Bound the supervisor's worker population and make home reaping safe - #378
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A dev box reached 2,770 live `wire daemon` children under a `max_workers = 16` cap: 6.2 GB resident, load average 994, swap exhausted, and a 112 MB daemon log written by all of them at once. Three defects compounded. Eviction was a request, not a guarantee. `retire_inactive_worker` sent one un-escalated SIGTERM per poll and discarded the result. A worker parked in a relay reconnect backoff (1s-30s sleeps against an unreachable relay) does not act on SIGTERM promptly, so the signal achieved nothing while the supervisor had already dropped the child from `children`. Add `kill_worker_verified`: SIGTERM, wait, escalate to SIGKILL, confirm. Evicted children were never reaped. Dropping a `Child` neither kills nor waits, and `process_alive` is a `kill(pid, 0)` probe that reports a zombie as alive, so a killed worker was indistinguishable from a survivor. Every fork-exec now lives in either `children` (intent) or a new `orphans` list (outstanding fact) until `terminate_and_reap` has both killed and reaped it. That, not the in-memory map, is what bounds the population. The husk reaper could never drain. It only removes homes with no identity and no sync history, but session adoption mints a home that gains a `private.key` within seconds — on the affected box 8,975 of 8,983 homes held one and *zero* matched the husk predicate, while the supervisor stat-ed all of them every 10s. Add `reap_idle_homes`, a separate path keyed on idleness rather than emptiness: unbound, no live lease, no pending outbox, no live daemon, and untouched for 14 days (`WIRE_IDLE_REAP_MAX_AGE_DAYS`, 0 disables). Named sessions and registry-bound homes are still never touched, and the husk predicate is unchanged. Verified live: supervisor holds 4 children across 12 poll cycles with 4 spawns, no orphan churn, and a 2.4 KB log.
Step 3 moves an evicted child onto the orphan list and then, in the same pass, calls `retire_inactive_worker` for every session that is no longer selected — including the one just evicted. That call would kill our own child by pidfile. We hold its `Child` handle and have not waited on it, so the kill leaves a zombie, and `process_alive` is a `kill(pid, 0)` probe that reports a zombie as alive. The function therefore burned its full SIGTERM grace, escalated to SIGKILL, burned that grace too, and logged a false "SURVIVED SIGKILL" — three seconds of stall in the single-threaded poll loop, plus a bogus alarm, on every single eviction. Pass the set of pids we hold a `Child` for (selected children plus orphans awaiting teardown) and skip them. Their teardown belongs to the orphan drain in step 5, which is the only path that can actually reap them. The regression test asserts both halves: the owned child survives the call, and the call returns inside the kill grace rather than blocking on it. Without the guard it fails, and takes 3.18s to do so against 0.01s with it.
…he poll Adversarial review of the previous two commits found the idle reaper could destroy live identities, and that verified kills had moved the cost onto the poll loop. Both are fixed here. The reaper's "skip registry-bound homes" guard could never fire. Registry values are human session names (`slancha-api`); by-key directories are `hex(sha256(key)[..8])`, so `bound_names.contains(dir)` compared two namespaces and was always false. The 16-hex shape filter was not a backstop either: a named session's home is `session_dir(name) = session_home_for_key(sanitize_name(name))`, which is also 16 lowercase hex. Both apparent protections were inoperative, and unlike the husk reaper this one deletes homes holding a `private.key` — losing a DID and orphaning every peer's trust entry. `reap_husks` shares the broken check but survives it because its other predicates already exclude every real session; removing those predicates is what made it load-bearing. Guard by resolved home PATH instead, taken from the same `list_sessions()` the supervisor plans from. Path identity has no namespace to confuse. Also refuse any home holding inbox history: received messages exist nowhere else and the outbox check does not cover them. The test that was supposed to catch this instead certified a fiction — it protected a directory literally named `peat-eagle`, a layout that cannot occur. Rewritten against the real resolver via `by_key_dir_name`, and it fails when the guard is removed. Retirement no longer blocks. Verifying a kill inline cost up to 3s and runs once per *unselected* session — 822 of them on the affected box — so a poll could stretch from 10s to tens of minutes, stalling spawns, reaping and the orphan drain. It now sends SIGTERM once, records the pid, and escalates to SIGKILL on a later poll, re-validating the target's cmdline before every signal so a recycled pid is never hit. Also: SIGKILL on a 1.5s grace made two