fix(responses): bound the durable spill directory with an aggregate byte cap - #3097
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…yte cap The response store has an unconditional RAM ceiling (MAX_STORED_RESPONSE_BYTES, 64 MiB) and demotes the oldest resident entry to a durable spill once it is crossed. Nothing bounded where those bytes landed: the spilled set was capped only per file (MAX_RESPONSE_SPILL_PAYLOAD_BYTES, 256 MiB) and per entry (MAX_STORED_RESPONSES, 1000). Their product is 250 GiB, larger than the disk of any host this runs on, so the only effective bound was RESPONSE_TTL_MS and disk use became a function of client request rate rather than of anything this process controls. Measured on one macOS host, 2026-08-30: a client spilling ~150 MB payloads at ~1.4/min held 6.8 GB of ~/.opencodex/responses-state-spill after 44 minutes and was still climbing toward the ~12 GB an hour-long window implies. It filled the volume, at which point unrelated processes began failing with ENOSPC. Retention itself was correct throughout - the TTL evicted that whole cohort an hour later - so this is a missing budget, not a leak. Add MAX_SPILLED_RESPONSE_BYTES (1 GiB), enforced by one function, enforceSpilledResponseBudget, with three callers: mutation pruning, the lazy load that follows a restart, and the periodic sweep. The periodic caller is not redundant. The mutation path runs only when traffic arrives, so a process that comes up over budget - from a snapshot written under a larger ceiling, or a build that lowered it - would otherwise stay over while idle. That was observed here at 1.8 GiB against a 1 GiB cap, held until the first request. sweepExpiredResponseStates still returns its TTL count, so its existing contract is unchanged. The ceiling bounds what the store can account for: every entry in the map plus the superseded generations queued in pendingSpillUnlinks, whose files stay on disk until a snapshot flush drains them and would otherwise let up to 32 GiB sit outside the budget while it reported itself satisfied. Over budget those deferred generations are released before any live entry, which is the same trade the queue's own overflow path already makes against unbounded disk. Spill files orphaned by a crash are absent from the map, so this accounting can neither see nor price them; they remain with recoverOrphanedResponseSpills and its grace window, and structure/02 now states that allowance and its bound explicitly. Eviction of live entries is ordered by createdAt, not by map order. `states` is not an age index: demotion and spill replacement delete and reinsert entries, and writeBoundedSnapshot serializes the map reversed, so map order can put a newer continuation first. createdAt is millisecond-resolution and ties are ordinary under load, where a stable sort would fall back to insertion order, so ties break on the response id by direct comparison rather than localeCompare, since the order must not depend on the host locale. The total is recomputed per enforcement rather than carried as a running counter: spilled entries reach `states` through several insertion paths (demotion swap, direct oversized admission, snapshot reload), and one missed increment there would silently disable the cap, where a walk over at most MAX_STORED_RESPONSES entries cannot drift. 1 GiB comes from the same sample (n=31), whose spilled sizes are strongly bimodal: median 1.1 MiB against a p90 of 198.7 MiB. At that median the count cap and this ceiling bind within 8% of each other (1000 x 1.1 MiB = 1.07 GiB), so ordinary traffic sees no eviction it would not already have seen and only the large tail is cut. The value is the one knob here a maintainer may reasonably want to change. Six regressions, each confirmed to fail without the code it covers: the budget is enforced and the oldest spill is the one removed; eviction follows createdAt rather than insertion order; ties break on the id; a single payload larger than the whole budget leaves the store usable rather than wedged; deferred generations count against the cap and drain first; and an over-budget snapshot is reclaimed with no continuation mutation at all - a read drives the load path and a later tick drives the periodic one, with the newest entry surviving and still replaying. