@torrent-tv/proxy 2.80.13 → 2.80.14

package/services/priority/PriorityOrchestrator.js

@@ -1,278 +1,284 @@
-/**
- * @file The priority map, built once and handed to everybody who acts on it.
- *
- * One map per film, in seconds of film against a number. It is built from where
- * the viewers are and nothing else, and both of the things that do work — the
- * encoding and the downloading — read it and decide for themselves. They do not
- * talk to each other, and neither of them tells this class anything.
- *
- * **Why it has to be published rather than asked for.** The downloading lives
- * in another thread. Until now it took its orders from the reads themselves:
- * every read declared a window around its own head, so fifteen reads declared
- * fifteen windows on a piece store that holds sixteen pieces. Half of all
- * evictions then took a piece a reader had said it wanted, two thirds of reads
- * came back from disk, and what `/stream` handed out stopped being the file's
- * bytes — twenty-two source-parse errors, a segment the player could not
- * append, and an empty picture for six minutes (field 2026-09-05).
- */
-
-import { emptyMap, mapForViewer, mergeMaps, runsOf } from "./PriorityMap.js";
-
-export class PriorityOrchestrator {
-  /** Where the map goes once it is built. @type {(published: object) => void} */
-  #publish;
-
-  /** The last map published per film and file, so an unchanged one is not resent. */
-  #last = new Map();
-
-  /** The last map BUILT per film and file, for whoever reads instead of being
-   * handed it. @type {Map<string, import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap>} */
-  #maps = new Map();
-
-  /**
-   * The last map built per OUTPUT, from the viewers of that output alone.
-   *
-   * The same fact answered at two scopes, because the two things that act on it
-   * ask at two scopes and both are right. The swarm is asked for bytes of a
-   * FILE, and the picture, a quality step and a soundtrack of one film read the
-   * same bytes — so every viewer of any of them wants that file's bytes.
-   * Encoders are placed per OUTPUT, and a person watching 480p wants nothing of
-   * the 1080p output at all.
-   *
-   * One map for both was the second authority over encoders. Every output of a
-   * film was handed the whole film's map, so the plan wanted an encoder on every
-   * one of them; what actually stopped the ones nobody was watching was the
-   * session manager killing them by its own judgement — and since a viewer
-   * moving between steps also announces itself, the plan started them again on
-   * the next pass. Two parties answering "should this encoder exist" by different
-   * rules, several times a second.
-   *
-   * @type {Map<string, import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap>}
-   */
-  #byOutput = new Map();
-
-  /** Who is watching one session. @type {(session: object) => Map<string, object>} */
-  #viewersOf;
-
-  /** How wide the first band of one session's file is. @type {(session: object) => number} */
-  #allowanceFor;
-
-  /** Whether this output is what that person is consuming, as opposed to one
-   * they merely hold a record on. @type {(session: object, viewer: object) => boolean} */
-  #watchedBy;
-
-  /**
-   * This layer states facts and imports nothing above itself, so what it needs
-   * of a session — who is watching it, and how wide an interruption this file
-   * has shown on this swarm — is passed in.
-   *
-   * @param {object} params
-   * @param {(published: { sourceKey: string, fileIndex: number, durationSeconds: number,
-   *   zones: { from: number, to: number, priority: number }[] }) => void} params.publish
-   * @param {(session: object) => Map<string, object>} [params.viewersOf]
-   * @param {(session: object) => number} [params.allowanceFor]
-   * @param {(session: object, viewer: object) => boolean} [params.watchedBy] -
-   *   Whether this output is the one that person is consuming. Which of a film's
-   *   outputs a person has on screen is a fact about the film's shape, which
-   *   this layer does not know; absent, every registered viewer counts, and then
-   *   the per-output map says the same as the per-file one.
-   */
-  constructor({ publish, viewersOf, allowanceFor, watchedBy }) {
-    this.#publish = typeof publish === "function" ? publish : () => {};
-    this.#viewersOf = typeof viewersOf === "function" ? viewersOf : () => new Map();
-    this.#allowanceFor = typeof allowanceFor === "function" ? allowanceFor : () => 0;
-    this.#watchedBy = typeof watchedBy === "function" ? watchedBy : () => true;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * A map from a set of viewers, and the ONE statement of how one is built.
