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feat(distributed): make MCP execution and discovery a selection
mcp.tools.execute and mcp.discovery were the only NATS subjects that combined a queue group with a reply, and no carrier in this design provides both. They never needed one: a queue group is a way of choosing a subscriber, and choosing is a query. The frontend now lists the approved, non-draining agent nodes, asks the node_connections table in one joined statement which of those tunnels a live replica holds, prefers one this replica holds so the call skips the relay hop, and issues an ordinary control RPC on the path task 4 already mounted. A peer-held tunnel is reached through the relay. That is a choice a broker's hidden balancing could not make. The selection reads presence and nothing else. It is filtered only on node type and on the two statuses an operator controls, never on a health verdict written on another clock, because refusing a worker that is connected and answering is the same defect as picking one that is gone. An empty fleet answers ErrNoAgentWorker, which is deliberately neither ErrWorkerUnroutable nor anything cluster.IsWorkerAnswer accepts: nothing was asked of any worker, so no reap guard may act on it. A reply carrying an Error is the worker's own answer and is returned unchanged; it is never offered to a second worker, which would turn "this MCP server rejected your arguments" into "the fleet is broken" and could run a tool twice. A call that never reached a worker is retried against a different pick, at most three times, and whatever error is finally returned is returned unwrapped so its identity survives the loop. MCP prompts and resources now answer 501 in distributed mode instead of an empty 200. They are served only from sessions the frontend holds, and in distributed mode it holds none. That gap predates the removal of the bus and is not closed by it; this only stops it being silent. Agent workers keep every other subject, including nodes.<id>.backend.stop. Their minted JWT loses the two MCP subjects and keeps a non-empty allow list, because NATS reads an empty one as no restriction at all. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): give agent workers a tunnel of their own
Phase 2 gated agent nodes out of tunnel credentials at the mint site. That was right while nothing dialled into an agent worker: a credential would have replaced nothing, and the gate was structural rather than a second check that could drift. It is wrong now that the frontend needs to reach an agent worker by RPC. attachTunnelToken mints for backend and agent nodes and CLEARS for anything else, through one tunnelEligible predicate rather than two conditions that can be widened separately. ConnectHandler still never reads NodeType, so an empty hash is still what refuses an ineligible node. An agent worker now starts a loopback control server behind the same bearer check a backend worker uses, and holds one tunnel whose only stream tag is http: it runs no backend processes, so the grpc tag has nothing to route to and is not offered. Its MCP tool, MCP discovery and backend.stop verbs are served from ONE implementation reached by both the bus and the tunnel, so a frontend cannot get different bytes depending on which carrier delivered. The tunnel is an ADDITION. --nats-url is still required, and agent jobs, MCP execution, MCP CI jobs and nodes.<id>.backend.stop all still travel on the bus. Absence semantics are unchanged. An agent node now has a real node_connections row whose departure ages past the grace, so the node type check in HealthMonitor.tunnelDeparted stopped being an optimisation and became the rule; its comment says so, and the spec that pins it is shown red under a mutation that deletes the check. The scheduler needed no change: every placement query already filters node_type = backend, so an agent node never reaches nodeMayTakeWork. Shared rules moved to one site each. The request bounds, the POST-only check and the unknown-path 404 live in workerctl and are called by both worker packages; the bearer check that guards every extra route is one function in core/services/nodes used by both server constructors. workerctl.AllPaths splits into BackendPaths and AgentPaths, with AllPaths as their deduped union, because a backend worker does not mount the agent verbs and asserting otherwise would fail a correct worker. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): keep the listener draining and let it come back
PostgreSQL holds undelivered notifications in a queue it shares with every session on the server, and it kills a listener that stops draining. Two failure modes follow, and both are silent: a carrier that blocked on a slow resolver would lose its connection and with it every later broadcast, and a carrier that reconnected without re-registering would be connected and deaf. The receive and dispatch halves were already separate. What was missing is everything around them. The listener path moves into listener.go and gains a carrier-level Dropped() so a replica that is behind can be seen; the queue depth and the spill retention become Config fields with exported defaults; the LISTEN session gets an application_name so an operator can count listeners in pg_stat_activity and a spec can drop exactly one of them; and OnReconnect fires after the re-LISTEN, on a goroutine of its own, because a callback re-hydrates from a database and must never run on the path whose only job is to drain. That callback is reached through an optional interface assertion, so deleting its invocation compiles and every adopter silently stops converging. The spec is the only guard, and it is named in a comment at the site. The slow consumer is proved through the transport rather than a seam: an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock on bus_messages stalls the resolver's spill SELECT for exactly as long as the spec holds it, and the listener is shown still draining and dropping while it does. The dropped connection is a pg_terminate_backend matched on the carrier's own application name. Neither Dropped nor IsConnected is on messaging.Broadcaster, and a spec asserts that over the interface type. Both are facts about a frontend; the conditions a scheduler acts on are facts about a worker, and no consumer holding the interface can read one as the other. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): carry fan-out on PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY
Distributed mode needs an operator to run a NATS cluster. This adds the carrier that replaces its fan-out half, so a deployment eventually needs PostgreSQL and its own HTTP listener and nothing else. pgbus holds one PostgreSQL session per replica, pinned for the life of the process because LISTEN registrations belong to one backend session and a pooled handle would lose them on the next checkout. Publishes go out on the pool with pg_notify. Subjects map onto a channel by their first token, from a closed set of roots. A subject outside the set is refused at publish AND at subscribe rather than mapped to a channel of its own: a channel name is capped at 63 bytes, and one LISTEN per job id would be unbounded. Refused rather than dropped, because a subject that goes nowhere and reports nothing is the class of defect this work exists to remove. PostgreSQL refuses a notify payload of 8000 bytes or more, and several subjects on this bus exceed that in normal operation: a job result carries a whole LLM output, a gallery progress event carries one entry per node. Those are written to a row and the notification carries the id. What is measured against the cap is the ENCODED notification, not the caller's payload, because the subject and the envelope travel too. The filter grammar is not respelled here. Subscribe asks messaging.ValidFilter and delivery asks messaging.SubjectMatches, which makes this the first production caller of a matcher that had only test doubles. New refuses a DSN that names a different database from the pool: that pairing publishes successfully, delivers nothing, on every replica, and reports no error anywhere. Nothing publishes on it and nothing subscribes yet. The construction is wired anyway, because the DSN has exactly one legitimate source and a setting that decides whether any broadcast is delivered should not be invented by whichever call site is migrated first. Delivery is at-most-once, like NATS core. Nothing downstream may read a message it did not receive as evidence about a node: a carrier that cannot deliver is not a worker that is gone. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): take the backend worker off NATS entirely
A local-ai worker no longer opens a bus connection. connectNATS and its
spec are gone; Run registers once, starts its tunnel, arms /readyz on that
tunnel, and heartbeats. The worker's bus credential flags (--nats-jwt,
--nats-user-seed, --nats-require-auth, the three TLS flags) and
Config.NatsAuthRequired go with it. --nats-url stays, accepted and
ignored, so an existing worker command line still parses.
/readyz was the thing most likely to wedge a tunnel-only worker: it
required a live NATS link, so a worker with no bus would have reported
itself unready forever. nodes.NATSReadiness becomes nodes.TunnelReadiness
over a local interface{ Connected() bool }, and worker.Tunnel gains
Connected(), backed by a mutex-guarded session field the loop publishes
and clears. A closed-but-not-yet-cleared session reads as disconnected:
the loop waits for every in-flight stream before it clears the field, and
the probe must answer not-ready through that wait.
The heartbeat gate is DELETED rather than re-pointed at the tunnel. The
heartbeat is the worker's own answer that its process is alive; whether
the frontend can reach it is a separate fact the frontend already holds
and ages against LOCALAI_WORKER_RECONNECT_GRACE. Withholding the
heartbeat would report an unreachable worker as an absent one on the one
path with no grace, where the health monitor marks it offline and its
pending backend ops are deleted behind it. heartbeatLoop is given no view
of the tunnel, so a gate cannot be added back without changing its
signature.
Removing the NATS credential manager from this path also removes a defect
it carried: its refresh loop re-registered on a timer to renew a JWT, and
Register CLEARS a node's NodeModel rows. Any backend worker running on
frontend-minted credentials had its replica rows deleted roughly every
18 hours.
Of core/cli/workerregistry, everything survives. The manager is still
used in full by core/cli/agent_worker.go, which still needs NATS: Acquire,
Provider, RefreshLoop, HasCredentials and TunnelToken are all untouched.
The backend worker simply calls RegisterFullWithRetry directly now.
WorkerPermissions is documented as serving agent nodes, and its non-agent
branch narrowed to _INBOX.> on both sides. It is NOT deleted: NATS reads
an empty allow list as no restriction, so returning nil would upgrade
every JWT the frontend still mints for a backend node from its own inbox
to the whole account.