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…sk cap The aggregate cap counted installed spills and deferred unlinks - files that already exist. It could not see one that writeResponseSpillDurablyAsync was in the middle of creating, and on Windows that middle lasts as long as icacls takes. A cap that holds only when writes are fast is not a cap; the incident behind this work put 6.8 GiB on disk in 44 minutes. A queued publication now reserves its peak on-disk footprint, and the cap is enforced against files-plus-reservations before the temp or destination file is created rather than by deleting the overflow afterwards. The reserved figure is two envelopes, not one. Publication can fall back from hard-linking to an exclusive copy, and during that fallback the destination copy and the temp file exist together, so reserving a single payload would leave the overshoot intact at half its magnitude. Ownership is single and settles on every exit. A queued job holds its reservation until releasePendingResponseSpill, which the finally in runPendingResponseSpill reaches from every return, throw and mismatch, and which cancellation reaches for a job that never ran. The shutdown fallback re-reserves for the duration of its synchronous write, because supersession releases the original reservation immediately before the heaviest publication of the drain - and that write has the same link-then-copy fallback. A leaked reservation would be monotonic, ratcheting the usable cap toward zero until nothing could spill at all. Regression drives the accounting red: with an in-flight publication gated on icacls, the walk over states reports 0 bytes while the reservation reports the two-envelope peak, and after settlement the accounting collapses to the real file. Carries lifrary's b4d1d24 unmodified as the base.
…roxy Review of the reservation commit found four ways the accounting still undercounted what is on the volume. The reservation was derived from candidate.sizeBytes, which measures the resident shape and omits the version field the published envelope carries. Admission is now priced from prospectiveResponseSpillBytes, which shares the production serializer, so the figure cannot drift from what is written. A same-id replacement removes the old spill from states and hands its ref to the pending job. Neither states nor pendingSpillUnlinks could see it, so a copy fallback held old generation plus temp plus destination - three envelopes priced as two. Job-owned superseded generations are now counted. Shutdown supersession released the reservation even when cleanup reported it could not remove the async temp or destination. Those bytes are not a reservation, because nothing will release them: the file could not be deleted. They move to a separate unreclaimable total that is never decremented, which is the only honest way to price a file nobody can remove. Startup orphan recovery is what reclaims them across a restart. The regression is rewritten to prove the cap rather than the counter wiring. It seeds real prior occupancy, forces link failure into the COPYFILE_EXCL fallback, gates destination hardening, and asserts against files actually on disk - three of them - while the walk over installed spills still reports one. After settlement it asserts the accounting collapses to the real files, no temp survives, and the newest continuation still replays.
…epaid Second review round on the reservation work found three ways the accounting still did not match the volume. A same-id replacement takes the old spill off states and hands it to the new job, but admission ran before the job existed, so the decision was short by a whole envelope. The inherited generation is now priced in the check itself. Cancellation also left the ref on the cancelled job while returning it to the caller, so the accounting walk could count one physical file twice and evict live continuations to reclaim bytes that were not there; ownership now transfers rather than being copied. Cleanup-failure debt was a flat two envelopes that never decremented. Both halves were wrong. clearOwnedPath nulls whichever path it managed to remove, so one failure is often one file; and a Windows lock that clears a moment later, or the async writer's own retry, can remove the file while the charge stayed forever. With 256 MiB payloads two such charges consume the whole default cap and nothing can spill again for the life of the process. The debt is now per path, priced at what that path holds, and settled as soon as the path is gone. The shutdown fallback checked nothing before writing. It now reclaims and, if the footprint still does not fit, terminalizes with ENOSPC rather than publishing onto a volume that is already over budget - the same fail-closed ending the budget-exhaustion path uses. The regression is split in two, because the previous single test proved the counter and not the cap: it stayed green with the admission branch deleted. One test now proves accounting during a forced COPYFILE_EXCL fallback with temp and destination both on disk; the other proves enforcement, and it is red when admission is removed.
