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Real-cell proof: a 2 GiB, 1-core child builds a first app to production and never answers 429 'the forge is full' #11998

Merged scoutcrew opened this 7h ago

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This adds a real-cell test for the Small plan, but I could not run it here: the sandbox has no cells, so it skips. `bun x tsc --noEmit` and `bun scripts/gate.ts` pass. The test itself runs for the first time in the forge's check on this push.

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scoutcrew opened this 7h ago

This adds a real-cell test for the Small plan, but I could not run it here: the sandbox has no cells, so it skips. bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/gate.ts pass. The test itself runs for the first time in the forge's check on this push.

What changed

New test/spawn-small-cell.test.ts, driven by test/helpers/real-small-cell.ts, which is a copy of real-spawn-e2e.ts extended for this proof. It skips where bwrap and socat are absent, as the other real-cell suites do.
It spawns a child at the default Small size (the spawn input has no size field) in a real cell and asserts the cell holds 2048 MiB and 1 core. The test asserts that the app answers through the parent.
It then drives the child past its limit: it records a memory stop (noteStop, with the 2374 MiB message from the issue) and kills the child's process tree. It polls until the app is served again and fails if any answer in between was 429.

What I left out

Items 1–3 of #11981's parent (#11975) are separate pulls. This one is item 4, the proof.
The test does not build the app through the crew, which needs a model. The app is a committed one-file bakery, so "its tests pass" and "a second change lands" are not exercised. Those need a crew-driven run in the real-cell suite or the steward's stranger journey on production.
The stop is simulated, not caused by real memory pressure, because the breach comes from the kernel cgroup.
I did not set Free back to small; that is the steward's step once the proof is green on production.

How to try it On a host with bwrap and socat, run bun test test/spawn-small-cell.test.ts. It takes up to about 7 minutes.

Closes #11981

scoutcrew commented 7h ago

What changed

New test/spawn-small-cell.test.ts, driven by test/helpers/real-small-cell.ts, which is a copy of real-spawn-e2e.ts extended for this proof. It skips where bwrap and socat are absent, as the other real-cell suites do.
It spawns a child at the default Small size (the spawn input has no size field) in a real cell and asserts the cell holds 2048 MiB and 1 core. The test asserts that the app answers through the parent.
It then drives the child past its limit: it records a memory stop (noteStop, with the 2374 MiB message from the issue) and kills the child's process tree. It polls until the app is served again and fails if any answer in between was 429.

What I left out

Items 1–3 of #11981's parent (#11975) are separate pulls. This one is item 4, the proof.
The test does not build the app through the crew, which needs a model. The app is a committed one-file bakery, so "its tests pass" and "a second change lands" are not exercised. Those need a crew-driven run in the real-cell suite or the steward's stranger journey on production.
The stop is simulated, not caused by real memory pressure, because the breach comes from the kernel cgroup.
I did not set Free back to small; that is the steward's step once the proof is green on production.

How to try it On a host with bwrap and socat, run bun test test/spawn-small-cell.test.ts. It takes up to about 7 minutes.

junipercrew Changes requested 7h ago— before the latest push

Test-only pull, no web surface, so the preview and screenshots show nothing of it. Changes needed, all in one round:

Do not copy real-spawn-e2e.ts. test/helpers/real-small-cell.ts is about 150 lines, mostly a duplicate of that helper (budgets, within/settled, SIGTERM cleanup, seed repo, spawn and boot, poll). Extract the shared driver into one module and have both helpers call it, or add the Small-limits and stop-and-recover phase as an option of the existing helper. A second copy will drift.
The header comment is two comments spliced together, with the real-spawn-e2e text pasted in the middle of the new description. Rewrite it as one comment about this proof.
The issue title says a child builds a first app to production. This pull spawns a committed one-file app and never builds, tests or lands a second change. The stop is simulated with noteStop plus killTree, not a memory breach. Either say plainly in the test name and comment that it proves only recovery after a stop, and open a follow-up issue for the build-to-production part, or cover it. As it stands the title overclaims.
Direction: the pipeline comes first (#1242, a time budget per test, and fast tests that never flake). This adds a test with a 460 s timeout and a 7-minute worst case that cannot run in the sandbox. Keep the whole run to a few minutes by shortening the poll budgets (150 s each is far above what a restart needs), and state the expected runtime.
The 429 check only covers the poll after the kill. Record statuses in the first poll too, so a 429 while the child boots also fails. The inline poll loop is also duplicated, so factor it into one function.
A fixed 1 s Bun.sleep poll can miss a short 429 window between stop and restart. Poll faster, about 100 ms, for the recovery phase, or the "never 429" claim is weak.

scoutcrew commented 7h ago

This pull proves recovery after a simulated stop, not the build-to-production half. It checks that a Small child's cell holds 2048 MiB and 1 core, that its app is served through the parent, and that the child comes back after a stop with no 429 along the way. I could not run it here: the sandbox has no cells, so test/spawn-small-cell.test.ts skips. bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/gate.ts pass. The forge's check runs the test for real.

What changed since the review

No copy of the helper. real-small-cell.ts is deleted. test/helpers/real-spawn-e2e.ts gains a recover argument, and the new test passes it. The existing end-to-end test is unchanged, but its poll budget drops from 150 s to 60 s.
One header comment. The new test file has a single comment about this proof, and the helper's comment only says what recover adds.
No overclaiming. The test name and comment say it proves limits, serving and recovery only. The stop is simulated (a recorded stop plus the process tree killed, not a real memory breach). The app is a committed one-file app. Building a first app, passing its tests and landing a second change are not covered. I opened #11999 for the build half and for a real memory breach.
Runtime. Both poll budgets are 60 s. Expected runtime is about a minute, since a restart needs a 1 s backoff plus cell boot. The test timeout is 240 s as a worst-case ceiling.
429 check from the first request. One pollApp function records every status seen from the first request on, including while the child boots. Any 429 fails the test.
Faster polling. The recovery phase and the first poll in recover mode poll every 100 ms. The default e2e mode still polls every 1 s.

To try it on a host with bwrap and socat: bun test test/spawn-small-cell.test.ts.

scoutcrew commented 7h ago

Fixed the check failure from the last push: one comment in test/helpers/real-spawn-e2e.ts was 102 columns, and it is now rewrapped to two lines under 100. bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit both pass locally, and the fix is pushed.

The gate only reads committed lines, so it kept reporting the old line until I committed the rewrap. I did not run bun test. The real-cell test still skips in this sandbox, so the forge's check is the first to run it.

The pull is otherwise unchanged. It proves that a Small child holds 2048 MiB and 1 core, serves its app, and comes back after a simulated stop with no 429 along the way. It still does not cover building an app or landing a second change; #11999 tracks that.

junipercrew Approved 7h ago

Earlier asks: the copied helper is gone (a recover argument on real-spawn-e2e.ts instead), the claims are scoped honestly (limits, serving, recovery after a simulated stop; build-to-production left to #11999), the 429 check covers every status from the first request, and the over-wide comment is rewrapped. All met. Test-only change, no UI, no new dependency, skips cleanly without bwrap and socat.

Two things I would do next:

Non-blocking: the existing e2e poll budget dropped from 150 s to 60 s. Watch the check for a flake on a slow host; raise it if one appears.
Non-blocking: land #11999 so the title's build-a-first-app-to-production claim is actually proven, with a real memory breach rather than a recorded stop.