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fix(observability): drain every AppendWorker on one shared thread - #591
AppendWorker::spawn (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs:156-159) starts an OS thread and builds a new_current_thread tokio runtime for every worker, and Drop joins that thread. A host that builds a JournalSink per run pays for both on every run. OpenHuman does this on every agent turn: agent/tinyagents/turn_exec/drive.rs:223 calls journal.rs:252, which calls JournalSink::new. The join then blocks whichever tokio worker drops the sink.
Measured in a host, chottu-core#563 (Linux, glibc 2.39, 300 turns, strace -f -e clone3 plus eprintln instrumentation of this worker):
one drain-thread spawn per turn: 300 in 300 turns;
runtime build: p50 76 µs, p95 103 µs;
Drop (flush + join) ran on a tokio worker on 300 of 300 turns:
total: p50 150–170 µs, p95 285–407 µs, max 543 µs;
flush alone: about 16 µs, so the join is most of it.
Every worker now runs as a task on one process-wide drain thread, tinyagents-drain. That thread runs a current-thread runtime with a LocalSet and starts on first use.
Each worker keeps its own queue, so per-sink submit order is kept.
The queue bound is counted, so drop-and-count when full is kept.
flush is still a blocking barrier, and it is never dropped.
Failure counting and the rate-limited reporting are unchanged.
Drop flushes and closes the queue. There is no thread to join.
API Or Behavior Changes
The append future gets a 'static bound, which spawn_local needs. It still doesn't need to be Send: the drain future is built on the drain thread, and only append, the queue's receiver and the counters cross over to it.
Behavior: appends from different workers now interleave on one thread at their .awaits. An append that blocks its thread without awaiting holds up every worker's drain while it runs (marked with a ponytail: comment). The journal stores in use are async.
If the drain thread can't start, submissions are dropped and counted. Before, a worker whose runtime failed to build drained and dropped without counting.
Tests
New test: append_workers_share_one_drain_thread. Fifty workers each append once, and every append runs on the same thread, named tinyagents-drain. The existing append_worker_* tests cover order, flush, drop-when-full, failure counting and recovery.
GitHub CI on 0592b20 passes: Lint, Coverage, all six Test matrices (default, all-features, sqlite, tools, multimodal, png-optimize) and the Windows check.
Documentation
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/README.md ("Persistence bridge") and the module docs in worker.rs.
Release
This PR, then a tinyagents release, then an OpenHuman PR moving vendor/tinyagents, then chottu-core moving vendor/openhuman. The chottu-side half of #563 (its agent-store bridge, about 8 threads per turn) is a separate PR in chottu-core.
Refs tinyhumansai/chottu-core#563
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Observability
Append processing now runs on a shared background thread across sinks. Appends may interleave while awaiting completion, and a blocking append can delay processing for other sinks.
Submissions are dropped and counted when the queue limit is reached, the shared processor is unavailable, or delivery fails. Flush waits for earlier submissions to complete, and shutdown flushes and closes the queue.
AppendWorker::spawn started an OS thread and built a current-thread tokio
runtime for every worker, and Drop joined that thread. A host that builds a
JournalSink per run paid both on every run, and the join blocked whichever
tokio worker dropped the sink.
Every worker is now a task on one process-wide drain thread (a current-thread
runtime with a LocalSet, started on first use). Each worker keeps its own
queue, so per-sink order, drop-and-count when full, the flush barrier and the
failure reporting are unchanged; Drop flushes and closes the queue with no
thread to join. The drain future is built on the drain thread, so append
futures still need not be Send; they now need 'static.
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Review comments at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs:
- Around line 120-126: Update drain_thread() so a failed runtime build or thread
spawn is not permanently cached as None; retry startup on later calls until the
drain thread starts successfully, while preserving the existing successful-start
reuse behavior.
- Around line 132-136: Update AppendWorker::flush to prevent calls from a
drain-thread append from blocking the shared drain thread: establish a reliable
way to identify drain-thread execution and reject such flush calls, or otherwise
ensure they cannot wait on another worker’s drain task. Preserve normal flush
behavior for callers outside that context.
- Around line 346-349: Update `Drop` so it waits for the drain task to finish
after closing the queue, not merely for `self.flush()` to acknowledge
persistence. Add a close acknowledgement to the existing drain-task protocol,
send it only after the task emits the final `lost` warning, and have `Drop` wait
for that acknowledgement before returning.
