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Summary

Node memory admission now refuses a new sandbox if it would not fit under the sandbox parent cgroup's memory.max. Before, it refused only if the sandbox would not fit in host MemTotal. This PR also adds an opt-in memory_admission.commit_percent, which charges running sandboxes a larger share of their limit. That knob is off by default.

Parent-cgroup ceiling (on by default). Admission runs the existing rule a second time, against the limit the kernel actually enforces:

parent used + existing growth reserve + new sandbox demand + reserve <= parent memory.max

• "Parent used" is the parent's memory.current minus active_file + inactive_file from its memory.stat. Reclaimable page cache counts as free, the same way MemAvailable counts it in the host check. shmem/memfd-backed guest memory stays counted as used.
• Each running sandbox's growth charge is now measured from its own non-cache use: memory.current minus its active_file + inactive_file. This keeps cache from being counted twice.
  • Under the default policy, the charge changes only for a sandbox within reserve_mib of its limit, and it only goes up.
  • If the sandbox's memory.stat is unreadable, it is charged its full reservation. This is the same fallback used when its memory.current is unreadable.
• The growth reserve and reserve terms are the ones the host check already uses.
• If the parent cgroup is missing, or its memory.max is max (dev and kind clusters by default), only the host check runs, as today.
• If the parent cgroup exists but can't be read or parsed, admission logs a WARN and falls back to the host check. Refusing every allocation on a read error would be worse.
• A refusal is the new InsufficientParentCgroupCapacity error. Like InsufficientCapacity, it maps to RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED and is logged as routine.
• node: clamp network-slot capacity to node memory admission (opt-in) #1625's admittable_new_sandboxes calls the admission rule directly, so the advertised placement capacity follows this ceiling with no extra code.

memory_admission.commit_percent (off by default). This optional node file-config value sets a floor on the growth that admission charges each running sandbox. A sandbox is charged at least enough to reach commit_percent% of its memory.max. The charge is never less than today's reserve_mib growth and never more than memory.max.

• 0 is the default and keeps today's charge.
• 100 means no guest memory overcommit.
• Values above 100 are rejected at startup.

Kind scenario local.parent_memory_admission (opt-in). It is marked ignored, so it runs only when named. It lowers each sandbox worker's parent memory.max to just above and just below the admission sum and creates sandboxes through the public API. Then it hides the parent memory.stat from node-manager to exercise the fallback, and it restores everything at the end.

Why. Every sandbox cgroup sits under the sandbox parent cgroup (/sys/fs/cgroup/space). That cgroup's memory.max is below host MemTotal, and it has no swap.

Admission compared committed memory to MemTotal only. So it could admit sandboxes the parent cgroup has no room for, leaving the kernel's cgroup OOM killer to resolve the overcommit against running sandboxes.

The ceiling is a correctness bound: it refuses only what the kernel would not let the node hold. The density policy (how much guests may overcommit) does not change by default. That is why commit_percent is opt-in.

Validation

CI on this head (431a963): green. The node-manager Rust is unchanged by the rebases since the unit runs below.

Unit (node-manager):

• cargo test -p pplx-space-node-mgr --lib -- memory_admission service::tests run::tests: 87 passed.
• cargo clippy -p pplx-space-node-mgr --tests -- -D warnings and cargo fmt --check: clean.
• Regression test: memory_admission::tests::parent_cgroup_limit_refuses_while_host_reports_room. It passes with the fix. It fails with the parent check disabled (verified by disabling the check locally: it panics at tests.rs:323).
• The other new tests cover:
  • reclaimable parent file cache counting as free;
  • an unlimited parent, and an unreadable parent, leaving only the host check;
  • the placement count following the parent limit;
  • commit_percent 0, 50 and 100 charging a running sandbox the reserve, half its limit, and its full limit.
• Existing tests run with the default config, which covers the unchanged behavior.
• space_smoke/tests: 696 passed, 1 skipped.

E2E on a local kind cluster (not Pull CI), scenario local.parent_memory_admission only: PASS. It is the scenario that reaches the changed admission code.

The cluster ran node-manager built with this PR's Rust, with no other knob changes.