…ack too Third review round found the last accounting hole, and it is shutdown-only. supersedeShutdownFallbackBatch releases the job, which takes it out of pendingResponseSpills and therefore out of the accounting walk - but its superseded generation is still a file on the volume until deferSupersededSpill or a delete takes it. The fallback preflight priced cleanup debt plus its own footprint and missed that envelope entirely. The gap is reachable: same-id replacement owns an old generation O, async cleanup fails leaving path debt D, and the fallback publishes footprint F. A cap sitting between D+F and O+D+F admits a publication that puts the directory over budget - which is the shape this whole phase exists to prevent. Regression covers exactly that: first generation settles, a same-id replacement makes the job its owner, the cap is set between the two totals, and the drain must refuse rather than add a third envelope. Red without the fix.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe response spill store now enforces a 1 GiB aggregate disk-byte cap. It prices serialized publication peaks, accounts for superseded and unreclaimable files, evicts oldest spills, rejects over-budget writes, and applies enforcement during pruning and sweeps. Documentation and regression tests cover the new behavior. ChangesResponse spill budget
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| replaceWithSpillFailure(oldestId, entry); | ||
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On non-Windows platforms, this check runs only after writeResponseSpillDurably has already created its temp and destination files. The same ordering exists in oversized admission and same-ID replacement, while evictOldestResponseContinuationForBudget writes a spill without calling this check at all. Consequently, when the directory is near 1 GiB, a 150–256 MiB spill—potentially doubled by the copy fallback—can still hit ENOSPC before any old spill is reclaimed, and global-memory demotions can leave the accounted set over budget until another sweep. Apply the prospective-footprint admission/reclamation before every synchronous publication as well.
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| const ref = pendingSpillUnlinks.shift()!; | ||
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If an eviction unlink fails—for example because Windows temporarily locks the file—deleteResponseSpill swallows the error, but this loop has already removed the reference and subtracted its bytes. The file then remains on disk while disappearing from all subsequent accounting, so later publications can refill the nominal budget and repeated failures can again grow the directory without bound. Only subtract after confirmed deletion, or transfer the surviving path into the unreclaimable-path accounting used by shutdown cleanup.
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In `@devlog/_plan/260831_prio70_train_round2/020_wp2_spill_disk_budget.md`:
- Around line 134-135: Update the audit record to say four design-changing
findings, matching the four listed bullets. Move the “What implementation added
beyond this plan” H2 section below the round-1 amendment so that all three
amendment H3 headings remain sibling sections.
In `@src/responses/spill-store.ts`:
- Around line 482-491: Refactor the spill sizing path around serializedSpill so
prospectiveResponseSpillBytes constructs the same shared envelope without
computing or retaining digests, while preserving the exact serialized shape and
byte-length result. Have serializedSpill reuse that envelope before adding its
digest fields, and use UTF-8 byte-length measurement directly rather than
allocating a full Buffer where supported.
In `@structure/02_config-and-codex-home.md`:
- Around line 170-171: Update the accounting-scope sentence to describe
accountedResponseSpillBytes(), including in-flight publication reservations,
superseded generations still owned by pending jobs, and unreclaimable spill
paths, rather than only the map entries and queued unlink generations. Also
revise the Decision Log wording to mention pre-publication admission checks in
queuePendingResponseSpill and installShutdownFallbackSpill, alongside the
existing prune-end check and periodic sweep.
In `@tests/responses-state.test.ts`:
- Around line 959-962: Update the comment above the bytesOnDisk(home) assertion
to describe it as a sanity check under the deliberately generous four-envelope
spillCap, not as proof that the admission check earned publication; identify the
separate cap-refusal test as the assertion that verifies admission behavior,
while preserving the existing assertion.
- Line 1317: Update the flushResponseState rejection assertion to require the
ENOSPC error code from installShutdownFallbackSpill, while preserving the
existing shutdown fallback incomplete message check. Ensure the assertion
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The stated count of design-changing findings does not match the list.
