@torrent-tv/proxy 2.88.4 → 2.88.6

package/research/piece-withdrawn-but-still-claimed-2026-09-12.md

@@ -1,175 +1,175 @@
-# A film played 80 seconds and then stood still for 92 minutes — 2026-09-12
-
-Proxy 2.83.4, addon 0.74.1, one viewer, `Reacher.S04E07.1080p.rus.LostFilm.TV.mkv`
-(2 363 497 962 bytes). Reported by the user as "the film only managed to play
-one minute nineteen seconds".
-
-Every claim below is tagged by where it comes from: **[log]** read out of a
-captured log, **[code]** read out of the source, **[measured]** computed from
-the captured logs, **[derived]** reasoned from two of the above.
-
-## 1. What the viewer saw
-
-**[log, browser]** Every one of the 1112 `decode` readings in the captured
-window is identical: `t=80.0s size=1920x1080 frames=1920 dropped=0
-readyState=2`. 1920 frames at 24 fps is 80.0 s, so the picture advanced 80
-seconds and then never moved again. The page stayed open until 18:52.
-
-**[log, browser]** From then on the player asked for one segment and was
-refused, about once a minute for 92 minutes:
-
-```
-18:30:47 non-fatal: fragLoadError currentTime=79.97 msReadyState=open
-         frag=segment-00008.mp4 sn=8 action=5 error=Error: HTTP Error 503 …
-18:41:15 fatal:     fragLoadError … sn=8 … HTTP Error 503
-18:41:17 recovered fatal networkError, resuming at 80.0s
-```
-
-`msReadyState=open` throughout, so this is **not** the closed-MediaSource
-failure of item 86. **[log]** The transport was healthy the whole time —
-`rtt=4ms`, `state=connected ice=connected`, every counter advancing — so it is
-not item 10 either.
-
-## 2. What the proxy answered, and why
-
-**[code]** 503 in `routes/transcode/session-file/get.js:143` is the
-`warming-up` branch: the segment is still being produced. It was never produced.
-
-**[log]** 239 times:
-
-```
-transcode 17ec5953 holding segment-00008.mp4: the file is not on disk
-  (runs from #8, viewer at #8, encoder alive, index #8, produced 0.0s at 2.23x
-   — the encoder has not made it)
-[hold] segment-00008.mp4 warming-up after 60400ms (the map wants it now, rank 69 of 69)
-```
-
-**[log]** The encoder could not open its input, 5712 times:
-
-```
-encode-run #8..#247 lost its input ([http @ …] Error reading HTTP response: End of file)
-Error opening input file http://127.0.0.1:9090/stream?sourceKey=94dda59f…   (8514×)
-Error opening input files: End of file                                       (5712×)
-```
-
-**[log]** And `/stream` said exactly what was wrong, 2884 times:
-
-```
-stream: read of "Reacher.S04E07.1080p.rus.LostFilm.TV.mkv" bytes 0-2363497961
-  ended after 0 of 2363497962 bytes: Piece 0 is verified but absent from the store.
-```
-
-Zero bytes of 2.36 GB. ffmpeg reads an empty body as the end of the file.
-
-## 3. The cause
-
-**[log]** The torrent believed it had the whole file:
-
-```
-[stats] 94dda59f 5d276be5 peers=54 connected … file=100.0% header=8388608/8388608B
-```
-
-**[log]** The store did not:
-
-```
-piece-store "Reacher.S04E07…": resident=27/42 (108MB of 168MB allowed)
-  committed=108MB blocks=27 on-disk=26MB pinned=0 spilled=7
-  reads=5932 (73.8% from memory) spills=571 revivals=41
-```
-
-**[measured]** 571 spills at a 4 MB piece is about 2284 MB written to disk;
-26 MB remained. So roughly 565 pieces had been removed. **[log]** It was not
-the disk cap: `disk: 93634MB free; spilled pieces 26MB of 46656MB` — the
-ceiling never came near binding, and 93 GB were free.
