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Persist startup outcomes and counted sandbox identities so long readiness failures enter per-pool cooldown exactly once. Stop port waits on process exit and guard terminal transitions against concurrent RUNNING updates.
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In `@api/compute/schema.yml`:
- Around line 521-525: Update countStartupFailures to remove CountedFailures IDs
that are absent from the current sandboxes list before counting failures. Retain
IDs for every listed sandbox, including terminal records, so they remain
protected from duplicate counting.
In `@controllers/sandbox/saga_controller.go`:
- Around line 92-95: Update the saga-failure handling around GetSandbox in the
controller: when the fetch fails, continue with the DEAD status patch instead of
returning, and leave StartupOutcome unset. Log the fetch error; only set
STARTUP_FAILED when a successful fetch confirms the sandbox is neither
STARTUP_RUNNING nor RUNNING.
In `@controllers/sandbox/sandbox.go`:
- Around line 3314-3323: Before deriving StartupOutcome for the retired sandbox,
read its current entity and use that revision for the lifecycle patch; retry on
cond.ErrConflict as recordExit does. If the read fails, skip the lifecycle patch
or return a handled error after cleanup—do not derive or patch from the stale sb
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Prune counted_failures entries for sandboxes no longer listed.
countStartupFailures only appends IDs. It never removes IDs after sandbox entities are deleted. The generated encoder and decoder process one attribute per stored ID, so this list grows over time.
Retain IDs present in the current sandboxes list. Keep terminal sandbox records that are still listed, because they must remain protected from duplicate counting.
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func (m *Manager) countStartupFailures(sandboxes []*sandboxWithMeta, pool *compute_v1alpha.SandboxPool) int64 {
count := int64(0)
+ listed := make(map[entity.Id]bool, len(sandboxes))
+ for _, sbm := range sandboxes {
+ listed[sbm.sandbox.ID] = true
+ }
+ retained := pool.CountedFailures[:0]
+ for _, id := range pool.CountedFailures {
+ if listed[id] {
+ retained = append(retained, id)
+ }
+ }
+ pool.CountedFailures = retained
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In `@api/compute/schema.yml` around lines 521 - 525, Update countStartupFailures
to remove CountedFailures IDs that are absent from the current sandboxes list
before counting failures. Retain IDs for every listed sandbox, including
terminal records, so they remain protected from duplicate counting.
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🤖 Switched this new field to a replaceable JSON value. Reconciliation prunes IDs absent from the sandbox list and persists [] when none remain; the store-backed regression test covers both cases.
| current, _, getErr := c.ops.GetSandbox(ctx, co.ID.String()) | ||
| if getErr != nil { | ||
| return fmt.Errorf("fetching sandbox after saga failure: %w", getErr) | ||
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Mark the sandbox DEAD when GetSandbox fails.
A saga failure returns before PatchSandbox when GetSandbox returns a transient error. The sandbox can remain PENDING, consume pool capacity, and avoid startup-failure counting until reconciliation retries it or stale-pending cleanup changes it to STOPPED.
Do not assign co to current. co can be stale, and revision 0 disables optimistic concurrency. That fallback can write STARTUP_FAILED over a concurrently persisted RUNNING/STARTUP_RUNNING outcome. Leave StartupOutcome unset when the fetch fails.
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current, _, getErr := c.ops.GetSandbox(ctx, co.ID.String())
- if getErr != nil {
- return fmt.Errorf("fetching sandbox after saga failure: %w", getErr)
- }
failure := &compute.Sandbox{Status: compute.DEAD}
- if current.StartupOutcome != compute.STARTUP_RUNNING && current.Status != compute.RUNNING {
+ if getErr != nil {
+ c.Log.Warn("fetching sandbox after saga failure; leaving startup outcome unchanged", "id", co.ID, "error", getErr)
+ } else if current.StartupOutcome != compute.STARTUP_RUNNING && current.Status != compute.RUNNING {
failure.StartupOutcome = compute.STARTUP_FAILED
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In `@controllers/sandbox/saga_controller.go` around lines 92 - 95, Update the
saga-failure handling around GetSandbox in the controller: when the fetch fails,
continue with the DEAD status patch instead of returning, and leave
StartupOutcome unset. Log the fetch error; only set STARTUP_FAILED when a
successful fetch confirms the sandbox is neither STARTUP_RUNNING nor RUNNING.
