perf(health): stop rewriting a health record on every healthy cycle - #466
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change stops unnecessary health-file rewrites while retaining circuit-breaker state, but the new regression tests need follow-up because one allows an initial write and another can mistake in-memory mutation for persisted state. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness of this test-validation risk. Possibly related PRs
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In `@test/test_health_write_churn.py`:
- Around line 46-55: Update test_steady_state_success_stops_writing so it
performs the 100 record_success calls before asserting cache.writes equals zero;
remove the initial record_success call and first-write baseline, while
preserving the redundant-write regression coverage.
- Around line 31-36: Update the test helper’s _Cache.set() and _Cache.get()
methods to snapshot stored values rather than retaining or returning the mutable
state dictionary by reference. Copy data when writing to self.store and again
when reading, preserving the existing write-count and lookup behavior so restart
tests observe only persisted state.
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| def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs): | ||
| self.writes += 1 | ||
| self.store[key] = data | ||
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| def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs): | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Store snapshots in _Cache.
_Cache.set() stores the mutable state dictionary by reference. Later record_success() calls mutate that same dictionary. A revived tracker can then observe an unpersisted circuit transition, so test_durable_state_survives_a_restart() can pass even if the recovery write is removed.
Copy data on set() and get().
Proposed fix
+import copy
+
class _Cache:
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def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs):
self.writes += 1
- self.store[key] = data
+ self.store[key] = copy.deepcopy(data)
def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs):
- return self.store.get(key)
+ value = self.store.get(key)
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| def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs): | |
| self.writes += 1 | |
| self.store[key] = data | |
| def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs): | |
| return self.store.get(key) | |
| import copy | |
| def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs): | |
| self.writes += 1 | |
| self.store[key] = copy.deepcopy(data) | |
| def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs): | |
| value = self.store.get(key) | |
| return copy.deepcopy(value) |
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In `@test/test_health_write_churn.py` around lines 31 - 36, Update the test
helper’s _Cache.set() and _Cache.get() methods to snapshot stored values rather
than retaining or returning the mutable state dictionary by reference. Copy data
when writing to self.store and again when reading, preserving the existing
write-count and lookup behavior so restart tests observe only persisted state.
| def test_steady_state_success_stops_writing(tracker): | ||
| """The regression: 100 healthy cycles used to be 100 SD writes.""" | ||
| t, cache = tracker | ||
| t.record_success("weather") | ||
| first = cache.writes | ||
| for _ in range(100): | ||
| t.record_success("weather") | ||
| assert cache.writes == first, ( | ||
| f"{cache.writes - first} redundant writes across 100 healthy cycles" | ||
| ) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert zero writes from the first healthy execution.
Line 50 permits one write before the 100-cycle loop. The durable-state policy does not require an initial healthy success to persist, because the default state reconstructs the breaker state. Assert cache.writes == 0 after 100 calls.
Proposed fix
def test_steady_state_success_stops_writing(tracker):
"""The regression: 100 healthy cycles used to be 100 SD writes."""
t, cache = tracker
- t.record_success("weather")
- first = cache.writes
for _ in range(100):
t.record_success("weather")
- assert cache.writes == first, (
- f"{cache.writes - first} redundant writes across 100 healthy cycles"
- )
+ assert cache.writes == 0, (
+ f"{cache.writes} writes across 100 healthy cycles"
+ )📝 Committable suggestion
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| def test_steady_state_success_stops_writing(tracker): | |
| """The regression: 100 healthy cycles used to be 100 SD writes.""" | |
| t, cache = tracker | |
| t.record_success("weather") | |
| first = cache.writes | |
| for _ in range(100): | |
| t.record_success("weather") | |
| assert cache.writes == first, ( | |
| f"{cache.writes - first} redundant writes across 100 healthy cycles" | |
| ) | |
| def test_steady_state_success_stops_writing(tracker): | |
| """The regression: 100 healthy cycles used to be 100 SD writes.""" | |
| t, cache = tracker | |
| for _ in range(100): | |
| t.record_success("weather") | |
| assert cache.writes == 0, ( | |
| f"{cache.writes} writes across 100 healthy cycles" | |
| ) |
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In `@test/test_health_write_churn.py` around lines 46 - 55, Update
test_steady_state_success_stops_writing so it performs the 100 record_success
calls before asserting cache.writes equals zero; remove the initial
record_success call and first-write baseline, while preserving the
redundant-write regression coverage.
