The tiny-archive rule (dropTinyArchives, both indexers): a settled single
archive of one article and 2-100 kB under a release-like name, spaces
allowed, outside the exempt groups and without an e-book, subtitle,
crack, cover or sidecar word: the 2015-17 exe-stub flood in miniature,
1.66M catalog rows (LOG.md (131), (133)).
PendingLadder.discard scanned every waiting row against the dropped
signatures and classes, 9+ minutes a sweep inside the claim, stalling
every lane: now driven from the dropped classes and signatures into the
indexes. The namer feeds the indexer the span's overview text chunk by
chunk (one string of it topped V8's limit) and gives up spans over 3M
articles. Migration 7000: a partial index on the taken probe candidates
for the prober's start.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The prober names 6% of the unnamed releases it finishes and the pending
queue (44M) grows eleven times faster than it probes. A sample of 44,530
finished pending rows shows the headers predict a name: size bucket, name
shape, completeness, tool and group separate 0% classes from 95% ones,
while the learner keyed on tool and group alone (LOG.md (130)).
- lib/release/classes.ts, names::pending_class, SQL pending_class():
a release's class (size × shape × partial, 1..70), the three in step.
- Migration 6800: pending_releases.klass and target_bytes (the first
target's article; candidates carry bytes now), pending_classes with
each class's climbs, names, waiting and verdict, the claim's index.
- The ladder claims the classes with the best record first (a prior for
the unexplored, at most a quarter of a claim from one), the cheapest
target first within one, then the oldest of the rest; records classes
like signatures and drops them at the same thresholds; discards their
waiting releases. Claimed rows sorted in code: an UPDATE returns none.
- The rule set's droppedClasses: the edge keeps unnamed releases of a
dropped class out of the pending store (counted as garbage), the
explored sample excepted.
- hash_twins.ts: a probed file whose first 16 KiB and size match a named
catalog release's names a pending release the probe didn't, and sets
the inner name of a catalog release without one.
- pending:classes classes the rows from before and seeds the record from
the finished ones; rules:classes publishes the dropped classes;
releases:readable also marks the rows' candidates unreadable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first five hours in production (LOG.md (128)) dropped 522 passworded
videos of one a.b.erotica poster: ROT13-named volumes (".cnegN.rar" is
".partN.rar") of 1-270 MB in 258 kB articles to two groups, which the
article-size leg took for stubs. The cap that X and W already had now
applies to A as well (the catalog sample has 6 A-leg hits over 100 MB,
4 of them exe-only), and a ROT13 volume name is no single archive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The judge gets each file's articles seen and bytes, and whether the window
closed on the release. A settled release of one unsplit archive posted to 2+
groups is dropped as a stub archive when its articles are <= 256 KiB with the
release >= 1 MB, or it is in 4+ groups, or by a webmail poster (those two
under 100 MB); releases touching music, e-book, comics, tabs or fonts groups
are exempt. A one-article archive of 100 kB-1 MB under a release-like,
unscrambled name without spaces or an e-book format is dropped as a nonsense
piece. Both switched by the rule set (dropStubArchives, dropNonsensePieces),
mirrored in lib/rules, sampled like every drop (LOG.md (123)-(127)).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One article of a multi-part file under a name like "nYDeXeF49dieZ1J7flK-JFzZ3j.ZEDsr" or
"bslXlwgPiqZadhRa" (a random subject and poster per article, with fake counters) was a release:
looksRandom misses these names for their separators. 160k of alt.binaries.storage's 162k
non-Bob releases, and about 60% of all single-article releases in a 2% sample.
looks_scrambled / isScrambledFile: at least half the stem's letters and digits in tokens of 5+
that switch case or letter/digit 3 times or more (93% of the storage spam). Used for lone
articles given up before the block's end only; at the end the strict looksRandom stays, as the
rest of such a file can be in the next block. The namer's re-index (partialFiles) does the same.
The prefetcher's corpus fill skips groups that aren't active.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
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>
lib/nntp (XOVER client, Xref, GROUP), lib/headers (subjects, file keys,
segments from overview lines; the yEnc path stays behind for phase 2),
lib/release (identity, random names, now in lib), lib/files (aggregator,
volume names), lib/rules (posting tools, owner by priority, release
verdicts), lib/chunks (release chunk codec). Their unit tests came along;
new ones for codec, rules and volumes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
