (checked at every step across the bound and after restart — found no product defect), and the policy's absolute term with its boundary. `test_wal` **5700 pass / 0 fail**; `wovm-test` and `woc-test` green. **One criterion is weaker than written:** the replay check asserts an expected value, not a `resident: all` oracle table. [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-30-bounded-delta-chains-design.md) |
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| 12 | [Schema migrations](databasev2/12-schema-migrations.md) | ✅ **LANDED 2026-08-31.** A `@table` class is the schema, the log is the database, and boot now compares them — before this, an added or deleted field turned a healthy `WO_DATA` into "corruption" and reordering declarations silently decoded rows into the wrong class. Landed: `WO_WAL_SCHEMA` head record (written LAZILY ahead of the first real record — an eager head broke `durable: false`'s documented zero-bytes contract by 75 bytes and the gate caught it), a name-keyed diff whose refusals are per-class POISONS that bite only when a record of the class is met, and a record-level TRANSCODE: cids remap by name including inside stored owned values, deleted values freed, added fields zero-filled, delta back-pointers rewritten through an offset map with deltas on deleted fields SPLICED out; temp+fsync+rename, compaction's crash discipline. **Two bugs the tests forced out:** a poisoned class skipped plan identity so the retype refusal fell through to generic "corruption" (the message this iteration exists to replace), and early `goto corrupt` freed uninitialized memory. End-to-end: `migrating \`Note\`: +flag` then `flag=0`; retype refuses naming `val`, exit 2, old binary still boots the refused log. 21 new tests, `test_wal` **5966/0**; wovm/woc/site/residency gates green. v2 holds rename (`@renamed_from`), retypes, and data/seed migrations. [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-31-schema-migrations-design.md) |
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| 1 | [Store-backed middleware](porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md) | ⬜ **startable today** — rate limiter + idempotency over a `@table`; needs no new primitive, only `time.ticks`. Durable counters are the differentiator over Fiber's in-memory default, so the gate includes a restart |
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| 1 | [Store-backed middleware](porch/01-store-backed-middleware.md) | ✅ **DONE 2026-08-30** — rate limiter + idempotency serialized through a per-key actor pool, both durable in a `@table`. Gate-proven end to end: threshold + restart + exact concurrent counts (limiter), byte-identical replay + digest refusal + concurrent duplicates + no-5xx-replay (idempotency), and pool saturation failing closed (503, never a bypass) |
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| 2 | [Randomness and cookies](porch/02-randomness-and-cookies.md) | ⬜ the foundation. Phase A is **language-track work**: a CSPRNG builtin (id 96+; 89/90 are iteration 31's reserved holes). Then repeated response headers — `Resp.headers` is a `map<Text,Text>` and structurally cannot emit two `Set-Cookie` lines — then `Cookie:` parsing and signed cookies |
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| 3 | [Sessions](porch/03-sessions.md) | ⬜ after 2. Server-side rows keyed by a random id, idle **and** absolute timeout, id rotation on login, revoke-all-for-principal, durable across restart |
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| 4 | [CSRF](porch/04-csrf.md) | ⬜ after 2 + 3. Session-bound tokens, trusted origins as the second layer, opt-in single use, and refusal classes that are distinguishable in logs |
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| 27 | Query grammar from real embedded-DB corpora — whole-query count + correlated exists, driven by the skillhost SQL catalogue; add only what a corpus uses | **no spec yet** — three forks; may collapse to "confirm len(query) + add exists" |
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| 14 | skillhost host workload — port skillhost (MCP host + confined script runner) to writeonce; drives the missing host capabilities into the open (bounded subprocess, stdin/stdout transport, fs metadata, FFI-vs-out-of-process) | **no spec yet** — gaps recorded in the iteration; each gap brainstormed on demand, bounded-subprocess first |
|
||||
| 42 | [Bounded subprocess](language-runtime-database/42-bounded-subprocess.md) — `proc.run` bounded in place (deadline, output caps, per-shard ceiling, owner-bound reaping via pidfd, fiber parked) + `proc.run_dl`; streaming form deferred by name | ✅ **DONE 2026-09-01** — [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-09-01-bounded-subprocess-design.md) · [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-09-01-bounded-subprocess.md); test_proc 128/0, `just subprocess` 12/0; see NEXT PLAN |
|
||||
| 17 | library projects + dependency privacy — `wo.toml` kind = "library" (checkable without entry, dual lib+bin) + Go-style `internal/` at the [deps] boundary; framework reorg demonstrates both | ✅ **landed 2026-08-20** — [spec](../superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-library-kind-internal-design.md) · [plan](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-20-library-kind-internal.md) |
|
||||
| 10 | HTTP service layer | [plan 6](../superpowers/plans/2026-08-01-http-service-layer.md) |
|
||||
| 11 | Fibers | vision §3, [blue-green exploration](../plan/exploration/blue-green-vm/00-vision.md) |
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
track: porch
|
||||
iteration: "1"
|
||||
status: in-progress
|
||||
status: done
|
||||
readiness: ready
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -63,10 +63,14 @@ globally.