-   *
-   * Asked at both scopes — once per film for the swarm, once per output for the
-   * encoders — and written once, because two copies of how a viewer's map is
-   * built is the same two-owners fault this class was split for.
-   *
-   * @param {object} params
-   * @param {number} params.durationSeconds
-   * @param {number} params.allowanceSeconds
-   * @param {{ atSeconds: number, playing: boolean }[]} params.viewers
-   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap} A map of no length where
-   *   nobody is watching or the film's length is unknown, which says the same as
-   *   a map with nothing in it.
-   */
-  #mapFrom({ durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers }) {
-    if (!(durationSeconds > 0) || !(viewers?.length > 0)) {
-      return emptyMap(0);
-    }
-    return mergeMaps(
-      viewers.map((viewer) =>
-        mapForViewer({
-          atSeconds: viewer.atSeconds,
-          durationSeconds,
-          allowanceSeconds,
-          playing: viewer.playing !== false
-        })
-      )
-    );
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The map for one film, from everyone watching it.
-   *
-   * @param {object} params
-   * @param {string} params.sourceKey
-   * @param {number} params.fileIndex
-   * @param {number} params.durationSeconds
-   * @param {number} params.allowanceSeconds - The measured depth below which an
-   *   interruption reaches a viewer of this file.
-   * @param {{ atSeconds: number, playing: boolean }[]} params.viewers
-   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap} One number per second of
-   *   film, merged over everyone watching it.
-   */
-  build({ sourceKey, fileIndex, durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers }) {
-    const map = this.#mapFrom({ durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers });
-    const key = `${sourceKey}:${fileIndex}`;
-    this.#maps.set(key, map);
-    // Unchanged maps are not republished: the downloading rebuilds what it asks
-    // the swarm for on every one, and a viewer sitting still would otherwise
-    // make it do that several times a second. Compared as stretches rather than
-    // second by second, which is the same comparison over far fewer values.
-    const zones = runsOf(map);
-    const shape = JSON.stringify(zones);
-    if (this.#last.get(key) !== shape) {
-      this.#last.set(key, shape);
-      this.#publish({ sourceKey, fileIndex, durationSeconds, zones });
-    }
-    return map;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Build and publish the map for every file anybody is watching.
-   *
-   * One map per FILE, not per output: the picture, a quality step and a
-   * soundtrack of one film are three outputs reading the same bytes, and the
-   * swarm is asked for bytes. Viewers of all of them merge into one map.
-   *
-   * @param {object} params
-   * @param {Iterable<object[]>} params.sessionGroups - The live sessions, in
-   *   whatever grouping the caller holds them; they are regrouped by file here.
-   * @param {number} params.staleAfterMs - How long a viewer may be silent and
-   *   still count as watching.
-   * @param {number} [params.now]
-   * @returns {void}
-   */
-  publishFor({ sessionGroups, staleAfterMs, now = Date.now() }) {
-    /** @type {Map<string, { sourceKey: string, fileIndex: number, durationSeconds: number, allowanceSeconds: number, viewers: object[] }>} */
-    const byFile = new Map();
-    /** @type {Map<string, { durationSeconds: number, allowanceSeconds: number, viewers: object[] }>} */
-    const byOutput = new Map();
-    for (const sessions of sessionGroups) {
-      for (const session of sessions) {
-        const key = `${session.sourceKey}:${session.fileIndex}`;
-        const durationSeconds = Number(session.file?.durationSeconds) || 0;
-        // The first band is as wide as an interruption this file has actually
-        // shown on this swarm, never a chosen number.