Agent workers keep the bus everywhere: their CLI flags, their
subscriptions, the agent branch of WorkerPermissions, and the compose
service with its LOCALAI_NATS_URL and depends_on: nats.
Also corrected two flags the Nodes page advertised that do not exist
(--distributed-nats, --distributed-db), and a log line plus several
comments that still named a bus the code no longer touches.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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fix(distributed): let absence be decided by something, at all three call sites
Removing "Presence: clusterRegistry" from the options literal in initDistributed left all seven suites and tests/e2e/distributed green. The predicate was right and its input was silently nil, which returns the deployment to absence being decided by nothing, with no log line and no failing request. That is the fourth finding of this exact shape in this phase. The two assignments move out of a twenty-field literal into distributedSchedulerOptions, a named function a unit spec can reach. Deleting either is now red. The health monitor takes its presence reader and grace as a required positional pair instead, so deleting those does not compile at all. requireAbsenceWiring then refuses to start a distributed frontend whose scheduler or health monitor has no source of absence, because refusing to boot is the only symptom either failure has. With a fresh heartbeat and a permanently gone tunnel there was no reaper at all. A heartbeat says the worker's supervisor is alive; it says nothing about whether anything here can reach that worker's backends, because those are reached over the tunnel. A proxy that stops upgrading WebSockets, a rotated registration credential or a reconnect loop longer than the grace left a node listed healthy forever while every request for a model already loaded on it failed "no route to that worker", and every reaper keyed on the heartbeat. The health monitor now reads presence from the same place and against the same window as the scheduler and demotes such a node. That also ends the 15s re-promotion: the demotion arm returns before the recovery arm, so the scheduler's demotion is no longer undone on the next tick, and recovery needs the tunnel back rather than just the heartbeat. The demotion is status-only. MarkOffline would DELETE the node's rows, and deleting rows on a presence read would give any future defect in that read the widest blast radius in the system for nothing the demotion does not already deliver. LRU eviction is the third path that commits work to a node, and it read only the stored status. A node full enough to be an eviction target is exactly the node the VRAM and idle selectors never offer, so pickReachableNode structurally cannot cover it. It now runs its chosen node through the same nodeMayTakeWork predicate, demotes it and evicts again rather than handing back an install that cannot land. Presence is read after the transaction and not inside it: reading it inside would hold a FOR UPDATE lock across a query needing a second pooled connection, which is how concurrent evictions deadlock a pool. Also: a router built with a presence reader and no grace now has its documented default pinned by a spec rather than only claimed by a comment; ageDeparture asserts RowsAffected, since an UPDATE matching nothing succeeds and the inside-the-grace spec returned the same verdict either way; the scheduler comment that still described the bus is corrected; the docs stop conflating heartbeat recovery with tunnel recovery and name the third reader; and an overlong rewrapped line in membership.go is folded. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): read worker absence from the database, not from a bus timeout
The scheduler decided whether a worker had gone away from nats.ErrNoResponders: one frontend's observation that nobody answered IT within a request budget. Two replicas asking in the same moment could disagree and demote each other's workers, and a worker re-homing its tunnel between replicas looked identical to one that had died. SmartRouter now reads cluster.Presence instead. Only PresenceGone -- no live replica holds the tunnel AND the departure has outlived the reconnect grace -- excludes a node from placement, and it is a fact every replica reads identically from the database. PresenceReconnecting, PresenceUnknown and a failed presence query are all non-verdicts and place work as normal: excluding on a database hiccup would cost the fleet its capacity for a reason that has nothing to do with any worker. nodeAnswersOnBus is deleted. It excluded on a sentinel no control RPC can produce, so it decided nothing while PingNode cost a relayed round trip per scheduling decision to feed it. PingNode goes with it, from the adapter and from NodeCommandSender. isRequestTimeout drops nats.ErrTimeout: every verb this adapter sends now travels over the worker's tunnel. The predicate is named nodeMayTakeWork rather than nodeHasRoute. "Route" is ErrWorkerUnroutable in this package, the condition nobody may act on; PresenceGone is the one a scheduler may. Spelling them the same way is the collapse this work exists to prevent. Also folds in ReapStale's return rename: it counts connection rows CLEARED, never rows deleted, and reading it as a delete count would make a worker that is re-dialling right now look forgotten. The spec pinning that a message merely quoting "nats: timeout" is not a timeout was scripting a SUCCESSFUL reply carrying the phrase, which comes back with a nil error and never reaches the classifier. Restoring the string match left it green. It now scripts a 5xx whose body carries the phrase, and asserts that the phrase reaches the classifier as a precondition. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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test(distributed): pin the unreadable-request rule at all three file verbs
The rule "a body this worker could not parse is a non-2xx, never the worker's answer" is written at three exits in control_files.go and only ensure was pinned. Turning stage's or listdir's decode exit into a 200-with-error left worker and nodes entirely green, and what that converts is a frontend's malformed request into the worker's own verdict about a file, which passes cluster.IsWorkerAnswer and reaches a reap guard. The production code was already right; nothing held it there. The e2e NATS JWT spec was asserting the opposite of the code and passing. It published nodes.<id>.files.in and called it an allowed subject after that grant was deleted, and it could not tell: a permission violation does not close the connection, so FlushTimeout and IsConnected both stay happy. It now reads LastError, the way its sibling always has, and asserts the denial plus the one publish right a backend worker has left. Also pinned, each mutation-verified alone: the CreateTemp branch (an existing staging-tmp at 0500 reaches it without a seam), the walk's context check (a caller that gave up must fail the listing, never be answered with a short one), and the cache and data directory layout. The data directory was derived twice, once in worker.go and once for the listdir verb; worker.go now reads the same helper, so a move cannot leave a verb listing files the file server does not serve. The per-verb RPC ceiling moves from an argument at five call sites into fileRPCBudget, so no site can name the wrong one, and the two values are asserted. The body-cap table now holds both directions locally and with two different claims: a body exactly at the cap proves the bound is a ceiling and not an off-by-one, and an absolute megabyte proves the cap stays above real gallery traffic. Only the second notices a cap shrunk to 64 KiB. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): serve file staging over the worker tunnel
The four nodes.<id>.files.* subjects were the last commands a serve-backend worker took off the bus. They are now HTTP routes under workerctl.Prefix, on the same loopback server and behind the same bearer check as the ten lifecycle verbs, so the frontend reaches them through the worker's tunnel. files.listdir is the verb this matters most for. Its reply had to fit a payload the bus would carry, which put a wide model directory close to the limit; a response body has no such ceiling, so nothing truncates the listing at either end. A short listing reads to the frontend as files the worker does not have. S3NATSFileStager becomes S3FileStager and calls ControlClient, which means every failure now lands in the bucket phase 3 exists to keep straight: a route this frontend could not use is unroutable and nothing may act on it, while the worker's own answer, including "that file is not there", is evidence a caller may act on. Each RPC's deadline is DERIVED FROM the caller's context rather than started fresh, at every one of the five call sites, so a caller that gave up stops the RPC too. A worker started without an object store mounts no file verb at all and answers 404, which is the same answer a build too old to know them gives. The subjects and the backend worker's files.> publish grant go with them; a backend worker now publishes nowhere but its own inbox. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(distributed): call the worker's control routes instead of the bus
The ten backend and model lifecycle verbs stop being NATS requests and become HTTP calls on the worker's own control routes, reached through that worker's tunnel on the `http` stream tag that already carries file staging. Nine subject builders and the per-op install-progress subject are deleted with their entries in the worker's NATS permissions; the request and reply DTOs are untouched, so a body on the wire is byte for byte what the subject carried. This closes the merge gate Task 3 left open, which was worse than lost commands. Once the worker stopped subscribing, PingNode was still asking nodes.<id>.backend.list and nodes.<id>.models.running, so EVERY healthy worker answered no-responders, nodeAnswersOnBus read it as absence and pickReachableNode demoted it on the scheduling path. PingNode is a control RPC now, and no control RPC can produce ErrNoResponders, which is the only error that exclusion acts on. Two specs drive pickReachableNode against a real adapter and a worker answering over its control plane, which is the only arrangement that can see the difference: the router's own double never touches a transport and stayed green for the whole window the defect was live. How a control RPC FAILS is the whole of this change, so it is decided in ONE function reading ONE table. A worker's answer passes through unwrapped, so cluster.IsWorkerAnswer still sees it and a reap guard may act on it; everything else is wrapped in ErrWorkerUnroutable so nothing can. There is no third branch, because a third branch is how the eight collapses on this branch happened: each was a site that decided for itself which errors were evidence. A 404 under the prefix is its own sentinel, because it is the worker stating a deployment fact about ITSELF rather than a verdict about a backend, and only the legacy upgrade fallback may act on it. The caller's budget is checked FIRST. A timeout is not a verdict: a refusal arriving in the instant a deadline expires would otherwise be reported as the worker's non-transient answer, which reaps a row, and nothing orders the two timers. A 5xx and an undecodable body are transport failures, not answers. An empty ModelsRunningReply means "this worker is running nothing", which the reconciler acts on, so it must never be manufactured from a body that would not parse. A stream that ends before its reply line is the same rule one layer up: a tunnel dying mid-install is not the worker saying the install failed. backend.stop is split by node type rather than moved. Agent workers hold no tunnel, so they have no control plane to serve, and they still subscribe to nodes.<id>.backend.stop to drop cached MCP sessions; that subject and its agent permission both survive. It is the honest intermediate state until agent workers hold tunnels too. A failed control RPC no longer demotes a node anywhere. ErrNoResponders meant "not on the bus"; a control failure means "this frontend could not route to it", which is equally what a healthy worker re-homing its tunnel between replicas produces. Absence is a fact read from the database, and the scheduler starts reading it in a later task. The rolling-update fallback re-fires a DESTRUCTIVE force-reinstall, so it runs only on the worker's own 404. Its negative direction was pinned at the admin call site and unpinned at the reconciler's, where widening the condition to any error left all 676 specs green: a background drain nobody is watching would then force-reinstall every queued backend the moment a replica lost its tunnels. Three specs cover it, arranged so the force install IS reachable in the negative case and a fallback that fired would show as a call and a drained row. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(worker): pin the rune cut, answer unload honestly, drop the dead publisher