|
|||
|
||||
| Phase | State |
|
||||
| --- | --- |
|
||||
| A — store convention | ✅ `519d411` — two purpose-shaped tables. **Outstanding**: the request-digest column the refusal criterion needs |
|
||||
| B — rate limiter | ⚠️ **superseded** — `5b1e82a` built the store-after shape; see History |
|
||||
| C — idempotency | ⚠️ **superseded** — `aee7926` built the same shape; `5c3544d` fixed its missing `use json`, which had made the whole porch library uncompilable |
|
||||
| D — gate and ledger | ⬜ not started; the restart leg is the one that must not be skipped |
|
||||
| A — store convention | ✅ `519d411` two purpose-shaped tables; `3a9bddc` added the digest column the refusal criterion needs |
|
||||
| B — rate limiter | ✅ `676e651` the shared key-pool actor (also C's foundation), `153fd29` its `reset_at` unit fix; `a653dd0` the limiter delegates all counting to the pool, `831e9d8` `trust_proxy`'s absent-XFF fallback fix |
|
||||
| C — idempotency | ✅ `eae1b06` rebuilt on the same pool actor (the actor runs the route's `Handler` itself); three fix rounds: `e61015f` never replay a transient 5xx, `464147a` close the ephemeral-row race, `9ad5947` delete the ephemeral row after one read |
|
||||
| D — gate and ledger | ✅ + this commit — the pool-saturation gate leg (§19, `scripts/web-app-accept.sh`), README ledger rows to ✅, pool-size capacity docs, `make_pool`'s mod-by-zero guard |
|
||||
|
||||
Superseded pre-rewrite commits (`5b1e82a`, `aee7926`, `5c3544d`) are kept in
|
||||
History below rather than deleted — the reasoning for the rebuild survives
|
||||
there.
|
||||
|
||||
## Phases
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -123,35 +127,61 @@ globally.
|
|||
|
||||
- **Given** a limiter of N requests per window, **when** a client sends N+1,
|
||||
**then** the first N succeed and the last is 429 with `Retry-After` set.
|
||||
**Met** — `scripts/web-app-accept.sh` §17a: 5 requests pass, the 6th is 429,
|
||||
carrying `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0`.
|
||||
- **Given** counters at their limit, **when** the process is SIGTERMed and
|
||||
restarted, **then** the client is still limited — the counters replayed from
|
||||
the WAL rather than resetting to zero.
|
||||
the WAL rather than resetting to zero. **Met** — §17b: same client, same
|
||||
key, still 429 after a restart against the same `WO_DATA`.
|
||||
- **Given** a window that has fully elapsed, **when** the same client returns,
|
||||
**then** it is served, and the expired row is pruned on that access.
|
||||
**then** it is served, and the expired row is pruned on that access. **Met
|
||||
by construction, not gate-exercised** — `keypool.wo`'s kind-1 arm deletes the
|
||||
stale row and inserts a fresh count-1 row once `now - row.window >
|
||||
msg.window`; no gate leg waits out a full window (the keypool leg's own
|
||||
window is 60s) to observe it end to end.
|
||||
- **Given** the system clock jumping backwards, **when** the window is
|
||||
evaluated, **then** no extra allowance is granted (`time.ticks` is monotonic).
|
||||
**Met by construction, not gate-exercised** — the counting path reads only
|
||||
`time.ticks()`, never `time.now()`; `time.now()` feeds only the advisory
|
||||
`reset_at`/`X-RateLimit-Reset` value, never the count itself. No gate leg
|
||||
fakes a backward clock jump.
|
||||
- **Given** a POST with an idempotency key that has been seen, **when** it is
|
||||
replayed, **then** the stored response is returned byte-identically and the
|
||||
handler's side effect count is unchanged — proven by a row count, not by a
|
||||
log line.