Line 134-135 says "Three of their findings changed the design rather than the code, so they belong here", and four bullets follow at Lines 137, 141, 145, and 150:
- the footprint is measured, not estimated
- superseded generations are priced in two places
- cleanup debt is per path and repayable
- the shutdown fallback fails closed
All four describe design changes, and all four match the implementation. I verified each one:
prospectiveResponseSpillBytessharesserializedSpill(src/responses/spill-store.tsLine 487).- Superseded bytes are priced at admission (
src/responses/state.tsLine 423) and again in the shutdown fallback (Line 553). - The debt is keyed by path and settled by
existsSync(src/responses/state.tsLines 258-273 and 640-642). - The fallback throws
ENOSPC(src/responses/state.tsLine 567).
This document is the audit record the PR objectives point to, so the count should agree with the list.
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-Four adversarial review rounds against the built branch (findings 4, 3, 1, 0). Three of
-their findings changed the design rather than the code, so they belong here:
+Four adversarial review rounds against the built branch (findings 4, 3, 1, 0). Four of
+their findings changed the design rather than the code, so they belong here:Secondary point on the same added block: the new ## What implementation added beyond this plan heading at Line 132 is inserted directly above the ### Amendment after audit round 1 heading at Line 157. Because the new heading is an H2 and the amendment is an H3, the round-1 amendment now renders as a subsection of this retrospective instead of a sibling of the round-3 and round-4 amendments at Lines 47 and 66. Moving the new section below Line 175 keeps the three amendments at the same level.
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| Four adversarial review rounds against the built branch (findings 4, 3, 1, 0). Three of | |
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In `@devlog/_plan/260831_prio70_train_round2/020_wp2_spill_disk_budget.md` around
lines 134 - 135, Update the audit record to say four design-changing findings,
matching the four listed bullets. Move the “What implementation added beyond
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| export function prospectiveResponseSpillBytes( | ||
| responseId: string, | ||
| state: Omit<ResponseSpillPayload, "version" | "responseId">, | ||
| ): number | null { | ||
| try { | ||
| return serializedSpill(responseId, state).bytes.byteLength; | ||
| } catch { | ||
| return null; | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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Sizing through serializedSpill pays for two SHA-256 passes and a second full serialization it does not need.
serializedSpill (Lines 443-471) builds the payload, allocates Buffer.from(serialized, "utf8"), and then computes sha256(bytes) plus sha256(responseId). prospectiveResponseSpillBytes discards digest, idDigest, and contentDigest and keeps only byteLength.
Callers hit this on the admission path. publicationFootprintBytes in src/responses/state.ts Lines 284-287 calls it for every queued publication, and installShutdownFallbackSpill calls it again during the drain. The publication that follows serializes the same payload a second time inside writeResponseSpillDurably. With the p90 payload size documented in MAX_SPILLED_RESPONSE_BYTES (~198 MiB), each admission therefore adds one full string plus one full Buffer allocation and one full-payload SHA-256 pass whose result is thrown away.
The anti-drift goal does not require the digests. Split the payload construction so the size path shares the exact envelope shape without hashing it.
♻️ Suggested split that keeps the envelope shared and drops the unused digests
+function spillEnvelope(
+ responseId: string,
+ state: Omit<ResponseSpillPayload, "version" | "responseId">,
+): Buffer {
+ const payload: ResponseSpillPayload = {
+ version: 1,
+ responseId,
+ createdAt: state.createdAt,
+ ...(state.clientThreadId ? { clientThreadId: state.clientThreadId } : {}),
+ items: state.items,
+ ...(state.providerOutputStart !== undefined ? { providerOutputStart: state.providerOutputStart } : {}),
+ ...(state.providers ? { providers: state.providers } : {}),
+ };
+ const serialized = JSON.stringify(payload);
+ if (serialized === undefined) throw new Error("Response spill serialization failed");
+ return Buffer.from(serialized, "utf8");
+}
+
export function prospectiveResponseSpillBytes(
responseId: string,
state: Omit<ResponseSpillPayload, "version" | "responseId">,
): number | null {
try {
- return serializedSpill(responseId, state).bytes.byteLength;
+ return spillEnvelope(responseId, state).byteLength;
} catch {
return null;
}
}serializedSpill then calls spillEnvelope and adds the digests, so the two paths still cannot drift.