truncating writes reachable — `last_sync.json` (ensure_up.rs) and `notify.cursor` (inbox_watch.rs), the only two state writers in the repo not already using tmp+rename. A torn cursor resets every peer cursor to zero and replays the whole inbox as duplicate toasts, which the code documents. Both now write atomically. Smaller review findings: idle reaping no longer sits inside the husk reaper's gate, so disabling one knob does not silently disable the other; the cheap idleness check runs before the read_dir-and-read-bodies guards; `days * 86_400` saturates rather than wrapping a fat-fingered value into a tiny cutoff. Two weak tests were tightened — escalation now asserts the grace was actually spent, and the idempotence test waits for the child instead of racing it. Known and not addressed: a supervisor killed by signal still leaks its children, since `Child` neither kills nor waits on drop. A restarted supervisor retires unselected leftovers and adopts selected ones, so the population stays bounded at roughly 2x max_workers across a restart rather than growing without limit.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe supervisor now performs asynchronous worker retirement, orphan reaping, and configurable idle-home cleanup. It tracks child ownership and protects active homes. Last-sync and cursor records now use atomic temporary-file replacement. ChangesSupervisor lifecycle
Atomic state persistence
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR improves worker cleanup, idle-home reclamation, and crash-safe state writes, but orphan teardown can still stall supervisor polling, concurrent runs can corrupt or reject shared temporary-file replacements, and cleanup can delete identity-bearing homes when state checks fail or activity changes during deletion. These risks could delay recovery, replay state, or cause local identity loss, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Supervisor
participant Worker
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Supervisor->>Worker: inspect ownership and activity
Supervisor->>Worker: retire unselected or orphaned child
Worker-->>Supervisor: exit status
Supervisor->>Worker: escalate to SIGKILL if needed
Supervisor->>HomeStore: sweep idle by-key homes
HomeStore-->>Supervisor: protected or removable home status
Supervisor->>HomeStore: remove eligible home
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In `@src/daemon_supervisor.rs`:
- Around line 938-941: Make the orphan drain non-blocking by staging teardown
across polls: update ChildState to track an optional termination timestamp, have
the orphan handling around terminate_and_reap send SIGTERM once and record its
deadline, then use try_wait on subsequent polls while retaining entries until
they exit or the grace deadline is reached. Keep terminate_and_reap unchanged
for shutdown paths that may block.
In `@src/ensure_up.rs`:
- Around line 410-412: Make the atomic JSON write paths concurrency-safe: update
the write-and-rename logic in src/ensure_up.rs lines 410-412 and the
corresponding writer in src/inbox_watch.rs lines 205-209 so concurrent daemon
and notification cycles cannot share deterministic temporary filenames or
replace state out of order. Serialize access to each shared state file or
generate coordinated unique temporary files while preserving atomic replacement
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| orphans.retain_mut(|state| { | ||
| let label = format!("orphan worker for session '{}'", state.name); | ||
| !terminate_and_reap(&mut state.child, state.pid, &label) | ||
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The orphan drain blocks the poll loop for up to 3 s per orphan.
terminate_and_reap sleeps through two full TERM_GRACE windows before it gives up. The drain calls it for every entry on every poll. After a mass eviction of max_workers children that ignore SIGTERM, this pass costs about 48 s. If a child stays unreapable, the cost repeats on each poll forever. That delays child reaping, spawns and the idle sweep — the same stall that retire_inactive_worker was changed to avoid.
Stage the orphan teardown across polls instead: signal once, record the deadline, then only try_wait on later polls.
♻️ Sketch of a non-blocking drain
- orphans.retain_mut(|state| {
- let label = format!("orphan worker for session '{}'", state.name);
- !terminate_and_reap(&mut state.child, state.pid, &label)
- });
+ orphans.retain_mut(|state| {
+ // Reaped already?
+ if matches!(state.child.try_wait(), Ok(Some(_))) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ match state.termed_at {
+ None => {
+ crate::platform::kill_process(state.pid, false);
+ state.termed_at = Some(Instant::now());
+ }
+ Some(sent) if sent.elapsed() >= TERM_GRACE => {
+ let _ = state.child.kill();
+ }
+ Some(_) => {}
+ }
+ true
+ });ChildState then carries termed_at: Option<Instant>, and terminate_and_reap stays for the shutdown path where blocking is acceptable.
