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Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 cdc1cdc0cc Prober: claim only candidates of settled releases, without the join
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 48s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 1m59s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Failing after 4m2s
The settler marks a settled release's candidates ready (and unreadable when
it had no readable name). Claims took the candidates by joining releases
from random points of the queue; in its newer half nothing had settled, so
a slice scanned to the end (0.3 s each, 20 slices and 5 tiers a claim) and
the prober stood still: 2.4M waiting, 0 probed a minute. Now an index over
the claimable rows only, the slices drawn within them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 12:12:59 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 123ed81782 Prober: where the lanes' time goes, in the minute report
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 45s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 1m55s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m23s
Fetching, waiting for candidates, idle, inspecting; claims and flushes. The
link had room (222 of 1000 Mbit/s with the coordinator at 239k headers/s,
one test connection ~84 Mbit/s meanwhile) while the prober did ~5/s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:58:42 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 0727afe968 Prober: pipelined bodies, merge-first order, a probe cache across resets
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 56s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 2m33s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 2m26s
- XoverClient.bodies: PROBE_PIPELINE (8) BODY commands per connection at
  once, replies read in order (one at a time it ran 3-10 articles/s on 6
  connections against a queue of 1M).
- Claims in tiers: lone files first, then par2 sets and archives of
  releases without a readable name (what the par2 merge needs), then those
  of readable releases.
- probe_cache: final answers by message-id (status, inspection with the
  16 KiB hash and par2 file list), PROBE_VERSION 2. A reset empties the
  probe queue, not the cache; recreated candidates of probed articles are
  answered from it without the news server.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:23:01 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 6d1f2cc2a1 Par2 merge: a set file matching several releases nearby is ambiguous
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 1m1s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 2m15s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 2m4s
131 uploads of 1 GiB test files ("kantodoNNN.bin", a.b.test) share their
first 16 KiB and size, so all matched one set's single file and became one
release of 1,284 files. A par2 file that matches more than one release in
the anchor's group and time window is left out; a plain repost of the same
file stays apart too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 10:15:32 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 885e4e6541 Settler: history releases settle after half an hour
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 45s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 1m56s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m17s
A release whose last post is 6 hours old gets nothing from the tail, only
fragments from neighbouring ranges: settled once unchanged for 30 minutes.
Waiting 6 hours after it was read held every history release back from
phase 2 after each reset; with the hourly sweeps' resets the prober (and so
the par2 merge) never had work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 09:42:53 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 3d0dc6ca1f The par2 merge: releases whose files one par2 set describes become one
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 44s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 1m51s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m27s
The prober stores, per probed article that starts a file, the MD5 of its
first 16 KiB (file_hashes), and per par2 body the set's whole file list
(par2_files, par2_sets): FileDesc holds the same hash per file, whatever
the file was renamed to. releases:merge (the merger service, no NNTP)
merges every minute the releases of one group, posted within 48 hours of
a release holding the set's par2, whose files the set describes, into the
one with the most files: chunks, probe candidates, inspections, hashes and
counts move; the par2's shared name when none was readable; release_merges
keeps what went where. Obfuscated uploads whose files were each a release
of their own ("[9/20] - "14f5999a…"", hep: 13,232) become one.

Also: corpus_sweep.py counts the marked ranges without psql's command tag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 09:37:35 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 9ea2669b2a Corpus: stored XOVER chunks for the grouping sweeps
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 43s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 1m48s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m23s
Ranges marked `capture` keep their XOVER chunks in CORPUS_DIR
(corpus/<group>/<start>-<end>/, edge-bench's layout, range.json once
complete; only chunks that inflate). The prefetcher reads a stored chunk
instead of fetching it, so a reset re-indexes them without the news
server; a chunk a worker reports corrupt goes from the corpus too.

