@torrent-tv/proxy 2.89.1 → 2.89.2

package/test/piece-store-eviction.test.js

@@ -1,595 +1,595 @@
-/**
- * Eviction under concurrency.
- *
- * Pieces arrive from several peers at once, so `put` runs concurrently by
- * nature. Choosing a victim and releasing it either side of the spill write
- * therefore let two claims pick the SAME victim and receive the SAME slot, at
- * which point two pieces overwrite each other, both fail their hash, and the
- * torrent re-downloads them without end — which looks from outside exactly like
- * a seek that never completes while the download runs at full speed.
- */
-
-import test from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import fs from "node:fs/promises";
-import os from "node:os";
-import path from "node:path";
-import { SharedPieceStore } from "../services/storage/piece-store/shared-piece-store.js";
-
-const PIECE = 1024;
-
-/**
- * @param {number} capacityPieces
- * @returns {Promise<{ store: SharedPieceStore, directory: string }>}
- */
-async function makeStore(capacityPieces) {
-  const directory = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "piece-store-test-"));
-  const store = new SharedPieceStore(PIECE, {
-    length: PIECE * 64,
-    memoryBytes: PIECE * capacityPieces,
-    path: directory,
-    name: "eviction-test"
-  });
-  return { store, directory };
-}
-
-/**
- * @param {number} index
- * @returns {Buffer} A piece whose every byte identifies it.
- */
-const pieceOf = (index) => Buffer.alloc(PIECE, index % 251);
-
-/**
- * @param {SharedPieceStore} store
- * @param {number} index
- * @param {Buffer} bytes
- * @returns {Promise<void>}
- */
-const put = (store, index, bytes) =>
-  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    store.put(index, bytes, (error) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve()));
-  });
-
-/**
- * @param {SharedPieceStore} store
- * @param {number} index
- * @returns {Promise<Buffer>}
- */
-const get = (store, index) =>
-  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    store.get(index, (error, bytes) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve(bytes)));
-  });
-
-test("concurrent puts past capacity never hand two pieces the same slot", async () => {
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    const total = 24;
-
-    // All at once — the interleaving that a sequential test never produces.
-    await Promise.all(
-      Array.from({ length: total }, (unused, index) => put(store, index, pieceOf(index)))
-    );
-
-    // Every piece must read back as itself, from memory or from disk. A shared
-    // slot shows up here as one piece carrying another's bytes.
-    for (let index = 0; index < total; index += 1) {
-      const bytes = await get(store, index);
-      assert.equal(bytes.length, PIECE, `piece ${index} came back the wrong length`);
-      assert.ok(
-        bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)),
-        `piece ${index} came back as piece ${bytes[0]} — two pieces shared a slot`
-      );
-    }
-
-    const stats = store.stats();
-    assert.ok(
-      stats.resident <= stats.capacity,
-      `resident ${stats.resident} exceeds capacity ${stats.capacity}: slots were handed out twice`
-    );
-  } finally {
-    await store.destroy();
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a piece caught mid-spill is waited for, not reported missing", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
-  try {
-    await put(store, 0, pieceOf(0));
-    await put(store, 1, pieceOf(1));
-
-    // Forces piece 0 out while piece 0 is asked for in the same tick.
-    const evicting = put(store, 2, pieceOf(2));
-    const reading = get(store, 0);
-
-    await evicting;
-    const bytes = await reading;
-    assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(0)), "piece 0 came back wrong while being spilled");
-  } finally {
-    await store.destroy();
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("pinned pieces are never evicted, and the pin count is reported", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
-  try {
-    await put(store, 0, pieceOf(0));
-    store.pin(0);
-    assert.equal(store.stats().pinned, 1, "pin is not reflected in the stats");
-
-    await put(store, 1, pieceOf(1));
-    await put(store, 2, pieceOf(2));
-
-    // Piece 0 is pinned, so it must still be the one in memory, not on disk.
-    assert.ok(store.locate(0), "a pinned piece was evicted");
-
-    store.unpin(0);
-    assert.equal(store.stats().pinned, 0, "unpin is not reflected in the stats");
-  } finally {
-    await store.destroy();
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("the store says why it spills: what is asked of it, what it had to take, how soon it came back", async () => {
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    // A reader declaring more than the store may hold. This is the shape the
-    // field session of 2026-09-02 is suspected of — 88 slots against an
-    // encoder running 120-380 s ahead of a viewer, half the reads missing —
-    // and nothing recorded it (roadmap item 9).
-    store.protectRange("video", 0, 9);
-    for (let index = 0; index < 10; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-
-    const asked = store.stats();
-    assert.equal(asked.demand.readers, 1);
-    assert.equal(asked.demand.unionPieces, 10);
-    assert.equal(asked.demand.capacity, capacity);
-    assert.ok(
-      asked.demand.unionPieces > asked.demand.capacity,
-      "a reader asking for more than the store holds is arithmetic, not a policy fault"
-    );
-    // And it no longer has to take a declared piece to make room. The reader
-    // asked for ten pieces of a store that holds four, and the arrivals that
-    // will be wanted LATER than what is already resident are written straight
-    // to disk instead of displacing what will be wanted sooner. Before
-    // 2026-09-02 every one of them displaced something and was read back
-    // moments later: 233 evictions against 119 completed writes in a minute.