-        const allowanceSeconds = this.#allowanceFor(session);
-        let held = byFile.get(key);
-        if (!held) {
-          held = {
-            sourceKey: session.sourceKey,
-            fileIndex: session.fileIndex,
-            durationSeconds,
-            allowanceSeconds,
-            viewers: []
-          };
-          byFile.set(key, held);
-        }
-        // Every output anybody holds a session for, whether or not a viewer is
-        // consuming it — an output with nobody on it must get a map with
-        // nothing in it, which is how the plan is told to stop its encoders.
-        // Left out, it would keep the map it had when somebody was watching.
-        const address = session.outputKey ?? "";
-        let mine = byOutput.get(address);
-        if (!mine) {
-          mine = { durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers: [] };
-          byOutput.set(address, mine);
-        }
-        for (const viewer of this.#viewersOf(session).values()) {
-          if (!viewer.isPresent(now, staleAfterMs)) {
-            continue;
-          }
-          const stated = {
-            atSeconds: viewer.positionSeconds() ?? 0,
-            playing: viewer.playing !== false
-          };
-          held.viewers.push(stated);
-          if (this.#watchedBy(session, viewer)) {
-            mine.viewers.push(stated);
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-    // WHAT THIS PASS SAW IS ALL THERE IS. Everything below is derived from the
-    // live sessions, so a file or an output that is not among them is gone —
-    // and these maps are the projection of that, never a memory of it. Left to
-    // accumulate they were three maps that only grew, which is the shape of half
-    // the memory faults recorded in this repository, and `forget` was written
-    // for it and called from nowhere.
-    for (const key of [...this.#maps.keys()]) {
-      if (!byFile.has(key)) {
-        this.#maps.delete(key);
-        this.#last.delete(key);
-      }
-    }
-    for (const address of [...this.#byOutput.keys()]) {
-      if (!byOutput.has(address)) {
-        this.#byOutput.delete(address);
-      }
-    }
-    for (const one of byFile.values()) {
-      // A file of unknown length cannot be divided into zones, and a file
-      // nobody is watching has nothing to be urgent about.
-      if (one.durationSeconds > 0 && one.viewers.length > 0) {
-        this.build(one);
-      }
-    }
-    for (const [address, one] of byOutput) {
-      this.#byOutput.set(address, this.#mapFrom(one));
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Nobody is watching this file any more.
-   *
-   * @param {string} sourceKey
-   * @param {number} fileIndex
-   */
-  /**
-   * The map this class last built for one file.
-   *
-   * Read by whoever acts on it and cannot be handed it at the moment it is
-   * made — the encoding decides per output, and one file has several. It is the
-   * SAME map: built once here, from where the viewers are, and neither read
-   * changes it.
-   *
-   * @param {string} sourceKey
-   * @param {number} fileIndex
-   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap} A map of no length where
-   *   none was built, which says the same as a map with nothing in it.
-   */
-  mapFor(sourceKey, fileIndex) {
-    return this.#maps.get(`${sourceKey}:${fileIndex}`) ?? emptyMap(0);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * The map for ONE output, from the viewers consuming that output.
-   *
-   * What the encoding reads. A map of no length says nobody is on this output,
-   * which is what makes an encoder on it unwanted — and it is a statement, not
-   * an absence: the walk above writes one for every output a session exists
-   * for, including the ones everybody has left.
-   *
-   * @param {string} address
-   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap}
-   */
-  mapForOutput(address) {
-    return this.#byOutput.get(address) ?? emptyMap(0);
-  }
-
-}
+/**
+ * @file The priority map, built once and handed to everybody who acts on it.
+ *
+ * One map per film, in seconds of film against a number. It is built from where
+ * the viewers are and nothing else, and both of the things that do work — the
+ * encoding and the downloading — read it and decide for themselves. They do not
+ * talk to each other, and neither of them tells this class anything.
+ *
+ * **Why it has to be published rather than asked for.** The downloading lives
+ * in another thread. Until now it took its orders from the reads themselves:
+ * every read declared a window around its own head, so fifteen reads declared
+ * fifteen windows on a piece store that holds sixteen pieces. Half of all
+ * evictions then took a piece a reader had said it wanted, two thirds of reads
+ * came back from disk, and what `/stream` handed out stopped being the file's
+ * bytes — twenty-two source-parse errors, a segment the player could not
+ * append, and an empty picture for six minutes (field 2026-09-05).
