A replaced mesh-build-go left a check ask's step running and its start
sweep spared it (issue 1890, note 21). mesh-build-go, mesh-build-node and
mesh-build-image pin mesh-sdk 981a35b5, whose steps name their owner and
whose sweep ends another owner's at once; each runs the sweep through one
method that main calls and that its test runs through the conformance
kit's left-running case. The failurekit check now refuses a build module
whose tests do not run that case, test step or not.
mesh/delivery-group group fix/capacity-follows-cpu-share rejected: composed together: the checker's verdict at the members' heads (63694fe9222d): unit: ..test
mesh/check checking 3f8b0b42480b on 7c5c29421f02 | novox/mesh-catalog#511 in group fix/capacity-follows-cpu-share
mesh-build-go, -node and -image declare build-hours (node=HH:MM-HH:MM in the node's local time,
empty = any hour) and hand it to the SDK puller (the operator, 2026-10-26: g14 builds only from
18:00 to 06:00); their SDK pin moves to mesh-sdk d00dac1, which has it.
Each of mesh-build-go, -node and -image declares cores-per-step (6, 2, 2) and hands it to the
SDK puller, which bounds the configured capacity by floor(slice quota cores / cores-per-step),
read live; thread limits and the status tools follow the effective capacity (issue 1806's
follow-up: three Go checks on shanks' 12-core slice starved past the 30-minute step bound).
mesh-build-go says its lint and test phases with the ask id (issue 1890).
mesh-build-node kept the first fifteen lines of node --test's output, so a passing line of the first file stood for the
failure. Both build modules now parse through the SDK (go test -json, node --test's TAP report written to a file, the
type-check and go vet as console failures), name themselves in the result, and run the SDK's captured cases; the
catalogue check failurekit refuses a node-build-* module with a test step whose tests do not run the kit.
mesh-catalog #495 gave read on every repository to the tools' account alone. The build modules
fetch over ssh as nox-builder (the forge-account provider's builders account, ADR 0466 §3), so
ace's and g14's fetch of jschoubben/car-hunter and jschoubben/snake still failed; the machines'
agents (nox-agent, ADR 0410 §1) could not read them either.
- gitea: readall.ts grants every account of one list, meshAccounts in tools-account.ts (mesh-tools,
nox-builder, nox-agent; a Go test holds the two Go names to internal/forgeaccount's constants),
on the same start pass, forge events and tools. gitea_unreadable_repos answers per account and
names the accounts the forge does not hold yet; gitea_grant_read takes accounts as well as
repositories. An absent account is asked nothing; the start pass runs again ten minutes apart
until every account was there once.
- mesh-build-go, mesh-build-node, mesh-build-image: pin mesh-sdk ff81bdf8 (fix/fetch-reads-all),
whose forgekey.Said keeps git's words past the bare "error:" line: the mirror's line said only
"git -C: error:". Their own git reasons (ls-files, ls-remote, rev-parse, repack) go through it too.
Change A rebuilds the three build modules, so their runtimes restart once; it
changes nothing else about their builds until change B gives them the share.
Review round 1: a cap per module let three build modules take three shares
of the node. The share is now one node value held by the node-engine's
yielding slice; each step divides it by every build slot of the node, from the
composer's words, or assumes every build seat at its own capacity without them.
The operator's desktop slows while it builds (shanks at 92%, the Go build
runtime at 1650% of 24 processors). The build modules declare cpu-cap
(default shanks=50,g14=50,ace=75), which the composer turns into the runtime's
quota at idle priority; each step's go, node and buildah commands get
GOMAXPROCS and UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE for their part of it, and the status tools
show the limits and what the kernel holds the runtime to.
mesh-build-node's integration tests read the Node toolchain installed only where the node holds node-build-node, and
skipped on ace: its package now declares node-build-node beside its tests; the integration digest names it, a node
lacking it leaves the package unmet for the checker to place, and declines a placed ask. Re-pins mesh-sdk feat/890-placement.
mesh/check checking 15a5fe09b62e on c51a46b802d3 | novox/mesh-catalog#488 in group fix/1921-every-failure-r
Pins mesh-sdk fix/1921-every-failure-r, whose check ask no longer stops a level at its first failing test step. A captured fixture with a failing test in each of two packages proves the build module's test step names both.
mesh/delivery-group group fix/steps-bucket-ages held: a member is held: novox/mesh-sdk@518dae5ec9c8 (merged without a passing check: only a person decides what…
mesh/check pass 4e82a824be7a on cdbe2945cf6e | unit 1994 run, 2322 kept, 5 skipped | integration 2016 run, 2341 kept, 9 skipped | over bound: unit, in…
Without it in Kept, stdio.KeptState refuses the state before the bus (mesh-sdk go/keeps.go
refusedUnannounced), so the pause could be neither read nor written.
mesh-build-go's steps bucket filled to the bus's 64 MiB cap (27,370 keys, none ever removed) and
refused the end of a passed check, so the check read failed; mesh-build-node's (17.8 MB) and
mesh-build-image's grow the same way. A step's key is per step: its reader reads its end within
the step's bound, and a check's verdict is kept by the checker, so two days is ample. The node's
pause key lived in the same bucket and would have ended by itself; it moves to a pauses state
without an age (mesh-sdk fix/steps-bucket-ages, Puller.PausePut). No node is paused today, so
nothing is carried over.
g14's Go builder sat idle at capacity 2 because nothing woke its parked
puller. mesh-build-go, mesh-build-node and mesh-build-image now pin mesh-sdk
b9911dc1, whose puller watches the config value capacity as mesh-config
resolved it and wakes on each change, and hand it that watch.
mesh/check failed: shanks: novox/mesh-catalog#473: modules/mesh-build-go/go.mod names mesh-sdk 19c1d35939bc, which is neither on mesh-sdk's trunk nor …
mesh/delivery covered after its failure: a later walk that contains it was delivered: plan-1792875397682979170 (novox/mesh-catalog at 6fb0ceee into main,…
mesh/check failed: unit: git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/chec… | b60077850dfb on 3bec357968da | judged by the candidate's mesh-build-go at 47bcc1b5810e
mesh/delivery-group group feat/fastcheck rejected: composed together: the checker's verdict at the members' heads (a5ea6d8de38e): integration: nats-tools/cmd/m…
mesh/check failed: novox: the check ran past its bound of 30m0s, stuck at: test the unit level of novox/mesh-catalog#458 on novox | 3ca48ff23005 on 89…
mesh-build-go, mesh-build-node and mesh-build-image refuse every fetch, test
and build, and say unhealthy, while their work or cache filesystem has less
than 20 GiB free (build-agent's floor), so the builder chooses another node
instead of filling this one. Each serves build_<x>_release, removing a
workspace once its caller's last step answered; a failed fetch removes its
own; a workspace never released goes two hours after its last use (ADR 0509)
in place of a day, never while a step holds it. Pins mesh-sdk's
fix/1839-build-floor (buildstep.Floor, buildstep.Workspaces).
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