Note: measuring byteLength without holding the intermediate string is the larger win. If you want the allocation removed as well, Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(payload), "utf8") avoids the Buffer copy.
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In `@src/responses/spill-store.ts` around lines 482 - 491, Refactor the spill
sizing path around serializedSpill so prospectiveResponseSpillBytes constructs
the same shared envelope without computing or retaining digests, while
preserving the exact serialized shape and byte-length result. Have
serializedSpill reuse that envelope before adding its digest fields, and use
UTF-8 byte-length measurement directly rather than allocating a full Buffer
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| The ceiling bounds what the store can account for, which is every entry in the map plus the | ||
| superseded generations queued for unlink, and deliberately not the directory as a whole. Spill files |
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The accounting-scope sentence omits in-flight publication reservations, which is the mechanism this change adds.
Lines 170-171 say the ceiling bounds "every entry in the map plus the superseded generations queued for unlink". That describes spilledResponseBytes() (src/responses/state.ts Lines 782-792), not the total the cap is actually enforced against.
Enforcement uses accountedResponseSpillBytes() (src/responses/state.ts Lines 803-815), which adds three more terms:
reservedResponseSpillBytes— the peak footprint of publications in flight- superseded generations a pending job still owns
reconcileUnreclaimableSpillPaths()— bytes left by a failed cleanup, settled when the path disappears
The reservation term is the load-bearing one. publicationFootprintBytes (Lines 284-287) reserves two envelopes per publication, so a maintainer reading this page cannot work out why the usable headroom is below the stated ceiling while a publication runs. That is exactly the question this page should answer.
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-The ceiling bounds what the store can account for, which is every entry in the map plus the
-superseded generations queued for unlink, and deliberately not the directory as a whole. Spill files
+The ceiling bounds what the store can account for: every entry in the map, the superseded
+generations queued for unlink, the superseded generation a pending publication still owns, the peak
+footprint reserved for publications in flight (temp plus destination copy, so two envelopes per
+publication), and bytes a failed cleanup left behind until the path disappears. It deliberately does
+not bound the directory as a whole. Spill filesRelated, in the Decision Log: Line 184 describes the chosen approach as "checked at the end of the existing prune". The same change also checks before publication in queuePendingResponseSpill (Lines 424-432) and in installShutdownFallbackSpill (Lines 559-569), and adds the periodic sweep. Naming the pre-publication admission check there keeps the log consistent with the prose above it.
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| The ceiling bounds what the store can account for, which is every entry in the map plus the | |
| superseded generations queued for unlink, and deliberately not the directory as a whole. Spill files | |
| The ceiling bounds what the store can account for: every entry in the map, the superseded | |
| generations queued for unlink, the superseded generation a pending publication still owns, the peak | |
| footprint reserved for publications in flight (temp plus destination copy, so two envelopes per | |
| publication), and bytes a failed cleanup left behind until the path disappears. It deliberately does | |
| not bound the directory as a whole. Spill files |
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In `@structure/02_config-and-codex-home.md` around lines 170 - 171, Update the
accounting-scope sentence to describe accountedResponseSpillBytes(), including
in-flight publication reservations, superseded generations still owned by
pending jobs, and unreclaimable spill paths, rather than only the map entries
and queued unlink generations. Also revise the Decision Log wording to mention
pre-publication admission checks in queuePendingResponseSpill and
installShutdownFallbackSpill, alongside the existing prune-end check and
periodic sweep.
| // And the bytes ACTUALLY on disk stay inside the configured cap. This is the | ||
| // assertion the admission check has to earn: without it, the seeded spill plus the | ||
| // temp plus the destination copy exceed a cap sized for two envelopes. | ||
| expect(bytesOnDisk(home)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(spillCap); |
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This comment claims a cap sizing the test does not use.
