fix(test): probe readiness instead of sleeping a fixed 250ms (#752) - #753
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25 call sites across 24 integration suites spawned an in-process server on a thread and then slept a fixed 250ms before connecting. The sleep encodes a guess about startup time. When the guess is short the whole file dies on "Connection refused", which names neither the port nor the cause -- the failure reads as a flake rather than as "the server never came up". Replace every one of them with common::await_listening(port, 30s): it polls until the port accepts, so it costs only as long as startup actually takes, and on timeout it returns an error naming the port and the attempt count. tests/readiness_helper.rs covers the change with three tests, including a negative control that runs the OLD pattern -- sleep 250ms, then connect -- against the same 600ms-delayed bind the new probe survives, and asserts it loses the race. Without that control the file would only show the new helper works, not that the pattern it replaces was broken. The control was mutation-checked: raising its sleep to 900ms makes it fail as designed. Nine deliberate settle-sleeps (waiting on post-startup convergence, not on a listener) are left untouched; they are not readiness waits. Note on scope: an A/B of the pre- and post-change binaries under CPU load and at 32-way concurrency did NOT reproduce a failure on this machine, so the justification here is the deterministic control above plus the diagnosability of the error, not a measured flake-rate improvement. Refs: #752 author: Tin Dang
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a shared asynchronous listener-readiness helper and replaces fixed 250 ms startup sleeps across integration-test server harnesses. New tests cover delayed startup, timeout behavior, and the replaced sleep behavior. ChangesIntegration-test server readiness
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In `@tests/readiness_helper.rs`:
- Around line 21-27: Move the Instant::now measurement before spawning the
delayed-bind thread so elapsed-time assertions include the full bind_after
delay. In the negative-control test around await_listening, add synchronization
ensuring the old connection attempt completes before the delayed thread is
allowed to bind, preserving the intended failed-connection assertion.
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…752) The negative control added in the previous commit asserted that a one-shot connect made 250ms after spawn fails while the binder thread waits 600ms. That is itself a wall-clock race, and Windows CI lost it: TRY 1/2/3 all failed at the assert (run 33061800844) because under nextest's parallelism the 250ms sleep overshot the 600ms bind, the connect succeeded, and the control reported the opposite of the truth. Close the "not yet listening" window with an explicit channel gate instead: the binder blocks until the test has already attempted its connect, so the precondition is a guarantee rather than a hope. Mutation-checked -- making the binder ignore the gate and bind immediately fails the assert as designed. Also loosen every upper time bound. They exist to catch a HANG, not to assert a latency, so a tight ceiling on a loaded runner fails for the wrong reason: 5s -> 30s for the slow-bind probe (and the listener is now held 60s so it cannot be dropped out from under a slow probe), and deadline*8 -> deadline*20 for the timeout probe. The `>=` lower bounds are physically enforced by the bind and are unchanged. Worth recording: this Windows failure is the empirical support the previous commit said it lacked. A local A/B under CPU load and at 32-way concurrency did not reproduce a 250ms overshoot; a hosted Windows runner reproduced it deterministically, three times out of three. A fixed 250ms sleep really is insufficient under CI parallelism -- which is the premise of #752. Refs: #752 author: Tin Dang
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Closes #752.
What
25 readiness sites across 24 integration suites did this:
…then connected. The sleep encodes a guess about how long the in-process server
takes to bind. When the guess is short the whole file dies on
Connection refused, which names neither the port nor the cause — it reads as a flakerather than as "the server never came up."
All 25 are replaced with:
It polls until the port accepts, so it costs only as long as startup actually
takes, and on timeout returns an error naming the port and the attempt count.
Nine deliberate settle-sleeps are left untouched — they wait on
post-startup convergence, not on a listener, so a readiness probe would be the
wrong tool. (
cluster_client_bootstrap,dbsize_offload_logical,info_observability,spill_inflight_visibility×2,spsc_wake_floor_red_api,wire_reachability_red,write_timeout.)How it's proven
tests/readiness_helper.rscarries three tests. The one that matters is thenegative control: it runs the old pattern — sleep 250ms, then connect —
against the same 600ms-delayed bind the new probe survives, and asserts it
loses the race. Without it the file would only show the new helper works, not
that the pattern it replaces was broken.
The control closes the "not yet listening" window with an explicit channel gate
rather than a sleep, so the precondition is a guarantee. It was
mutation-checked: making the binder ignore the gate and bind immediately fails
the assert as designed, so the guard can report its own failure.
Evidence the premise is real
I could not reproduce a 250ms overshoot locally: 0/32 copies failed at 32-way
concurrency, and both pre- and post-change binaries passed under 24 CPU
spinners at load 16. I opened this PR saying so.
Windows CI then reproduced it deterministically. The first version of the
negative control raced a 250ms sleep against a 600ms bind on a wall clock, and
on the hosted Windows runner the sleep overshot the bind — TRY 1/2/3 all failed
(run 33061800844). Under nextest's parallelism a "250ms" sleep is not 250ms.
That is exactly the failure mode #752 describes, observed on the runner rather
than argued from first principles. The control is now gated on a channel so it
no longer depends on wall-clock ordering, and every upper time bound in the
file was loosened — those bounds catch a hang, not a latency, and a tight
ceiling on a loaded runner fails for the wrong reason. The
>=lower boundsare enforced by the bind itself and are unchanged.
So the claim is now: a fixed 250ms sleep is demonstrably insufficient under CI
parallelism. What remains unmeasured is how much this moves the overall flake
rate — only CI data over time will show that. The added win is diagnosability:
a failure now names the port and attempt count instead of "Connection refused".
Gates
cargo fmt --check— cleangit diff --check— cleantests/readiness_helper.rs— 3/3, mutation-checkedNo
src/change:git diff main -- src/ benches/ Cargo.*is empty. Test-only,hence
skip-changelog.