A worker thread leases a group and takes its ranges in article order through
one carried window; the coordinator keeps one cursor a group (group_leases,
migration 6500) and hands out the next range, the rules and nothing about
where the chunks are: the range stream serves a stored range's chunks from the
corpus file and a live one's from the spool. The window's snapshot (bincode:
the frontier, the open files, releases and albums, the upload numbers, the
batch-counter table) goes to the coordinator every EDGE_SNAPSHOT_MINUTES and
when the group is given back, and the next holder restores it; a takeover
after LEASE_TTL_SECONDS plans the ranges from the snapshot's article again.
The prefetcher runs ahead of held groups' cursors and skips chunks the corpus
has. LEASE_MIN_PRIORITY..LEASE_MAX_PRIORITY bound what is leased. edge-node
holds groups by default; --ranges keeps the old per-range path.
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Each release chunk is a release inserted once: release_key the SHA-1 of
the identity, the owner group and the first article (deterministic; no
numbering under a group lock), identity_key the identity's SHA-1 bytes,
poster_id and group_set_id through catalog_refs (cached per process),
source as a code (weak-stem added), the name into release_texts. A
finished release's candidates are claimable at once; a provisional tail
release is finished by a later chunk of its key, a finished one sent again
is left alone. Gone: joins into earlier releases and across groups, key
numbering, the group lock, the fragment merger. Interim: chunks, counts
and samples keyed by ranges.block_id, a range without a block gets one.
Readers follow: search (posters and group_sets joined, words through
release_texts, posters by id, source by code), the par2 merger, the
sidecar folder, the judge's scraped rule, the spot inspector, the spotter,
the NZB service, releases:regroup, edge:bench. Tests insert fixtures
through tests/functional/helpers/releases.ts; the suites pass again.
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History fetched ahead into the corpus (bulk HDD) is ~60 TB raw for the
1,180B missing articles, and the indexer keeps only ~38% of headers.
With CORPUS_FILTER (default on), Corpus.write leaves out the lines the
edge worker drops on their own, decided per line as RangeIndexer.line
does: a crosspost another indexed group owns, and a subject that names no
file part (~48% of the indexed ranges' headers). Release-level rules
(garbage, per-article, executable, poster) judge files across chunks and
aren't applied. The chunk is compressed again as zlib (the worker takes
it as before); beside it a .drops (gzip JSON) keeps the rule version,
the owners' priorities and per rule the article numbers (as differences,
crossposts by owner), and range.json says filtered. A test shows the
worker makes the same releases, candidates and fragments of a filtered
chunk. corpus:filter filters chunks stored raw (planned capture ranges;
--all for every range).
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A poster re-uploading under the same name made one release of all
uploads: in a sample, 24% of releases with 2+ files had a file name more
than once (4.3% of files extra copies), 70% of those copies posted a day
or more apart; their NZBs listed each copy.
- File assembly keeps a re-upload's copy apart: a part already in every
open copy, posted more than 3 h from them, starts another copy; a
missing part fills the nearest copy (a re-send of what was missing),
a re-sent part near a copy that has it is ignored as before.
- A key's files in a batch split into uploads where posting pauses for
more than 3 h, counted from the latest article posted so far (a file
that takes hours to post doesn't split it); each upload is judged and
chunked on its own (ReleaseChunk.upload, .postedLast; candidates carry
their upload).
- The catalog matches a chunk to the release of its key whose articles
the range's group owns and whose posting window is within 3 h, else
starts one (key, key:2, …): releases get identity_key, group_id,
last_posted_at. Keys are locked in order (advisory locks), so
concurrent batches neither deadlock nor both start one; the merger
writes in key order too. The same upload multi-posted to other groups
is a release per group.
- The gap: 91% of uploads post within 3 h; 73% of re-uploaded copies
come later (releases:upload-gaps). releases:duplicates measures the
duplicate names.
Both implementations; check.ts compares the windows and uploads too
(identical on all captures; Rust tests mirror the TypeScript cases).
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For workers on a shared line (poweredge-kantoor: 160 Mbit/s): the range
stream is read at most at the cap, TCP holds the coordinator back. The
cap is the node's, split over its processes (also EDGE_MAX_MBIT).
REBUILD.md: where workers run (connections set the speed; remote workers
take CPU off homelab).
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Files cut by a range's edge are put together once the ranges around them
are done (coordinator:run, every minute): a complete file is judged by the
rules and written as a release chunk with probe candidates; one still
missing parts while both neighbouring ranges are done is dropped and
counted (incomplete/edge). A neighbour not planned yet counts as not done,
except before the group's oldest article. BatchStore.writeReleases is the
shared write path.
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End to end (workstation, recent a.b.boneless ranges from the spool): a 2M
range in 10–12 s, 166k–202k headers/s per worker process (edge:bench on
one core: 215k).
- Prefetcher: spooled_at was set against a total counted from the range's
resume point, which shrinks as the worker advances: the last chunks were
never fetched and the worker waited. Now counted against the whole
range, only new chunks counted, and leased ranges are always checked
against the files. Planned ranges ahead are bounded (it had spooled ever
more); the spool size is measured every 30 s (a stat per file).
- The stream sends an empty frame every 20 s while waiting for a chunk
(Node's fetch gave up on a quiet body after 5 minutes).
- A range taken over midway: the first batch starts at the resume point
(it started at the range's start and was refused).
- edge:node inflates the next chunk on the thread pool while indexing the
current one, and doesn't wait for a post before indexing on (posts stay
in order; a failed post stops the range).
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- groups:add / ranges:plan / nodes:create / coordinator:run commands
- the node API: lease, the range's chunks as one framed stream from the
spool, batches, heartbeat, finish, release (node guard, token per node)
- edge:node: needs COORDINATOR_URL and NODE_TOKEN only (placeholders for
the rest), posts a batch every 10 chunks, gives its range back on SIGTERM
- releases are gathered per batch: 1.04 chunk rows per release at 10
chunks per batch (1.35 when built per XOVER chunk)
- partitions are checked per batch instead of remembered
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Overview chunks in, per batch out: releases as encoded chunks, probe
candidates, counts per rule (crossposts per owner group, obfuscated,
garbage, per-article, incomplete), a sample of what was dropped, and
fragments near the range's edges.
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