-
-**[code]** That leaves exactly one remover: `PieceDiskStore.forgetBehind`,
-called from `SharedPieceStore.reviseSpillCeiling`, which drops every piece
-lying behind the earliest read head. **[log]** The encoder had reached
-`proxyProcessed=725.643`, twelve minutes of film, so piece 0 — the start of the
-file and its Matroska header — was far behind every reader and was dropped.
-That is the rule working as designed.
-
-**[code]** `piece-reader.js:151` then asks `torrent.bitfield.get(index)`. The
-library still answered yes, because it had downloaded and hashed that piece
-once. **Nothing ever told it otherwise:** `bitfield.set` does not occur
-anywhere in `services/piece-store/`, `services/torrent-pool.js` or
-`services/torrent-worker/`. So the read concluded the piece was had, asked the
-store, was told it was absent, and threw.
-
-**[derived]** And it was never fetched again, because the library does not
-download a piece it believes it owns. The comment on `forgetBehind` states the
-bargain in as many words — "a seek back re-downloads it, which is the same
-bargain this tier makes whenever it drops a piece for room" — and that bargain
-had never once been honoured.
-
-**[derived]** The trigger is ordinary: an encoder restart re-opens its input at
-byte 0 (`bytes 0-2363497961` in the log), which is precisely the region
-`forgetBehind` removes first.
-
-This is the "un-have problem" the parent `CLAUDE.md` names in the Level 2 disk
-design — "mark the piece incomplete in the completion store → it re-downloads on
-the next read". The eviction shipped; the un-have did not.
-
-## 4. Two amplifiers, each a defect of its own
-
-### The delay after a lost input did not bind
-
-**[code]** `hls-session-manager.js` timed a retry against the DEAD RUN, doubling
-2 s → 15 s. **[code]** `EncodeRun.isAlive` is false in `RETRY_WAIT`, and the
-orchestrator plans from live runs only — so the plan saw the stretch as free and
-placed a new run at once, on every event.
-
-**[measured]** 2432 `restart for` lines in 23 minutes: one every 0.57 s, for 61
-minutes, while the delay printed `retrying in 15s`. The comment beside that
-timer predicted this exactly and the code did not prevent it.
-
-### The log destroyed the record of its own failure
-
-**[measured]** 76 385 lines in 23 minutes and 159 000 in the previous 38 — about
-55 lines a second, of which **52 567 of 76 385 (68.8 %) are byte-identical
-repeats**. **[code]** `MAX_FILE_BYTES` was 32 MiB with one previous turn kept, so
-the file turned over twice inside the session: 61 minutes of 92 survived, and the
-onset — everything before 17:51 — was overwritten by the second rotation and is
-gone. **[log]** `/data` had 91.4 GB free.
-
-## 5. What was built (proxy 2.83.5)
-
-1. the store announces when it can no longer produce a piece at all — not
-   resident, not on disk, not in a file held whole — and the pool withdraws the
-   library's claim with `_markUnverified`. The disk tier states only its own
-   loss; the store decides whether that is a loss;
-2. a read whose piece is withdrawn under it goes back one step and takes the
-   whole ordinary path again instead of throwing. Once per piece;
-3. the delay lives in the orchestrator, per output, and the plan places nothing
-   there until it is over — unless something on that output is still producing.
-   It is lifted only by a run that actually produced;
-4. an established fact is logged once, then at doubling intervals to a minute,
-   saying how many were held back. Matched verbatim; digits are deliberately not
-   normalised, because that would merge the memory series;
-5. the log file may reach 1 GB before turning over.
-
-## 6. What this does NOT establish
-
-1. **Nothing here has been seen in the field.** The next session is the proof.
-   What should appear: `withdrawn=` climbing on the piece-store line while reads
-   keep succeeding, `its input was not there (attempt N) — placing nothing for
-   Xs`, and `[said N more time(s) …]` instead of a flood. What should disappear:
-   `Piece N is verified but absent from the store`.