Review fix round 1. Seven non-blocking findings; the blocking one is a merge gate for Task 4 rather than anything in this diff, and the report's concern about it is corrected: until Task 4 lands, PingNode probes two subjects no serve-backend worker subscribes to any more, so every healthy worker reads as absent and is marked unhealthy on the scheduling path. The rune-boundary cut in truncate was true behaviour with nothing holding it: a byte-wise mutation survived all 201 specs. isRuneStart is replaced by utf8.RuneStart, the same predicate the cluster package uses for this rule, and two specs pin it, one with a rune straddling the bound and one with a rune ending exactly on it so the fix cannot be "always walk back". unloadModel answered Success:true whatever Free did. That is the worker saying "done" about work it did not do, and the frontend's only caller is EvictLRU, so a false yes told the scheduler VRAM had been released and let it place the next model on a node still holding the old one. It now reports the failure, following stopModelExact, which is the honest pattern already in this package. Still a 200: the worker answered, only its verdict is negative. An address with nothing loaded still answers success, which is a true answer rather than a claim about work done. NewDebouncedInstallProgressPublisher had no production caller after the last commit, only its own spec. Deleted rather than wired: wiring it would publish every event on two carriers, which is what the carrier decision exists to avoid. Its specs now run against the sink, plus one that pins the identity stamped on each event, since the subject used to carry the op and node id and now nothing but the body does. The install progress wiring was exercised by no spec, because with no gallery nothing ever invokes the download callback. The guard moves into startProgress, shared by install and upgrade, which also emits one resolving event before any gallery work. That is worth having on its own: a cold install spends minutes on a manifest and a progress stream with nothing on it is indistinguishable from a broken one. It also makes the wiring observable end to end, and four specs now drive the real installBackend and upgradeBackend over HTTP with no override. model/stop and backend/stop keep taking Background rather than the caller's context, and the sites now say why. model/stop is the acknowledged stop path: it reserves the process, frees it, kills it, waits for exit and releases the port, and abandoning that because the caller hung up would leave a process marked stopping, a port not returned to the allocator and a row nothing reconciles. In stopBackendExact the Free is a courtesy before a kill that happens anyway. model/unload differs because Free IS the operation there. A route set with no prefix or no registrar is now a startup error rather than a silent no-op: a server that comes up healthy while every route the caller registered answers 404 is, through a tunnel, indistinguishable from a version skew. And the AllPaths spec no longer claims to catch a constant that was never added to the set, which it cannot; it asserts the whole set instead, which catches a verb dropped from it. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(worker): serve the control plane over the tunnel, not over NATS
Ten NATS subscriptions on the worker become ten HTTP routes under
/v1/control/, served on the loopback HTTP server the worker already runs
and reached only through the tunnel's existing `http` stream tag.
The carrier is the tag that already exists rather than a new one. A new
tag would have had to invent correlation, per-request deadlines,
unbounded payloads and a progress stream, and each of those is a place
this branch has already put a defect. It would also have added a fifth
entry to the worker's stream-refusal vocabulary, which decides what a
frontend reaps on and took eight fixes to settle. Riding `http` means a
control RPC to a worker another replica holds takes the same relay the
inference path takes, which is the path that has been measured.
The request and reply DTOs are untouched, so a body on a control route
is byte-for-byte what the corresponding subject carried. No subject was
deleted: agent workers still subscribe to nodes.<id>.backend.stop.
Install and upgrade stream. They answer application/x-ndjson: zero or
more {"progress":...} lines carrying the same event the per-op NATS
subject carried, then exactly one {"reply":...} line, always last. That
deletes the 8000-byte notification cap structurally instead of
reproducing it on a new carrier: a progress line is written into the
response the caller is already reading, so there is nothing to size and
no subscribe-before-request window. The debouncer is shared with the
NATS publisher rather than forked, so the ~4/s tick bound is one fact.
A verb's own failure is a 200 with Error set, never a 5xx. The frontend
maps a transport failure onto "no route to that worker", which nothing
may act on, and the worker's answer onto evidence a reap guard may act
on; answering 500 for a failed install would put the worker's verdict
in the bucket reserved for a broken link. Only a request that could not
be read or routed is non-2xx.
Control RPCs carry the caller's budget. r.Context() replaces four
context.Background() calls at the gallery-install sites, and the one
pre-existing fixed timeout on model.unload is now derived from the
caller's context so a shorter budget is honoured. No timeout is invented.
The inner `go func()` in the install and upgrade handlers is deleted
rather than nested: it existed because one subscription served every
install, and over HTTP each request already has its own goroutine.
Per-backend serialization stays lockBackend, which is what actually
prevented two requests racing the gallery directory.
Bounds against a boundary the worker now serves: every body is capped at
8 MiB before any decode; the 404 echoes at most 128 bytes of the request
path, cut on a rune boundary so a half rune cannot travel downstream as
a replacement character; non-POST is refused before the body is read so
a probe cannot fire a command; the streaming responses set nosniff.
The routes mount through nodes.AuthenticatedRoutes, which hands the
registrar a private mux and puts the whole prefix behind the same
constant-time bearer check as the file routes. The worker's HTTP server
now takes the supervisor as a required parameter, so there is no way to
start it without the control plane mounted.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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fix(cluster): pin the derived retention to the sweep that applies it
The retention a worker's departure is kept for is now derived from the reconnect grace, so a purge can never outrun the window Presence measures against. Nothing pinned that. The sweep could be reverted to pass the constant, or the setter emptied out, and the suite stayed green either way: the specs covered the arithmetic helper, and the fix is the wiring. The loop now has a spec of its own. It departs two workers either side of the difference between the floor and the derived retention, and the row that must go is what witnesses the sweep running at all, so the row that must stay cannot survive by nothing happening. The default grace goes from 60s to 90s. Two of the worker's ceiling backoffs is 60s, but the failed dial between them costs its handshake timeout too, which puts the worst case at 70s, and the backoff resets only after a session long enough that a replica accepting a dial and then dying denies it. So the ceiling is reachable exactly during the rolling restart this window exists for, and 60s sat on the edge of it. Too short reports a live worker as gone and costs a model reload; too long reaps a dead one later. The cheaper mistake is the long one. A held row whose owner is dead and whose stamp is stale is the state a rolling upgrade actually produces, and it was the one state no spec built. It has an answer now, and the two ways to get this wrong land either side of it: reading the stamp first says gone, reading held-ness without the liveness join says connected. Two comments claimed more than the code did. There IS a grace at which a live worker is reported as gone, which is the point of it being a duration; and the switch that reads held-ness first is only a partial second gate, since with the SQL gate gone and a dead owner it answers gone rather than reconnecting. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(cluster): answer presence with four values on the database clock
A worker whose tunnel is gone is not, by that fact, a worker that has left. Absence is what makes the scheduler stop placing work, reap the worker's rows and evict its models, and one of those paths runs during inference, so the deployment needs to tell a worker re-homing between frontend replicas from one that is really gone before anything acts. Registry.Presence answers that in one joined statement, with four values and not a boolean: unknown when there is no row at all (this package cannot tell a worker that has never dialled from one whose departure aged out, and must not guess), connected while a live replica holds the tunnel, reconnecting while the departure is inside the grace, and gone once it is older. Only the last is a verdict a caller may act on. Held-ness is asked FIRST and the departure only refines it, in the SQL and again in the switch that reads it. Every writer here clears disconnected_at in the statement that writes the owner, but that is a property of these writers rather than of the table: a replica running a binary from before the column existed re-claims without clearing the stamp, so during a rolling upgrade a held row carries an old departure, and a read that consults the stamp first reports a connected worker as gone for the whole upgrade. Both windows are computed by the database, for the reason every other window in this package is: they are compared across replicas, and replicas disagreeing about whether a worker is gone is the flapping this branch exists to remove. No behavioural spec can see the difference, since the test container shares the host clock, so the statement shape is pinned instead. The grace is an operator's knob, defaulting to twice the worker tunnel's maximum reconnect backoff. That made the fixed departure retention wrong: an operator raising the grace past it gets a purge that deletes departures before the grace elapses, so a worker that is gone reads as unknown forever and nothing ever reaps it. The retention is now derived from the grace, with the old constant as its floor. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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49e77447fb |