+ */
+
+import { emptyMap, mapForViewer, mergeMaps, runsOf } from "./PriorityMap.js";
+
+export class PriorityOrchestrator {
+  /** Where the map goes once it is built. @type {(published: object) => void} */
+  #publish;
+
+  /** The last map published per film and file, so an unchanged one is not resent. */
+  #last = new Map();
+
+  /** The last map BUILT per film and file, for whoever reads instead of being
+   * handed it. @type {Map<string, import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap>} */
+  #maps = new Map();
+
+  /**
+   * The last map built per OUTPUT, from the viewers of that output alone.
+   *
+   * The same fact answered at two scopes, because the two things that act on it
+   * ask at two scopes and both are right. The swarm is asked for bytes of a
+   * FILE, and the picture, a quality step and a soundtrack of one film read the
+   * same bytes — so every viewer of any of them wants that file's bytes.
+   * Encoders are placed per OUTPUT, and a person watching 480p wants nothing of
+   * the 1080p output at all.
+   *
+   * One map for both was the second authority over encoders. Every output of a
+   * film was handed the whole film's map, so the plan wanted an encoder on every
+   * one of them; what actually stopped the ones nobody was watching was the
+   * session manager killing them by its own judgement — and since a viewer
+   * moving between steps also announces itself, the plan started them again on
+   * the next pass. Two parties answering "should this encoder exist" by different
+   * rules, several times a second.
+   *
+   * @type {Map<string, import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap>}
+   */
+  #byOutput = new Map();
+
+  /** Who is watching one session. @type {(session: object) => Map<string, object>} */
+  #viewersOf;
+
+  /** How wide the first band of one session's file is. @type {(session: object) => number} */
+  #allowanceFor;
+
+  /** Whether this output is what that person is consuming, as opposed to one
+   * they merely hold a record on. @type {(session: object, viewer: object) => boolean} */
+  #watchedBy;
+
+  /**
+   * This layer states facts and imports nothing above itself, so what it needs
+   * of a session — who is watching it, and how wide an interruption this file
+   * has shown on this swarm — is passed in.
+   *
+   * @param {object} params
+   * @param {(published: { sourceKey: string, fileIndex: number, durationSeconds: number,
+   *   zones: { from: number, to: number, priority: number }[] }) => void} params.publish
+   * @param {(session: object) => Map<string, object>} [params.viewersOf]
+   * @param {(session: object) => number} [params.allowanceFor]
+   * @param {(session: object, viewer: object) => boolean} [params.watchedBy] -
+   *   Whether this output is the one that person is consuming. Which of a film's
+   *   outputs a person has on screen is a fact about the film's shape, which
+   *   this layer does not know; absent, every registered viewer counts, and then
+   *   the per-output map says the same as the per-file one.
+   */
+  constructor({ publish, viewersOf, allowanceFor, watchedBy }) {
+    this.#publish = typeof publish === "function" ? publish : () => {};
+    this.#viewersOf = typeof viewersOf === "function" ? viewersOf : () => new Map();
+    this.#allowanceFor = typeof allowanceFor === "function" ? allowanceFor : () => 0;
+    this.#watchedBy = typeof watchedBy === "function" ? watchedBy : () => true;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A map from a set of viewers, and the ONE statement of how one is built.
+   *
+   * Asked at both scopes — once per film for the swarm, once per output for the
+   * encoders — and written once, because two copies of how a viewer's map is
+   * built is the same two-owners fault this class was split for.
+   *
+   * @param {object} params
+   * @param {number} params.durationSeconds
+   * @param {number} params.allowanceSeconds
+   * @param {{ atSeconds: number, playing: boolean }[]} params.viewers
+   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap} A map of no length where
+   *   nobody is watching or the film's length is unknown, which says the same as
+   *   a map with nothing in it.
