A long-running rc.33 daemon reached OOM with roughly 22 GiB resident and
24 GiB swapped. Live inspection found 40 GiB and 10/20 GiB anonymous
container mappings; the active worker stack and tracing metadata identified
iroh's scheduled path-open retry loop. In iroh 1.2.0 every failed connection
requeues the same path, while each retry visits every connection again.
Separate control and data connections multiply the queue geometrically.
Vendor the published iroh 1.2.0 source and select it with a workspace Cargo
patch. Deduplicate retry admission and cap distinct pending paths at 64,
evicting the oldest before inserting a new candidate. Keep the current and
next retry batches bounded without combining control/data connections or
changing wire protocols, identity derivation, authentication or state.
Document source provenance, the live evidence and removal conditions.
Upstream PR 4551 merged on October 6, but inspection of the official 1.3.0
crate still shows the unconditional enqueue, so that upgrade alone is not
a fix. No version bump, release tag or installed-service change.
The default workspace suite includes the exact vendored admission module.
Three regressions failed with the original enqueue and pass with the fix:
repeated failures across connections, duplicate admission at capacity, and
10,000 distinct candidates with bounded length/capacity and FIFO eviction.
Transport integration tests continue using real endpoints and encryption.
Checks on Linux in nix develop:
- cargo fmt --all -- --check
- cargo clippy --locked --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
- cargo test --locked --workspace --all-targets, with only the inherited
TSUNAGI_CONTROL_SOCKET removed from the test environment
- git diff --cached --check
Initial full-suite runs failed six DNS readiness checks because the inherited
system socket path overrode their temporary state directories. Clearing that
environment variable resolves those failures without changing application code.
Root/network-dependent ignored tests and other operating systems were not run.
Replace the one-intermediate-peer relay with protocol-scoped connectivity
graphs and precomputed shortest-path/ECMP forwarding snapshots. Independent
transport readers forward opaque transit frames without a plugin or TUN
round trip. Carry source, destination, a bounded hop limit and stable flow
tags; preserve end-to-end WireGuard links across topology changes.
Classify IP flows before encryption and preserve their tags through the
WireGuard pending queue. Add offline four-agent path-change coverage, loop
and isolation tests, and an opt-in release forwarding microbenchmark. Bump
control/data ALPNs while preserving persistent network identities and state.
Also include the pending Windows Mainline idle-timeout fix and its regression
test, using a reproducible vendored dependency patch.
Validation: fmt, workspace Clippy with warnings denied, and 307 release tests
passed. Two pre-existing Windows SQLite wipe failures were excluded; public
DHT and the manual benchmark remain ignored by default. The forwarding
microbenchmark measured 103 ns (64 B) and 202 ns (1280 B) per transit packet,
excluding encryption and socket I/O.
Aleksandr Bogomiakov
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