|
||||
log line. **Met** — §18a: same key + same body both 200, byte-identical
|
||||
bodies, `ExecMark` row count stays 1.
|
||||
- **Given** a reused idempotency key with a different request body, **when** it
|
||||
arrives, **then** it is refused rather than answered with the other request's
|
||||
response.
|
||||
response. **Met** — §18b: 200 then 422, the 422 body is the refusal (never
|
||||
the first response), the refused request never ran the handler.
|
||||
- **Given** two identical keyed requests in flight at once, **when** both are
|
||||
dispatched, **then** exactly one executes and the other receives that one's
|
||||
stored response — never a refusal, never a partial write. *(Restated
|
||||
2026-08-29: this used to permit 409. Blocking supersedes it — the duplicate
|
||||
parks on `call` until the owner reports.)*
|
||||
parks on `call` until the owner reports.)* **Met** — §18c: two genuinely
|
||||
concurrent duplicates both answer 200 with identical bytes, overlap timing
|
||||
proves genuine concurrency, and `ExecMark` shows exactly one execution.
|
||||
- **Given** N concurrent requests for one limiter key, **when** they are
|
||||
counted, **then** the total is exactly N and no increment is lost. *(Added:
|
||||
unreachable before the pool, and the defect that most undermines a limiter.)*
|
||||
**Met** — §17c: 30 genuinely parallel requests, the count afterward is exact.
|
||||
- **Given** a saturated actor pool, **when** a request arrives, **then** it is
|
||||
refused with 503 rather than served uncounted. *(Added: fail-closed, because
|
||||
saturating the pool must not become the limiter's bypass.)*
|
||||
saturating the pool must not become the limiter's bypass.)* **Met** — §19: a
|
||||
one-actor pool with `WO_MAILBOX` shrunk to 2, 15 concurrent requests, exactly
|
||||
3 served (1 running + 2 queued) and 12 answer 503, each 503 carrying
|
||||
`Retry-After` and naming the real cause; the `SatMark` execution count
|
||||
matches the 200 count exactly — no overflow request ran uncounted.
|
||||
|
||||
None of these are met yet — Phase D owns the gate, and B and C are being
|
||||
rebuilt. The concurrency legs need genuine parallelism: a test that cannot
|
||||
fail before the fix is not a test.
|
||||
Seven of nine criteria are gate-proven end to end
|
||||
(§17a/§17b/§17c/§18a/§18b/§18c/§19). The remaining two — window-elapse pruning
|
||||
and clock-monotonicity — are implemented and hold by construction and code
|
||||
inspection; neither was gated even in the original phase plan below, and
|
||||
gating them (a real wait-out-a-window run, a faked backward clock) is future
|
||||
work, not this task's. The concurrency legs needed genuine parallelism: a test
|
||||
that cannot fail before the fix is not a test, and `scripts/web-app-accept.sh`
|
||||
§17c/§18c/§19 all use backgrounded, concurrently-launched clients rather than
|
||||
a sequential loop.
|
||||
|
||||
## Out Of Scope
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -221,6 +251,45 @@ lives in the VM, and that is exactly the blocking primitive the design needs.
|
|||
|
||||
## History
|
||||
|
||||
**2026-08-30 — Task 5: the saturation leg, and closing out.** The gate now
|
||||
proves fail-closed saturation (§19 of `scripts/web-app-accept.sh`): a one-actor
|
||||
pool, `WO_MAILBOX` shrunk to 2, 15 genuinely concurrent requests — exactly 3
|
||||
served (1 running + 2 queued) and 12 answer 503, retry-after set, the real
|
||||
cause named, and the execution count matches the 200 count exactly. Also
|
||||
fixed while wiring pool size: `make_pool(n)` with `n < 1` was a mod-by-zero in
|
||||
`pool_select`; guarding it in `pool_select` alone would not have helped —
|
||||
every `pool_select` call runs inside the middleware's own `try ... catch (e)
|
||||
nil`, so the trap would have been swallowed and misreported as ordinary 503
|
||||
saturation forever. `make_pool` now clamps `n < 1` to 1.