edge-bench gets --releases (release chunks without payload, with their
first subjects) and ships in the edge image; deploy/corpus_sweep.py marks
more ranges (capture), replays the corpus with the deployed build (replay)
and reports suspects and the change since the previous build (report).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-12 09:28:22 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 e0a0d0d520 An upload spread over groups is one release
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 44s
Test and deploy / edge (push) Successful in 1m52s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m55s
FTD posts one upload's files to different groups ("Knowsum-Loops_Are_My_
Religion-WEB-2026-FTD": par2 and part1 to a.b.music.misc, part2 to
a.b.sounds.music, each article in one group only; releases 81825221 and
81825412): the catalog matched a chunk only to releases of its own
group. A chunk without one there now joins a release of its key in
another group whose window is within 3 hours, when none of its file
names are in that release yet; a post of the same files to another group
(other message-ids, same names) stays a release of its own, or its NZB
would hold every file twice. Functional tests for both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 22:28:57 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 92480174b9 Search and the web interface use the prober's findings
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 48s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 2m27s
- Search matches a word in the name or the inner name (trigram index on
  inner_name, partial, built concurrently); "Readable names" includes
  releases with an inner name.
- unlocked=1 (chip "No password") leaves out passworded releases.
- Results carry passworded and innerName: a Password badge, the inner
  name under the release name.
- The release view: Inside and Inspected facts, a passworded notice, and
  Contents (per probed article its yEnc name, kind, type, encryption and
  the names inside) from release_inspections.
- Newznab: the password attribute from the prober; an obfuscated release
  with an inner name is included, titled by it (without its extension).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 19:33:23 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 5ab5399b43 Prober: the claim's random starting points drawn in code
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 54s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m21s
Postgres evaluated random() once for all 20 slices: every claim still
came from one place in the queue (214 of 214 taken from a.b.zogg).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 16:00:23 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 18f5d27413 Prober: claim from random points of the queue, not in id order
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 45s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m23s
In id order the prober went group by group, and some groups' articles
take 0.6-3 s each (a.b.zogg 2016; repeated fetches the same, pipelining
4 deep no faster), where a sample across all years takes 20-60 ms for
most: 7 articles/s on 6 connections, against 67/s in its first minutes.
A claim now takes 20 slices from random points (353 ms per 200).
tools/body_timing.ts: BODY time for the oldest and newest candidates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 15:55:23 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 738402aefa Prober: an inspection per candidate; no inner name that is the release's name
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 53s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m53s
A release can have several candidates of a kind (two RAR sets): keyed by
(release, kind) both landed in one upsert ("ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE
command cannot affect row a second time"), and the batch was lost.
release_inspections is keyed by candidate now; the first run's results
are cleared and probed again. A random-named file's yEnc name is often
its random name: an inner name equal to the release's name is dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 15:37:32 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 8bd6d6aa5f Rebuild: phase 2's prober reads the probe queue
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 50s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m46s
probe:run (compose service prober, PROBE_CONNECTIONS, default 6) claims
waiting candidates of settled releases (lone, then par2, then archive),
fetches each article with BODY over connections of its own (no
compression) and inspects it: the yEnc name and size, the content type
from the first bytes, a par2 set's files, a RAR volume's entries and
whether they're encrypted. Results per release and kind in
release_inspections (CHUNK_TABLESPACE, the HDD); on the release
passworded, inner_name (the largest content name) and inspected_at.
430 = missing, not yEnc = error, both final; connection trouble puts
the candidate back.

