- `Wide` text-heavy reference shape beside Int-only `Item`
- `growth N int|text`: per-decile RSS read from own /proc/self/status
- `growth-verify`: survivor of a crash must be a contiguous intact prefix
- four footprint legs under a rootless cgroup v2 cap, swap on/off
- `ceiling` leg: die at the cap, then replay must come back intact
- footprint read as median-of-marginals; doublings a separate metric
- 121 checks, 0 failures; footprint gated ±10%, kill-timing ±100%
Measured, and it inverted two of the iteration's own predictions:
- footprint 96.5-100 B/row Int vs 320.6-324 B/row text = 3.3x, NOT the
"order of magnitude" three docs asserted
- table storage has NO checked ceiling: SIGKILL signal 9, not a catchable
WO_T_OOM. overcommit lets malloc succeed; kernel kills on page touch
- swap is NOT latency collapse: 900k rows 148s capped-with-swap vs 150s
uncapped. Append-mostly never re-touches cold pages
- ack-after-fsync survives an OOM kill: ~40k rows, no holes, no corruption
- iteration 2's budget dependency is REMOVED not satisfied — there is no
"swap onset" to derive a fraction from
- fix: subprocess returncode -9 was labelled a "checked refusal"; 137 is
the shell spelling of the same signal
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- engine: wo_idx_probe answers single-column equality from the index
hash buckets (idx_hash_key1 reproduces idx_hash bit for bit; verify
compares exactly as the slab walk did, so results identical);
composite indexes keep the walk; both executors wired (local + DB
actor RPC)
- compiler: probe_key_of_where lowers "var.col == key" on an indexed
column to DB_PROBE; all where guards still run (guard stays the
final arbiter); keys = ident/int-literal only; Float/Bytes excluded
(engine raw-eq narrower than VM float-eq)
- measured: reads 1.3k -> 1.3M ops/s, p50 600us -> 1us (~x850);
query x830; mixread 1.3k -> 89k s1, 21 -> ~1.9k sN
- gate policy moved into the driver (tolerance_for: refresh-proof);
latency floors max(4x,100us); quick mode skips poll-bound mix
floors; both tolerance classes proven to bite
- proof: test_table wo_idx_probe suite (RED first), corpus
query-index-probe 105/0, full battery green, TSan clean, two
campaigns pass the refreshed baseline
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- bench/baseline.json: 74 metrics from the first full campaign;
tolerances tuned by a two-run repeatability check (mix* 50%,
read/query 35%, rest 15% — rationale in _config)
- gate bites: --check mode; doctored copy fails, both real runs 74/0
- headline: durable seed 4.5k/s vs ram 297k/s (23's case); reads
O(table) at ~1.5k/s; mixread 1280 vs 21 ops/s single-vs-multi
(the arc's price); msgrate 13.4M vs 2.45M (mutex-inbox number)
- arc delta recorded in story 8; findings in sample README
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Mixer actors: 90/10 read/write, per-actor histograms merged through
the store itself (Hist rows) — exact aggregate percentiles
- msgrate: one-way flood at a worker-placed sink; measured 15.3M
msgs/s same-heap vs 2.06M cross-shard — the mutex-inbox number
- finding: point lookups are O(table) (probe walks all slabs), so
read-heavy mix is quadratic in store size — all-mode calibrated to
N/10 mix ops; the number 22 exists to publish
- TSan clean both shard counts (setarch -R, fibers-gate pattern)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- seed/read/query/write/wal/verify/verify-acked + all (one-process
campaign: RAM store dies with the process)
- per-op time.ticks, 1us-bucket histogram percentiles (reservoir
deviation: no element-write/sort in language; better tail anyway)
- Meta expectation rows ride the same WAL verify checks
- finding: hand-built multi<TableClass> SEGVs on drop (elems classed
OWNED, refs are scalar ids) — worked around, recorded
- finding: reads ~1.6k/s p50 595us vs 287k/s inserts — probe walks
all slabs; the number 22 exists to surface
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