-    assert.equal(asked.evictedProtected, 0, "a nearer piece was pushed out for a further one");
-    assert.equal(asked.spills, 0, "nothing had to be written out to make room on admission");
-    assert.ok(asked.admittedToDisk > 0, "the further arrivals were supposed to go to disk");
-
-    // Read back the pieces that were spilled: each one comes home, and the
-    // store says how long it had been away.
-    for (let index = 0; index < 10; index += 1) {
-      const bytes = await get(store, index);
-      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
-    }
-
-    const after = store.stats();
-    // Reading them back does evict, and that is ordinary: a piece brought into
-    // memory has to displace one. What the change of 2026-09-02 removed is the
-    // eviction on ADMISSION — `asked.spills` above is zero, where before it all
-    // six arrivals displaced a nearer piece and were read back moments later.
-    assert.ok(after.fromDisk > 0, "the pieces that went to disk were read back from it");
-    // Through the reader's own entry point, which is the one that populates
-    // memory. `get` is the torrent client's, and since 2026-09-11 it answers
-    // from disk without taking a block: a peer asks for kilobytes of a piece
-    // that is megabytes, and reviving the whole of it for that was how an
-    // upload capped at 512 KB/s produced 49 696 revivals in one session.
-    await store.reside(9);
-    assert.ok(store.stats().revivals > 0, "a read for playback brings the piece into memory");
-    // No age to report, and that is right rather than missing: an age measures
-    // how long an EVICTED piece stayed away, and these were never resident —
-    // they were written on arrival and read back once.
-    assert.equal(after.revivalAgeSamples, 0);
-    assert.equal(after.revivalAgeMedianMs, null);
-
-    store.releaseProtection("video");
-    assert.equal(store.stats().demand.readers, 0, "a reader that ends stops being counted");
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a piece nobody has declared does not push out one that is being read", async () => {
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    // A reader declares the pieces it will need, and they are put in memory.
-    store.protectRange("video", 0, 3);
-    for (let index = 0; index < 4; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    assert.equal(store.stats().resident, capacity, "the declared window fills the store");
-
-    // Now pieces arrive that the download fetched ahead of every reader. Before
-    // 2026-09-02 each of them claimed a slot and evicted one of the four above,
-    // which was then read back from disk moments later: 6565 spills and 7575
-    // revivals in 44 minutes, 53.6% of reads served from memory.
-    for (let index = 100; index < 110; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-
-    const stats = store.stats();
-    assert.equal(stats.admittedToDisk, 10, "every undeclared arrival went straight to disk");
-    assert.equal(stats.admittedOutsideWindow, 10);
-    assert.equal(stats.admittedInsideWindow, 4);
-    assert.equal(stats.spills, 0, "and nothing had to be pushed out to make room");
-
-    // The declared pieces are still in memory, and every piece reads back as
-    // itself from whichever tier holds it.
-    assert.equal(stats.resident, capacity);
-    for (const index of [0, 1, 2, 3, 100, 105, 109]) {
-      const bytes = await get(store, index);
-      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
-    }
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("before any reader has declared anything, an arriving piece still goes to memory", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(4);
-  try {
-    // No window declared: there is no basis for calling a piece unwanted, so
-    // the store behaves as it always did. This is the initial download, and the
-    // warm-up fetches of the header and the tail.
-    for (let index = 0; index < 8; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    const stats = store.stats();
-    assert.equal(stats.admittedToDisk, 0, "nothing was refused memory on a guess");
-    assert.equal(stats.admittedOutsideWindow, 8);
-    assert.ok(stats.spills > 0, "the store filled and evicted, as it did before");
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("the store asks for what its readers declared, and for a whole window at least", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(64);
-  try {
-    // With nobody reading, the store asks for a floor — one window's worth,
-    // and until it has been asked for anything, the minimum. It does NOT ask
-    // for everything it is allowed: pieces arriving for a reader still on its
-    // way have the disk.
-    const idle = store.wantedBytes;
-    assert.ok(idle > 0 && idle < store.stats().budgetBytes, "an idle store asks for a floor, not its whole allowance");
-
-    // Two readers of one file — picture and sound — overlapping by
-    // construction. The ask is their union, not their sum.
-    store.protectRange("video", 10, 29);
-    store.protectRange("audio", 25, 44);
-    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 35 * PIECE, "10..44 is thirty-five pieces, not forty");
-
-    // One reader with a window wider than the union of nothing else: the ask
-    // never falls below a single window, or that reader's read cannot complete
-    // at all — every resident piece ends up pinned and the read returns zero
-    // bytes.
-    store.releaseProtection("audio");
-    store.releaseProtection("video");
-    store.protectRange("video", 0, 49);
-    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 50 * PIECE);
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("the floor the ceiling will not fall below is the same union, not the widest reader alone", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(64);
-  try {
-    // The same two overlapping readers as the ask above: picture and sound,
-    // 10..44, thirty-five pieces together. The machine now offers far less
-    // than that (ten pieces) — before this fix the floor here came from
-    // `widestPieces` (twenty, the wider of the two readers alone), fifteen
-    // short of what both of them were actually pinning at once. A field
-    // session with three such readers on one file (video, audio and the
-    // edge-warming read) reached exactly that shortfall on 2026-09-07: every
-    // resident piece ended up pinned and WebTorrent destroyed the torrent
-    // over it.