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🤖 A failed fetch no longer prevents the DEAD patch or replaces the saga error. It leaves the outcome unset; a successful fetch uses its revision before deriving an outcome.
| // Preserve the lifecycle outcome when retiring a sandbox. Intentional | ||
| // STOPPED sandboxes (including scale-down) acquire no failure outcome. | ||
| retired := &compute.Sandbox{Status: compute.DEAD} | ||
| if sb != nil { | ||
| if sb.Status == compute.PENDING && sb.StartupOutcome != compute.STARTUP_RUNNING { | ||
| retired.StartupOutcome = compute.STARTUP_FAILED | ||
| } else if sb.Status == compute.RUNNING && sb.StartupOutcome == "" { | ||
| retired.StartupOutcome = compute.STARTUP_RUNNING | ||
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Read the current sandbox revision before deriving StartupOutcome.
Create can pass a stale PENDING snapshot to StopSandbox after another path has persisted RUNNING and STARTUP_RUNNING. The revision-zero patch is an unguarded read-modify-write of the whole entity, so it can write STARTUP_FAILED over the persisted STARTUP_RUNNING outcome.
Read the current entity before deriving the outcome. Patch with that entity's revision and retry cond.ErrConflict as recordExit does. Do not fall back to sb when the read fails. Skip the lifecycle patch, or return a handled error after cleanup, because the stale fallback preserves the lost-update risk.
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In `@controllers/sandbox/sandbox.go` around lines 3314 - 3323, Before deriving
StartupOutcome for the retired sandbox, read its current entity and use that
revision for the lifecycle patch; retry on cond.ErrConflict as recordExit does.
If the read fails, skip the lifecycle patch or return a handled error after
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🤖 Teardown now reads the current lifecycle and retries revision conflicts. The stale-PENDING/current-RUNNING regression test preserves STARTUP_RUNNING.
Keep the prior quick-crash rule alongside durable pre-running failures. Mark saga failures DEAD when the follow-up fetch fails without guessing a stale startup outcome, and derive teardown outcomes from a revision-guarded current entity. Amp-Thread-ID: T-01a0cbe2-e330-77cb-bfe8-2363e67399f0
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Keep desired instances when a referenced pool still has running sandboxes, including when a boot fails on a lost node. Empty pools retain the existing activator accumulation reset. Amp-Thread-ID: T-01a0cbe2-e330-77cb-bfe8-2363e67399f0
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Preserve existing live capacity after partial node loss while preventing activator growth from relaunching a whole crash-looping pool when cooldown expires. Amp-Thread-ID: T-01a0cbe2-e330-77cb-bfe8-2363e67399f0
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Base the one-replacement cap on RUNNING plus PENDING sandboxes so siblings that finish booting during cooldown do not get scaled down. Amp-Thread-ID: T-01a0cbe2-e330-77cb-bfe8-2363e67399f0
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Store the new deduplication field as a replaceable JSON array rather than additive many-valued references. Retain listed terminal sandboxes, prune deleted IDs, and persist an explicit empty array through the real reconcile path. Amp-Thread-ID: T-01a0cbe2-e330-77cb-bfe8-2363e67399f0
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🍪 biscuit: ✅ ready to merge — auto-review, non-blocking
The unbounded growth of CountedFailures is fixed. That was the last thing I had open, so this is ready to merge.
What changed: counted_failures is now a single JSON-string attribute. countStartupFailures (manager.go:826–874) first keeps only the stored IDs whose sandbox still appears in the pool's listSandboxes result, then appends new failures. Stored IDs are now bounded by sandboxes that still exist, and garbage-collected DEAD sandboxes drop out on their own.
The empty-list clearing problem is handled too. retained is built with make(..., 0, n), so an empty list marshals to "[]", not null or "". That's a non-empty string, so Encode() still emits it and meta.Update replaces the stored value. TestCountedFailuresPrunedAndClearedInStore runs through reconcilePool, which is the real controller diff/patch path. It checks both that a vanished ID gets pruned and that the stored attribute ends up as "[]", which was the regression I was worried about.