-2. **The onset was not read.** Both log turns begin with the failure already
-   established, so which piece failed FIRST, and whether the encoder's first
-   input loss had the same cause, is not known. The mechanism is established;
-   its first instance is not.
-3. **A consequence, stated rather than discovered later:** a torrent whose
-   pieces have been withdrawn is no longer `done`, so a film watched to the end
-   is not assembled into a whole file. That is the honest state — those bytes
-   are not here — and the previous behaviour was worse than it looked, since the
-   assembly reads the file through the store and would have waited for pieces
-   the library wrongly believed it had. What is NOT measured is how often a film
-   now fails to be assembled, and whether keeping the pieces of a nearly-finished
-   file would be worth the disk.
-4. **The re-download cost is not measured.** A seek back past the read heads now
-   waits for pieces to be fetched again instead of failing. How long that takes
-   on a real swarm, and whether the viewer notices, needs a session.
-5. **`peers=54 connected of -4599 known (…, -1128 queued)`** — the negative
-   figures come from WebTorrent's own `_peersLength`/`_numQueued`, read for the
-   log only. Not investigated, not touched.
+# A film played 80 seconds and then stood still for 92 minutes — 2026-09-12
+
+Proxy 2.83.4, addon 0.74.1, one viewer, `Reacher.S04E07.1080p.rus.LostFilm.TV.mkv`
+(2 363 497 962 bytes). Reported by the user as "the film only managed to play
+one minute nineteen seconds".
+
+Every claim below is tagged by where it comes from: **[log]** read out of a
+captured log, **[code]** read out of the source, **[measured]** computed from
+the captured logs, **[derived]** reasoned from two of the above.
+
+## 1. What the viewer saw
+
+**[log, browser]** Every one of the 1112 `decode` readings in the captured
+window is identical: `t=80.0s size=1920x1080 frames=1920 dropped=0
+readyState=2`. 1920 frames at 24 fps is 80.0 s, so the picture advanced 80
+seconds and then never moved again. The page stayed open until 18:52.
+
+**[log, browser]** From then on the player asked for one segment and was
+refused, about once a minute for 92 minutes:
+
+```
+18:30:47 non-fatal: fragLoadError currentTime=79.97 msReadyState=open
+         frag=segment-00008.mp4 sn=8 action=5 error=Error: HTTP Error 503 …
+18:41:15 fatal:     fragLoadError … sn=8 … HTTP Error 503
+18:41:17 recovered fatal networkError, resuming at 80.0s
+```
+
+`msReadyState=open` throughout, so this is **not** the closed-MediaSource
+failure of item 86. **[log]** The transport was healthy the whole time —
+`rtt=4ms`, `state=connected ice=connected`, every counter advancing — so it is
+not item 10 either.
+
+## 2. What the proxy answered, and why
+
+**[code]** 503 in `routes/transcode/session-file/get.js:143` is the
+`warming-up` branch: the segment is still being produced. It was never produced.
+
+**[log]** 239 times:
+
+```
+transcode 17ec5953 holding segment-00008.mp4: the file is not on disk
+  (runs from #8, viewer at #8, encoder alive, index #8, produced 0.0s at 2.23x
+   — the encoder has not made it)
+[hold] segment-00008.mp4 warming-up after 60400ms (the map wants it now, rank 69 of 69)
+```
+
+**[log]** The encoder could not open its input, 5712 times:
+
+```
+encode-run #8..#247 lost its input ([http @ …] Error reading HTTP response: End of file)
+Error opening input file http://127.0.0.1:9090/stream?sourceKey=94dda59f…   (8514×)
+Error opening input files: End of file                                       (5712×)
+```
+
+**[log]** And `/stream` said exactly what was wrong, 2884 times:
+
+```
+stream: read of "Reacher.S04E07.1080p.rus.LostFilm.TV.mkv" bytes 0-2363497961
+  ended after 0 of 2363497962 bytes: Piece 0 is verified but absent from the store.