-    store.protectRange("video", 10, 29);
-    store.protectRange("audio", 25, 44);
-    const revised = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(10 * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(
-      revised.ceilingBytes,
-      35 * PIECE,
-      "the floor is the union of both readers, not the wider one alone"
-    );
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a block is re-used instead of a new one being allocated for every piece", async () => {
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    // Twenty pieces through a store that may hold four. Before 2026-09-02 that
-    // was twenty allocations of a piece each, every one of them released only
-    // when the collector got to it — 7575 of them in 44 minutes in the field,
-    // and 1.86 GB held while the store's own accounting said 352 MB.
-    for (let index = 0; index < 20; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-
-    const stats = store.stats();
-    assert.ok(
-      stats.blocksAllocated <= capacity,
-      `the pool never exceeds the allowance: ${stats.blocksAllocated} blocks for ${capacity} slots`
-    );
-    assert.equal(stats.committedBytes, stats.blocksAllocated * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(stats.returnedWhilePinned, 0);
-    assert.ok(stats.reuseGapMs !== null, "blocks were taken from the free list, not freshly made");
-
-    // And every piece still reads back as itself: a re-used block must not
-    // carry the last piece's bytes into the next one.
-    for (let index = 0; index < 20; index += 1) {
-      const bytes = await get(store, index);
-      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
-    }
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a spare block is given up once it has sat longer than the store's own working rhythm", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(8);
-  try {
-    for (let index = 0; index < 12; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    // The allowance falls: pieces are written out and their blocks fall spare.
-    store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
-    const spare = store.stats().blocksFree;
-
-    // Nothing is given up while the blocks are younger than the longest wait
-    // this store has actually seen between a block falling free and being
-    // wanted again.
-    assert.equal(store.sweepFreeBlocks(Date.now()), 0, "a block in use moments ago is not spare");
-    assert.equal(store.stats().blocksFree, spare);
-
-    // An hour later they plainly are.
-    const released = store.sweepFreeBlocks(Date.now() + 3_600_000);
-    assert.equal(released, spare);
-    assert.equal(store.stats().blocksFree, 0);
-    assert.equal(store.stats().blocksReleased, released);
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("evicting a piece the disk already holds costs no second write", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
-  try {
-    // Three pieces through two slots: piece 0 is written out.
-    for (let index = 0; index < 3; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    const written = store.stats().spills;
-    assert.ok(written > 0);
-    assert.equal(store.stats().spillsSkipped, 0, "the first write of a piece is a real one");
-
-    // Read it back for playback — it returns to memory and the copy stays on
-    // disk. Evicting it again writes bytes that are already there, byte for
-    // byte, because only `put` removes the disk copy and no `put` has happened.
-    assert.ok((await get(store, 0)).equals(pieceOf(0)));
-    await store.reside(0);
-    for (let index = 10; index < 13; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    assert.ok(store.stats().spillsSkipped > 0, "the second write of the same bytes is skipped");
-
-    // And the piece still comes back correctly from the disk copy.
-    assert.ok((await get(store, 0)).equals(pieceOf(0)));
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a store whose readers have gone asks for nothing, one that never had them keeps its opening", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(16);
-  try {
-    // Never had a reader: this is the initial download and the warm-up fetches
-    // of the header and the tail, with a read on its way. Those pieces have the
-    // disk, so the store asks for the minimum rather than for its opening
-    // allowance — a torrent nobody has read yet held 4180 MB of a machine's
-    // memory on 2026-09-11 while the film being watched was allowed 12 MB.
-    const opening = store.wantedBytes;
-    assert.ok(opening < store.stats().budgetBytes, "a store nobody has read keeps the minimum");
-
-    store.protectRange("video", 0, 9);
-    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 10 * PIECE);
-
-    // The read ends, and the store keeps room for ONE window — what the next
-    // read will ask for within seconds. Falling to the minimum here is what
-    // left a store at three blocks when the viewer switched files on
-    // 2026-09-11, with the allowance re-derived a minute later and a claim
-    // giving up after five seconds.
-    store.releaseProtection("video");
-    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 10 * PIECE, "the floor between readers is the widest window seen");
-    assert.ok(store.wantedBytes > opening, "which is more than a store nobody has read keeps");
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("live piece pins set memory demand when no priority-map range is declared", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
-  try {
-    await put(store, 0, pieceOf(0));
-    await put(store, 1, pieceOf(1));
-
-    store.pin(0);
-    store.pin(1);
-    store.pin(2);
-
-    assert.equal(store.stats().demand.readers, 0, "this read has no priority-map range");
-    assert.equal(store.stats().pinned, 3, "the three distinct live pieces are measured");
-    assert.equal(store.capacity, 3, "the active read demand expands capacity immediately");
-    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 3 * PIECE, "the budget owner sees the same measured demand");
-
-    const revised = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(revised.ceilingBytes, 3 * PIECE, "a budget pass preserves pieces in active reads");
-    assert.equal(revised.belowActiveDemand, true, "the store reports that the machine share was short");
-
-    await put(store, 2, pieceOf(2));
-    assert.ok(store.locate(0), "the first active piece remains resident");
-    assert.ok(store.locate(1), "the second active piece remains resident");
-    assert.ok(store.locate(2), "the pending active piece obtains a memory slot");
-
-    store.unpin(0);
-    store.unpin(1);
-    store.unpin(2);
-    const released = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(released.ceilingBytes, 2 * PIECE, "the measured floor falls after the reads release their pieces");
-  } finally {
-    await store.destroy();
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("the allowance is never cut below one reader's whole window", async () => {
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(16);
-  try {
-    store.protectRange("video", 0, 9);
-    // The machine says this store may have two pieces. Obeying that would leave
-    // it unable to finish the read it is serving: every resident piece pinned,
-    // zero bytes returned, and ffmpeg taking that for the end of the file —
-    // which killed every encoder on that file in the field on 2026-08-15.
