I was thinking of the case where we have multiple reparented at the same
ancestor_lsn. But of course, that is not a problem if we compare the
reparented as a set...
## Problem
This test was destabilized by
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8431. The threshold is
arbitrary & failures are still quite close to it. At a high level the
test is asserting "eviction was approximately fair to these tenants",
which appears to still be the case when the abs diff between ratios is
slightly higher at ~0.6-0.7.
## Summary of changes
- Change threshold from 0.06 to 0.065. Based on the last ~10 failures
that should be sufficient.
## Problem
Currently, tests may have a scrub during teardown if they ask for it,
but most tests don't request it. To detect "unknown unknowns", let's run
it at the end of every test where possible. This is similar to asserting
that there are no errors in the log at the end of tests.
## Summary of changes
- Remove explicit `enable_scrub_on_exit`
- Always scrub if remote storage is an S3Storage.
## Problem
Re-attach blocks the pageserver http server from starting up. Hence, it
can't reply to heartbeats
until that's done. This makes the storage controller mark the node
off-line (not good). We worked
around this by setting the interval after which nodes are marked offline
to 5 minutes. This isn't a
long term solution.
## Summary of changes
* Introduce a new `NodeAvailability` state: `WarmingUp`. This state
models the following time interval:
* From receiving the re-attach request until the pageserver replies to
the first heartbeat post re-attach
* The heartbeat delta generator becomes aware of this state and uses a
separate longer interval
* Flag `max-warming-up-interval` now models the longer timeout and
`max-offline-interval` the shorter one to
match the names of the states
Closes https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/7552
## Problem
In `test_basebackup_with_high_slru_count`, the pageserver is sometimes
mysteriously hanging on startup, having been started+stopped earlier in
the test setup while populating template tenant data.
- #7586
We can't see why this is hanging in this particular test. The test does
some weird stuff though, like attaching a load of broken tenants and
then doing a SIGQUIT kill of a pageserver.
## Summary of changes
- Attach tenants normally instead of doing a failpoint dance to attach
them as broken
- Shut the pageserver down gracefully during init instead of using
immediate mode
- Remove the "sequential" variant of the unstable test, as this is going
away soon anyway
- Log before trying to acquire lock file, so that if it hangs we have a
clearer sense of if that's really where it's hanging. It seems like it
is, but that code does a non-blocking flock so it's surprising.
## Problem
LayerAccessStats contains a lot of detail that we don't use: short
histories of most recent accesses, specifics on what kind of task
accessed a layer, etc. This is all stored inside a Mutex, which is
locked every time something accesses a layer.
## Summary of changes
- Store timestamps at a very low resolution (to the nearest second),
sufficient for use on the timescales of eviction.
- Pack access time and last residence change time into a single u64
- Use the high bits of the u64 for other flags, including the new layer
visibility concept.
- Simplify the external-facing model for access stats to just include
what we now track.
Note that the `HistoryBufferWithDropCounter` is removed here because it
is no longer used. I do not dislike this type, we just happen not to use
it for anything else at present.
Co-authored-by: Christian Schwarz <christian@neon.tech>
## Problem
`test_change_pageserver` stops pageservers in a way that can overlap
with the controller's heartbeats: the controller can get a heartbeat
success and then immediately find the node unavailable. This particular
situation triggers a log that isn't in our current allow-list of
messages for nodes offline
Example:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8339/10048487700/index.html#testresult/19678f27810231df/retries
## Summary of changes
- Add the message to the allow list
## Problem
Postgres is using `access()` function in `GetNewRelFileNumber` to check
if assigned relfilenumber is not used for any other relation. This check
will not work in Neon, because we do not have all files in local
storage.
## Summary of changes
Use smgrexists() instead which will check at page server if such
relfilenode is used.
## Checklist before requesting a review
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- [ ] If it is a core feature, I have added thorough tests.
- [ ] Do we need to implement analytics? if so did you add the relevant
metrics to the dashboard?