feat(cluster): record a departure instead of erasing the connection
Releasing a worker tunnel deleted its node_connections row, so "this worker's link dropped a moment ago" and "this worker has never connected here" were one observation: no row. Nothing above could tell a worker re-homing between replicas from a worker that is gone, and any grace period built on top would have had nothing to measure from. The row now survives a departure. Release clears owner_instance_id and stamps disconnected_at on the database clock; the membership sweep and Deregister do the same for every connection a dead or departing replica held; Claim clears the stamp in the same upsert that writes the owner, so a reconnect is never observed half-applied. PurgeDepartedBefore deletes a departure once it is older than DepartedRetention, and the membership tick owns that schedule. Owner and OwnerRow report a departed row as ErrNoConnection, through the one predicate connectionIsHeld, the way instanceIsLive is the one predicate for replica liveness. This change records the departure and does not interpret it: how long ago it happened is nobody's answer yet. The sweep only clears rows that are still held. An empty owner is in no instance's id, so without that filter every heartbeat would restamp every departed row and no departure could ever age out. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(cluster): keep the refusal vocabulary in one table
The worker re-classified a failure a local service had already classified. classifyServiceFailure preserved exactly one of the four refusal codes, which was faithful to its own comment for as long as there was one worth keeping; once ErrStreamNotServed existed, a service returning the code whose whole job is to say "I learned nothing" had it promoted to ErrStreamTargetUnavailable, which every reap guard acts on. ErrStreamTagUnknown was promoted too, and cost nothing only because both sides of that one reap. No in-tree service produces either, which is the same "unreachable, therefore safe" argument that let the request-frame merge survive a whole phase, and LocalService is exported. The cause was a fifth site enumerating the vocabulary by hand, so the fix is one table. streamRefusals pairs each sentinel with its wire code and with whether a frontend may act on it as evidence about a backend, and the writer, the reader, IsWorkerAnswer and the new IsStreamRefusal all read it. A fifth code is now taught to every one of them at once. The codes are also pinned against literals written out in a spec, the way this branch already pinned the NATS vocabulary. The round-trip table cannot see a rename, because a rename moves the writer and the reader together; an unrecognised code is deliberately not the worker's answer, so renaming "unavailable" would turn every crashed backend on a tunnelled worker into a row nothing can ever reap, silently and with the suite green. Three comments the previous fix falsified, corrected: - tunnelHeaderTimeout still said the window bounds only framing the frontend writes immediately after opening the stream. That is true on the direct path and false on the relay path, and it was the argument for treating an expiry as the frontend's fault. - classifyServiceFailure's deny-list is three causes, not two: on a dial error net.Error.Timeout also covers ETIMEDOUT and EAGAIN. Both are kept deliberately, because reaping a wedged or resource-starved backend is the eviction this phase exists to prevent, and ECONNREFUSED still reaps. isReadTimeout is renamed reportsTimeout, which is what it asks. - The operator table named three refusals and said a refusal is acted on. It now lists four, with when each is sent and whether the row is reaped. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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c19ed5ab32 |
fix(cluster): stop a late request frame reading as the worker's verdict
Making a worker's refusal reaping evidence created a defect one layer along, at the producer. The worker refused a ReadStreamRequest failure with ErrStreamRequestInvalid and its own comment said "Includes the deadline above expiring", which was harmless while every refusal reached the frontend as "no route" and became a reap the moment one of them did not. So a request frame that had merely not ARRIVED yet was reported as a non-transient verdict about a backend. It is reachable on the relay path, which carries most production traffic: the worker's header timer starts when the OWNING replica opens the stream, while the frame is written by the DIALLING replica only after the relay's acceptance travels back to it, so a whole peer-link round trip runs inside that window, on a link this design deliberately loads with multi-gigabyte artifacts beside token streams. For a long-deadline caller the endpoint is ConnectionEvictingClient, which stops the model across the fleet. It also falsified the "neither clears on its own" argument that licensed the reap. There is now a fourth refusal, ErrStreamNotServed, for what a worker could not serve for a reason of its OWN. It is deliberately outside IsWorkerAnswer, so it reaches a consumer under the no-route umbrella and reaps nothing, which is the same treatment an unrecognised code already gets. Four producers move onto it: a request frame that timed out (a malformed one stays a verdict, because that is a frontend bug no retry fixes), both SetReadDeadline failures, which are facts about the stream and not about a target nothing has dialled yet, and WriteStreamRefusal's default for a reason nobody classified. classifyServiceFailure keeps ErrStreamTargetUnavailable as its default on purpose: inverting it would make errno enumeration the single point of failure for the reap, and a miss there is a row nothing can ever delete. What it gains is a deny-list of two causes that are provably this worker's own clock or its own context. Also: - The read-site caller-deadline guard in the handshake was unpinned: the existing seam spends the budget before the handshake starts, so only the write could ever fail. A spec whose deadline falls between the request and the reply pins it, and each guard now reddens on its own. - The documented worker-first failure line omitted the JSON error envelope the old frontend returns, so an operator grepping it found nothing. - The peer-link disclosure names the aimable per-session receive window in all four places, and LastDialErrorOf records why a third consumer must go through IsWorkerAnswer rather than roll its own list. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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d26263f9c0 |
fix(distributed): let a worker's own refusal be evidence about its backend
A worker that refuses a stream has answered, and cluster.Dial keeps the three tunnelproto sentinels out of the ErrNoRoute umbrella precisely so a consumer can act on that. No consumer did. Since workers stopped listening, a backend process that crashed on a healthy worker is no longer a dead listener's codes.Unavailable: the worker refuses the stream with ErrStreamTargetUnavailable, gRPC flattens it into Unavailable anyway, and nodes.unroutable reported the whole thing as "this frontend has no route". Every reap path then answered ProbeUnknown and left the row, so the replica slot never freed and at the default MaxReplicasPerModel=1 the only cleanup left was LRU eviction of models that were working. isWorkerAnswer is exported as cluster.IsWorkerAnswer, so the errors the dialer keeps out of the umbrella are by construction the errors the consumers treat as the worker answering. nodes.unroutable and pkg/model's transportFailure both use it; ConnectionEvictingClient, the site reached during inference, goes through transportFailure rather than asking the transport directly. A reply code this frontend does not recognise is still not an answer, so a newer worker's vocabulary costs a retry and not a replica. The reap guards keep the allow-list rather than requiring ErrNoRoute: an unrecognised dial error must mean "no route", never "the backend is gone". Also in this final pass over the branch: - Docs: recommend upgrading FRONTENDS first, with the symptom of each order. Workers-first fails now that a 4xx registration is a verdict rather than an outage, so an old frontend's "address is required for backend workers" makes each restarted worker exit and drains the fleet a node per restart. - Docs: LOCALAI_WORKER_TUNNEL=false is a fatal startup error, not a degraded mode, in both places that described it; and a frontend rollback needs every worker restarted, because re-registration force-clears the address columns. - A replica with no advertised address now says so every five minutes and names the workers only it can reach, instead of one startup warning for a cost paid for the life of the process. - callerRanOut's rule now holds at all three siblings, so an expired caller deadline stops reading as a broken tunnel; probeHealth's withdrawn reason for using the raw client is corrected; the dead DoOrCached is deleted and its coverage kept on DoOrCachedResult; sweepLeakedInFlight enumerates the outcomes that reach it. - The peer route's self-declared id is recorded as a phase-3 deferral, in the handler, in the isolation claim it narrows, and in the operator docs. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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0683fb1579 |
test(distributed): prove the worker tunnel end to end, under real inference
Everything this phase built was proven by unit and integration specs. This is the first run of it against the real binaries: a frontend replica per process, a worker that binds nothing routable, real inference over the result. Four scenarios, each with the question "what would make this pass if the tunnel were doing nothing" answered rather than left open. A worker with no advertised address is reached through its tunnel. The roster is asserted to report it advertising nothing, so there is no address a frontend could have dialled instead, and node_connections is asserted to name the replica that serves the request. A request landing on the replica that does NOT own the worker is relayed to the one that does. With N replicas behind round robin that is (N-1)/N of production traffic, so it gets the FIRST request for its model: the backend install, the file staging on the http tag, and the gRPC load and predict all cross the relay. Which replica owns the tunnel is read from the ownership table through the production Owner query and mapped to a frontend index through the address the harness pins per replica; the non-owner is derived from that reading and asserted to be a non-owner immediately before the request, rather than assumed from the harness default. Sending the same request to the owner reddens it. Killing the owning replica re-homes the worker onto the survivor. The worker dials a balancer rather than a replica, because LOCALAI_REGISTER_TO is resolved once at boot and is the tunnel endpoint as well as the registration one: aimed at a single replica, a worker has nowhere to reconnect to when that replica dies, and the re-home cannot happen at all. Removing the kill reddens it. And the negative control for the whole suite, which is why the other three mean anything. Frontend and worker share a host here, so every backend port the frontend names in a stream target is one it could have dialled directly; if it did, the first three would pass with the tunnel inert. LOCALAI_WORKER_TUNNEL is no longer usable for this, because it is a fatal startup error and a worker that never started says nothing about a worker reachable some other way. The balancer answers the tunnel connect path itself instead, leaving a worker that registers, heartbeats, reports healthy and holds no tunnel. It is asserted to have dialled and been refused, asserted to be held by nobody, and then asserted unreachable with the refusal naming the missing route. Then the block is lifted, nothing else changes, and the same request succeeds: that is what attributes the refusal to the tunnel rather than to any of the ordinary reasons an e2e inference fails. The fifth spec measures the head-of-line blocking this phase deferred three times. 