Fetch and parse in one process: an article takes ~0.1 s per connection,
parsing a few ms (no queue in between). Parsers from voyager 1 (lib/yenc,
lib/rar, lib/par2, lib/content sniff) with their tests; XoverClient.body;
yencode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 15:32:49 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 fa52d9256b Rebuild: a chunk reported corrupt gets a second plain try before the range fails
Test and deploy / test (push) Failing after 24s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Skipped
Range 161820 failed with "doesn't inflate, also fetched plain" though
the chunk was likely the compressed copy again: in flight, or spooled
before the prefetcher's targets were refreshed, when the plain flag was
set. The range now fails only on the third report.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 14:21:44 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 40df52bafd Rebuild: 8 more ranges being fetched than the connections need
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 27s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m3s
Ranges with a chunk or two left take fewer than perRange connections:
with loops/perRange + 2 ranges, 3.2 of 40 loops were idle on average
over 15 minutes (up to 9.5).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-11 03:36:24 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 27a26c9614 Rebuild: a release key taken by another group's writer gets the next number
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 25s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 2m29s
Writers lock their group only, so two groups' batches can number the
same identity key at once (a spam post crossposted to 67 groups:
duplicate key ...:65, HTTP 500, the batch retried). Releases are now
inserted with ON CONFLICT (release_key) DO NOTHING, and those skipped
take the next number (up to 20 tries).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 23:22:49 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 7b07e00f90 Rebuild: the stream waits up to an hour for a chunk
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 23s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m1s
Some groups' chunks take 20+ minutes while still coming in (range
154153: 17 MB in 22 minutes); the stream's 15-minute wait failed their
workers (two in 15 minutes). Stalled requests are given up separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 17:21:24 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 887df12ead Rebuild: give up stalled requests, not slow ones
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 24s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 56s
a.b.0day.stuffz sends steadily but slowly (~400 kB a minute, 5-7
minutes per 100k chunk): the fixed deadline (90 s, doubling up to 360 s)
gave its chunks up again and again, and two of its ranges' worker
streams timed out. A stall is a request that got less than
NNTP_STALL_KB_PER_MINUTE (100) in the last minute (the stuck replies
got ~25 kB a minute); then its connection is closed and the chunk
fetched again. Replaces NNTP_CHUNK_DEADLINE_SECONDS.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 16:51:55 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 dbccec932c Rebuild: a chunk's deadline doubles each time it's hit
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 25s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m8s
At 90 s a chunk that always takes longer would be given up forever
(range 155437's worker gave up waiting on its stream). Each deadline a
chunk hits doubles its next one (90, 180, 360 ... up to 16x), reset
once it comes in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 16:36:36 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 f4c0417066 Rebuild: enough ranges being fetched for every connection
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 25s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m1s
With 2 connections per range the prefetcher needs 20+ ranges with
chunks left; fully spooled ranges counted as ready (SPOOL_AHEAD_PER_LEASE)
but take no connection, so on small ranges 30 of 40 connections were
busy (13-15 ranges). Fresh ranges now also fill up to loops/perRange + 2
ranges being fetched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 08:44:09 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 40aa78cda3 Rebuild: a deadline per chunk; batches with a huge fragment
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 29s
Test and deploy / deploy (push) Successful in 1m30s
A worker waited on one chunk of a leased range for an hour (range
146477: five 15-minute stream timeouts, then the range took 63 s; 88
"stream: Peer disconnected" overnight). The silence timeout doesn't
catch a reply that trickles: a chunk still coming in after
NNTP_CHUNK_DEADLINE_SECONDS (300) is given up, its connection closed,
and fetched again. The report names the oldest request in flight (range,
chunk, age, bytes in) and counts deadlines.

Batches failed with "Maximum call stack size exceeded" (8 overnight):
Math.min(...segments) on a fragment with more segments than the stack
takes arguments.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-10 08:30:04 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 678b3dd438 Rebuild: spread prefetch connections over ranges and groups
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 23s
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At most PREFETCH_PER_RANGE (2) connections on a range and
PREFETCH_PER_GROUP (4) on a group; SPOOL_AHEAD_PER_LEASE 2 -> 4 so there
are targets enough. The report says how many ranges and groups are in
flight.

Homelab, 40 connections, alternated 12 min each: unlimited (~10 ranges
in flight) 281k and 167k articles/s; spread (~22 ranges) 319k and 296k,
chunks 11.5 s against 13-24 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 23:33:43 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 4bf526ab6e Rebuild: prefetch report samples what the connections do
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 44s
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Once a second: pool connections with a command in flight, loops
fetching/writing/idle; per request GROUP time, XOVER time to the status
line and the transfer, transfers with a silence over 5 s. The old
"connections busy" (fetch time of the chunks finished in the minute)
said 59-75% while all 40 connections were in flight all the time:
dropped.

Homelab: 39-40 of 40 in flight, no idle loops; the status line comes at
once, the whole 8-35 s is the transfer, with data flowing (few gaps
over 5 s): ~3 MB per chunk at 0.1-0.4 MB/s per connection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 22:40:50 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 8475969145 Rebuild: hedged chunk fetches and connection max age (both off by default)
Test and deploy / test (push) Successful in 24s
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A chunk not in after NNTP_HEDGE_AFTER_SECONDS (10) is asked again on one
of NNTP_HEDGE_CONNECTIONS spare connections; the first answer wins and
the other connection is closed (lib/nntp/hedge.ts, tested). Connections
can be retired after NNTP_CONNECTION_MAX_MINUTES (±25%). The prefetch
report counts hedges and slow first requests by connection age.