|
||||
|
||||
Four things discovered building Tasks 2–4, not in the original design, now
|
||||
recorded in `docs/examples/porch/README.md` (not only here, since anyone
|
||||
wiring this into a real app needs them): `Idempotent` is a `Handler`
|
||||
decorator, not a `Middleware`; `Pool` cannot live in actor state or a message
|
||||
(WO-E222) and must be re-wrapped from a bare `actor PoolMsg` handle per use;
|
||||
a `call` reply must be a copyable scalar (WO-E226), which is why the response
|
||||
travels through the `@table`; and pool size is a capacity decision — a
|
||||
saturated pool fails closed with 503, never a silent bypass.
|
||||
|
||||
**Runtime defects found during this work — C runtime, not porch bugs:**
|
||||
|
||||
- `try EXPR catch (e) nil` cannot distinguish a literal `Int 0` reply from a
|
||||
trap. Worked around by never packing a zero outcome code (`pool_pack` in
|
||||
`middleware/keypool.wo`).
|
||||
- A `Text`/map value read off `json.decode(...) as T` is corrupted once
|
||||
embedded in a struct crossing a function-return boundary. Worked around by
|
||||
forcing fresh text with `.. ""` on every field copied out of a decoded
|
||||
record (`idempotent.wo`'s replay path).
|
||||
- Under concurrent `call()`-parked callers doing real per-request table I/O,
|
||||
`main()` returns cleanly but the OS process sometimes hangs (~1-in-5); an
|
||||
aggressive variant produced a segfault. Reproduces more readily at higher
|
||||
sequential insert+delete volume against the same key (N=4/5 crashed; N=1–3
|
||||
clean over 12+ trials). Both `idempotent-check`'s own SIGTERM leg (§18) and
|
||||
the new saturation leg (§19) — the sharpest reproducer yet, by design — hit
|
||||
this; both contain it with an unconditional `kill -9` fallback rather than
|
||||
asserting graceful shutdown, so it cannot flake a leg whose actual subject
|
||||
is something else. Root-causing this is C-runtime work, out of scope here.
|
||||
|
||||
**2026-08-29 — Phases B and C superseded before review.** Both were built
|
||||
against the original framing and both store the response *after* the handler
|
||||
returns. Three of the seven original criteria cannot hold in that shape, which
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1062,6 +1062,193 @@ else
|
|||
bad "idempotent-compile" "$(printf '%s' "$ip_out" | head -1)"
|
||||
fi
|
||||
|
||||
# ---- 19. porch-store task 5: pool saturation fails closed (503, no bypass) --
|
||||
# Same flattening trick as the earlier legs. WO_MAILBOX (runtime/src/vm.c,
|
||||
# wo_mailbox_cap, default 1024) shrinks the runtime's per-actor mailbox cap
|
||||
# so a handful of concurrent requests can actually exhaust it. A pool of
|
||||
# ONE actor -- the only address a one-slot Pool's pool_select can ever
|
||||
# return -- fed a handler that blocks it for SP_SLEEP_MS turns every
|
||||
# genuinely-concurrent request into a race for that one mailbox's slots.
|
||||
# Distinct idempotency keys per request rule out replay masking a request
|
||||
# that never actually ran the handler.
|
||||
#
|
||||
# The runtime frees a reserved slot the instant a message is POPPED for
|
||||
# delivery, not when its receive returns (wo_mbox_reserve/release), so
|
||||
# with cap C exactly the first C+1 concurrent calls to the one busy actor
|
||||
# ever get a slot -- one executing, C queued behind it -- and every later
|
||||
# concurrent call finds the mailbox full and traps (WO_T_ACTOR), which
|
||||
# idempotent.wo's own try/catch turns into 503. SP_SLEEP_MS only has to
|
||||
# outlast the time it takes SP_N curl clients to all reach their `call`,
|
||||
# comfortably true on localhost.
|
||||
SP="$W/saturation-check"
|
||||
cp -r "$ROOT/docs/examples/porch" "$SP"
|
||||
rm -f "$SP/wo.toml"
|
||||
rm -rf "$SP/target"
|
||||
cat >"$SP/saturation_check_main.wo" <<'WOEOF'
|
||||
use net
|
||||
use env
|
||||
use http
|
||||
use router
|
||||
use middleware
|
||||
use time
|
||||
|
||||
@table(name: "sat_execs")
|
||||
class SatMark {
|
||||
n: Int
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
-- Blocks the pool's one actor for a few seconds on every genuine
|
||||
-- (non-replay) execution -- the same shape as idempotent-check's
|
||||
-- SlowHandler (section 18), its own table so the two legs' counts can
|
||||
-- never be confused.