128 MiB crosses the session while a warm model is probed back to back, direct and relayed. Median latency is unchanged, the worst probe is about 3x the baseline median and about a seventeenth of the transfer window, and the transfer runs at 415-490 MB/s direct and 222-268 MB/s relayed. A session that head-of-line blocked would park a probe for the length of the window. Leave the yamux windows untuned; and note this is loopback, so it says the multiplexing does not serialise and says nothing about a link with a bandwidth-delay product. The load spec is measured against a control that the first version did not have. It passed with the bulk artifact cut to 4 KiB, because the window it read probes against was mostly cold-load overhead: it would have reported a clean bill on a session carrying no large message. The same cold load now runs twice, once empty and once bulk, and the difference between the windows is asserted to be real before any latency is read from it. Two defects on the base commit came out of this. cluster_peerlink_test.go has been red since the relay landed, deterministically, in isolation and in the suite. It asserted that an accepted peer stream is refused at once, on the premise that phase 1 installs no relay. The relay correctly waits fifteen seconds for a frame naming the worker, and the spec's budget was five. It now writes a relay request for a node no replica holds and asserts the refusal is ErrNotOwner and specifically not ErrNoConnection, which is a stronger spec than the one it replaces and the only thing in the e2e suite that exercises the relay's refusal path. The harness handed a worker's own HTTP port to a backend process. It took two ports from freeport and used one as the gRPC base and the other for the file transfer server; freeport returns adjacent ports often, and the backend allocator hands out base, base+1, base+2, so the second backend started on a worker was regularly given the HTTP server's port and died with EADDRINUSE. No spec had started two backends on one worker before, so it had never fired; the load spec starts five and it failed about one run in three. Each worker now reserves a contiguous bind-probed block laid out the way production lays it out, below the kernel's ephemeral range, with LOCALAI_GRPC_MAX_PORT bounding the allocator to it. The underlying production defect is not fixed here and is recorded in the report: allocatePort never checks that a port is free, and its default range overlaps the ephemeral range on every Linux box. Constraint 6, whether distributed mode should now refuse to start without an advertised address, is DEFERRED, and the comment and the docs that described the cost were understating it. A replica with no advertised address writes no instances row, and Owner joins a connection against a live instance, so a worker whose tunnel lands there is unroutable from every OTHER replica while being registered and healthy. Refusing to start would still be wrong, because the deployments it would break are single-host ones with no peers to be unreachable by, and telling those apart at startup is a design with its own specs. Both places now say what actually happens. Suite wall clock 592s for 15 specs, up from 502s for 10 of which 2 were red. The CI budget of 20 minutes does not move. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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3338d7bc56 |
fix(distributed): refuse a worker that cannot tunnel, and say why it was refused
Review round 1 on the change that stopped workers listening. One blocking item
and seven notes.
LOCALAI_WORKER_TUNNEL=false was the blocking one, and the ruling was to make it
fatal rather than to correct the comment that still promised it fell back to the
advertised address. There is no fallback left: a worker on this branch
advertises nothing and binds only loopback, so turning the tunnel off leaves it
reachable by nothing while it registers, heartbeats and reports healthy, and the
scheduler keeps placing models on it. That is the worst available failure shape,
so a new Config.validateStartup refuses it before prefetch, registration and
NATS, while the worker is still invisible to the cluster. It absorbs the
pre-existing empty-registration-token check, which had the same shape and no
spec. The flag is kept rather than deleted so an operator who set it is told the
promise is gone instead of having the setting ignored, and the guard around
StartTunnel is removed, because a branch nothing can take reads as a supported
no-tunnel mode that does not exist.
The justification for erroring on an install that names no address was wrong,
and the review is right that this is the dangerous form of overclaiming, because
the conclusion holds and the mechanism does not. It said the resulting empty
target would be refused as an invalid stream and that the refusal would read as
the worker answering about its backend. Nothing in this repo branches on
cluster.ErrNoRoute, and nodes.unroutable treats any recorded dial error as
unroutable, so that refusal reaches every reap guard as ProbeUnknown and deletes
nothing. The site now stands on what holds, that an install naming no port
produced nothing routable and the failure belongs to the install rather than to
a later probe, and records the retracted claim so nobody re-derives it. This
retracts the same paragraph in the body of
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1cf847f29e |
feat(distributed): stop workers listening, and stop them advertising
A worker now opens no listener on a routable interface and states no endpoint at registration. Backend processes and the file-transfer server bind loopback, and the frontend reaches both through the tunnel the worker dials. The bind address is built from loopbackHost, the same constant the tunnel's grpc tag dials, so "the worker binds where its tunnel dials" is one fact in one place rather than two literals that can drift. All three advertisement sites are closed, not one: the registration body, RegisterNodeRequest, and the per-backend address in the install reply. That third one was hiding a live bug. stopModelExact refuses a stop whose ExpectedAddress does not match what the worker recorded for the process. The worker recorded 127.0.0.1:port; handleBackendInstall reported advertiseHost:port; the router stored the reported one and sent it straight back. On any worker whose advertise host was not 127.0.0.1, every acknowledged model stop failed with an address mismatch. Nothing caught it because the e2e harness set LOCALAI_ADVERTISE_ADDR=127.0.0.1, which made the rewrite a no-op. Removing the rewrite makes the two strings the same by construction. The brief was wrong about two of the four functions it called dead. effectiveBasePort is the base of the backend port allocator and resolveHTTPAddr is the file server's bind address; deleting them would have deleted the port allocator and the file server. Only the two advertise* helpers were dead, and addr_test.go is rewritten rather than deleted, because the port arithmetic it pinned still needs pinning. NodeModel.Address survives with a narrowed meaning and is renamed WorkerLocalAddress, along with the install reply field that feeds it. The frontend still has to say WHICH backend process on a worker it means, and the port in this string is how it says it: it travels as a stream target and the worker dials its own loopback. The gorm column and the json key stay "address", so neither a migration nor an API break rides along. Every fall-back to the node's address is gone. installBackendOnNode now errors when a worker reports success without naming one, because substituting the now-always-empty node address would name an empty target, and the worker refuses that as an invalid stream, which is classified as the worker answering about its backend. That is the "a present worker reads as something it is not" class this phase forbids. DistributedModelStore.Range had the same shape and was already wrong: it built each remote model's client from the node's base gRPC port, never the port a backend process listens on, so Free and Status went to the wrong place. It uses the replica's address now. BackendNode.Address and HTTPAddress are kept but made provably inert: no writer, no reader that acts on them, and Register force-clears both on re-registration so an upgraded worker's stale advertisement does not outlive its own upgrade in the API and the Nodes page. Dropping the columns is a ~90-site edit across the specs, the e2e suite, the MCP dto and the UI; it is recorded as a follow-up rather than folded in here. A persistent tunnel 401 still does not trigger re-registration, and now for a reason rather than a deferral. Register CLEARS the node's replica rows, so re-registering on a 401 would delete a live worker's rows on every retry, and under the name collision that causes the 401 the two workers would take turns doing it forever: a credential failure causing model reclamation. It also cannot fix the named cause, since a collision is indistinguishable from a restart. The 401 log now names both causes and says nothing can reach this worker, which is true only now that it has no listener. The container healthcheck did not break the way the brief expected, since the listener still exists on loopback and the probe runs inside the container. It did have a real #10987 defect that this change makes the common case: it read LOCALAI_SERVE_ADDR only, while effectiveBasePort reads LOCALAI_ADDR first, so a worker on a non-default base port was probed on 50050 and reported unhealthy while working. It follows the same precedence now. Docs, the compose file and the e2e harness are updated in step: no inbound rule or published port is needed for a worker, the two advertise variables are gone, the remaining address variables are read for their port only, the firewall-the-file-transfer-port warning is narrowed to the LOCALAI_HTTP_ADDR opt-out, and the upgrade-order note no longer claims the worker still listens. The Nodes page showed node.address, which is now always blank, so it shows the node id instead. Eight mutations, all red on a named spec, including reverting the loopback bind, re-adding the address to the registration body, restoring both node-address fall-backs, dropping the force-clear, storing the endpoint's address again, and un-fixing the healthcheck. One of them caught a defect in a spec I had just written: it asserted 200 where the endpoint returns 201, which went unnoticed because core/http/endpoints/localai is not on the task's verify list. It is run here. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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b4d8e23abb |
fix(grpc): let the transport answer through the wrappers, not only past gRPC