Homelab, 15 min each: hedging on (40 + 6) 280k articles/s, off 273k.
The second request won about half of its races, but ~25-35% of first
requests were slow (>10 s) at every connection age, so neither helps:
Eweka is slow under our load, not on particular connections. Both
off by default; the age statistics stay.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 22:13:44 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 fc86dd00d1 Rebuild: a batch locks its range with an advisory lock, not the row
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BatchStore.store held the range's row (SELECT … FOR UPDATE) for the
whole batch transaction (15-20 s on the HDD), so the prefetcher's
spooled_chunks updates and the heartbeats of that range waited on it
(0.5 s on average): the prefetcher's NNTP connections sat idle. Now an
advisory lock per range serializes its batches, and the resume point is
checked again in the final, conditional update.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 18:05:00 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 99fffe30f4 Rebuild: stats from a fixed-size sample, refreshed every 5 minutes, given up after 2
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TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM (0.5) read 30 s of random pages on the HDD at 7M
releases, growing with the catalog; a refresh that never finished kept
the header's totals 3.5 hours old (it blocked every later refresh).
Now TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM_ROWS (5000) (tsm_system_rows), every 5 minutes,
and a refresh is given up after 2 minutes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 17:49:45 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 f642a49d7d Rebuild: post a batch early when 100k files wait; log failing stats refreshes
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A picture group's 500k articles made batches over the server's 256 MB
body limit: HTTP 413, the range given back and leased again in a loop
(148597: 39 times in 30 minutes). The worker now also posts once
100,000 completed or edge-cut files wait (RangeIndexer.pending).
A stats refresh that failed kept the previous totals silently; it
logs the error now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 17:45:00 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 508d8b5723 Rebuild: one advisory lock per group when writing releases, not per key
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A picture group's batch has 30-55k release keys; an advisory lock each
ran Postgres out of shared memory (max_locks_per_transaction), and those
batches failed with HTTP 500 (the ranges went back, nothing stored).
A chunk only matches releases of its range's group, so one lock per
group serializes exactly the writers that could both start an upload.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 14:10:48 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 cfe85abc3e Rebuild: chunks the server's compression cuts short are fetched plain
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Eweka sends some ranges' compressed XOVER truncated, the same bytes
every time, while the plain reply is whole (a.b.models 3317215-3367214:
1,675,600 bytes that don't inflate, twice; 50,000 lines plain;
tools/false_end.ts). Not a false end of reply. The worker's corrupt
report removed the chunk and the range was fetched again, with the same
bytes: one range was reported 540 times. (Before this morning's change
the inflate check waited for more data until the 10-minute timeout,
like voyager 1's 'chunk never answered' ranges.)

A reported chunk's start goes into ranges.plain_chunks; the prefetcher
fetches those over one connection without XFEATURE COMPRESS GZIP
(NntpPool.usePlain, opened on demand) and deflates them here. A plain
chunk reported again sets the range aside (status failed, error). The
capture (edge:bench --capture) fetches such a chunk plain too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 13:51:25 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 0613984de9 Rebuild: re-uploads are releases of their own
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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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 13:31:35 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 d0f3497ec9 Rebuild: completeness as indexed, file totals from any counter, pausable tails, progress by articles
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- releases.complete is computed with every batch (files >= the
  counter's total) instead of only when a release settles after 6 quiet
  hours: the 'complete' filter matched nothing in a fresh catalog.
- A release's file total comes from any counter form (counterTotal:
  '(01/10)', 'File 27 of 132', …), not only [i/M]; the post rule's key
  keeps the [i/M] total, so keys are unchanged. Both implementations.
- groups.tail: a group's live tail can be paused (its history and owner
  priority stay), e.g. to let other groups' history go first.
- Stats: history by articles, and the current pass (history ranges
  before those deferred 2000 priorities behind) as its own figure; the
  header showed 0.1% of ranges counting 145k deferred ones.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 13:06:03 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 8e52bff213 Rebuild: the catalog API and Newznab, from voyager 1
- /api (Newznab: caps, search, tvsearch, movie, music, book, get) for
  Prowlarr, Sonarr and Radarr: voyager 1's controller and XML on the new
  catalog; readable releases not known to miss files; NEWZNAB_API_KEY.
- /api/v1/releases (q, cat, readable, complete, source, poster, size,
  sort, paging), /api/v1/releases/:id with its files (decoded from the
  chunks; NzbService.files, shared with the NZB), /api/v1/stats
  (estimates, plus history and tail progress), /health. Open, as voyager
  1's catalog; the web interface uses it.
- release_category(name): voyager 1's categorizer without the archive
  contents, a generated column with a (category, posted_at) index.
- @adonisjs/static for the web interface (next).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 10:45:47 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 fd0f2bde75 Rebuild: the live tail
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>
2026-10-09 10:41:16 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 a979b5d11c Rebuild: the coordinator spools replies without inflating them
On homelab (1 Gbit, 20 connections, ~630k articles/s) the coordinator
used 1.3-1.7 cores, mostly GC of the text it inflated only to know a
compressed reply was complete, plus a copy of every reply. A raw reply
is now complete when it ends in ".\r\n" (no copy): 0.4-0.5 cores at
the same rate.