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AppendWorker now schedules drain tasks on one process-wide thread and runtime. Each worker tracks queued payloads against its capacity, and flush retains its FIFO acknowledgement barrier. A test checks that 50 workers append on the same named thread; the observability documentation describes the shared drain behavior.
Changes: Append worker drain
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Shared drain runtime and worker startup crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs
AppendWorker now schedules its drain task on a shared current-thread runtime and LocalSet. Append futures must be 'static, but no longer need to be Send.
Queue limits, flush, and worker lifecycle crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/mod_tests.rs, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/README.md
Each worker tracks queued payloads against its capacity and drops submissions when the limit is reached or its sender is unavailable. Flush retains its acknowledgement barrier, and dropping a worker no longer joins a thread. The test checks that 50 workers append on tinyagents-drain; the documentation describes shared drain behavior.
Resolve startup retry and cross-sink flush handling before merging: a transient startup failure can disable later persistence, and an append that flushes another sink can stall all drains. Shutdown can also lose the final failure warning.
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A rabbit watched the workers queue, One drain thread carried each task through. Fifty workers shared the name, Flush barriers marked the frame. At awaits, their paths could weave, Then the rabbit hopped to leave.
high · late: Wait for the drain task to finish before dropping the worker (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs:348) Problem: `flush()` only guarantees that everything submitted *before* the flush marker was persisted. After it returns, `drop(self.tx.take())` closes the channel and the drain task exits — Suggested fix:
No concrete fix was supplied.
medium: Compare the pre-increment queue depth against capacity (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs:291) Problem: `fetch_add` returns the value *before* the increment, so the first submission sees `0`, the second `1`, and so on. With `capacity = 1` (the `append_worker_drops_and_counts_when_que Suggested fix:
if self.queued.fetch_add(1, Ordering::Relaxed) + 1 > self.capacity
Verdict: Ready for maintainer review · Priority: medium Coverage: Reviewed 3 of 3 files.
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Completeness: Complete Test assessment: No supported feature-to-test mapping was available; this does not mean tests are absent or passed.
Features
Added — Process-wide shared drain thread: All AppendWorkers now drain as tasks on one lazily started `tinyagents-drain` thread with a `LocalSet`, so a new sink costs a task rather than an OS thread and runtime. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsimpl<T: Send + 'static> AppendWorker<T> {, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/README.mdsurface and operational constraints., crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsenum Msg<T> {)
Modified — Counted bound on an unbounded channel: The bounded std channel is replaced by an unbounded tokio channel with an explicit `queued` atomic checked against `capacity`; full-queue submissions are still dropped and counted, and the count is decremented as the drain task takes items. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsimpl<T: Send + 'static> AppendWorker<T> {)
Modified — Drop no longer joins a thread: Worker teardown flushes and closes the queue only, removing the join that previously blocked whichever tokio worker dropped the sink. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsimpl<T: Send + 'static> fmt::Debug for AppendWorker<T> {, crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsimpl<T: Send + 'static> AppendWorker<T> {)
Modified — `'static` append-future bound and failed-start accounting: `spawn`/`spawn_with_cooldown` now require a `'static` (but not `Send`) append future so it can be `spawn_local`ed; if the shared drain thread cannot start, submissions are dropped and counted instead of drained uncounted. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsimpl<T: Send + 'static> AppendWorker<T> {)
Modified — Documentation of the new drain model and its interleaving caveat: The README and module docs describe shared-thread draining, per-sink ordering, and the caveat that an append blocking its thread without awaiting stalls every sink's drain. (crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/README.mdsurface and operational constraints., crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rsenum Msg<T> {)
Tests
No supported feature-to-test mapping was produced. Test execution is not inferred.
Before merge
None.
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Conclusion: Success
Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
Lane summary: Reviewed 3 files; 3 findings. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `9a5632b8d4f7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
security
Conclusion: Success
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Positive: The security lane found no security-relevant defect: no untrusted input reaches a new sink, and there is no auth, permission, network, or subprocess change.
