Raise a check's store without durability and remove what earlier holders left (hq issue 306)
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller, route-proxy → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it…
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery delivered

On the control node the store-bound packages of the controller's suite ran
five to seven times slower than on any other holder, and every controller
check that landed there ran past the suite's thirty minutes: a throwaway
store flushing to a disk the mesh's own store, bus and forge keep busy.
A store that lives for one check needs no crash safety.

A holder recreated mid-check left the check's store and bus running, and
the redelivery went to another machine, so nothing removed them: eleven
pairs across four machines. A starting holder has taken nothing, so every
container labelled with an ask of the seat is an earlier holder's.
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jochen
2026-10-08 10:20:28 +02:00
parent c714d07739
commit 85b2a1855b
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@@ -274,6 +274,22 @@ func (h *holder) removeContainers(id string) (int, error) {
return builder.RemoveContainersOf(cleanup, h.remove, id)
}
// removeLeftBehind removes, once, what earlier holders on this machine left — called before anything is
// taken, so none of it is this holder's — and says what it did. A runtime that cannot be asked is said
// and the holder takes work all the same: what is left is waste, not a reason to stop building.
func (h *holder) removeLeftBehind() int {
cleanup, stop := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), killRemoves)
defer stop()
n, err := builder.RemoveLeftBehind(cleanup, h.remove)
switch {
case err != nil:
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "could not look for containers earlier builds left on %s: %v\n", h.on, err)
case n > 0:
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "removed %d container(s) earlier builds left on %s\n", n, h.on)
}
return n
}
// returned records that the build's work ended, and says whether a kill came first — only then is
// the build killed; an error it ended with on its own is its own outcome.
func (h *holder) returned(r *running) bool {