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## Checklist before merging
- [ ] Do not forget to reformat commit message to not include the above
checklist
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Co-authored-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@neon.tech>
## Problem
This test sometimes found that ancestors were getting cleaned up before
it had done any compaction.
Compaction was happening implicitly via Workload.
Example:
https://neon-github-public-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/pr-8298/10032173390/index.html#testresult/fb04786402f80822/retries
## Summary of changes
- Set upload=False when writing data after shard split, to avoid doing a
checkpoint
- Add a checkpoint_period & explicit wait for uploads so that we ensure
data lands in S3 without doing a checkpoint
Part of #8128.
## Problem
Scrubber uses `scan_metadata` command to flag metadata inconsistencies.
To trust it at scale, we need to make sure the errors we emit is a
reflection of real scenario. One check performed in the scrubber is to
see whether layers listed in the latest `index_part.json` is present in
object listing. Currently, the scrubber does not robustly handle the
case where objects are uploaded/deleted during the scan.
## Summary of changes
**Condition for success:** An object in the index is (1) in the object
listing we acquire from S3 or (2) found in a HeadObject request (new
object).
- Add in the `HeadObject` requests for the layers missing from the
object listing.
- Keep the order of first getting the object listing and then
downloading the layers.
- Update check to only consider shards with highest shard count.
- Skip analyzing a timeline if `deleted_at` tombstone is marked in
`index_part.json`.
- Add new test to see if scrubber actually detect the metadata
inconsistency.
_Misc_
- A timeline with no ancestor should always have some layers.
- Removed experimental histograms
_Caveat_
- Ancestor layer is not cleaned until #8308 is implemented. If ancestor
layers reference non-existing layers in the index, the scrubber will
emit false positives.
Signed-off-by: Yuchen Liang <yuchen@neon.tech>
## Problem
This test predates the storage controller. It stops pageservers and
reconfigures computes, but that races with the storage controller's node
failure detection, which can result in restarting nodes not getting the
attachments they expect, and the test failing
## Summary of changes
- Configure the storage controller to use a compute notify hook that
does nothing, so that it cannot interfere with the test's configuration
of computes.
- Instead of using the attach hook, just notify the storage controller
that nodes are offline, and reconcile tenants so that they will
automatically be attached to the other node.
## Problem
Deployed pageserver configurations are all like this:
```
disk_usage_based_eviction:
max_usage_pct: 85
min_avail_bytes: 0
period: "10s"
eviction_order:
type: "RelativeAccessed"
args:
highest_layer_count_loses_first: true
```
But we're maintaining this optional absolute order eviction, with test
cases etc.
## Summary of changes
- Remove absolute order eviction. Make the default eviction policy the
same as how we really deploy pageservers.
## Problem
After a shard split, the pageserver leaves the ancestor shard's content
in place. It may be referenced by child shards, but eventually child
shards will de-reference most ancestor layers as they write their own
data and do GC. We would like to eventually clean up those ancestor
layers to reclaim space.
## Summary of changes
- Extend the physical GC command with `--mode=full`, which includes
cleaning up unreferenced ancestor shard layers
- Add test `test_scrubber_physical_gc_ancestors`
- Remove colored log output: in testing this is irritating ANSI code
spam in logs, and in interactive use doesn't add much.
- Refactor storage controller API client code out of storcon_client into
a `storage_controller/client` crate
- During physical GC of ancestors, call into the storage controller to
check that the latest shards seen in S3 reflect the latest state of the
tenant, and there is no shard split in progress.
We're removing the usage of this long-meaningless config field in
https://github.com/neondatabase/aws/pull/1599
Once that PR has been deployed to staging and prod, we can merge this
PR.
Successor of #8288 , just enable zstd in tests. Also adds a test that
creates easily compressable data.
Part of #5431
---------
Co-authored-by: John Spray <john@neon.tech>
Co-authored-by: Joonas Koivunen <joonas@neon.tech>
## Problem
Ahead of enabling eviction in the field, where it will become the
normal/default mode, let's enable it by default throughout our tests in
case any issues become visible there.