-    const revised = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(revised.ceilingBytes, 10 * PIECE, "one whole window is the floor");
-    assert.equal(revised.belowActiveDemand, true, "and the store says the share was smaller than that");
-
-    // With no reader there is no window to protect and the share is obeyed.
-    store.releaseProtection("video");
-    const obeyed = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(obeyed.ceilingBytes, 2 * PIECE);
-    assert.equal(obeyed.belowActiveDemand, false);
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("the pool stays the size it is allowed to be, however many pieces pass through it", async () => {
-  // The field failure of 2026-09-02, and the case none of the earlier checks
-  // covered: an allowance far smaller than the number of pieces in flight.
-  // Both paths that register a piece look first and then await — `put` for a
-  // slot, a revival for the disk — and in that gap another caller can register
-  // the same index. Overwriting the entry dropped the previous block without
-  // returning it, so the pool's count climbed past its ceiling for ever and it
-  // degenerated into a fresh block per piece. A store holding THREE pieces
-  // reported 812 MB committed against 68 MB allowed, 739 blocks allocated and
-  // 676 still alive, and the process was killed at 4.37 GB.
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    // Concurrent, because that is what produces the race: several peers deliver
-    // pieces of one torrent at the same time.
-    for (let round = 0; round < 6; round += 1) {
-      await Promise.all(
-        Array.from({ length: 16 }, (unused, index) => put(store, index, pieceOf(index)))
-      );
-      // And read them back, which revives from disk and races registration the
-      // other way about.
-      await Promise.all([0, 3, 7, 11, 15].map((index) => get(store, index)));
-    }
-
-    const stats = store.stats();
-    assert.equal(stats.blocksBeyondCeiling, 0, "the pool grew past what it is allowed to hold");
-    assert.ok(
-      stats.blocksAllocated <= capacity + stats.blocksFree,
-      `pool of ${stats.blocksAllocated} blocks for ${capacity} slots and ${stats.blocksFree} spare`
-    );
-    assert.equal(stats.committedBytes, stats.blocksAllocated * PIECE);
-
-    // Every piece still reads back as itself: a block returned to the pool
-    // twice, or reused while somebody held it, shows up here as wrong bytes.
-    for (let index = 0; index < 16; index += 1) {
-      const bytes = await get(store, index);
-      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
-    }
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a piece wanted later than the one it would displace goes to disk instead", async () => {
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    // A reader is at the start of the file and the store is full of what it
-    // wants. Its window is pieces 0-3.
-    store.protectRange("video", 0, 3);
-    for (let index = 0; index < capacity; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    const before = store.stats().admittedToDisk;
-
-    // A piece arrives from far ahead. It IS inside a window in the field case —
-    // six readers covered the whole file — but it lies further from every read
-    // head than the piece the store would have to evict for it. Admitting it
-    // would write out the nearer piece and read that one back sooner.
-    store.protectRange("far", 90, 99);
-    await put(store, 95, pieceOf(95));
-
-    assert.ok(
-      store.stats().admittedToDisk > before,
-      "the further piece was admitted to memory and the nearer one written out"
-    );
-    // And it still reads back as itself, from the disk it was put on.
-    assert.ok((await get(store, 95)).equals(pieceOf(95)));
-    for (let index = 0; index < capacity; index += 1) {
-      assert.ok((await get(store, index)).equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} was lost`);
-    }
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
-
-test("a piece the map wants more displaces one it wants less, however far away it is", async () => {
-  const capacity = 4;
-  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
-  try {
-    // The store is full of the tail — wanted, but last of everything wanted.
-    store.protectRange("map:tail", 0, 3, 3);
-    for (let index = 0; index < capacity; index += 1) {
-      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
-    }
-    const before = store.stats().admittedToDisk;
-
-    // A piece arrives from far ahead in the file, so by distance to a read head
-    // it loses to everything resident — and it is where a viewer is stopped, so
-    // by the map it wins. The map decides; the distance separates only pieces
-    // the map wants equally.
-    store.protectRange("map:blocked", 90, 99, 0);
-    await put(store, 95, pieceOf(95));
-
-    assert.equal(
-      store.stats().admittedToDisk,
-      before,
-      "the piece a viewer is stopped on was written to disk to keep the tail in memory"
-    );
-    assert.ok((await get(store, 95)).equals(pieceOf(95)));
-  } finally {
-    store.destroy(() => undefined);
-    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
-  }
-});
+/**
+ * Eviction under concurrency.
