Bound the client retry loops that storm the cmux API - #11774
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Three client loops retried failures at a fixed short interval with no backoff and no regard for the server's Retry-After. A handful of hosts stuck in any of them produced most of our own API traffic, and enough of it reached Stack Auth to exhaust the project-wide rate limit for every other client. - `IrxRelayCredentialPolicy.retryDelay` was called with `Date()` as the expiry whenever nothing was cached, which made the remaining validity zero and pinned every retry at one second. One device in that state minted relay credentials once a second indefinitely. The policy now takes an optional expiry: a live credential still races its deadline at half the remaining validity, and a cold failure backs off from 5s to 5 minutes. A server Retry-After is a floor in both regimes. - `MobileHostIrxRuntime` retried a failed activation every 5 seconds forever, and each attempt costs two challenge+register rounds plus a relay mint. It now backs off from 5s to 10 minutes, honors Retry-After, and iterates instead of recursing so a long outage cannot grow the async frame chain. - `DeviceRegistryClient` only recorded its registration scope on success, so any failure re-POSTed on the next status tick, and status ticks arrive on every connection and pairing transition. A failed registration now holds off from 5s to 10 minutes, honoring Retry-After. The relay policy's signature changed, so the existing test that asserted the one-second floor could not stay compiling against the old code. These land as one commit rather than a red/green pair for that reason.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces fixed retry delays with bounded exponential backoff, jitter, and server-provided ChangesRetry backoff and throttling
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A failed registration for one team can delay publishing routes for a newly selected team for up to the retry window, leaving cloud registration stale. Reset or scope retry state when the registration identity changes before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StatusUpdateCaller
participant DeviceRegistryClient
participant DeviceRegistryServer
StatusUpdateCaller->>DeviceRegistryClient: request registration
DeviceRegistryClient->>DeviceRegistryServer: send registration request
DeviceRegistryServer-->>DeviceRegistryClient: failure with Retry-After
DeviceRegistryClient->>DeviceRegistryClient: schedule bounded retry window
StatusUpdateCaller->>DeviceRegistryClient: issue later registration request
DeviceRegistryClient-->>StatusUpdateCaller: skip request while retry window is active
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`@Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxRelayCredentialAutopilot.swift`:
- Around line 95-100: Replace timer-based retry coordination with a
lifecycle-owned recovery signal or state machine. In
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxRelayCredentialAutopilot.swift:95-100,
keep IrxRelayCredentialPolicy retry calculations but prevent the mint-failure
path from waiting via Task.sleep; in
Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift:171-178, likewise remove any
Task.sleep-based activation retry. Preserve recovery behavior without
introducing or expanding timer-based backoff.
In `@Sources/Cloud/DeviceRegistryClient.swift`:
- Line 200: Replace the added NSLog calls in the device registration failure
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| let delay = IrxRelayCredentialPolicy.retryDelay( | ||
| expiresAt: expiry, | ||
| now: Date(), | ||
| consecutiveFailures: consecutiveFailures, | ||
| retryAfterSeconds: retryAfter | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Replace timer-based retry coordination.
The changed retry paths depend on Task.sleep to schedule recovery. The Swift rules prohibit introducing or materially expanding Task.sleep for retry backoff. Use one lifecycle-owned recovery signal or state machine instead.
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxRelayCredentialAutopilot.swift#L95-L100: Do not extend the mint-failure path through the timer-based retry wait.Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift#L171-L178: Do not add activation retries throughTask.sleep.
As per coding guidelines, “Do not introduce or materially expand timing or blocking repair paths such as ... Task.sleep ... used for ... retry backoff.”
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around lines 95 - 100, Replace timer-based retry coordination with a
lifecycle-owned recovery signal or state machine. In
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport/Sources/CmuxIrxTransport/IrxRelayCredentialAutopilot.swift:95-100,
keep IrxRelayCredentialPolicy retry calculations but prevent the mint-failure
path from waiting via Task.sleep; in
Sources/Mobile/MobileHostIrxRuntime.swift:171-178, likewise remove any
Task.sleep-based activation retry. Preserve recovery behavior without
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- `IrxRelayCredentialAutopilot` takes its wait as an injected closure (defaulting to `Task.sleep`), so the retry ladder is drivable from tests without wall-clock time. Cancellation still propagates: every wait is bounded by the loop's own `Task.isCancelled` checks. - `DeviceRegistryClient` logs through `Logger` instead of `NSLog`, and logs the error's type rather than its description, which for a URL error can carry the failing URL and the request headers.