".\r\n" can also end a network read inside the compressed data (~1 in
16M reads, a few dozen times over the whole target). Such a chunk
doesn't inflate on the worker: it reports it (POST ranges/:id/corrupt),
the spooled chunk is removed and the range goes back to the queue; the
prefetcher fetches it again. The rest of that reply breaks the
connection's next command, so the connection is replaced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 07:40:06 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 69f1cc63b2 Rebuild: coordinator:run --shard=i/n splits prefetching over processes
The coordinator's event loop was 16.5% busy at ~10 MB/s of compressed
XOVER (socket reads, buffers, GC, spool writes; nothing stands out), so
one process tops out around 60 MB/s: less than 50 connections bring
(~1M articles/s, ~70-86 MB/s). A shard prefetches the ranges with
id % n = i - 1 with its own NNTP_CONNECTIONS; only shard 1 plans, merges
and settles. Two shards of 5 connections fetched what one of 10 did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 03:36:24 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 883d85e91d Rebuild: the coordinator stops on SIGTERM
It waited for every chunk in flight, and a connection the server held
back (after killed coordinators left sessions open) waits up to the
10-minute reply timeout: it never seemed to stop. It now waits at most
15 s, then closes all connections, busy ones too; the greeting and login
time out after 30 s. And run() ends with terminate(), as edge:node does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 03:20:11 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 cae6e4f60d Rebuild: prefetch stats a minute; the completeness check inflates off the event loop
The coordinator logs a line a minute: chunks fetched, articles/s,
seconds a chunk, how busy its connections were. It showed the
workstation's runs are bound by its 100 Mbit line now (10 connections
99% busy, ~89 Mbit/s: compressed XOVER is ~69 B an article on recent
boneless), not by the code.

The check that a compressed reply is complete (inflating it) ran on the
coordinator's event loop, ~60 ms a chunk; now on a thread-pool thread.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 03:14:49 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 9dc0a27bb4 Rebuild: a lease never waits for prefetching; one-shot hashes
A lease was only granted for a range with spooled chunks, and the
prefetcher kept ranges ahead per active lease: once the spool ran dry a
worker got none and slept 30 s, fewer ranges were leased, fewer
prefetched. Three workers held one lease between them (~50k headers/s).
A lease now takes a spooled range first, else the next planned one
(leased ranges are fetched first; the stream waits).

crypto.hash instead of createHash().update().digest() for file and
release keys: same digests, ~2.5x faster (~4.6% of a worker's time).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 03:08:19 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 bd1c846f27 Rebuild: prefetching no longer waits for merging, nor stalls on finished ranges
The coordinator ran the prefetch tick in the same loop as the merger
(up to 30 s a minute): its connections went idle once their targets
were fetched, and the first leases after a start found nothing spooled.
The prefetcher now ticks in a loop of its own.