## Summary of changes
- Make default `extra_opts` for safekeepers enable offload & deletion
- Set low timeouts in `extra_opts` so that tests running for tens of
seconds have a chance to hit some of these background operations.
## Problem
These tests time out ~1 in 50 runs when in debug mode.
There is no indication of a real issue: they're just wrappers that have
large numbers of individual tests contained within on pytest case.
## Summary of changes
- Bump pg_regress timeout from 600 to 900s
- Bump test_isolation timeout from 300s (default) to 600s
In future it would be nice to break out these tests to run individual
cases (or batches thereof) as separate tests, rather than this monolith.
## Problem
This test would occasionally fail its metric check. This could happen in
the rare case that the nodes had all been restarted before their most
recent eviction.
The metric check was added in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8348
## Summary of changes
- Check metrics before each restart, accumulate into a bool that we
assert on at the end of the test
When `NeonEnv.from_repo_dir` was introduced, storage controller stored
its
state exclusively `attachments.json`.
Since then, it has moved to using Postgres, which stores its state in
`storage_controller_db`.
But `NeonEnv.from_repo_dir` wasn't adjusted to do this.
This PR rectifies the situation.
Context for this is failures in
`test_pageserver_characterize_throughput_with_n_tenants`
CF:
https://neondb.slack.com/archives/C033RQ5SPDH/p1721035799502239?thread_ts=1720901332.293769&cid=C033RQ5SPDH
Notably, `from_repo_dir` is also used by the backwards- and
forwards-compatibility.
Thus, the changes in this PR affect those tests as well.
However, it turns out that the compatibility snapshot already contains
the `storage_controller_db`.
Thus, it should just work and in fact we can remove hacks like
`fixup_storage_controller`.
Follow-ups created as part of this work:
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8399
* https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/8400
## Problem
We lack insight into:
- How much of a tenant's physical size is image vs. delta layers
- Average sizes of image vs. delta layers
- Total layer counts per timeline, indicating size of index_part object
As well as general observability love, this is motivated by
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6738, where we need to
define some sensible thresholds for storage amplification, and using
total physical size may not work well (if someone does a lot of DROPs
then it's legitimate for the physical-synthetic ratio to be huge), but
the ratio between image layer size and delta layer size may be a better
indicator of whether we're generating unreasonable quantities of image
layers.
## Summary of changes
- Add pageserver_layer_bytes and pageserver_layer_count metrics,
labelled by timeline and `kind` (delta or image)
- Add & subtract these with LayerInner's lifetime.
I'm intentionally avoiding using a generic metric RAII guard object, to
avoid bloating LayerInner: it already has all the information it needs
to update metric on new+drop.
This test reproduces the case of a writer creating a deep stack of L0
layers. It uses realistic layer sizes and writes several gigabytes of
data, therefore runs as a performance test although it is validating
memory footprint rather than performance per se.
It acts a regression test for two recent fixes:
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8401
- https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/8391
In future it will demonstrate the larger improvement of using a k-merge
iterator for L0 compaction (#8184)
This test can be extended to enforce limits on the memory consumption of
other housekeeping steps, by restarting the pageserver and then running
other things to do the same "how much did RSS increase" measurement.
## Problem
The `evictions_with_low_residence_duration` is used as an indicator of
cache thrashing. However, there are situations where it is quite
legitimate to only have a short residence during compaction, where a
delta is downloaded, used to generate an image layer, and then
discarded. This can lead to false positive alerts.
## Summary of changes
- Only track low residence duration for layers that have been accessed
at least once (compaction doesn't count as an access). This will give us
a metric that indicates thrashing on layers that the _user_ is using,
rather than those we're downloading for housekeeping purposes.
Once we add "layer visibility" as an explicit property of layers, this
can also be used as a cleaner condition (residence of non-visible layers
should never be alertable)