Re-review round 2. One blocking defect, and it was the concern I filed myself last round and mis-scoped as a future trap. It was live, and it sat on the most destructive reaping path of the five. RouteResult.Client is an InFlightTrackingClient, over a FileStagingClient when a stager is configured. model_router puts that on the cached remote model and pkg/model's checkIsLoaded asks IT whether the transport failed. Both wrappers embed grpc.Backend, which does not declare LastDialError, so the type assertion read nil and the guard added last round fell straight through to the old eviction. That eviction sends backend.stop over NATS to every node holding the model and deletes every replica row, where the other sites delete one. The spec covering it built a bare client by hand, which is why it passed while production did not. This is the third time in this task a correct fix was disarmed one layer out, so the fix is a mechanism rather than two methods. BackendUnwrapper is one line per decorator, LastDialErrorOf walks the chain, and both consumers now call it instead of each keeping its own assertion. One implementation, no per-caller policy to get wrong. Sweeping every type that embeds or holds a grpc.Backend found a third decorator the review had not named, and it is itself a reaping consumer of the same collapsed signal. ConnectionEvictingClient is built for remote models in initializers.go and its evict callback runs ShutdownModel; it fires during INFERENCE rather than on a health check, so a tunnel blip mid-request was enough to stop a model that was loaded and serving. It consults the transport first now. A locally spawned backend has no custom transport, so that path is unchanged byte for byte. Everything else touching a Backend is a consumer rather than a decorator; there is no fourth. The probe cache joiner shape is pinned. It was the right design last round with nothing holding it: the mutation back to a closed-over variable passed all 602 specs in the package. Eight goroutines coalesced on a probe that blocks on a channel now assert every joiner gets the leader's REASON and not just its answer, which is the difference between a leader declining to reap and its seven joiners reaping on the leader's own observation. The LastDialError scope note claimed an exactness it does not have at checkIsLoaded, which reads a shared long-lived client after releasing opMutex. It now says which caller is not exact, why the imprecision is accepted there, and what making it exact would cost. The four-outcome table in the docs still said a worker with no live owner is treated as absent and rescheduled, contradicting the code and the paragraph nine lines below it. None of those outcomes is absence any more, and the table says so, names the fifth, and points at the heartbeat as the thing that does decide presence. Five mutations, each reddening named specs, including the two the reviewer found surviving. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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a8ac2af167 |
fix(cluster): make "no route" a condition of its own, and let it out of the package
Review round 1 on task 6. Five blocking findings, all with the same root: the conditions the dialer kept apart were erased one layer out, because every one of them arrived at core/services/nodes as a gRPC codes.Unavailable, which is also what a backend process that died produces. Four call sites acted on that by deleting a replica row, one of them after a single failed probe. The fifth condition is ErrNoRoute: this replica could not get a request to a worker's backend, and no claim at all about the worker. A worker's presence is its HEARTBEAT, which nodes owns; a route is a separate fact that cluster owns, and the two now differ. They differ in normal operation, not exotically: a worker that has not dialled its tunnel yet after a frontend-first upgrade is unroutable on every request while it heartbeats and serves. Two properties, both mutation-tested. Every failure to resolve or open a route carries ErrNoRoute, so a consumer has one check to make. No failure carries an absence sentinel: routeFailure is the single place that rule lives, and it keeps ErrNoConnection and ErrInstanceNotFound in the message and out of the unwrap chain, the guarantee unreachableError already made for peers. Everything else stays matchable, so ErrNotOwner and ErrPeerUnreachable are unchanged for anyone who can act on them. A worker's own refusal carries no umbrella, because a worker that answers has demonstrated it is there and that is the only real evidence on the path. Crossing the boundary needed a value, not a code. NewClientWithDialer wraps the dialer and records each outcome; LastDialError hands it back behind a narrow interface, and nodes.unroutable turns it into ErrWorkerUnroutable with the cluster sentinels still in the chain. A spec asserts a dial failing with ErrNoRoute plus ErrPeerUnreachable arrives matching all three and matching neither absence sentinel. The sweep found a fourth site the review had not named: pkg/model checkIsLoaded evicts a remote model on a connection error, and a tunnel dial failure is one. Four other reap sites were cleared with reasons - inflight and the worker authoritative pass reap only on semantic answers, scale-down is driven by last_used, abandoned loads decide on the node's heartbeat. Every fixed site also grew the opposite spec, so the new check cannot pass by never reaping. probeCache carries the reason through singleflight rather than a closed-over variable. A variable is only written by the goroutine that runs the probe, so the leader would correctly decline to reap while every joiner reaped on the leader's own observation; a mutation reproduces exactly that. The docs sentence promising LOCALAI_WORKER_TUNNEL=false restores direct dialling is gone. There is no such path, so it said the operator could take a worker dark and call it a rollback. Replaced with the upgrade order that is actually safe. The deadline spec the reviewer found vacuous now waits on the dial context's own Done channel before touching the stream, so the armed deadline has really expired; the mutation that survived for the reviewer reddens it. Nine mutations, each reddening a named spec, including both halves of isAbsenceClaim independently. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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75953d9f63 |
feat(cluster): reach every worker through its tunnel, never its address
The tunnel, the fence, the registry and the relay were all built and none of them carried a byte: every dial from the frontend still went to the address a worker registered. This is where that stops. One WorkerDialer resolves where a worker's tunnel is held, opens a stream on it locally or relays through the owning replica, and hands back a conn past both handshakes; gRPC, the file stager's HTTP client and the log-streaming WebSocket are all pointed at it. A worker's address stops being somewhere to connect to and becomes the name of which backend process a stream is for. It still appears in URLs, logs and errors, because that is what identifies the process; what it no longer decides is where the bytes go. Nothing falls back to dialling it. BackendClientFactory now has exactly one method, NewClientForNode, and returns an error where there is no way to reach the worker. The direct-dial constructor was removed rather than kept beside it, because leaving one on the interface keeps the bypass one word away from every call site that holds an address, which is all of them. The second construction path is closed too. DistributedModelStore built remote models with a nil client, and pkg/model.Model.GRPC then dialled the raw address lazily on first use - reached in production by ShutdownModel's Free and by the backend monitor's Status. Those models now carry the tunnel-backed client, and a model that cannot be given one is logged and not listed. Four conditions stay unmixable, and one path produces absence: the dialer answers ErrNoConnection only where Owner's liveness join did. A peer that will not answer, a stale ownership row, a worker's own refusal and a missing relay path are each reported as themselves. This matters because nodes ACTS on absence, and the collapse would have it reclaim the models of a worker that is connected and busy. That is not hypothetical. Writing the mutation for it exposed the bug in this change's own first draft: probeHealth returned bare false when it could not build a client, and tryWarmPath deletes the replica row on a false probe. A frontend whose dialer broke would have emptied node_models for the whole deployment while every model kept running. probeHealth now returns alive and probed separately, the reconciler gets a ProbeUnknown outcome that neither advances nor clears a failure streak, and the health monitor skips rather than counting a miss. Task 5 left the relay's open timeout at a fixed 15s and said so: no operator has the information to set it, because the number that matters is the original client's remaining budget, which is invisible on the relay side. The dialer has that budget, so it now states it in the relay request frame and the owner takes the smaller of the two. It can only shorten - a patient client must not be able to park a relay goroutine and a stream slot on a worker that stopped accepting. Zero is written as no budget at all, since on the far side the number zero is a caller with nothing left and would refuse healthy traffic. Seven mutations, each reddening a named spec: peer-unreachable as absence; the local-failure guard dropped; max instead of min on the budget; the nil-client model restored; ProbeUnknown falling through to the reaper; OwnerRow instead of Owner; probed collapsed into alive. The first budget spec passed for the wrong reason - a handshake deadline, not the relay - and was replaced by three that each assert one link, including one where the spec plays the owning replica and reads the budget out of the frame instead of inferring it from a clock. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(worker): spec the tunnel's routing table, which was the SSRF boundary
Review follow-up. One blocking finding and seven others. The blocking one first, and it is this project's recurring shape: the untested path. loopbackService is the function whose comment calls the discarded host "the security property this function exists for", and nothing tested it. The reviewer replaced its body with a dial of whatever the frontend named, no port range, and all 131 specs passed. Every spec installed the permissive test dialler, so the real routing table was exercised nowhere. It now has specs, and the property is stated as reachability rather than as a property of the code: a listener on 127.0.0.2 that only the frontend's target names must NOT be reached. Plus the port-range table, fixedService, loopbackAddr, tunnelEndpoint, and the table itself, which moved out of Run into tunnelServices so it can be built without starting a worker. One spec drives a real stream through that table over the wire, so the routing rules are exercised end to end at least once rather than only in isolation. The reviewer's mutation now reddens ten specs, and six narrower ones redden between two and four each, so no spec is riding on another. The shape changed too, not only the coverage. The dial address is built from a loopbackHost constant and strconv.Itoa of a validated int, so nothing derived from the wire reaches DialContext at all: restoring the hole takes ADDING a data flow, not deleting a check. And a taxonomy fix found while specifying it. A port outside this worker's allocator range was reported as unavailable, which tells a frontend to retry something that can never work. It is a bad request now, and a backend that is merely not listening yet stays unavailable, which is the retryable one. Agent nodes no longer get a tunnel credential. Nothing dials into an agent worker, so a tunnel replaces nothing for it and no client would open one, and the gate is at the mint site rather than in the handler: with no credential minted the hash stays empty and the existing empty-hash refusal covers it, so enforcement is structural. Two comments and one doc paragraph said an anonymous registrant gets a "working" credential. With auto-approve off the node is pending and the credential is inert, which is the distinction this same change argues three files away to justify minting for pending nodes at all. A refusal reason over the frame limit was cut on a byte boundary and could split a rune. It cuts on a rune boundary now, and the code survives truncation, which is what keeps a refusal classifiable. Also: the pending-node spec asserted only that a credential was non-empty, so a credential derived from the shared token passed it; it now pins per-node-ness the way the headline spec does. The tunnel handler's citations into nodes.go were stale before this branch landed, having been written against a file the same commit was editing, and are by function name now. The static-NATS path says plainly that an externally forced rotation locks it out until restart, and where that gets fixed. tunnelproto gained direct specs, including that a read failure is never reported as a refusal. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] |