+   */
+  #mapFrom({ durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers }) {
+    if (!(durationSeconds > 0) || !(viewers?.length > 0)) {
+      return emptyMap(0);
+    }
+    return mergeMaps(
+      viewers.map((viewer) =>
+        mapForViewer({
+          atSeconds: viewer.atSeconds,
+          durationSeconds,
+          allowanceSeconds,
+          playing: viewer.playing !== false
+        })
+      )
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The map for one film, from everyone watching it.
+   *
+   * @param {object} params
+   * @param {string} params.sourceKey
+   * @param {number} params.fileIndex
+   * @param {number} params.durationSeconds
+   * @param {number} params.allowanceSeconds - The measured depth below which an
+   *   interruption reaches a viewer of this file.
+   * @param {{ atSeconds: number, playing: boolean }[]} params.viewers
+   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap} One number per second of
+   *   film, merged over everyone watching it.
+   */
+  build({ sourceKey, fileIndex, durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers }) {
+    const map = this.#mapFrom({ durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers });
+    const key = `${sourceKey}:${fileIndex}`;
+    this.#maps.set(key, map);
+    // Unchanged maps are not republished: the downloading rebuilds what it asks
+    // the swarm for on every one, and a viewer sitting still would otherwise
+    // make it do that several times a second. Compared as stretches rather than
+    // second by second, which is the same comparison over far fewer values.
+    const zones = runsOf(map);
+    const shape = JSON.stringify(zones);
+    if (this.#last.get(key) !== shape) {
+      this.#last.set(key, shape);
+      this.#publish({ sourceKey, fileIndex, durationSeconds, zones });
+    }
+    return map;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Build and publish the map for every file anybody is watching.
+   *
+   * One map per FILE, not per output: the picture, a quality step and a
+   * soundtrack of one film are three outputs reading the same bytes, and the
+   * swarm is asked for bytes. Viewers of all of them merge into one map.
+   *
+   * @param {object} params
+   * @param {Iterable<object[]>} params.sessionGroups - The live sessions, in
+   *   whatever grouping the caller holds them; they are regrouped by file here.
+   * @param {number} params.staleAfterMs - How long a viewer may be silent and
+   *   still count as watching.
+   * @param {number} [params.now]
+   * @returns {void}
+   */
+  publishFor({ sessionGroups, staleAfterMs, now = Date.now() }) {
+    /** @type {Map<string, { sourceKey: string, fileIndex: number, durationSeconds: number, allowanceSeconds: number, viewers: object[] }>} */
+    const byFile = new Map();
+    /** @type {Map<string, { durationSeconds: number, allowanceSeconds: number, viewers: object[] }>} */
+    const byOutput = new Map();
+    for (const sessions of sessionGroups) {
+      for (const session of sessions) {
+        const key = `${session.sourceKey}:${session.fileIndex}`;
+        const durationSeconds = Number(session.file?.durationSeconds) || 0;
+        // The first band is as wide as an interruption this file has actually
+        // shown on this swarm, never a chosen number.
+        const allowanceSeconds = this.#allowanceFor(session);
+        let held = byFile.get(key);
+        if (!held) {
+          held = {
+            sourceKey: session.sourceKey,
+            fileIndex: session.fileIndex,
+            durationSeconds,
+            allowanceSeconds,
+            viewers: []
+          };
+          byFile.set(key, held);
+        }
+        // Every output anybody holds a session for, whether or not a viewer is
+        // consuming it — an output with nobody on it must get a map with
+        // nothing in it, which is how the plan is told to stop its encoders.
+        // Left out, it would keep the map it had when somebody was watching.
+        const address = session.outputKey ?? "";
+        let mine = byOutput.get(address);
+        if (!mine) {
+          mine = { durationSeconds, allowanceSeconds, viewers: [] };
+          byOutput.set(address, mine);
+        }
+        for (const viewer of this.#viewersOf(session).values()) {
+          if (!viewer.isPresent(now, staleAfterMs)) {
+            continue;
+          }
+          const stated = {
+            atSeconds: viewer.positionSeconds() ?? 0,
+            // CONSUMING, not merely playing. A page that is not on screen has
+            // its timers throttled and asks for nothing, which is exactly what
+            // a viewer holding a full cushion looks like; the two are told
+            // apart on the page and folded into one question here.