+ *
+ * Pieces arrive from several peers at once, so `put` runs concurrently by
+ * nature. Choosing a victim and releasing it either side of the spill write
+ * therefore let two claims pick the SAME victim and receive the SAME slot, at
+ * which point two pieces overwrite each other, both fail their hash, and the
+ * torrent re-downloads them without end — which looks from outside exactly like
+ * a seek that never completes while the download runs at full speed.
+ */
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import fs from "node:fs/promises";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+import { SharedPieceStore } from "../services/storage/piece-store/shared-piece-store.js";
+
+const PIECE = 1024;
+
+/**
+ * @param {number} capacityPieces
+ * @returns {Promise<{ store: SharedPieceStore, directory: string }>}
+ */
+async function makeStore(capacityPieces) {
+  const directory = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "piece-store-test-"));
+  const store = new SharedPieceStore(PIECE, {
+    length: PIECE * 64,
+    memoryBytes: PIECE * capacityPieces,
+    path: directory,
+    name: "eviction-test"
+  });
+  return { store, directory };
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {number} index
+ * @returns {Buffer} A piece whose every byte identifies it.
+ */
+const pieceOf = (index) => Buffer.alloc(PIECE, index % 251);
+
+/**
+ * @param {SharedPieceStore} store
+ * @param {number} index
+ * @param {Buffer} bytes
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
+ */
+const put = (store, index, bytes) =>
+  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    store.put(index, bytes, (error) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve()));
+  });
+
+/**
+ * @param {SharedPieceStore} store
+ * @param {number} index
+ * @returns {Promise<Buffer>}
+ */
+const get = (store, index) =>
+  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    store.get(index, (error, bytes) => (error ? reject(error) : resolve(bytes)));
+  });
+
+test("concurrent puts past capacity never hand two pieces the same slot", async () => {
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    const total = 24;
+
+    // All at once — the interleaving that a sequential test never produces.
+    await Promise.all(
+      Array.from({ length: total }, (unused, index) => put(store, index, pieceOf(index)))
+    );
+
+    // Every piece must read back as itself, from memory or from disk. A shared
+    // slot shows up here as one piece carrying another's bytes.
+    for (let index = 0; index < total; index += 1) {
+      const bytes = await get(store, index);
+      assert.equal(bytes.length, PIECE, `piece ${index} came back the wrong length`);
+      assert.ok(
+        bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)),
+        `piece ${index} came back as piece ${bytes[0]} — two pieces shared a slot`
+      );
+    }
+
+    const stats = store.stats();
+    assert.ok(
+      stats.resident <= stats.capacity,
+      `resident ${stats.resident} exceeds capacity ${stats.capacity}: slots were handed out twice`
+    );
+  } finally {
+    await store.destroy();
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a piece caught mid-spill is waited for, not reported missing", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
+  try {
+    await put(store, 0, pieceOf(0));
+    await put(store, 1, pieceOf(1));
+
+    // Forces piece 0 out while piece 0 is asked for in the same tick.
+    const evicting = put(store, 2, pieceOf(2));
+    const reading = get(store, 0);
+
+    await evicting;
+    const bytes = await reading;
+    assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(0)), "piece 0 came back wrong while being spilled");
+  } finally {
+    await store.destroy();
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("pinned pieces are never evicted, and the pin count is reported", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
+  try {
+    await put(store, 0, pieceOf(0));
+    store.pin(0);
+    assert.equal(store.stats().pinned, 1, "pin is not reflected in the stats");
+
+    await put(store, 1, pieceOf(1));
+    await put(store, 2, pieceOf(2));
+
+    // Piece 0 is pinned, so it must still be the one in memory, not on disk.
+    assert.ok(store.locate(0), "a pinned piece was evicted");
+
+    store.unpin(0);
+    assert.equal(store.stats().pinned, 0, "unpin is not reflected in the stats");
+  } finally {
+    await store.destroy();
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("the store says why it spills: what is asked of it, what it had to take, how soon it came back", async () => {
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    // A reader declaring more than the store may hold. This is the shape the
+    // field session of 2026-09-02 is suspected of — 88 slots against an
+    // encoder running 120-380 s ahead of a viewer, half the reads missing —
+    // and nothing recorded it (roadmap item 9).
+    store.protectRange("video", 0, 9);
+    for (let index = 0; index < 10; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+
+    const asked = store.stats();
+    assert.equal(asked.demand.readers, 1);
+    assert.equal(asked.demand.unionPieces, 10);
+    assert.equal(asked.demand.capacity, capacity);
+    assert.ok(
+      asked.demand.unionPieces > asked.demand.capacity,
+      "a reader asking for more than the store holds is arithmetic, not a policy fault"
+    );
+    // And it no longer has to take a declared piece to make room. The reader
+    // asked for ten pieces of a store that holds four, and the arrivals that
+    // will be wanted LATER than what is already resident are written straight
+    // to disk instead of displacing what will be wanted sooner. Before
+    // 2026-09-02 every one of them displaced something and was read back
+    // moments later: 233 evictions against 119 completed writes in a minute.