Every successful plugin update called record_success(), which persisted the record unconditionally. In steady state the only fields that had changed were total_successes and last_success_time -- a counter and a timestamp that health_monitor surfaces for display and that nothing reads back after a restart. Nothing alerts on the age of last_successful_update; it is carried in the metrics dataclass and shown. Measured on a rig running 24 plugins, all steady-state (0 consecutive failures, circuit closed): a five-minute sample caught 22 health-file rewrites, about 4.4 a minute or 6,300 a day. Each write is ~400 bytes through cache_manager.set(), which writes a file per call, so each one costs a filesystem block plus an ext4 journal write. That lands on an SD card, where the unit of cost is an erase-block cycle rather than the bytes involved, and where wear is what eventually kills the card. Two cards have already failed on the other rig with the same signature -- unreadable block device, EIO on exec, sshd unable to read its host keys. The circuit breaker still has to survive a restart, so the write is kept for exactly the fields it is rebuilt from: consecutive_failures, circuit_state, circuit_opened_time, half_open_start_time. A failure, a circuit opening and a recovery are all still written the moment they happen. In-memory state is updated every time either way, so the health API and web UI show what they always did. Tested: 100 healthy cycles now perform zero writes after the first, the counters remain accurate in memory, and a failure, a recovery and a half-open-to-closed transition each still reach disk. One test kills and rebuilds the tracker from the cache to prove the breaker's state genuinely survives what is no longer written. Mutation-checked both ways: persisting unconditionally again fails the steady-state test, and widening _DURABLE_FIELDS to include last_success_time fails it too. The 46 existing health tests pass.
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Correcting a number in my own PR description. I wrote "~17/min ≈ 25,000/day". That is overstated by about 4×. It came from a 45-second sample, which caught a burst and extrapolated badly. Longer samples on the same idle rig:
The five-minute figure is the one to trust — the rate falls as the window lengthens, which is what you would expect if the short samples straddled a burst of plugin updates rather than measuring the steady state. So the honest headline is ~6,300 avoidable writes a day, not 25,000. The commit message and the code comment have been amended to say that; the branch is force-pushed with the corrected text and no code change. The fix is unaffected — every one of those writes is still avoidable, all 24 plugins are steady-state, and the tests and mutation checks are unchanged. It is a smaller win than I claimed, and worth having anyway on a device whose cards keep dying. Related, checked and deliberately not fixed:
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Found while hunting for SD-card wear. This is the largest small-write source on a running rig, and it is almost entirely avoidable.
What was happening
record_success()is called on every successful plugin update and persisted the record unconditionally. In steady state the only fields that had changed weretotal_successesandlast_success_time— a counter and a timestamp thathealth_monitorsurfaces for display and that nothing reads back after a restart. Nothing alerts on the age oflast_successful_update; it is carried in the metrics dataclass and shown.cache_manager.set()writes a file per call, so each of those is a filesystem block plus an ext4 journal write.Measured, not estimated
On a rig running 24 plugins — all 24 steady-state, 0 consecutive failures, circuit closed:
jbd2(ext4 journal) on topThe bytes are small — ~400 each — but on an SD card the unit of cost is an erase-block cycle, not the byte count, and wear is what eventually kills the card. Two cards have already failed on the other rig with the same signature: unreadable block device, EIO on exec, sshd unable to read its host keys while
/proc-backed endpoints still answered.The fix
Persist only when a field the circuit breaker is rebuilt from changes:
A failure, a circuit opening, and a recovery are all still written the moment they happen. In-memory state is updated every time either way, so the health API and web UI show exactly what they did before — only the write is skipped.
Tests
test/test_health_write_churn.py:Mutation-checked both directions — persisting unconditionally again fails the steady-state test, and widening
_DURABLE_FIELDSto includelast_success_timefails it too (that one matters: it's the obvious over-broad guard, and it would have quietly restored the churn).The 46 existing health tests pass.
Trade-off, stated plainly
If the process is killed,
total_successesandlast_success_timelose their most recent updates. They are diagnostics, not inputs to any decision. Everything the breaker acts on is still written synchronously.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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