SKIP_BOOTSTRAP=1 SPACE_SMOKE_BACKEND=kind SPACE_SMOKE_API_SURFACE=ecw \
  uv run --frozen --python 3.11 -m space_smoke run local.parent_memory_admission
--- take the Lease and record every worker's standing parent limit                  0.5 s
--- run a sandbox on every worker                                                   2.2 s
--- limits just above today's admission sum: the create is admitted                 3.7 s
--- limits just below today's admission sum: the create is refused                 45.9 s
--- parent memory.stat unreadable: admission falls back to host memory              3.3 s
--- restore every worker's limit and memory.stat                                    2.0 s
PASS: Parent memory admission passed            (whole run 02:07:41Z to 02:08:47Z, 66 s)

Each of the two kind sandbox workers (worker 1 and worker 2) ran one sandbox. A probe's jailer cgroup has a memory.max of 1152 MiB. Host MemAvailable stayed at about 116 GiB throughout, so the host check alone would have admitted every create.

phase	parent memory.max	admission sum (scenario's computation)	result
just above	3563 MiB	3307 MiB	201, booted on worker 2 in 1.7 s
just below	3051 MiB	3307 MiB	refused: 503 after 45.3 s, no sandbox
below, parent memory.stat hidden from node-manager	3051 MiB	3307 MiB	201 in 1.7 s, via the host-only fallback

The scenario's refusal check requires a FailedCreatePodSandBox Event that names the parent cgroup, and no Event naming host memory. The Event (kubectl get events --field-selector reason=FailedCreatePodSandBox):

Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = ResourceExhausted desc = ... sbx-manager Wake
[space-err=ResourceExhausted]: network allocate failed: node memory admission refused: sandbox
parent cgroup uses 107 MiB plus 1024 MiB existing Firecracker growth reserve plus new sandbox
demand 1152 MiB plus reserve 1024 MiB, requiring 3307 MiB above its memory.max 3051 MiB

node-manager's own sum (3307 MiB) matches the scenario's to the MiB. The growth charge for the running sandbox is 1024 MiB, which is reserve_mib, so the default policy is unchanged.

node-manager logs on worker 2. These are evidence only; the scenario does not assert on them:

02:07:54Z INFO rejecting new sandbox allocation because measured memory demand exceeds the sandbox
          parent cgroup limit  parent_cgroup_used_mib=107 existing_growth_reserve_mib=1024
          sandbox_cgroup_memory_mib=1152 reserve_mib=1024 required_mib=3307 parent_cgroup_max_mib=3051
02:08:40Z WARN cannot read sandbox parent cgroup memory; admitting against host memory only
          cgroup=/sys/fs/cgroup/space error="memory.stat: no active_file or inactive_file"

After the run, both workers' parent memory.max was back at its standing value (119621550080), no memory.stat bind mount remained, the Lease annotation was cleared, and no probe sandbox was left running.

Rerun after review fixes: PASS (03:31:12Z to 03:32:15Z, at head 6a93974 on #1625 1253b22, with the same deployed node-manager Rust; the current head 431a963 is that commit rebased onto #1625 2329cf5, plus a longer probe idle timeout (1800 s, beyond the 1500 s scenario budget) from review). This version of the scenario also requires the refusal Event to belong to a sandbox pod created by this create (not one that existed before it), and it checks during restore that memory.stat is readable again. The picture matched the first run:

phase	parent memory.max	admission sum	result
just above	3565 MiB	3309 MiB	201 on worker 2 in 1.7 s
just below	3053 MiB	3309 MiB	refused: 503 after 45.3 s; Event ... requiring 3309 MiB above its memory.max 3053 MiB on the new pod
below, memory.stat hidden	3053 MiB	3309 MiB	201 in 1.8 s, host-only fallback WARN

After the refusal, the same pod also logs FailedPrecondition ... was retired Events. These come from #1625 retiring the refused execution, and they are expected. The post-run check, on each worker in turn (kubectl -n space exec <node-manager pod> -c node-manager -- ...), found memory.max = 119621550080, inactive_file present in memory.stat, and 0 leftover sandbox cgroups under /sys/fs/cgroup/space.

The 45 s refusal latency is on the API side. With SPACE_CREATE_FAIL_FAST_ON_NODE_REJECTION unset (the default, as in this run), the create waits out its pod-readiness budget and reports pod_never_ready. #1629's opt-in fail-fast matches this Event (space-err=ResourceExhausted plus node memory admission refused) and returns it in about 1 s when enabled.

Not covered: a real host under memory pressure. With 1152 MiB probes, a full charge (commit_percent=100) is only about 28 MiB above today's charge, which is less than the scenario's 256 MiB slack. So this run does not tell the two charge policies apart; the unit tests above cover commit_percent.

Severity and risk

Severity: high. Without the ceiling, a node can admit sandboxes past the memory limit the kernel enforces for them, and running sandboxes on that node can then be OOM-killed.

Risk: low to moderate.

• A node refuses earlier only when its parent cgroup is genuinely near its limit. Expect more RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED refusals on such nodes, and correspondingly lower peak density there.
• If the parent accounting were wrong, nodes would refuse more often than they need to. The rollback is to revert this PR.

