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data-plane: ping idle runtime connections so a dead one isn't reused - #1619
The data plane now pings idle connections to sandbox runtimes. A connection whose far end went away is closed before the next call, so a Native file call no longer waits 5 s on it and then fails.
On Kubernetes a sandbox's runtime endpoint is its pod's address and the shim's port (podIP:9800). The data plane keeps its connections per endpoint for up to 30 idle minutes (BackendChannelPool, crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/state.rs). Once a sandbox's pod is gone, a later pod can be given the same address. The kept connection then still looks open, but its packets no longer reach the node-api it was opened to. Its HTTP/2 keep-alive (configure_node_api_endpoint: 10 s interval, 5 s timeout, the DEFAULT_HTTP2_KEEP_ALIVE_* constants in pplx-space-node-api-client) only runs while a call is open. So the first call to the new sandbox that is sent on it waits for a ping answer that never comes, fails after exactly 5 s with 503 service_unavailable ("http2 error"), and the client's next poll gets a fresh connection. Where the network resets such a connection instead of dropping it, the call fails at once with a 500.
build_backend_channels now sets keep_alive_while_idle(true), through configure_kept_node_api_endpoint in pplx-space-node-api-client. That helper also sets the multiplexed connection window, and the API's watched worker connection (connect_worker_watched_with), which set the same pair by hand, now uses it too, so the next pooled client gets the idle ping by asking for a kept connection. An idle connection is pinged every 10 s, and one with no answer within 5 s, or one the far end resets, is closed. The next call to that endpoint dials it anew; tonic reconnects a closed channel on its own. Endpoints are still pooled as before. The node-api server already pings its clients every 10 s, so a live connection seldom needs a ping of its own.
This is independent of #1600: the failing call uses a connection opened for an earlier sandbox, whatever the create operation waited for.
Validation
a_connection_whose_far_end_went_quiet_does_not_carry_the_next_call (native_files/tests/stale_connection.rs) puts the fake runtime behind a proxy whose open connections stop carrying bytes while new ones are forwarded, with the keep-alive scaled down to 50 ms / 50 ms. The test waits, bounded at 10 s, for the client to close the quiet connection, then checks the next call is answered 200 over a second connection. Without keep_alive_while_idle(true) the quiet connection is never closed and the bounded wait fails. Without the multiplexed window, backend_channels_advertise_the_configured_connection_window fails.
cargo fmt, cargo clippy -D warnings on pplx-space-data-plane-server, pplx-space-node-api-client and pplx-space-api, cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked, cargo arch, and cargo nextest for pplx-space-data-plane-server, pplx-space-node-api-client and pplx-space-api (3039 passed at 4ae2d6c): all pass.
Kind, current seed guest. On Kind a node gives out pod addresses in order, so 200 creates at 25 concurrent sessions, each polling files:stat / from the data plane right after its create succeeded, reused no address and showed no stall (wait after success p50 257 ms, p99 1031 ms, max 1395 ms; no non-200 answer). To reproduce, a test script (kept out of the repository) deletes a sandbox whose address the data plane holds a connection to, rewinds that node's host-local IPAM so the next sandbox pod there gets the same address, and checks the new sandbox lands on the same pooled connection. A drop rule in the new pod's network namespace stands in for a network that drops, rather than resets, packets of a connection the namespace never saw. First files:stat on the new sandbox:
The data plane logged no ERROR or WARN with this change. The 200-create run after it: p50 213 ms, p99 1118 ms, max 1162 ms, no non-200 answer. In every failing case the client's next poll was answered in about 50 ms. A client that polls at a fixed 500 ms rate sees the dropped case as a wait of 5.0 s plus one round trip after the create succeeded.
Native typed smoke on Kind with SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILE set: 47 passed, 12 ignored (opt-in bench scenarios), none failed.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. About 1% of creates in a production-shaped load run waited 5.07–5.10 s for their first file call, and the reset form adds a 500 to the client.
Risk: each pooled connection to a runtime is pinged when idle, at most every 10 s. That is a small amount of traffic per endpoint the data plane has used in the last 30 minutes, and live connections mostly see the node-api server's own pings first. A connection to a node-api that is slow to answer a ping for more than 5 s is closed, and the next call reconnects. Roll back by reverting; nothing is stored.
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An address reused within about 15 s of its pod going away can still meet a connection the pings have not yet found dead. The call then fails as before, and the next one reconnects; data-plane: retry a Native read whose runtime connection failed, and answer 503 #1620 sends a read-only call again over a new connection in that case and answers the rest with the retryable 503.
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Why: Existing deployments will send idle pings every 10 seconds and close unresponsive connections after 5 seconds. The production default change warrants review before merging.
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Walkthrough
The backend channel pool now accepts endpoint configuration and passes it to channel setup. Channel setup applies HTTP/2 keep-alive pings while idle and sets the initial connection window. A new test uses a TCP proxy that stops forwarding on an existing connection, then checks that a later stat call succeeds over a new connection.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1620: Retries a read-only Native call once on a new connection after a client-side transport failure. Both changes address stale-connection behavior.
Merge Risk: High · up to 4ae2d
Existing deployments will send idle pings every 10 seconds and close unresponsive connections after 5 seconds. The production default change warrants review before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 4ae2d
The change is narrowly scoped to connection health checks and preserves endpoint selection and pool ownership. No introduced security-boundary violation was identified in the inspected paths. Compatibility with every deployed peer remains unverified, so some operational uncertainty remains.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The changed operational exposure is the data plane's pooled Node API connections. Production startup still uses default endpoint settings; the new timing override is code-level configuration rather than a newly exposed request parameter.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The existing failure-containment model is preserved: transport reset removes the failed endpoint's pool entry, and later acquisition can recreate it without evicting unrelated endpoints. The idle-keepalive addition does not broaden cleanup authority or introduce shared-state migration.