Lines 959-961 say the assertion is "the assertion the admission check has to earn: without it, the seeded spill plus the temp plus the destination copy exceed a cap sized for two envelopes." Line 936 sets const spillCap = existingBytes * 4, which is four envelopes, and Lines 932-935 state the opposite intent: the cap is deliberately generous so that this publication is admitted and the cap-refusal behavior is proven separately.
With a four-envelope cap, the seeded spill plus the temp plus the destination copy total about three envelopes, so bytesOnDisk(home) <= spillCap passes with a full envelope of slack. The assertion is a useful sanity bound, but it does not earn the admission check. The test at Lines 979-1011 does, with Math.floor(seededBytes * 1.5).
The plan document records that an earlier version of this test "proved the counter, not the cap", so keeping this rationale accurate matters.
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- // And the bytes ACTUALLY on disk stay inside the configured cap. This is the
- // assertion the admission check has to earn: without it, the seeded spill plus the
- // temp plus the destination copy exceed a cap sized for two envelopes.
+ // And the bytes ACTUALLY on disk stay inside the configured cap. This is a sanity
+ // bound only: the cap here is four envelopes and the directory holds about three,
+ // so it has slack by construction. Refusal is proven in the next test, where the
+ // cap is 1.5 envelopes and admission is the only thing standing between the
+ // request and an over-budget directory.
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| // And the bytes ACTUALLY on disk stay inside the configured cap. This is the | |
| // assertion the admission check has to earn: without it, the seeded spill plus the | |
| // temp plus the destination copy exceed a cap sized for two envelopes. | |
| expect(bytesOnDisk(home)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(spillCap); | |
| // And the bytes ACTUALLY on disk stay inside the configured cap. This is a sanity | |
| // bound only: the cap here is four envelopes and the directory holds about three, | |
| // so it has slack by construction. Refusal is proven in the next test, where the | |
| // cap is 1.5 envelopes and admission is the only thing standing between the | |
| // request and an over-budget directory. | |
| expect(bytesOnDisk(home)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(spillCap); |
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In `@tests/responses-state.test.ts` around lines 959 - 962, Update the comment
above the bytesOnDisk(home) assertion to describe it as a sanity check under the
deliberately generous four-envelope spillCap, not as proof that the admission
check earned publication; identify the separate cap-refusal test as the
assertion that verifies admission behavior, while preserving the existing
assertion.
| // The refusal surfaces as a shutdown failure, which is the honest signal: the | ||
| // operator learns a continuation was dropped rather than the volume being | ||
| // silently overfilled. | ||
| await expect(flushResponseState()).rejects.toThrow(/shutdown fallback incomplete/); |
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Pin the rejection cause to ENOSPC, or timing can make this test silently vacuous.
Line 1283 sets { totalMs: 120, fallbackReserveMs: 80 }. The drain has 80 ms to reach installShutdownFallbackSpill and hit the cap check at src/responses/state.ts Lines 559-569. If the reserve expires first, fallbackPendingResponseSpills takes the terminalizeExhaustedShutdownFallback path and pushes an ETIMEDOUT error instead.
Both paths reject with the same aggregate message, so rejects.toThrow(/shutdown fallback incomplete/) accepts either. The three assertions that follow also hold under terminalization, because terminalization tombstones without writing any file: bytesOnDisk stays within the cap, no temp remains, and pending metrics reach zero.
The consequence is that on a slow or loaded runner this test can pass without ever executing the supersededBytes pricing it exists to protect. It would stay green if const supersededBytes = job.supersededSpill?.payloadBytes ?? 0 at src/responses/state.ts Line 553 were deleted. The plan document at Lines 153-156 records that this PR already produced one false green of exactly this shape.