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44-44: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winScope retry state by
Registrationidentity.
registerIfRoutesChanged(routes:)detects a changed team, but the sharedretryNotBeforestill blocks the changed registration. A failed request for team A can therefore delay registration for team B until the backoff expires. Partition or reset retry state whenRegistrationchanges, or add a test that defines this delay as intentional.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 15: Remove the public Sleeper typealias and initializer injection hook
from the production IrxRelayCredentialAutopilot API, keeping retry waiting
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- Line 44: Scope retryNotBefore to the current Registration identity so backoff
from a failed team A request cannot block registration for team B. Update
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| /// Waits out a computed delay. Injected so the retry ladder is testable | ||
| /// without wall-clock time; cancellation propagates through it, and the | ||
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Keep the test-only sleeper seam out of production Sources.
Because this hook exists to make retry waits injectable in tests, keep Sleeper and the initializer hook internal to the module or move them to test support. Do not add them to the public production API.
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Our own clients generate about 280 requests per second against cmux.com. Production data from the
iroh_registration_challengestable shows how: about 4,000 signed-in Macs are active in any hour, and the median Mac issues 44 registration challenges per hour, one every 80 seconds, against an intended cadence of one round per 45 minutes. Only 5% of Macs sit at the expected rate. That fleet-wide behavior is the v0.64.22 legacy runtime re-registering on every network event, fixed on main by #9350 and not yet in a stable release. Shipping one is the largest lever and is outside this PR.This PR fixes the second-order loops that remain on main. A further 36 Macs (1%) are genuinely stuck above 60 challenges per hour, up to 241, and these are the mechanisms that produce that.
IrxRelayCredentialPolicy.retryDelayintentionally accelerates as a credential nears expiry. The autopilot passedcredentials.map(\.expiresAt).max() ?? Date(), so with nothing cached the expiry was the current time, the remaining validity was zero, and the delay fell to its one-second floor and stayed there. The expiry is now optional: a live credential still halves its remaining validity, and a cold failure backs off from 5s to 5 minutes with jitter. A serverRetry-Afteris a floor in both regimes.MobileHostIrxRuntime.activateslept a flat 5 seconds and recursed. Each failed activation costs two challenge+register rounds and a relay mint. It now backs off from 5s to 10 minutes, honorsRetry-After, and iterates instead of recursing.DeviceRegistryClientrecorded its registration scope only on a 2xx, so any failure re-POSTed on the nextstatusUpdates()tick, and those arrive on every connection and pairing transition. Failures now hold off from 5s to 10 minutes, honoringRetry-After.Related: #11769 removes the Stack Auth call these requests were each paying for, and makes redundant registrations free on the server, which is what protects us from clients that never update.
Not in scope
CloudMachineLinkManagerpolls/api/vm/{id}/cmux-remote/approveevery 2 seconds for up to 5 minutes per attach and capsRetry-Afterat 10 seconds. It is a fixed-length poll rather than an unbounded loop and runs at about 1 request/sec fleet-wide.Tests
swift test --package-path Packages/Shared/CmuxIrxTransport --filter IrxRelayCredentialPolicyTestscovers both regimes, the jitter direction, saturation, and theRetry-Afterfloor.cmuxTests/DeviceRegistryClientTestscoversRetry-Afterparsing (including HTTP-date, zero, negative and out-of-range refusals) and the backoff schedule. Preflight on the tagged build: production returned a 429 to the registry client, which logged it through the new path twice in five minutes instead of once per connection event.The relay policy's signature changed, so the existing test asserting the one-second floor could not stay compiling against the old code. This lands as one commit rather than a red/green pair for that reason.
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