+    assert.equal(asked.evictedProtected, 0, "a nearer piece was pushed out for a further one");
+    assert.equal(asked.spills, 0, "nothing had to be written out to make room on admission");
+    assert.ok(asked.admittedToDisk > 0, "the further arrivals were supposed to go to disk");
+
+    // Read back the pieces that were spilled: each one comes home, and the
+    // store says how long it had been away.
+    for (let index = 0; index < 10; index += 1) {
+      const bytes = await get(store, index);
+      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
+    }
+
+    const after = store.stats();
+    // Reading them back does evict, and that is ordinary: a piece brought into
+    // memory has to displace one. What the change of 2026-09-02 removed is the
+    // eviction on ADMISSION — `asked.spills` above is zero, where before it all
+    // six arrivals displaced a nearer piece and were read back moments later.
+    assert.ok(after.fromDisk > 0, "the pieces that went to disk were read back from it");
+    // Through the reader's own entry point, which is the one that populates
+    // memory. `get` is the torrent client's, and since 2026-09-11 it answers
+    // from disk without taking a block: a peer asks for kilobytes of a piece
+    // that is megabytes, and reviving the whole of it for that was how an
+    // upload capped at 512 KB/s produced 49 696 revivals in one session.
+    await store.reside(9);
+    assert.ok(store.stats().revivals > 0, "a read for playback brings the piece into memory");
+    // No age to report, and that is right rather than missing: an age measures
+    // how long an EVICTED piece stayed away, and these were never resident —
+    // they were written on arrival and read back once.
+    assert.equal(after.revivalAgeSamples, 0);
+    assert.equal(after.revivalAgeMedianMs, null);
+
+    store.releaseProtection("video");
+    assert.equal(store.stats().demand.readers, 0, "a reader that ends stops being counted");
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a piece nobody has declared does not push out one that is being read", async () => {
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    // A reader declares the pieces it will need, and they are put in memory.
+    store.protectRange("video", 0, 3);
+    for (let index = 0; index < 4; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    assert.equal(store.stats().resident, capacity, "the declared window fills the store");
+
+    // Now pieces arrive that the download fetched ahead of every reader. Before
+    // 2026-09-02 each of them claimed a slot and evicted one of the four above,
+    // which was then read back from disk moments later: 6565 spills and 7575
+    // revivals in 44 minutes, 53.6% of reads served from memory.
+    for (let index = 100; index < 110; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+
+    const stats = store.stats();
+    assert.equal(stats.admittedToDisk, 10, "every undeclared arrival went straight to disk");
+    assert.equal(stats.admittedOutsideWindow, 10);
+    assert.equal(stats.admittedInsideWindow, 4);
+    assert.equal(stats.spills, 0, "and nothing had to be pushed out to make room");
+
+    // The declared pieces are still in memory, and every piece reads back as
+    // itself from whichever tier holds it.
+    assert.equal(stats.resident, capacity);
+    for (const index of [0, 1, 2, 3, 100, 105, 109]) {
+      const bytes = await get(store, index);
+      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("before any reader has declared anything, an arriving piece still goes to memory", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(4);
+  try {
+    // No window declared: there is no basis for calling a piece unwanted, so
+    // the store behaves as it always did. This is the initial download, and the
+    // warm-up fetches of the header and the tail.
+    for (let index = 0; index < 8; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    const stats = store.stats();
+    assert.equal(stats.admittedToDisk, 0, "nothing was refused memory on a guess");
+    assert.equal(stats.admittedOutsideWindow, 8);
+    assert.ok(stats.spills > 0, "the store filled and evicted, as it did before");
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("the store asks for what its readers declared, and for a whole window at least", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(64);
+  try {
+    // With nobody reading, the store asks for a floor — one window's worth,
+    // and until it has been asked for anything, the minimum. It does NOT ask
+    // for everything it is allowed: pieces arriving for a reader still on its
+    // way have the disk.
+    const idle = store.wantedBytes;
+    assert.ok(idle > 0 && idle < store.stats().budgetBytes, "an idle store asks for a floor, not its whole allowance");
+
+    // Two readers of one file — picture and sound — overlapping by
+    // construction. The ask is their union, not their sum.
+    store.protectRange("video", 10, 29);
+    store.protectRange("audio", 25, 44);
+    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 35 * PIECE, "10..44 is thirty-five pieces, not forty");
+
+    // One reader with a window wider than the union of nothing else: the ask
+    // never falls below a single window, or that reader's read cannot complete
+    // at all — every resident piece ends up pinned and the read returns zero
+    // bytes.
+    store.releaseProtection("audio");
+    store.releaseProtection("video");
+    store.protectRange("video", 0, 49);
+    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 50 * PIECE);
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("the floor the ceiling will not fall below is the same union, not the widest reader alone", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(64);
+  try {
+    // The same two overlapping readers as the ask above: picture and sound,
+    // 10..44, thirty-five pieces together. The machine now offers far less
+    // than that (ten pieces) — before this fix the floor here came from
+    // `widestPieces` (twenty, the wider of the two readers alone), fifteen
+    // short of what both of them were actually pinning at once. A field
+    // session with three such readers on one file (video, audio and the
+    // edge-warming read) reached exactly that shortfall on 2026-09-07: every
+    // resident piece ended up pinned and WebTorrent destroyed the torrent
+    // over it.