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In `@src/daemon_supervisor.rs` around lines 938 - 941, Make the orphan drain
non-blocking by staging teardown across polls: update ChildState to track an
optional termination timestamp, have the orphan handling around
terminate_and_reap send SIGTERM once and record its deadline, then use try_wait
on subsequent polls while retaining entries until they exit or the grace
deadline is reached. Keep terminate_and_reap unchanged for shutdown paths that
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| let tmp = path.with_extension("json.tmp"); | ||
| std::fs::write(&tmp, body)?; | ||
| std::fs::rename(&tmp, &path)?; |
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Serialize writers that share deterministic temporary paths.
wire daemon --once skips singleton protection but still writes last_sync.json, so concurrent cycles share last_sync.json.tmp and can overwrite each other’s data or fail during rename. The daemon and wire notify also share notify.cursor.tmp, which can regress cursor state or cause a rename failure. Serialize these writes or use unique temporary files with coordinated replacement.
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In `@src/ensure_up.rs` around lines 410 - 412, Make the atomic JSON write paths
concurrency-safe: update the write-and-rename logic in src/ensure_up.rs lines
410-412 and the corresponding writer in src/inbox_watch.rs lines 205-209 so
concurrent daemon and notification cycles cannot share deterministic temporary
filenames or replace state out of order. Serialize access to each shared state
file or generate coordinated unique temporary files while preserving atomic
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What broke
A dev box reached 2,770 live
wire daemonchildren under amax_workers = 16cap: 6.2 GB resident, load average 994, swap exhausted, and a 112 MB daemon log written by all of them at once. The machine was unusable.Three causes
Eviction was a request, not a guarantee.
retire_inactive_workersent one un-escalated SIGTERM per poll and discarded the result. A worker parked in a relay reconnect backoff does not act on it, so the signal achieved nothing while the supervisor had already dropped the child fromchildren.Evicted children were never reaped. Dropping a
Childneither kills nor waits, andprocess_aliveis akill(pid, 0)probe that reports a zombie as alive — so a killed worker was indistinguishable from a survivor. Every fork-exec now lives in eitherchildren(intent) or anorphanslist (outstanding fact) untilterminate_and_reaphas both killed and reaped it. That, not the in-memory map, is what bounds the population.The husk reaper could never drain. It only removes homes with no identity and no sync history, but session adoption mints a home that gains a
private.keywithin seconds. On the affected box 8,975 of 8,983 homes held one and zero matched the husk predicate, while the supervisor stat-ed all of them every 10s.reap_idle_homesadds a separate path keyed on idleness rather than emptiness.What the adversarial review then caught
The idle reaper could destroy live identities. Its "skip registry-bound homes" guard compared session names against by-key hashes — registry values are names like
slancha-api, directories arehex(sha256(key)[..8])— so it was always false. The 16-hex shape filter was not a backstop either: a named session's home issession_dir(name) = session_home_for_key(sanitize_name(name)), also 16 lowercase hex. Both apparent protections were inoperative, on the one reaper that deletes homes holding aprivate.key. Now guarded by resolved path, from the samelist_sessions()the supervisor plans from, plus a refusal to touch any home holding inbox history.The test meant to catch this certified a fiction — it protected a directory literally named
peat-eagle, a layout that cannot occur. Rewritten against the real resolver; it fails when the guard is removed.Verified kills moved the cost onto the poll loop. Blocking ~3s per call, once per unselected session (822 of them), a poll could stretch from 10s to tens of minutes. Retirement now signals once and escalates on a later poll, re-validating the target's cmdline before every signal so a recycled pid is never hit.
SIGKILL on a 1.5s grace made two truncating writes reachable —
last_sync.jsonandnotify.cursor, the only two state writers in the repo not already using tmp+rename. A torn cursor resets every peer cursor to zero and replays the whole inbox as duplicate toasts, which the code documents. Both now write atomically.Also: idle reaping no longer sits inside the husk reaper's gate; the cheap idleness check runs before the read-bodies guards;
days * 86_400saturates.Verification
719 lib tests pass, clippy clean. The two guards are mutation-tested — each new test fails when its guard is removed.
Live on the affected box after the change:
wire daemonchildrenKnown, not addressed
A supervisor killed by signal still leaks its children, since
Childneither kills nor waits on drop. A restarted supervisor retires unselected leftovers and adopts selected ones, so the population stays bounded at roughly 2xmax_workersacross a restart rather than growing without limit.Summary by CodeRabbit