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29a2020f3d |
feat(worker): dial, hold and serve the tunnel, on a credential of its own
The worker end of the tunnel. It dials wss://<register-to>/api/cluster/connect, holds one yamux session as the CLIENT, and serves every stream the frontend opens on it. Nothing dials into the worker, which is the point: no inbound port, no reachable address. Each stream opens with a length-prefixed frame naming a tag and a target, and the worker answers before either side speaks the tunnelled protocol. The reply is sent on every stream, not only on refusal, because the protocols carried here are client-speaks-first and a reply sent only sometimes would arrive interleaved with a response body. Two tags today: grpc reaches a backend process, and only on 127.0.0.1 within this worker's own backend port range, because a tunnel terminates inside the worker and letting the frontend name a host would make every worker a proxy into its own LAN; http reaches the worker's file-transfer server, whose address the frontend is not asked about. An unknown tag, an unreachable local service and an unparseable request are three refusals and stay three on the wire. A frontend gives up on the first and retries the second. Each is answered AND the stream is ended: a worker that says why and leaves the stream open has parked the caller on a request nobody will answer, and a deadline on the far side cannot tell that from a slow worker. The specs assert the stream ends rather than that an error occurred, which is what phase 1 shipped in three places and held in none. Reconnects double from 500ms to a 30s ceiling, each wait drawn between half the interval and all of it, and the interval returns to its floor only after a session that LASTED. Resetting on connect is how a rolling restart, where every dial succeeds and dies moments later, becomes a retry storm against the first replica back up. Nothing is assumed to survive a reconnect: the credential is read at dial time, never captured. And the credential is now real. The tunnel endpoint advertised authenticating a worker against its own secret, but registration stored the hash of the shared registration token, so a leak plus a known node ID still opened a tunnel. Registration now mints a per-node secret, returns the plaintext once as tunnel_token, and stores only its SHA-256 in a new column; the endpoint compares against that and does not fall back to the old one. Rotating on every registration follows from storing only the hash, since a re-registering worker cannot be told the secret it already holds; its live tunnel is unaffected, because the credential is checked when a tunnel is dialled and never again. Unlike the agent API key and the NATS JWT next to it, the credential IS issued to a node awaiting approval: the tunnel route re-reads the node's status on every dial and refuses a pending one, so it is inert until an admin acts, and withholding it would strand every worker that registers exactly once. A node that has not registered since this change cannot tunnel, and the column cannot be back-filled because the plaintext only ever existed in the response that minted it. The boot warning that said tunnels need LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_TOKEN is replaced: it was true while the tunnel authenticated against that token's hash, and says the wrong thing now. What is still true, and is what it warns about instead, is that without one, registration itself is unauthenticated. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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48ece89c63 |
fix(cluster): harden the worker tunnel, and stop starting a database per spec
Review follow-up. Twelve findings, none blocking, grouped here by what they protect. Panics. The handler now recovers between the WebSocket upgrade and the hand-off, the way the peer link next door already did: net/http recovers the panic but leaves the hijacked socket open, so without this a worker keeps a session this replica has no entry for and will never detach. The claim gate in Attach and reclaimOne is now released with defer, so a panic under Claim cannot wedge one node's gate for the life of the process. SetTunnels gained the nil-receiver guard its sibling Stop has. Operability. A deployment with no registration token stores an empty token_hash on every worker, so every tunnel dial 401s forever on a frontend that looks correctly configured. That now warns at startup, logs its own line rather than sharing the "wrong token" one, and is stated in the docs together with the fact that setting the token later needs the workers to register again. Authorization. A node still awaiting admin approval is refused with 403. The rest of /api/node/ gates on nothing, but the two places that hand a node something durable, its API key and its NATS credential, both refuse a pending one, and a tunnel is that kind of grant. Draining and unhealthy nodes keep their tunnels on purpose. Comments that claimed more than the code. The global auth middleware does run on this path and then declines to reject; the future per-node secret only lands without a change here if it lands in TokenHash; the empty-hash guard is defensive rather than deciding; ClusterPathPrefix is no longer only replica-to-replica; the docs no longer say a reaped replica re-claims unconditionally. And the test harness. SetupTestDB started a PostgreSQL container per BeforeEach with a readiness deadline it asserted on, which is one chance per spec to fail one spec inside its setup, anywhere, never twice in the same place: the shape of the flake seen twice here and never reproduced. It now starts one container per process and creates a database per call, which is the pattern tests/e2e already proved. Isolation is unchanged and is now asserted for the first time. All 69 call sites are untouched; the eleven consumer packages run 1404 specs green, and jobs went from 34.3s to 3.3s, agents from 13.8s to 1.9s, cluster from 97.4s to 37.5s. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] |
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Ettore Di Giacinto
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6e55092a4b |
feat(cluster): open the door a worker dials its tunnel through
A worker needs no inbound port: it dials GET /api/cluster/connect, the connection becomes one multiplexed yamux session, and the frontend opens a stream on it per request. This adds the endpoint that accepts that dial and attaches it to the tunnel registry. The dial is authenticated against the NODE's own stored token hash rather than the deployment's registration token. That is the mechanism, not yet the isolation, since a worker still registers by presenting the shared token; what it rules out is the shortcut of comparing against the configured value, which would have to be unpicked the day workers get their own secrets. Every refusal happens BEFORE the WebSocket upgrade, so a dialer reads an HTTP status rather than a handshake error. The route is registered in every deployment, single-binary ones included, which is what puts it in front of the route-coverage test that holds that rule in place; with no node registry it refuses every dial, and tells a credentialed one the frontend has no cluster rather than that its token is wrong. A lookup that FAILED is answered as a failure. Reporting a database that could not be read as "unauthorized" would send a worker re-registering, throwing away the identity its tunnel and loaded models are keyed by. Wires the tunnel registry in core/application/distributed.go and hands it to the membership loop. Without that call the re-claim after a replica is reaped had no production caller and could never run. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] |
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aca383d263 |
feat(cluster): give phase 1 a call site, and prove it against real replicas
Tasks 1 to 5 built an instances table, a splice, both halves of a peer link and an epoch fence, and nothing in the tree called any of it: no replica registered, no route was mounted, no sweeper ran. Proving phase 1 end to end therefore had to start by wiring it. A frontend in distributed mode now publishes the address its peers dial, heartbeats it, and sweeps replicas that stopped answering along with the connection rows they owned, in one pass so the two can never disagree about who is alive. It serves the peer link and owns the sessions peers dial in, refusing streams on them until phase 2 installs a relay: a session nobody accepts on does not fail a peer's Open, it hangs it. The address is the one peers use, not the one the process binds, and it is derived from the route to PostgreSQL. That derivation only holds while the database is remote, so LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_ADVERTISE_ADDR sets it explicitly and a replica that can determine neither warns and keeps serving rather than failing to start. Three e2e scenarios run against real local-ai processes, real PostgreSQL and real dials: replicas publish addresses that can actually be connected to; a sibling opens a stream over the peer link and is refused without the cluster token; and a killed replica is reported unreachable, never absent, loses the claim it held, and takes no worker with it. Each was verified by mutation: eight injected defects, each failing the scenario that claims to catch it. Also moves RegisterClusterRoutes to core/http/routes beside every other registrar, folds AutoMigrate and the epoch sequence into one cluster.Migrate, and turns the peer route's auth-coverage spec into a real assertion: it drives the request through the actual auth middleware instead of comparing two string constants, which the old spec would have passed even with the exemption deleted. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto
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80e3240f2d |
feat(distributed): key scheduling rules by a model alias (#11771)