+```
+
+Zero bytes of 2.36 GB. ffmpeg reads an empty body as the end of the file.
+
+## 3. The cause
+
+**[log]** The torrent believed it had the whole file:
+
+```
+[stats] 94dda59f 5d276be5 peers=54 connected … file=100.0% header=8388608/8388608B
+```
+
+**[log]** The store did not:
+
+```
+piece-store "Reacher.S04E07…": resident=27/42 (108MB of 168MB allowed)
+  committed=108MB blocks=27 on-disk=26MB pinned=0 spilled=7
+  reads=5932 (73.8% from memory) spills=571 revivals=41
+```
+
+**[measured]** 571 spills at a 4 MB piece is about 2284 MB written to disk;
+26 MB remained. So roughly 565 pieces had been removed. **[log]** It was not
+the disk cap: `disk: 93634MB free; spilled pieces 26MB of 46656MB` — the
+ceiling never came near binding, and 93 GB were free.
+
+**[code]** That leaves exactly one remover: `PieceDiskStore.forgetBehind`,
+called from `SharedPieceStore.reviseSpillCeiling`, which drops every piece
+lying behind the earliest read head. **[log]** The encoder had reached
+`proxyProcessed=725.643`, twelve minutes of film, so piece 0 — the start of the
+file and its Matroska header — was far behind every reader and was dropped.
+That is the rule working as designed.
+
+**[code]** `piece-reader.js:151` then asks `torrent.bitfield.get(index)`. The
+library still answered yes, because it had downloaded and hashed that piece
+once. **Nothing ever told it otherwise:** `bitfield.set` does not occur
+anywhere in `services/piece-store/`, `services/torrent-pool.js` or
+`services/torrent-worker/`. So the read concluded the piece was had, asked the
+store, was told it was absent, and threw.
+
+**[derived]** And it was never fetched again, because the library does not
+download a piece it believes it owns. The comment on `forgetBehind` states the
+bargain in as many words — "a seek back re-downloads it, which is the same
+bargain this tier makes whenever it drops a piece for room" — and that bargain
+had never once been honoured.
+
+**[derived]** The trigger is ordinary: an encoder restart re-opens its input at
+byte 0 (`bytes 0-2363497961` in the log), which is precisely the region
+`forgetBehind` removes first.
+
+This is the "un-have problem" the parent `CLAUDE.md` names in the Level 2 disk
+design — "mark the piece incomplete in the completion store → it re-downloads on
+the next read". The eviction shipped; the un-have did not.
+
+## 4. Two amplifiers, each a defect of its own
+
+### The delay after a lost input did not bind
+
+**[code]** `hls-session-manager.js` timed a retry against the DEAD RUN, doubling
+2 s → 15 s. **[code]** `EncodeRun.isAlive` is false in `RETRY_WAIT`, and the
+orchestrator plans from live runs only — so the plan saw the stretch as free and
+placed a new run at once, on every event.
+
+**[measured]** 2432 `restart for` lines in 23 minutes: one every 0.57 s, for 61
+minutes, while the delay printed `retrying in 15s`. The comment beside that
+timer predicted this exactly and the code did not prevent it.
+
+### The log destroyed the record of its own failure
+
+**[measured]** 76 385 lines in 23 minutes and 159 000 in the previous 38 — about
+55 lines a second, of which **52 567 of 76 385 (68.8 %) are byte-identical
+repeats**. **[code]** `MAX_FILE_BYTES` was 32 MiB with one previous turn kept, so
+the file turned over twice inside the session: 61 minutes of 92 survived, and the
+onset — everything before 17:51 — was overwritten by the second rotation and is
+gone. **[log]** `/data` had 91.4 GB free.