+            playing: typeof viewer.consumesFilm === "function"
+              ? viewer.consumesFilm()
+              : viewer.playing !== false
+          };
+          held.viewers.push(stated);
+          if (this.#watchedBy(session, viewer)) {
+            mine.viewers.push(stated);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    // WHAT THIS PASS SAW IS ALL THERE IS. Everything below is derived from the
+    // live sessions, so a file or an output that is not among them is gone —
+    // and these maps are the projection of that, never a memory of it. Left to
+    // accumulate they were three maps that only grew, which is the shape of half
+    // the memory faults recorded in this repository, and `forget` was written
+    // for it and called from nowhere.
+    for (const key of [...this.#maps.keys()]) {
+      if (!byFile.has(key)) {
+        this.#maps.delete(key);
+        this.#last.delete(key);
+      }
+    }
+    for (const address of [...this.#byOutput.keys()]) {
+      if (!byOutput.has(address)) {
+        this.#byOutput.delete(address);
+      }
+    }
+    for (const one of byFile.values()) {
+      // A file of unknown length cannot be divided into zones, and a file
+      // nobody is watching has nothing to be urgent about.
+      if (one.durationSeconds > 0 && one.viewers.length > 0) {
+        this.build(one);
+      }
+    }
+    for (const [address, one] of byOutput) {
+      this.#byOutput.set(address, this.#mapFrom(one));
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Nobody is watching this file any more.
+   *
+   * @param {string} sourceKey
+   * @param {number} fileIndex
+   */
+  /**
+   * The map this class last built for one file.
+   *
+   * Read by whoever acts on it and cannot be handed it at the moment it is
+   * made — the encoding decides per output, and one file has several. It is the
+   * SAME map: built once here, from where the viewers are, and neither read
+   * changes it.
+   *
+   * @param {string} sourceKey
+   * @param {number} fileIndex
+   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap} A map of no length where
+   *   none was built, which says the same as a map with nothing in it.
+   */
+  mapFor(sourceKey, fileIndex) {
+    return this.#maps.get(`${sourceKey}:${fileIndex}`) ?? emptyMap(0);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The map for ONE output, from the viewers consuming that output.
+   *
+   * What the encoding reads. A map of no length says nobody is on this output,
+   * which is what makes an encoder on it unwanted — and it is a statement, not
+   * an absence: the walk above writes one for every output a session exists
+   * for, including the ones everybody has left.
+   *
+   * @param {string} address
+   * @returns {import("./PriorityMap.js").PriorityMap}
+   */
+  mapForOutput(address) {
+    return this.#byOutput.get(address) ?? emptyMap(0);
+  }
+
+}

package/services/supply-margin.js

@@ -110,8 +110,47 @@ export function requiredSpeedFrom(waits) {
   if (!(medianIntervalSec > 0)) {
     return null;
   }
+  // THE SHARE OF ITS TIME THE READING LOST, over the stretch actually observed.
+  //
+  // The model is unchanged and it was always right: if a fraction `f` of the
+  // time is spent not delivering, then producing one second of film takes
+  // `1/(1 - f)` seconds, so a step must run that much faster than realtime.
+  // What was wrong was the two quantities fed into it — the WORST single
+  // interruption divided by the MEDIAN gap between interruptions, a maximum
+  // over a median, from two populations that need not be the same events at
+  // all. It asks what would happen if the worst interruption recurred at the
+  // typical rate, which is a compound case that never occurs, and it divides by
+  // a gap that goes to zero whenever interruptions arrive in a burst.
+  //
+  // Field 2026-09-08: 0.79 s (one jump, on a file already downloaded whole)
+  // over 0.01 s (the gaps inside a burst of microsecond waits) gave 158.60x,
+  // and the quality budget refused every step against it forty times in one
+  // session. The same measurements as a share of time lost give 1.00x, because
+  // that is what a reading of a complete file loses.
+  //
+  // The denominator here cannot vanish: it is the span the interruptions are
+  // spread over, which contains them.