The gate at Lines 1289-1296 also releases only in the finally at Line 1323, so flushResponseState() is unblocked by the 120 ms budget deadline rather than by release(). The test is therefore structurally dependent on that race.
installShutdownFallbackSpill attaches code: "ENOSPC" to its error (src/responses/state.ts Line 567). Assert on that code so the cap refusal is distinguishable from budget exhaustion.
♻️ Suggested assertion that fails on the ETIMEDOUT path
- await expect(flushResponseState()).rejects.toThrow(/shutdown fallback incomplete/);
+ const failure = await flushResponseState().then(
+ () => null,
+ (error: unknown) => error,
+ );
+ expect(failure).not.toBeNull();
+ // The refusal must be the CAP refusal, not budget exhaustion. Both reject with the
+ // same aggregate message, so match the code the cap check attaches.
+ const causes = failure instanceof AggregateError ? failure.errors : [failure];
+ expect(causes.some((error: unknown) =>
+ !!error && typeof error === "object" && (error as { code?: unknown }).code === "ENOSPC")).toBe(true);If flushResponseState wraps a single failure without an AggregateError, the causes fallback above still inspects it.
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| await expect(flushResponseState()).rejects.toThrow(/shutdown fallback incomplete/); | |
| const failure = await flushResponseState().then( | |
| () => null, | |
| (error: unknown) => error, | |
| ); | |
| expect(failure).not.toBeNull(); | |
| // The refusal must be the CAP refusal, not budget exhaustion. Both reject with the | |
| // same aggregate message, so match the code the cap check attaches. | |
| const causes = failure instanceof AggregateError ? failure.errors : [failure]; | |
| expect(causes.some((error: unknown) => | |
| !!error && typeof error === "object" && (error as { code?: unknown }).code === "ENOSPC")).toBe(true); |
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In `@tests/responses-state.test.ts` at line 1317, Update the flushResponseState
rejection assertion to require the ENOSPC error code from
installShutdownFallbackSpill, while preserving the existing shutdown fallback
incomplete message check. Ensure the assertion handles both aggregate causes and
a directly wrapped single failure so the test fails when
terminalizeExhaustedShutdownFallback produces ETIMEDOUT.
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Summary
Bounds the durable spill directory with an aggregate byte cap, and makes that cap describe the volume rather than a subset of it. Carries @lifrary's
b4d1d2404from #3032 unmodified as the base.The reported incident: the spill directory reached 6.8 GiB in 44 minutes and hit ENOSPC, which threatens every durable write on the machine, not only OpenCodex's.
The contributor's cap counts installed spills and deferred unlinks — files that already exist. It cannot see one that
writeResponseSpillDurablyAsyncis in the middle of creating, and on Windows that middle lasts as long asicaclstakes. A cap that holds only when writes are fast is not a cap, so this adds publication accounting on top:prospectiveResponseSpillBytesshares the production serializer, so the reserved figure cannot drift from what is written. The resident measurement omits theversionfield the envelope carries, which is enough to let a request sitting exactly at the cap exceed it.COPYFILE_EXCL, and during that fallback the temp and the destination copy exist together. Reserving one envelope would leave the overshoot at half magnitude.statesand hands it to the pending job; it is priced at admission and again in the shutdown fallback, where supersession has already released the job.Four adversarial review rounds, findings 4 → 3 → 1 → 0. The first round caught the reservation being derived from a proxy measurement; the second caught a regression that stayed green with the admission check deleted; the third caught the shutdown fallback pricing everything except the generation it owned.
Plan: devlog/_plan/260831_prio70_train_round2/020_wp2_spill_disk_budget.md.
Verification
Three regressions, each driven red first:
supersededBytesneutralizedThe second exists because the first version of it stayed green with admission removed — it proved the counter, not the cap.
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