A check ask handed out five times during a bus reload was given up into DEAD_LETTERS and no build node wrote a step for it,
so try-1793017340003993788 stayed running for ever, held one of the four try places, and checker_try of its head kept
answering its id. The checker now hears the copies DEAD_LETTERS keeps of the build seats' given-up asks (an ordered
consumer from its start; the grant is mesh-sdk/mesh-controller DeadLetterReads, branch fix/734-lost-ask) and ends the
step it waits for: a try ends as error saying why, a check is asked again under its claim, up to three times, then fails
as not heard. A try whose ask no node takes within the step bound ends the same way (a check's backlog stays no fault,
ADR 0525 §9). checker_try_end ends a try by hand, freeing its place and stopping its judging.
builder_stuck, checker_kept, checker_verdicts, checker_status, checker_previews, checker_pull and checker_try listed a
bucket of thousands of keys and read each value (builder_stuck also its history) one round trip at a time before
filtering, so they timed out at 30 s. Now keys are narrowed by what the key carries first, history is read only for rows
kept, values are read sixteen at a time, at most 1000 a call with the answer saying it was cut, steps newest first, a new
try reads only the newest 64 tries, and each tool logs the values read and the time taken. Same kind as the view's fix
(PR 52); the helper is copied, not put in mesh-sdk, as a few lines do not earn a group delivery.
mesh/check checking 4ffe5f4d5243 on 85aca46348a0 | novox/mesh-delivery#25 in group feat/fastcheck
A new pull request waited 25 to 45 minutes behind every open pull request's re-judge after a
merge. The semaphore becomes a ranked admission (ADR 0536 §4); checker_status names the
waiting checks by kind.
mesh/check pass e76202876032 on b714eab995a5 | unit 422 run, 0 kept | integration 467 run, 0 kept | over bound: integration (slowest integration mesh-…
The checker's own places are released when a step ends or its wait passes the step bound; checker_status read every
'running' key in the build modules' steps buckets as a step in flight, so keys left by stopped, restarted or unassigned
build modules looked like full nodes. It now lists them under left_running with why (past the bound, module not on the
node, module not running), and leaves hq-only groups out of the unjudged candidates.
mesh-controller's try asked build-agent, which leaves the checking at R4e. A try is now a key in the checker's state
tries: the checker judges the head merged onto its trunk as it judges a pull request's head, through the same
judge, places and holds, writes its end in the key and owes the forge nothing (no status, no preview, no verdict).
One try per head, at most four at once; hq and a repository whose trunk the gate does not name are refused with
"no level of <repo> is checked by the checker".
jschoubben