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- Line 114: Replace the fixed 500 ms sleep in the stale-connection test with a
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On Kubernetes a sandbox's runtime endpoint is its pod's address, and the
data plane keeps its connections per endpoint for up to 30 idle minutes.
Once the pod is gone a later pod can be given the same address. The kept
connection still looks open, but nothing answers on it any more, and its
HTTP/2 keep-alive only runs while a call is open: the first call sent on it
waited out the 5 s keep-alive timeout and failed with a 503, or, where the
network resets such a connection, failed at once with a 500. The client's
next call got a fresh connection.
The backend channels now keep pinging while idle, so a connection whose far
end went away is closed within the keep-alive interval and timeout, and the
next call dials the endpoint anew.
The stale-connection test slept 500 ms after the proxy went quiet and
assumed the client had closed that connection by then. On a loaded runner
a late keep-alive timer could leave it open, so the next call would take it
and fail.
The proxy now counts the connections the client closes, and the test waits
for the quiet one to close, bounded at 10 s, before it sends the next call.
It also checks that call opened a second connection. Without the idle
keep-alive the wait runs out and the test fails.
The data plane's pooled runtime channels and the API's watched worker
connection each set the idle keep-alive and the multiplexed connection
window by hand, for the same reason: one connection per endpoint carries
many callers' calls and outlives each of them, so a far end lost without a
FIN has to be found while it is idle. `configure_kept_node_api_endpoint`
now sets both, and both callers use it, so a later pooled client gets the
idle ping by asking for a kept connection.
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Summary
The data plane now pings idle connections to sandbox runtimes. A connection whose far end went away is closed before the next call, so a Native file call no longer waits 5 s on it and then fails.
On Kubernetes a sandbox's runtime endpoint is its pod's address and the shim's port (
podIP:9800). The data plane keeps its connections per endpoint for up to 30 idle minutes (BackendChannelPool,crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/state.rs). Once a sandbox's pod is gone, a later pod can be given the same address. The kept connection then still looks open, but its packets no longer reach the node-api it was opened to. Its HTTP/2 keep-alive (configure_node_api_endpoint: 10 s interval, 5 s timeout, theDEFAULT_HTTP2_KEEP_ALIVE_*constants inpplx-space-node-api-client) only runs while a call is open. So the first call to the new sandbox that is sent on it waits for a ping answer that never comes, fails after exactly 5 s with 503service_unavailable("http2 error"), and the client's next poll gets a fresh connection. Where the network resets such a connection instead of dropping it, the call fails at once with a 500.build_backend_channelsnow setskeep_alive_while_idle(true), throughconfigure_kept_node_api_endpointinpplx-space-node-api-client. That helper also sets the multiplexed connection window, and the API's watched worker connection (connect_worker_watched_with), which set the same pair by hand, now uses it too, so the next pooled client gets the idle ping by asking for a kept connection. An idle connection is pinged every 10 s, and one with no answer within 5 s, or one the far end resets, is closed. The next call to that endpoint dials it anew; tonic reconnects a closed channel on its own. Endpoints are still pooled as before. The node-api server already pings its clients every 10 s, so a live connection seldom needs a ping of its own.This is independent of #1600: the failing call uses a connection opened for an earlier sandbox, whatever the create operation waited for.
Validation
a_connection_whose_far_end_went_quiet_does_not_carry_the_next_call(native_files/tests/stale_connection.rs) puts the fake runtime behind a proxy whose open connections stop carrying bytes while new ones are forwarded, with the keep-alive scaled down to 50 ms / 50 ms. The test waits, bounded at 10 s, for the client to close the quiet connection, then checks the next call is answered 200 over a second connection. Withoutkeep_alive_while_idle(true)the quiet connection is never closed and the bounded wait fails. Without the multiplexed window,backend_channels_advertise_the_configured_connection_windowfails.cargo fmt,cargo clippy -D warningson pplx-space-data-plane-server, pplx-space-node-api-client and pplx-space-api,cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked,cargo arch, andcargo nextestfor pplx-space-data-plane-server, pplx-space-node-api-client and pplx-space-api (3039 passed at 4ae2d6c): all pass.files:stat /from the data plane right after its create succeeded, reused no address and showed no stall (wait after success p50 257 ms, p99 1031 ms, max 1395 ms; no non-200 answer). To reproduce, a test script (kept out of the repository) deletes a sandbox whose address the data plane holds a connection to, rewinds that node's host-local IPAM so the next sandbox pod there gets the same address, and checks the new sandbox lands on the same pooled connection. A drop rule in the new pod's network namespace stands in for a network that drops, rather than resets, packets of a connection the namespace never saw. Firstfiles:staton the new sandbox:internalafter 10–18 ms (4 of 4)The data plane logged no ERROR or WARN with this change. The 200-create run after it: p50 213 ms, p99 1118 ms, max 1162 ms, no non-200 answer. In every failing case the client's next poll was answered in about 50 ms. A client that polls at a fixed 500 ms rate sees the dropped case as a wait of 5.0 s plus one round trip after the create succeeded.
SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILEset: 47 passed, 12 ignored (opt-in bench scenarios), none failed.Severity and risk
Severity: medium. About 1% of creates in a production-shaped load run waited 5.07–5.10 s for their first file call, and the reset form adds a 500 to the client.
Risk: each pooled connection to a runtime is pinged when idle, at most every 10 s. That is a small amount of traffic per endpoint the data plane has used in the last 30 minutes, and live connections mostly see the node-api server's own pings first. A connection to a node-api that is slow to answer a ping for more than 5 s is closed, and the next call reconnects. Roll back by reverting; nothing is stored.
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AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, and this description; the author reviewed them.