The prefetcher took the first planned ranges with nothing spooled, even
ones with nothing left to fetch (next_id past the end): two such ranges
(edge:bench's, set back to planned) kept it from fetching anything. It
and the lease query now skip those, and edge:bench marks its range done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 03:04:00 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 2b4f673ddb Rebuild: index lookups for the merger's neighbours and the prefetcher's ranges
The merger's neighbour query matched "end_id = ? OR start_id = ?", which
no index serves: it read every range of the group per file, 5.5 s a
round and most of Postgres's time in an end-to-end run. Now the range
holding the article before and after, by (group_id, start_id): 0.08 ms.
The prefetcher's leased and started ranges (every 2 s) get partial
indexes: 15-25 ms -> <0.1 ms with 145k planned ranges.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 02:59:30 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 821de668d0 Rebuild: the merger stops when a pass over the file keys decides nothing
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Waiting files counted as work, so the merge loop re-read them for its
whole 30 s budget every minute: Postgres used ~a core even without
workers. Now ~4% at rest, and storing a boneless range costs Postgres
~0.7–1.9 s of CPU (it was 33 s with the loop running). Chunk payloads
are stored EXTERNAL (zstd already; no pglz attempt).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 02:49:45 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 80c920f678 Rebuild: settling quiet releases
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Hourly in coordinator:run: a release unchanged for 6 hours is settled,
complete when every file its [i/N] counter announced was found, unknown
without a counter (phase 2 reads par2 sets for those). Partial index on
unsettled releases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 02:33:47 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 fde1e6cc90 Rebuild: NZBs from the chunk store, and a catalog search
lib/nzb (buildNzb, parseNzb) from the current app; NzbService builds a
release's NZB from its chunks; GET /api/v1/releases?q= (every word of the
name) and GET /api/v1/releases/:id/nzb behind the api guard. A test stores
a batch, finds the release and reads its NZB back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 02:33:27 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 31493a98be Rebuild: merger rounds with one neighbour query, a cursor and a time budget; planning skips failing groups
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The neighbour check was three queries per file (~2,000 files/minute); now
one per round of 20k files, with a cursor so waiting files don't take
every round's places, and rounds until nothing is left or 30 s. On the
dev backlog (old-style fragments): ~18k files/minute in the 30 s budget;
at full throughput the new fragment rule leaves ~1,200 files/minute.
A group that fails GROUP (gone from the server) no longer stops planning
the others; edge:bench's groups are inactive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 02:25:45 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 b862201991 Rebuild: the fragment merger
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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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 02:19:53 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 fa7d4f3394 Rebuild: end-to-end fixes — spool accounting, keep-alive frames, resume point, overlapped worker
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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).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 01:31:19 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 cd06f96f85 Rebuild: first end-to-end runs; prefetch per chunk, executable rule, wire fixes
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End to end on the workstation (coordinator:run, the API, edge:node, real
NNTP): a.b.e-book.french and a.b.cd.image.playstation2.dvdiso ranges.

- Prefetcher: every connection takes the next missing chunk (leased
  ranges first, in order); one connection per range (~26k lines/s) kept
  the worker waiting
- executable rule: releases of bare executables (malware floods named
  after films and software) are dropped; they were 92% of the catalog rows
  of the test ranges, 21% of the segments
- fragments per file (details once) and gzipped batch bodies; the JSON
  limit (1 MB by default) raised to 256 MB, empty strings kept (a rule
  count's key is '')
- release_chunks.batch_from is a bigint (boneless article numbers)
- tests get their own database; edge:bench --store times BatchStore:
  1.3 s for a boneless range (1.24 ms per release chunk)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 01:07:11 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 d5f168d8d2 Rebuild: coordinator (planner, NNTP pool, spool, prefetcher, leases, rule sets), node API and the edge:node worker
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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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 00:31:06 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 20910647fa Rebuild: the batch store (catalog upserts, write-once chunks, candidates, rule counts, fragments, resume point)
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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>
2026-10-09 00:21:17 +02:00
Daan MeijerandClaude Opus 5.5 96f0ade10e Rebuild: fresh AdonisJS 7 API app on Postgres
The rebuild branch starts over (REBUILD.md): the API starter kit, with
Postgres instead of SQLite (its own database, DB_SEARCH_PATH for a
shared one in development) and the #lib alias. Phase 1's code is
imported from the current app module by module.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 00:05:24 +02:00