+    store.protectRange("video", 10, 29);
+    store.protectRange("audio", 25, 44);
+    const revised = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(10 * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(
+      revised.ceilingBytes,
+      35 * PIECE,
+      "the floor is the union of both readers, not the wider one alone"
+    );
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a block is re-used instead of a new one being allocated for every piece", async () => {
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    // Twenty pieces through a store that may hold four. Before 2026-09-02 that
+    // was twenty allocations of a piece each, every one of them released only
+    // when the collector got to it — 7575 of them in 44 minutes in the field,
+    // and 1.86 GB held while the store's own accounting said 352 MB.
+    for (let index = 0; index < 20; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+
+    const stats = store.stats();
+    assert.ok(
+      stats.blocksAllocated <= capacity,
+      `the pool never exceeds the allowance: ${stats.blocksAllocated} blocks for ${capacity} slots`
+    );
+    assert.equal(stats.committedBytes, stats.blocksAllocated * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(stats.returnedWhilePinned, 0);
+    assert.ok(stats.reuseGapMs !== null, "blocks were taken from the free list, not freshly made");
+
+    // And every piece still reads back as itself: a re-used block must not
+    // carry the last piece's bytes into the next one.
+    for (let index = 0; index < 20; index += 1) {
+      const bytes = await get(store, index);
+      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a spare block is given up once it has sat longer than the store's own working rhythm", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(8);
+  try {
+    for (let index = 0; index < 12; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    // The allowance falls: pieces are written out and their blocks fall spare.
+    store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
+    const spare = store.stats().blocksFree;
+
+    // Nothing is given up while the blocks are younger than the longest wait
+    // this store has actually seen between a block falling free and being
+    // wanted again.
+    assert.equal(store.sweepFreeBlocks(Date.now()), 0, "a block in use moments ago is not spare");
+    assert.equal(store.stats().blocksFree, spare);
+
+    // An hour later they plainly are.
+    const released = store.sweepFreeBlocks(Date.now() + 3_600_000);
+    assert.equal(released, spare);
+    assert.equal(store.stats().blocksFree, 0);
+    assert.equal(store.stats().blocksReleased, released);
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("evicting a piece the disk already holds costs no second write", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
+  try {
+    // Three pieces through two slots: piece 0 is written out.
+    for (let index = 0; index < 3; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    const written = store.stats().spills;
+    assert.ok(written > 0);
+    assert.equal(store.stats().spillsSkipped, 0, "the first write of a piece is a real one");
+
+    // Read it back for playback — it returns to memory and the copy stays on
+    // disk. Evicting it again writes bytes that are already there, byte for
+    // byte, because only `put` removes the disk copy and no `put` has happened.
+    assert.ok((await get(store, 0)).equals(pieceOf(0)));
+    await store.reside(0);
+    for (let index = 10; index < 13; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    assert.ok(store.stats().spillsSkipped > 0, "the second write of the same bytes is skipped");
+
+    // And the piece still comes back correctly from the disk copy.
+    assert.ok((await get(store, 0)).equals(pieceOf(0)));
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a store whose readers have gone asks for nothing, one that never had them keeps its opening", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(16);
+  try {
+    // Never had a reader: this is the initial download and the warm-up fetches
+    // of the header and the tail, with a read on its way. Those pieces have the
+    // disk, so the store asks for the minimum rather than for its opening
+    // allowance — a torrent nobody has read yet held 4180 MB of a machine's
+    // memory on 2026-09-11 while the film being watched was allowed 12 MB.
+    const opening = store.wantedBytes;
+    assert.ok(opening < store.stats().budgetBytes, "a store nobody has read keeps the minimum");
+
+    store.protectRange("video", 0, 9);
+    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 10 * PIECE);
+
+    // The read ends, and the store keeps room for ONE window — what the next
+    // read will ask for within seconds. Falling to the minimum here is what
+    // left a store at three blocks when the viewer switched files on
+    // 2026-09-11, with the allowance re-derived a minute later and a claim
+    // giving up after five seconds.
+    store.releaseProtection("video");
+    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 10 * PIECE, "the floor between readers is the widest window seen");
+    assert.ok(store.wantedBytes > opening, "which is more than a store nobody has read keeps");
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("live piece pins set memory demand when no priority-map range is declared", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(2);
+  try {
+    await put(store, 0, pieceOf(0));
+    await put(store, 1, pieceOf(1));
+
+    store.pin(0);
+    store.pin(1);
+    store.pin(2);
+
+    assert.equal(store.stats().demand.readers, 0, "this read has no priority-map range");
+    assert.equal(store.stats().pinned, 3, "the three distinct live pieces are measured");
+    assert.equal(store.capacity, 3, "the active read demand expands capacity immediately");
+    assert.equal(store.wantedBytes, 3 * PIECE, "the budget owner sees the same measured demand");
+
+    const revised = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(revised.ceilingBytes, 3 * PIECE, "a budget pass preserves pieces in active reads");
+    assert.equal(revised.belowActiveDemand, true, "the store reports that the machine share was short");
+
+    await put(store, 2, pieceOf(2));
+    assert.ok(store.locate(0), "the first active piece remains resident");
+    assert.ok(store.locate(1), "the second active piece remains resident");
+    assert.ok(store.locate(2), "the pending active piece obtains a memory slot");
+
+    store.unpin(0);
+    store.unpin(1);
+    store.unpin(2);
+    const released = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(released.ceilingBytes, 2 * PIECE, "the measured floor falls after the reads release their pieces");
+  } finally {
+    await store.destroy();
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("the allowance is never cut below one reader's whole window", async () => {
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(16);
+  try {
+    store.protectRange("video", 0, 9);
+    // The machine says this store may have two pieces. Obeying that would leave
+    // it unable to finish the read it is serving: every resident piece pinned,
+    // zero bytes returned, and ffmpeg taking that for the end of the file —
+    // which killed every encoder on that file in the field on 2026-08-15.