|
||||
class SlowSatHandler {
|
||||
fn handle(req: Req) -> Resp {
|
||||
insert SatMark { n: 1 };
|
||||
time.sleep(3000);
|
||||
return ok_json("{\"ok\":true}");
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
class SatExecCount {
|
||||
fn handle(req: Req) -> Resp {
|
||||
let n = len(from e in SatMark select e);
|
||||
return ok_json("{\"count\":${n}}");
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
fn build_app(slot: actor PoolMsg) -> App {
|
||||
let app = App { middleware: [], routes: [] };
|
||||
let p = Pool { actors: [PoolSlot { a: slot }] };
|
||||
app.post("/slow", Idempotent { key_header: "idempotency-key", pool: p, inner: SlowSatHandler {} });
|
||||
app.get("/execs", SatExecCount {});
|
||||
return app;
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
class Conn { fd: net.Conn }
|
||||
|
||||
class ConnWorker {
|
||||
slot: actor PoolMsg
|
||||
fn receive(msg: Conn) {
|
||||
let app = build_app(self.slot);
|
||||
app.handle_conn(msg.fd, 8000, 8000);
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
fn main(args: multi Text) -> Int {
|
||||
if len(args) < 1 {
|
||||
print_err("usage: saturation_check <port>");
|
||||
return 2;
|
||||
}
|
||||
let port = parse_int(args[0]);
|
||||
if port == nil { print_err("bad port"); return 2; }
|
||||
let ka: actor PoolMsg = spawn KeyActor {};
|
||||
let srv = net.listen("127.0.0.1", port);
|
||||
print("listening on 127.0.0.1:${port}");
|
||||
while true {
|
||||
if env.stopping() { net.close(srv); return 0; }
|
||||
let c = net.accept_dl(srv, 250);
|
||||
if c != nil {
|
||||
let w: actor Conn = spawn ConnWorker { slot: ka };
|
||||
send(w, Conn { fd: c });
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
WOEOF
|
||||
|
||||
if sp_out="$("$WOC" --emit "$SP" -o "$SP/saturation_check.wob" 2>&1)"; then
|
||||
ok "saturation: compiles (one-actor pool, slow in-actor handler)"
|
||||
|
||||
SPORT=$((PORT + 3))
|
||||
SPDATA="$W/saturation-data"; mkdir -p "$SPDATA"
|
||||
SPSTATUS="$W/saturation-status"; mkdir -p "$SPSTATUS"
|
||||
SP_CAP=2
|
||||
SP_N=15
|
||||
printf '\n===== saturation check — port %s (WO_MAILBOX=%s) =====\n' "$SPORT" "$SP_CAP" >>"$SRVLOG"
|
||||
LEGFROM=$(( $(wc -l < "$SRVLOG") + 1 ))
|
||||
WO_DATA="$SPDATA" WO_MAILBOX="$SP_CAP" "$WOVM" "$SP/saturation_check.wob" "$SPORT" >>"$SRVLOG" 2>&1 &
|
||||
SRV=$!
|
||||
spwait_listen() {
|
||||
for _ in $(seq 1 40); do
|
||||
tail -n "+$LEGFROM" "$SRVLOG" 2>/dev/null | grep -q listening && return
|
||||
sleep 0.1
|
||||
done
|
||||
}
|
||||
spwait_listen
|
||||
|
||||
# SP_N genuinely-parallel duplicates, each its own idempotency key, all
|
||||
# against the SAME (one-actor) pool -- a sequential version proves nothing,
|
||||
# same reasoning as every other concurrency leg in this file.
|
||||
sp_pids=()
|
||||
for i in $(seq 1 $SP_N); do
|
||||
( st="$(curl -s -D "$SPSTATUS/$i.hdr" -o "$SPSTATUS/$i.body" -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 15 -X POST \
|
||||
-H "Host: a" -H "Idempotency-Key: sat-key-$i" -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
|
||||
--data-binary "x" "http://127.0.0.1:$SPORT/slow")"
|
||||
echo "$st" >"$SPSTATUS/$i.status" ) &
|
||||
sp_pids+=("$!")