Rollout

There are no flags or migrations. commit_percent is unset everywhere, which means 0. A non-zero value trades density for safety, so this PR does not set it for any pool. Each node pool's capacity owner should choose a value from that pool's measured per-sandbox peak memory and roll it out separately.

Stack

This PR is stacked on #1625; its base is that PR's branch. The top two commits belong to this PR: the node-manager change and the kind scenario. Merge #1625 first, then retarget this PR to main.

Not covered

This narrows the failure window but does not close it. With the default commit_percent, running sandboxes are still charged at most reserve_mib of growth. Guests that grow toward their full memory.max after admission can still push the parent cgroup into OOM. Admission stops adding sandboxes once the parent is near its limit, but it cannot reclaim memory from guests that are already running. Closing that gap needs a non-zero commit_percent, or guest memory reclaim such as free-page reporting.

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Walkthrough

Memory admission now checks host capacity and, when finite parent-cgroup measurements are available, parent-cgroup capacity. Running-sandbox growth charges account for reclaimable file cache and a configurable commit percentage. Startup validates the percentage, and allocation handling reports parent-capacity failures. New smoke-test controls and an opt-in scenario exercise parent-limit admission and host-memory fallback.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1518: Reads the same parent-cgroup memory controls, with different behavior when those controls are unavailable.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1625: Uses the commit-time admission check that this change updates.
• perplexityai/SPACE#1519: Sets the parent memory.max value that the new admission check evaluates.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 431a9

Sandbox creation can now be refused when the parent cgroup is near its memory limit. Unit tests and an opt-in Kind scenario cover the change, but behavior under real host memory pressure has not been validated. Owners should confirm the admission behavior in a running cluster before relying on it.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 431a9

The change strengthens memory admission without an identified expansion of tenant privileges. The main residual risks are degraded admission when parent measurements fail and restoration of temporary limits during the opt-in local scenario. Incomplete dependency and deployment coverage limits confidence.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The production policy affects admission for sandboxes sharing a node's sandbox parent cgroup. The opt-in scenario has a broader local operational footprint: it temporarily changes limits and parent-stat visibility on every captured Ready sandbox worker in the selected Kind cluster.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Allocation continues to require an authorized node-admin or sandbox-manager peer and execution-fence checks. The new smoke assertion methods are called by an operator-selected Kind scenario; its public sandbox-create requests do not dispatch tenant input into privileged Python methods.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Failure containment distinguishes observation sources: an unreadable individual sandbox is charged its full reservation, whereas an unreadable parent disables only the additional parent check and logs a warning. The latter preserves the base's host-only admission behavior, not a guaranteed parent-capacity bound during measurement failure.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Require live mutation ownership and an active captured lifecycle before hiding parent memory.stat, aligning that operation with memory.max writes. This would prevent accidental post-restore calls from leaving the local node manager on host-only admission; it is defense against privileged helper misuse, not an identified tenant privilege escalation.

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Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The Validation section names memory_admission::tests::parent_cgroup_limit_refuses_while_host_reports_room and reports that it passes with the fix and fails when the parent check is disabled. The PR …
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff preserves the existing test assertions and uses the same 1024 MiB default. The new opt-in scenario explains why it is ignored. The new lint suppression includes a specific reason.
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Reviewed the top commit (dcac6ec). The code looks correct:

• The parent check reuses the same growth reserve, including leases committed after the observation.
• Using active_file + inactive_file rather than file correctly keeps shmem/memfd-backed guest memory counted as used.
• Both checks are monotone in demand, so #1625's binary search still holds.
• The commit_percent math is right at 0, 50 and 100.

Two comments: a silent-fallback observability gap (inline) and a description/rollout point that matters for the incident.

On the description's claim that the parent check stops admission "exactly when admitting another sandbox leads to parent-memcg OOM kills": that overstates what the default config does. With commit_percent = 0, each running 16 GiB VM is still charged only 1 GiB of growth. The parent OOMs in the load test came from admitted guests growing past that charge after admission. The parent check only refuses once used memory plus 1 GiB per VM already approaches memory.max, so a host can still be admitted well past what its VMs will grow into. On its own, the new default narrows the window but doesn't prevent that failure mode; only commit_percent > 0 does. Please say so in the description. Also, the rollout of a non-zero commit_percent for the metal pools needs an owner and a value, as an explicit capacity decision. Otherwise this PR reads as closing the OOM item when it doesn't.

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Re-reviewed at 0e380d9. The fallback is now explicit:

• A missing cgroup or memory.max=max returns Ok(None).
• Read and parse errors on memory.max, memory.current and memory.stat (including missing stat fields) warn and fall back to the host check, and the new test covers that path.