+  // OVER WHOLE CYCLES, from the first interruption's start to the last one's
+  // start. That window holds exactly one running stretch per interruption in
+  // it, so the share does not depend on where the window happens to be cut —
+  // measured to the last interruption's END it counts one interruption more
+  // than it counts running stretches, and the same supply then reads 1.54x or
+  // 1.45x according to nothing but the moment the log line was printed.
+  const last = interruptions.length - 1;
+  const spanSec = (interruptions[last].start - interruptions[0].start) / 1000;
+  const lostSec = interruptions
+    .slice(0, last)
+    .reduce((total, one) => total + (one.end - one.start), 0) / 1000;
+  // A span that is all interruption says the supply delivered nothing at all
+  // while it was watched. There is no speed that survives that, and saying a
+  // huge number is less honest than saying it is not a speed question — so the
+  // largest figure any step is ever compared against is stated and named.
+  const lostShare = spanSec > 0 ? Math.min(0.99, lostSec / spanSec) : 0;
   return {
-    requiredSpeed: 1 + worstWaitSec / medianIntervalSec,
+    requiredSpeed: 1 / (1 - lostShare),
+    lostShare,
+    spanSec,
+    lostSec,
     worstWaitSec,
     medianIntervalSec,
     // Interruptions, not waits: what the figure is derived from. The two differ

package/services/torrent-worker/piece-reader.js

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ const supplyReportedAt = new Map();
  * Record one interruption and, at most twice a minute, say what it implies.
  *
  * The two figures are the whole of roadmap item 3: the speed a step must
- * sustain to survive this supply (`1 + worst wait / median interval`), and the
+ * sustain to survive this supply (`1 / (1 - the share of time lost)`), and the
  * smallest buffer that hides an interruption from the viewer. Both are printed
  * before either is USED, so the field says whether the arithmetic describes
  * reality before anything is decided by it.
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ const supplyReportedAt = new Map();
  * @param {string} infoHash
  * @param {string} fileName
  * @param {number} segmentSeconds - The session's own segment duration.
- * @returns {{ requiredSpeed: number, worstWaitSec: number, medianIntervalSec: number, samples: number, minimumBufferSec: number } | null}
+ * @returns {{ requiredSpeed: number, worstWaitSec: number, medianIntervalSec: number, lostShare: number, spanSec: number, lostSec: number, samples: number, minimumBufferSec: number } | null}
  */
 export function supplyFiguresFor(infoHash, fileName, segmentSeconds) {
   const history = supplyWaits.get(`${infoHash ?? "?"}/${fileName ?? "?"}`);
@@ -502,8 +502,13 @@ function noteSupplyWait(key, label, waitedMs) {
     // several waits. Saying how many of each is what makes the figure readable;
     // reporting the waits alone made `2 measured` look like two interruptions
     // 3 ms apart, and the demanded speed came out at 4422x.
-    `to survive this swarm (worst stall ${demand.worstWaitSec.toFixed(2)}s, one every ` +
-    `${demand.medianIntervalSec.toFixed(2)}s of running, ${demand.samples} stall(s) ` +
+    // THE NUMBERS THE FIGURE IS MADE OF, so a wrong one can be seen to be wrong.
+    // The share of time lost is what the speed now comes from; the worst stall
+    // and the typical gap are printed beside it because they are what the
+    // cushion is sized by and what the old formula divided one by the other.
+    `to survive this swarm (lost ${demand.lostSec.toFixed(2)}s of ${demand.spanSec.toFixed(2)}s ` +
+    `= ${(demand.lostShare * 100).toFixed(1)}%, worst stall ${demand.worstWaitSec.toFixed(2)}s, ` +
+    `one every ${demand.medianIntervalSec.toFixed(2)}s of running, ${demand.samples} stall(s) ` +
     `from ${demand.waits} wait(s)) — ` +
     `and the smallest buffer that hides it is ${buffer ? buffer.seconds.toFixed(1) : "?"}s` +
     // What steering the blocked piece onto another peer bought, as the