|
||||
done
|
||||
for p in "${sp_pids[@]}"; do wait "$p"; done
|
||||
|
||||
sp_200=0
|
||||
sp_503=0
|
||||
sp_other=0
|
||||
sp_one503=""
|
||||
for i in $(seq 1 $SP_N); do
|
||||
st="$(cat "$SPSTATUS/$i.status" 2>/dev/null)"
|
||||
case "$st" in
|
||||
200) sp_200=$((sp_200 + 1)) ;;
|
||||
503) sp_503=$((sp_503 + 1)); sp_one503="$i" ;;
|
||||
*) sp_other=$((sp_other + 1)) ;;
|
||||
esac
|
||||
done
|
||||
sp_want_ok=$((SP_CAP + 1))
|
||||
sp_want_bad=$((SP_N - sp_want_ok))
|
||||
[[ "$sp_other" -eq 0 ]] \
|
||||
&& ok "saturation: every one of $SP_N requests answered 200 or 503, nothing else" \
|
||||
|| bad "saturation-codes" "$sp_other requests answered neither (200=$sp_200 503=$sp_503)"
|
||||
[[ "$sp_200" -eq "$sp_want_ok" && "$sp_503" -eq "$sp_want_bad" ]] \
|
||||
&& ok "saturation: exactly $sp_want_ok served (1 running + $SP_CAP queued), $sp_want_bad overflow answer 503" \
|
||||
|| bad "saturation-threshold" "200=$sp_200 503=$sp_503 want 200=$sp_want_ok 503=$sp_want_bad"
|
||||
|
||||
sp_execs="$(curl -s --max-time 5 -H "Host: a" "http://127.0.0.1:$SPORT/execs" \
|
||||
| grep -o '"count":[0-9]*' | cut -d: -f2)"
|
||||
[[ "$sp_execs" == "$sp_200" ]] \
|
||||
&& ok "saturation: handler ran exactly once per 200 (SatMark count=$sp_execs) -- no overflow request slipped through uncounted" \
|
||||
|| bad "saturation-execs" "SatMark count=$sp_execs want $sp_200 (== the 200 count)"
|
||||
|
||||
if [[ -n "$sp_one503" ]]; then
|
||||
grep -qi '^retry-after:' "$SPSTATUS/$sp_one503.hdr" \
|
||||
&& ok "saturation 503 carries Retry-After" \
|
||||
|| bad "saturation-503-retry-after" "$(head -1 "$SPSTATUS/$sp_one503.hdr")"
|
||||
grep -q 'idempotency store saturated' "$SPSTATUS/$sp_one503.body" \
|
||||
&& ok "saturation 503 names the real cause (idempotency store saturated), not a generic failure" \
|
||||
|| bad "saturation-503-body" "$(cat "$SPSTATUS/$sp_one503.body")"
|
||||
else
|
||||
bad "saturation-503-missing" "no 503 observed among $SP_N requests -- cannot verify overflow shape"
|
||||
fi
|
||||
|
||||
# Teardown is deliberately NOT asserted pass/fail here (unlike the earlier
|
||||
# legs' own SIGTERM checks): this leg's subject is saturation, not graceful
|
||||
# shutdown -- already proven in §14 and (usually) §17b/§18. This exact
|
||||
# workload -- many concurrent call()-parked callers against one busy actor
|
||||
# doing real per-request table I/O -- is the sharpest known trigger for a
|
||||
# pre-existing runtime defect (see the story's Outstanding notes): main()
|
||||
# can return cleanly while the OS process itself hangs. Failing this leg
|
||||
# over that already-documented, out-of-scope defect would be exactly the
|
||||
# kind of flaky check that erodes trust in every other leg in this file, so
|
||||
# it force-kills instead of asserting graceful-vs-forced.
|
||||
kill -TERM "$SRV" 2>/dev/null
|
||||
spstopped=1
|
||||
for _ in $(seq 1 30); do kill -0 "$SRV" 2>/dev/null || { spstopped=0; break; }; sleep 0.1; done
|
||||
if [[ $spstopped -eq 1 ]]; then
|
||||
kill -9 "$SRV" 2>/dev/null
|
||||
for _ in $(seq 1 20); do kill -0 "$SRV" 2>/dev/null || break; sleep 0.1; done
|
||||
fi
|
||||
ok "saturation: server torn down (graceful SIGTERM, or kill -9 on the known actor-pool hang)"
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SRV=""
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else
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bad "saturation-compile" "$(printf '%s' "$sp_out" | head -1)"
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fi
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echo
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printf 'web-app-accept: %d checks, %d failures\n' "$((pass + fail))" "$fail"
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[[ $fail -eq 0 ]]
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