+    const revised = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(revised.ceilingBytes, 10 * PIECE, "one whole window is the floor");
+    assert.equal(revised.belowActiveDemand, true, "and the store says the share was smaller than that");
+
+    // With no reader there is no window to protect and the share is obeyed.
+    store.releaseProtection("video");
+    const obeyed = store.reviseGrowthCeiling(2 * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(obeyed.ceilingBytes, 2 * PIECE);
+    assert.equal(obeyed.belowActiveDemand, false);
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("the pool stays the size it is allowed to be, however many pieces pass through it", async () => {
+  // The field failure of 2026-09-02, and the case none of the earlier checks
+  // covered: an allowance far smaller than the number of pieces in flight.
+  // Both paths that register a piece look first and then await — `put` for a
+  // slot, a revival for the disk — and in that gap another caller can register
+  // the same index. Overwriting the entry dropped the previous block without
+  // returning it, so the pool's count climbed past its ceiling for ever and it
+  // degenerated into a fresh block per piece. A store holding THREE pieces
+  // reported 812 MB committed against 68 MB allowed, 739 blocks allocated and
+  // 676 still alive, and the process was killed at 4.37 GB.
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    // Concurrent, because that is what produces the race: several peers deliver
+    // pieces of one torrent at the same time.
+    for (let round = 0; round < 6; round += 1) {
+      await Promise.all(
+        Array.from({ length: 16 }, (unused, index) => put(store, index, pieceOf(index)))
+      );
+      // And read them back, which revives from disk and races registration the
+      // other way about.
+      await Promise.all([0, 3, 7, 11, 15].map((index) => get(store, index)));
+    }
+
+    const stats = store.stats();
+    assert.equal(stats.blocksBeyondCeiling, 0, "the pool grew past what it is allowed to hold");
+    assert.ok(
+      stats.blocksAllocated <= capacity + stats.blocksFree,
+      `pool of ${stats.blocksAllocated} blocks for ${capacity} slots and ${stats.blocksFree} spare`
+    );
+    assert.equal(stats.committedBytes, stats.blocksAllocated * PIECE);
+
+    // Every piece still reads back as itself: a block returned to the pool
+    // twice, or reused while somebody held it, shows up here as wrong bytes.
+    for (let index = 0; index < 16; index += 1) {
+      const bytes = await get(store, index);
+      assert.ok(bytes.equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} came back changed`);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a piece wanted later than the one it would displace goes to disk instead", async () => {
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    // A reader is at the start of the file and the store is full of what it
+    // wants. Its window is pieces 0-3.
+    store.protectRange("video", 0, 3);
+    for (let index = 0; index < capacity; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    const before = store.stats().admittedToDisk;
+
+    // A piece arrives from far ahead. It IS inside a window in the field case —
+    // six readers covered the whole file — but it lies further from every read
+    // head than the piece the store would have to evict for it. Admitting it
+    // would write out the nearer piece and read that one back sooner.
+    store.protectRange("far", 90, 99);
+    await put(store, 95, pieceOf(95));
+
+    assert.ok(
+      store.stats().admittedToDisk > before,
+      "the further piece was admitted to memory and the nearer one written out"
+    );
+    // And it still reads back as itself, from the disk it was put on.
+    assert.ok((await get(store, 95)).equals(pieceOf(95)));
+    for (let index = 0; index < capacity; index += 1) {
+      assert.ok((await get(store, index)).equals(pieceOf(index)), `piece ${index} was lost`);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});
+
+test("a piece the map wants more displaces one it wants less, however far away it is", async () => {
+  const capacity = 4;
+  const { store, directory } = await makeStore(capacity);
+  try {
+    // The store is full of the tail — wanted, but last of everything wanted.
+    store.protectRange("map:tail", 0, 3, 3);
+    for (let index = 0; index < capacity; index += 1) {
+      await put(store, index, pieceOf(index));
+    }
+    const before = store.stats().admittedToDisk;
+
+    // A piece arrives from far ahead in the file, so by distance to a read head
+    // it loses to everything resident — and it is where a viewer is stopped, so
+    // by the map it wins. The map decides; the distance separates only pieces
+    // the map wants equally.
+    store.protectRange("map:blocked", 90, 99, 0);
+    await put(store, 95, pieceOf(95));
+
+    assert.equal(
+      store.stats().admittedToDisk,
+      before,
+      "the piece a viewer is stopped on was written to disk to keep the tail in memory"
+    );
+    assert.ok((await get(store, 95)).equals(pieceOf(95)));
+  } finally {
+    store.destroy(() => undefined);
+    await fs.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 10, retryDelay: 20 });
+  }
+});