Failing open to the host check is a reasonable choice, and the description now says so.
"Not covered" and "Rollout" now state the post-admission growth gap and assign commit_percent to each pool owner. Clean.

Non-blocking: on a node where the read keeps failing, the warning repeats on every allocate plus node-ctl's 5s capacity poll. Consider rate-limiting it, or a counter/gauge for the fallback, so it shows up on a dashboard rather than only in logs.

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Major · Account for reclaimable cache in the growth charge. · memory_admission.rs:303-310

crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/memory_admission.rs:303-310
Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Account for reclaimable cache in the growth charge.

At commit_percent = 100, an 8 GiB sandbox using 4 GiB of anonymous memory and 4 GiB of file cache has zero growth charge. The parent check also excludes the 4 GiB of cache. It can therefore admit another 7 GiB sandbox under a 12 GiB parent limit, even with a 1 GiB reserve. The existing sandbox can then replace its cache with anonymous memory and exceed the parent limit.

Account for growth into cache that the parent treats as reclaimable, while preserving the configured growth policy and fallback behavior.

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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/memory_admission.rs around
lines 303 - 310:
Update the growth-charge calculation that produces growth_bytes to include
potential growth into cache that the parent check treats as reclaimable, so the
charge prevents admission beyond the parent limit when cache is replaced by
anonymous memory. Preserve the configured commit_percent policy and existing
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Addressed in fa2d0d7:

• CodeRabbit (growth charge vs reclaimable cache): agreed. Each running sandbox's growth is now charged from memory.current minus its own active_file + inactive_file. Cache that both checks count as free now counts toward that sandbox's growth charge, so it isn't treated as headroom twice. Test: running_sandbox_growth_includes_its_reclaimable_cache.
• Rate-limiting the parent-cgroup read warning (optional): leaving it as is. A parent cgroup that exists but can't be read means the node is misconfigured, and a repeated WARN is the signal we want. If it proves noisy, a metric can replace it later.

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Re-checked the fa2d0d7 delta.

Subtracting the sandbox's own active_file + inactive_file before computing its growth charge is the right counterpart to both checks treating that cache as free. Without it, cache the guest could still grow into was neither charged as used nor as growth. It also raises the cap under the default commit_percent=0 slightly, which is the conservative direction. A missing per-sandbox memory.stat falls back to 0, which keeps the old charge. The new test pins the arithmetic, and the shared reclaimable_file_bytes helper keeps the two reads consistent.

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crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/memory_admission/tests.rs: 1

333-347: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover nonzero inactive_file values.

The cache fixtures set inactive_file to zero, so they can miss a regression that stops subtracting it. Split the parent cache between both fields and require both contributions for admission.

Suggested fix

-            "anon 0\nfile {0}\nactive_file {0}\ninactive_file 0\nshmem 0\n",
-            file_cache_mib * BYTES_PER_MIB
+            "anon 0\nfile {0}\nactive_file {1}\ninactive_file {2}\nshmem 0\n",
+            file_cache_mib * BYTES_PER_MIB,
+            (file_cache_mib / 2) * BYTES_PER_MIB,
+            (file_cache_mib - file_cache_mib / 2) * BYTES_PER_MIB

-        20_000,
+        10_000,

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around lines 333 - 347:
Update the parent cgroup cache fixture used by
parent_cgroup_file_cache_counts_as_reclaimable to divide the file cache between
nonzero active_file and inactive_file values, and adjust the test’s parent cache
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/memory_admission.rs:
- Around line 304-318: Update the memory admission calculation around
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crates/l40_api/node/mgr/server/src/memory_admission/tests.rs: 1

383-404: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Cover fractional-MiB commit shares.

At 33%, truncating the 8320 MiB share before calculating growth would charge 2489 MiB instead of 2490 MiB. Add this case to the existing table.

Suggested test case

-    for (commit_percent, growth_mib) in [(0, 1024), (50, 4160 - 256), (100, 8320 - 256)] {
+    for (commit_percent, growth_mib) in [
+        (0, 1024),
+        (33, 2490),
+        (50, 4160 - 256),
+        (100, 8320 - 256),
+    ] {

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262-266: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert the cause of the refusal, not only that the create failed.

The refused-create check passes for any status other than 201 and 0. A 429 from a limiter or a 5xx from an unrelated failure also passes. The scenario states that a refusal below the sum proves the parent limit decided, but nothing checks that.

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• Assert the status the API returns for RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED.
• Assert that outcome.message identifies the capacity refusal.
• Poll node_manager_logs_since for the parent-capacity refusal line.

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Closing without merging: memory-admission bounding is a separate capacity/safety policy, not a fix for successful-create latency. Deferring this proposal while the create critical path is investigated; no deployment change is included.

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