Lane summary: The change replaces per-worker OS threads and runtimes with a single process-wide `tinyagents-drain` thread and a `LocalSet`, keeping the bounded-queue drop policy via an atomic counter. The new test exercises the shared-thread behaviour. I found no security-relevant defect: no untrusted input reaches a new sink, no auth or permission change, and no new network or subprocess call. 1 file was not security-reviewed: crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/README.md (prose or tabular data). _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `9a5632b8d4f7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
tests
Conclusion: Success
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Positive: The tests lane reports the new shared-thread test pins the central claim and can fail, with existing tests covering queue-drop and flush ordering.
Lane summary: The new test `append_workers_share_one_drain_thread` pins the central claim of this change — that every worker drains on the one process-wide `tinyagents-drain` thread — and it can fail (it asserts 50 appends landed, all on one thread id, named `tinyagents-drain`). The reworked bounded-queue accounting in `submit` is still covered by the existing drop test, and the flush barrier by the existing ordering test. One gap: the new `tx: None` path (drain thread could not start) now increments `dropped` on every submit, and no test exercises it, but that path is not reachable in a test without failing thread spawn, so I am not raising it. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `9a5632b8d4f7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
commits
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Lane summary: No sensitive content in committed files. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `9a5632b8d4f7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
description
Conclusion: Success
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Positive: The description lane found the description matches the diff, including the `'static` bound, the drop-and-count fallback, and the added test.
Lane summary: The change moves every AppendWorker's drain onto one process-wide `tinyagents-drain` thread and replaces the bounded std channel with an unbounded tokio channel plus a counted bound; the description matches the diff, including the new `'static` bound, the drop-and-count fallback when the drain thread cannot start, and the added test. I found no description defect. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `9a5632b8d4f7`), so retrieved context may be out of date._
The worker accepts append futures that are not Send, but no test in the repository appends one. A future that holds an Rc across an await is !Send. Re-adding a Send bound on Fut would still compile and pass every current test. The suggested test catches that regression at compile time, because the Rc makes the future fail the Send bound. The suggested test also needs use std::sync::Mutex;, which the sibling tests import locally.
Suggested test
assert_eq!(*seen.lock().unwrap(), (0..8).collect::<Vec<_>>());
}
+#[tokio::test]+async fn append_worker_accepts_non_send_append_futures() {+ use std::sync::Mutex;++ let seen: Arc<Mutex<Vec<u64>>> = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new()));+ let sink = Arc::clone(&seen);+ let worker = AppendWorker::spawn("test-non-send", 8, move |n: u64| {+ let sink = Arc::clone(&sink);+ async move {+ // Holding an `Rc` across an await makes this future `!Send`.+ let held = std::rc::Rc::new(n);+ std::future::ready(()).await;+ sink.lock().unwrap().push(*held);+ Ok(())+ }+ });+ worker.submit(7);+ worker.flush();+ assert_eq!(*seen.lock().unwrap(), vec![7]);+}+
#[tokio::test]
async fn append_worker_drops_and_counts_when_queue_is_full() {
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Review comment at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/mod_tests.rs
around lines 434 - 439:
Add a Tokio test alongside the existing AppendWorker tests that verifies
AppendWorker::spawn accepts a future holding an Rc across an await, making it
!Send. Submit a value, flush the worker, and assert the value was appended;
import Mutex locally as needed, matching the sibling tests.
Add a test for cross-worker progress on the shared drain.
Add a test for cross-worker progress on the shared drain.
The append_workers_share_one_drain_thread test (mod_tests.rs:425-451) submits to and flushes each worker before it submits to the next. At most one append is pending at a time. The test asserts only thread identity and thread name. A change that runs one worker's append to completion before it polls another worker would still pass.
The module docs state that appends from different workers interleave at .await points (worker.rs:14-16). No test checks that property. Add a test that holds one worker's append pending while a second worker's append must finish:
Give the first worker an append that awaits an async gate, such as a oneshot channel. The gate must use .await, not a blocking wait. A blocking append holds up every worker by design.
Submit one item to the gated worker. Then submit one item to a second worker.
Wait for the second worker's append to finish, with a bounded timeout. A serializing drain then fails the test instead of hanging it.
Release the gate. Flush the first worker and assert that both appends ran.
