A round added a row a group whenever 100k articles or 15 minutes had passed,
tuned for a tail leased within minutes; with nothing leasing the tail the rows
piled up (127k planned tail ranges of a median 14k articles, 97% adjacent). Now
a round grows the group's last range when it is a planned, unspooled, untaken
row at the tail's priority, up to RANGE_ARTICLES, and only then adds rows; a
range taken meanwhile gets the slice as a row. ranges:merge-tail (--dry-run)
packs adjacent planned, uncaptured, unspooled, untaken tail ranges of a group
and priority into ranges of RANGE_ARTICLES under the lease lock.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
coordinator:run plans the articles after each group's last range every
TAIL_EVERY_SECONDS (120): one LIST ACTIVE per name prefix gives every
group's newest article, and new articles become ranges at priority -1,
leased and prefetched before any history. A group gets a tail range once
it has TAIL_MIN_ARTICLES (100k, a chunk) new or its last planning is
TAIL_MAX_DELAY_MINUTES (15) ago, so quiet groups don't make a range every
round. History (planAll, hourly) is now only for groups not planned yet.
ranges:plan --tail plans one round.
Found on the way: with XFEATURE COMPRESS GZIP on, Eweka compresses LIST
ACTIVE's reply too ("215 NewsGroups Follow [COMPRESS=GZIP]"), and
listActive waited for a plain end that never came (groups:add --top too).
It reads the compressed reply now; the fake server in the test does both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>