+
+## 5. What was built (proxy 2.83.5)
+
+1. the store announces when it can no longer produce a piece at all — not
+   resident, not on disk, not in a file held whole — and the pool withdraws the
+   library's claim with `_markUnverified`. The disk tier states only its own
+   loss; the store decides whether that is a loss;
+2. a read whose piece is withdrawn under it goes back one step and takes the
+   whole ordinary path again instead of throwing. Once per piece;
+3. the delay lives in the orchestrator, per output, and the plan places nothing
+   there until it is over — unless something on that output is still producing.
+   It is lifted only by a run that actually produced;
+4. an established fact is logged once, then at doubling intervals to a minute,
+   saying how many were held back. Matched verbatim; digits are deliberately not
+   normalised, because that would merge the memory series;
+5. the log file may reach 1 GB before turning over.
+
+## 6. What this does NOT establish
+
+1. **Nothing here has been seen in the field.** The next session is the proof.
+   What should appear: `withdrawn=` climbing on the piece-store line while reads
+   keep succeeding, `its input was not there (attempt N) — placing nothing for
+   Xs`, and `[said N more time(s) …]` instead of a flood. What should disappear:
+   `Piece N is verified but absent from the store`.
+2. **The onset was not read.** Both log turns begin with the failure already
+   established, so which piece failed FIRST, and whether the encoder's first
+   input loss had the same cause, is not known. The mechanism is established;
+   its first instance is not.
+3. **A consequence, stated rather than discovered later:** a torrent whose
+   pieces have been withdrawn is no longer `done`, so a film watched to the end
+   is not assembled into a whole file. That is the honest state — those bytes
+   are not here — and the previous behaviour was worse than it looked, since the
+   assembly reads the file through the store and would have waited for pieces
+   the library wrongly believed it had. What is NOT measured is how often a film
+   now fails to be assembled, and whether keeping the pieces of a nearly-finished
+   file would be worth the disk.
+4. **The re-download cost is not measured.** A seek back past the read heads now
+   waits for pieces to be fetched again instead of failing. How long that takes
+   on a real swarm, and whether the viewer notices, needs a session.
+5. **`peers=54 connected of -4599 known (…, -1128 queued)`** — the negative
+   figures come from WebTorrent's own `_peersLength`/`_numQueued`, read for the
+   log only. Not investigated, not touched.

package/research/preset-benchmark-size-scaling-2026-08-22.md

@@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
-# Does the preset benchmark's pixels/sec figure hold at a different size? (2026-08-22)
-
-Roadmap item 4(e): the software-preset benchmark (`benchmarkSoftwarePresets`,
-`services/hwaccel.js`) measures encoder throughput at one fixed reference size —
-640×360 — and every later use of that figure (deciding which quality rungs this
-host can sustain) scales it by pixel count, assuming cost per pixel is constant
-regardless of frame size. This was never checked against a second size.
-
-## Measurement
-
-Same clip (`cal-h264-1080-hi.mp4`), same `libx264` presets, same measurement
-method as the shipped benchmark (slope between two `-progress` reports,
-excluding startup) — run once at the existing 640×360 reference and once at
-1280×720 (4× the pixel count), on the developer's desktop:
-
-| preset    | 640×360        | 1280×720       | ratio (should be ~1.0) |
-|-----------|----------------|----------------|-------------------------|
-| ultrafast | 1322.8 Mpx/s   | 588.6 Mpx/s    | 0.445                   |
-| fast      | 176.6 Mpx/s    | 128.1 Mpx/s    | 0.725                   |
-
-Script: ad-hoc, not committed (reused the benchmark's own ffmpeg arguments at a
-second `-vf scale=`/`-s` size; available on request if this needs re-running).
-
-## Reading
-
-The assumption does not hold. Cost per pixel RISES with frame size on this
-host — by 2.25× for `ultrafast`, 1.38× for `fast`, at 4× the pixel count — and
-the effect is preset-dependent, not a single constant. A quality ladder priced
-from the 640×360 figure alone over-states what this host can sustain at 1080p,
-worse for the faster presets that the ladder falls back to under load.
