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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured on two neighbouring boneless ranges (merging their fragments):
- 99.8% of fragment files were single articles of a random-named
'file' of >100 parts: a random subject per article, which never
completes from headers. They now count as per-article.
- A file is kept as a fragment when its first part seen is above 1 and
comes within the start window (the idle window: uploads in busy groups
spread over minutes, and a 50k-article edge zone is ~30 s of boneless),
or when it was still open at the range's end with later parts missing.
Anything else missing parts is incomplete and only counted.
Per range: 70,308 → 130 fragment files; merged, 47 of the 48 files met
complete (57,558 segments, ~8% of the range's kept segments).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A batch is stored in one transaction and only at its range's resume
point, so a retried batch can't count twice. Garbage is judged before
per-article: a dropped tool isn't worth reading bodies for either.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>