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Review comment at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/mod_tests.rs
around lines 443 - 450:
Add a cross-worker progress test alongside
`append_workers_share_one_drain_thread`: hold the first worker’s append at an
async gate using `.await`, submit an append to a second worker, and assert the
second append completes within a bounded timeout before releasing the gate. Then
release the gate, flush the first worker, and verify both appends ran; avoid a
blocking wait so the test checks interleaving without blocking the shared drain.
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Retry drain thread startup instead of caching a failed start.
A failed runtime build or thread spawn is stored as None for the process lifetime. Every later AppendWorker then drops all of its observations. The base code retried per worker. Retry startup when no drain thread exists, rather than caching None.
Context for the fix
The cache lives in drain_thread(). A later call to get_or_init returns the stored None without retrying. The fix should cache only a successful start, or retry the start while the cached value is None. The per-worker code path is unchanged, so this change touches only drain_thread().
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Review comment at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs around
lines 120 - 126:
Update drain_thread() so a failed runtime build or thread spawn is not
permanently cached as None; retry startup on later calls until the drain thread
starts successfully, while preserving the existing successful-start reuse
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Stop cross-worker flush calls from blocking the shared drain thread.
An append that runs on tinyagents-drain and calls flush on another AppendWorker blocks the only thread that can run that worker's drain task. The flush never returns, and every sink on the thread stops persisting. Detect the drain thread in flush, or reject calls from appends.
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Review comment at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs around
lines 132 - 136:
Update AppendWorker::flush to prevent calls from a drain-thread append from
blocking the shared drain thread: establish a reliable way to identify
drain-thread execution and reject such flush calls, or otherwise ensure they
cannot wait on another worker’s drain task. Preserve normal flush behavior for
callers outside that context.
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Wait for the drain task to finish before Drop returns.
Drop now returns after the flush ack, but before the drain task handles channel closure. The final lost warning then runs later on the detached tinyagents-drain thread. A process that exits right after its last sink drops can lose that warning. The removed join() prevented this. Add a close acknowledgement that the drain task sends after it emits the warning, and wait for it in Drop.
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Review comment at @crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs around
lines 346 - 349:
Update `Drop` so it waits for the drain task to finish after closing the queue,
not merely for `self.flush()` to acknowledge persistence. Add a close
acknowledgement to the existing drain-task protocol, send it only after the task
emits the final `lost` warning, and have `Drop` wait for that acknowledgement
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Summary
AppendWorker::spawn(crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/worker.rs:156-159) starts an OS thread and builds anew_current_threadtokio runtime for every worker, andDropjoins that thread. A host that builds aJournalSinkper run pays for both on every run. OpenHuman does this on every agent turn:agent/tinyagents/turn_exec/drive.rs:223callsjournal.rs:252, which callsJournalSink::new. The join then blocks whichever tokio worker drops the sink.Measured in a host, chottu-core#563 (Linux, glibc 2.39, 300 turns,
strace -f -e clone3plus eprintln instrumentation of this worker):Drop(flush + join) ran on a tokio worker on 300 of 300 turns:Every worker now runs as a task on one process-wide drain thread,
tinyagents-drain. That thread runs a current-thread runtime with aLocalSetand starts on first use.flushis still a blocking barrier, and it is never dropped.Dropflushes and closes the queue. There is no thread to join.API Or Behavior Changes
'staticbound, whichspawn_localneeds. It still doesn't need to beSend: the drain future is built on the drain thread, and onlyappend, the queue's receiver and the counters cross over to it..awaits. An append that blocks its thread without awaiting holds up every worker's drain while it runs (marked with aponytail:comment). The journal stores in use are async.Tests
New test:
append_workers_share_one_drain_thread. Fifty workers each append once, and every append runs on the same thread, namedtinyagents-drain. The existingappend_worker_*tests cover order, flush, drop-when-full, failure counting and recovery.GitHub CI on 0592b20 passes: Lint, Coverage, all six Test matrices (default, all-features, sqlite, tools, multimodal, png-optimize) and the Windows check.
Documentation
crates/tinyagents-harness/src/observability/README.md("Persistence bridge") and the module docs inworker.rs.Release
This PR, then a tinyagents release, then an OpenHuman PR moving
vendor/tinyagents, then chottu-core movingvendor/openhuman. The chottu-side half of #563 (its agent-store bridge, about 8 threads per turn) is a separate PR in chottu-core.Refs tinyhumansai/chottu-core#563
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