-
-## Why this does not become a code change yet
-
-One host, one clip, two sizes. [[feedback_pool_diversity]] — a correction fitted
-to this desktop and applied to every proxy in the pool would be exactly the
-mistake that memory exists to prevent: the pool spans ARM boards (HA Yellow /
-CM4) with different cache sizes and memory bandwidth, where a size penalty of
-this shape could be smaller, larger, or absent. [[feedback_no_fudged_numbers]] —
-publishing 0.445/0.725 as universal constants is fabricating a number for hosts
-that were never measured.
-
-The benchmark already measures per-host (item 4(f), 4(h)); a size-scaling
-correction belongs there too — the benchmark itself gains a second, cheap
-measurement point (one preset, one second size) and derives its own exponent
-from that host's two readings, the same way `fitDecodeCost` derives its terms
-from clips rather than from a stated formula. That is the remaining work under
-item 4(e); this note is the measurement that justifies doing it, not the fix
-itself.
-
-## What is verified
-
-The measurement method matches the shipped benchmark exactly (real footage,
-raw frames decoded once, slope between two progress reports) — the only
-variable changed was the target size, so this is not comparing two different
-methodologies.
+# Does the preset benchmark's pixels/sec figure hold at a different size? (2026-08-22)
+
+Roadmap item 4(e): the software-preset benchmark (`benchmarkSoftwarePresets`,
+`services/hwaccel.js`) measures encoder throughput at one fixed reference size —
+640×360 — and every later use of that figure (deciding which quality rungs this
+host can sustain) scales it by pixel count, assuming cost per pixel is constant
+regardless of frame size. This was never checked against a second size.
+
+## Measurement
+
+Same clip (`cal-h264-1080-hi.mp4`), same `libx264` presets, same measurement
+method as the shipped benchmark (slope between two `-progress` reports,
+excluding startup) — run once at the existing 640×360 reference and once at
+1280×720 (4× the pixel count), on the developer's desktop:
+
+| preset    | 640×360        | 1280×720       | ratio (should be ~1.0) |
+|-----------|----------------|----------------|-------------------------|
+| ultrafast | 1322.8 Mpx/s   | 588.6 Mpx/s    | 0.445                   |
+| fast      | 176.6 Mpx/s    | 128.1 Mpx/s    | 0.725                   |
+
+Script: ad-hoc, not committed (reused the benchmark's own ffmpeg arguments at a
+second `-vf scale=`/`-s` size; available on request if this needs re-running).
+
+## Reading
+
+The assumption does not hold. Cost per pixel RISES with frame size on this
+host — by 2.25× for `ultrafast`, 1.38× for `fast`, at 4× the pixel count — and
+the effect is preset-dependent, not a single constant. A quality ladder priced
+from the 640×360 figure alone over-states what this host can sustain at 1080p,
+worse for the faster presets that the ladder falls back to under load.
+
+## Why this does not become a code change yet
+
+One host, one clip, two sizes. [[feedback_pool_diversity]] — a correction fitted
+to this desktop and applied to every proxy in the pool would be exactly the
+mistake that memory exists to prevent: the pool spans ARM boards (HA Yellow /
+CM4) with different cache sizes and memory bandwidth, where a size penalty of
+this shape could be smaller, larger, or absent. [[feedback_no_fudged_numbers]] —
+publishing 0.445/0.725 as universal constants is fabricating a number for hosts
+that were never measured.
+
+The benchmark already measures per-host (item 4(f), 4(h)); a size-scaling
+correction belongs there too — the benchmark itself gains a second, cheap
+measurement point (one preset, one second size) and derives its own exponent
+from that host's two readings, the same way `fitDecodeCost` derives its terms
+from clips rather than from a stated formula. That is the remaining work under
+item 4(e); this note is the measurement that justifies doing it, not the fix
+itself.
+
+## What is verified
+
+The measurement method matches the shipped benchmark exactly (real footage,
+raw frames decoded once, slope between two progress reports) — the only
+variable changed was the target size, so this is not comparing two different
+methodologies.