Outcome labeling: I also checked the rest of the outcome labeling against the code, and it holds up:
recordExit,StopSandbox(which retries on conflict) and nodehealth only set an outcome when none is set yet. So a STOPPED +STARTUP_FAILEDsandbox from a boot-time exit still ends up DEAD +STARTUP_FAILED, which the pool counts.- The unhealthy-sandbox DEAD path at sandbox.go:1386 and
markDeadNoRestartare both limited to RUNNING, so neither can stampSTARTUP_RUNNINGon a sandbox that never got there. WaitForPortgets its exit signal frommonitorTaskExit. TheportMapreset inBootContainershappens beforeMonitorContaineris called, so it can't wipe out a bound-port report.
I'm resolving both of my open threads on the CountedFailures line.
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Addressed the biscuit crash-loop regression and the CodeRabbit review: restored quick post-RUNNING crash cooldown, bounded persisted failure IDs, and guarded saga failure and teardown lifecycle writes. The later biscuit feedback is also covered: cooldown preserves RUNNING and PENDING siblings while allowing at most one replacement beyond live capacity. The sandbox iso suite passed 264 tests, the pool suite passed 26, |
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🤖 Approving. This looks right to me. Ending port waits on process exit, startup_outcome, and the cooldown sizing all hold up, and the revision guards on the lifecycle writes are careful work. I left one inline preference about counted_failures, since the updatedAt watermark looks like enough to me. It's your call, and it doesn't block merge.
One note on scope for the PR body, since MIR-858 builds on it: the default port wait is 15s, and it was 15s before the ticket was filed, so main already backs off the common "died or never bound" case. The five-minute cycle matches the stale-PENDING sweep instead. What this PR actually adds is counting failures that take longer than 60s: stale sweeps, long port_wait_timeouts, slow boots, and node loss mid-boot. Those are worth catching, but it's a narrower story than "readiness waited five minutes."
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🤖 Non-blocking, your call: I'd lean toward dropping this field before it lands in the schema. Once it ships it's persisted state on every pool, and it doesn't add capability, it only dedupes. If you've weighed it and prefer the ID list, merge as is.
The dedupe need comes from STARTUP_FAILED ignoring lifetime. On main, the 60s rule quietly hid any recount, because a later patch to a DEAD sandbox pushed its lifetime past 60s. Without that rule, a bumped updatedAt looks new against the LastCrashTime watermark. So the question is who actually writes a sandbox after it goes DEAD. I traced every Sandbox writer at this head:
- app restart, node drain, run controller and run GC all skip STOPPED/DEAD
scaleDownonly picks RUNNING, and the stale sweep only PENDING- nodehealth skips DEAD, and
Createreturns early on DEAD, so a resync never re-runsStopSandbox - the activator's
LastActivitysync only touches leased sandboxes, which reached RUNNING and still fall under the 60s rule
That leaves exactly one writer that can bump a pre-RUNNING failure: recordExit attaching a late exit to a sandbox that's already DEAD (sandbox.go:2482). So the updatedAt watermark holds if we either skip that write when the sandbox is DEAD, or accept that the race occasionally counts a failure twice, which costs one extra backoff step. Either seems better to me than a JSON ID list on the pool.
If you switch back, set LastCrashTime to the newest counted updatedAt instead of time.Now() (manager.go:96). As it stands, a sandbox that dies between listSandboxes and that assignment falls under the watermark and never counts. Main has that bug too, and the ID list happens to fix it, so the swap shouldn't bring it back.
A bigger alternative, if it appeals: a per-status "reached at" timestamp on the sandbox would replace this field and startup_outcome. It would give an immutable time to watermark against, and "reached RUNNING" would just be a non-empty stamp. That means stamping at every status writer, though, which is probably more wiring than this PR wants.
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./hack/it ./controllers/sandboxpool— 22 tests passed./hack/it ./controllers/nodehealth— 10 tests passed./hack/it ./controllers/sandbox— 262 tests passedmake lint— 0 issuesLinear: https://linear.app/miren/issue/MIR-857/back-off-every-sandbox-that-fails-before-reaching-running
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