Node placement and replica rules could only name a model, so an operator who pinned "llama3" to the GPU tier had to rewrite the rule whenever a different model took over that job. An alias already gives a stable name for whichever model serves it, and a rule on that name makes it a deployment slot: repoint the alias and the placement follows. A rule keeps the name the operator chose. Reads resolve that name through the config loader to the model the rule governs, so the reconciler counts, schedules and trims replicas of the target, and the router finds an alias-keyed rule from the target it is already routing. An alias that resolves to nothing governs nothing loadable, so the reconciler skips it and the write paths refuse it. A replica is shared by every name that resolves to it, so only one rule can decide where it runs. The REST and MCP write paths reject a rule whose target another rule already governs. A pair that arrives some other way, such as a seed file or an alias repointed onto a model that already has a rule, resolves in favour of the rule named after the model itself and then the oldest, and the rest are listed as shadowed. The eviction guard is the exception: it matches rules to replicas in raw SQL inside a locking transaction and cannot resolve an alias. It reads a stored target that the reconciler refreshes each tick, and falls back to the rule's own name when that target is empty. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint eslint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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29899cd1e0 |
fix(ui): size model fit against the cluster and move node labels into the selector (#11765)
* fix(ui): move node labels into the scheduling selector field The scheduling page kept a node-label browser open above the rules whether or not anyone was writing one, while the field that actually needs labels, the rule's node selector, was two bare text inputs with no hint of what the cluster reports. The browser is gone. The selector's key input now completes against the label keys the cluster uses, and the value input offers only the values that key takes. The roster already loads for the page, so the suggestions cost no request, and a roster that fails to load costs the admin the hints and nothing else. Suggestions stay suggestions: a key no node reports yet still commits as typed, which is how an admin writes a rule before labelling the nodes for it. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint eslint playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): size model fit against the cluster, not the frontend The models page asked the frontend how much memory a model may occupy. In distributed mode the frontend is usually a GPU-less pod while every model runs on a worker, so a fleet of GPU nodes was told it could only run the smallest CPU build. The variant picker's fits flag and its auto-selection came from the same place, as did the hardware recommendations. The registry now reports the largest single healthy backend node. The largest node, not the fleet total: a model loads into one node, so four 16GB workers are not a home for a 40GB model. An operator-set VRAM budget caps a node's contribution, because the scheduler refuses a load above that ceiling anyway, and a GPU node beats a CPU node holding more system RAM. GET /api/resources and GET /api/models carry this as an additional cluster object. Their aggregate and ram fields keep reporting the frontend's own hardware, which is what the resource monitor shows. Variant selection judges backends against the union of the capabilities present in the cluster, the way backend discovery already did. Every path degrades to the local host: no cluster object in single-node mode, and none when the registry cannot be read, so a hiccup narrows the answer back to single-node behaviour rather than marking the whole catalog too large. The verdicts now name the node they belong to, since a model fits somewhere or nowhere. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint eslint playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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Ettore Di Giacinto
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3953448f60 |
fix(distributed): resync stored config revisions at startup
The controller pins a model's replicas to a stored revision and rejects any request carrying a different one. Nothing ever re-derived that value from the configuration on disk: it moved only on an edit, a gallery install, or a peer's change broadcast. An inference request may only establish a revision, never replace one. So any other way for the two to diverge left the model permanently unroutable. A configuration edited while a frontend was down lands there, and so does a change in what the revision is computed over: an upgrade that alters the hashed form leaves every stored revision describing a configuration that no longer exists. The only recovery was deleting the row by hand, which is not something a cluster should need. Each frontend now reconciles the stored revisions against the loaded configurations at startup and republishes the ones that disagree. Only those: republishing quarantines every replica loaded under the old revision, so doing it for a model that did not drift would unload a healthy replica for nothing. A model with no stored revision has never been served and is left for its first request to establish. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint] |
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e6269e3cdd |
fix(distributed): reclaim replica slots held by abandoned loads
A replica row in staging or loading holds its slot, because slot allocation counts every state except unloading. Nothing ever reclaimed such a row: every reconciler pass and the router's eviction query filter state = "loaded", and the per-model probe skips rows without an address, which is exactly what a row that never finished loading has. So a worker that dropped out mid-transfer left a row that pinned the only replica slot for that model on that node. Scheduling then found no free slot and eviction found nothing it was allowed to evict, and the request failed with "no replica slot on <node> and eviction failed: all models busy". The state persisted until an operator intervened. The reconciler now reclaims a row stuck before serving when no load job is driving it. Ownership is decided by the job's LastProgress heartbeat, not by elapsed time: staging a large checkpoint legitimately runs for a long while without touching the replica row, so a deadline would either be a model-size cliff or reclaim a healthy transfer. That heartbeat is the same signal job takeover already trusts. Any error reading the job leaves the slot held, because holding one for another pass costs a scheduling opportunity while a wrong reclaim restarts a multi-gigabyte transfer. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint] |
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c541dbeef4 |
fix(distributed): check a node answers before scheduling onto it
A node's status comes from its HTTP heartbeat. Backend installs travel over NATS. The two are independent, so a worker that dies stops answering on the bus at once but stays healthy in the database until its heartbeat ages out. Inside that window the scheduler picked a node it could not reach, and the request failed with "no responders available" rather than moving to a node that was up. The scheduler now probes the node it selected and, when nothing answers, marks it unhealthy and selects again. The demotion is what makes the retry terminate: the next selection reads only healthy nodes. It also tells the other frontends what this one learned, so the cluster does not rediscover a dead worker one failed request at a time. Only nats.ErrNoResponders counts as absent. A worker that answers slowly stays eligible, because dropping it would cost capacity that is really there. The probe reuses the models.running subject: a new subject would go unanswered by workers that have not been upgraded, and every one of them would then look dead. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint] |
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cee87d1608 |
fix(distributed): expire staged request files on the worker
A request that carries a file stages it to the worker, which writes it under its staging directory. Nothing removed it afterwards. The frontend expires ephemeral keys from object storage, but that sweep never covered a worker's local disk, so every image, audio clip and video a worker ever served stayed on it. One worker had accumulated 175 request directories over three months. The volume reached 100 percent, and from that point every backend start failed because the process manager could not create a state directory. The worker now sweeps its ephemeral staging directory on a timer and once at startup, so files left by a crash are reclaimed too. Staged model files live beside that directory and are not touched. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint] |
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04735cd1f6 |
fix(distributed): stamp config revision at load time
The request middleware merges the caller's prediction parameters into its copy of the model config. core/backend.ModelOptions then hashed that copy, so the revision identified the request body rather than the persisted configuration. EstablishModelConfigRevision stores the first revision it sees and requires an exact match afterwards. The first request after a restart therefore pinned the model to its own temperature, top_p and stop values, and every later request that sent different ones failed with "stale model config revision". No config edit was involved. The loader now stamps the revision when it materializes a config, before any request override reaches it, and ModelOptions reads that stamp. Model administration keeps hashing the same persisted config, so both paths agree on one revision per configuration. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint] |
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mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto
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fix(distributed): keep model replicas config-consistent (#11664)
* docs: design configurable copy buffering Document the context-aware copy buffer option and its validation plan. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * docs: design durable distributed staging operations Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * docs: design distributed model config revisions Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] * feat(config): add stable model revisions Hash typed model configuration and effective protobuf options deterministically for distributed revision comparisons. Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] * feat(worker): acknowledge exact model stops Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] * feat(nodes): track model config revisions Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] * fix(distributed): retry quarantined model cleanup Stop quarantined replicas by exact process identity, retain failed cleanup as durable capped retries, and compare-and-delete only the claimed registry row. Process one sufficiently leased row at a time so multiple frontends cannot duplicate slow cleanup work. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * fix(distributed): bind loads to config revisions Assisted-by: Codex: GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] * fix(modeladmin): apply config revisions consistently Route model edits, patches, state changes, deletion, and peer refreshes through the same revision lifecycle. Quarantine stale replicas before exact cleanup and report durable pending cleanup without failing successful config writes. Assisted-by: Codex: GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] * feat(distributed): expose model config revision state Document replica revision observability and durable cleanup behavior. Keep pending cleanup explicit in model mutation responses and verify endpoint contracts expose revision state without serialized load options. Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] * test(distributed): cover model revision convergence Exercise cross-frontend quarantine, stale replay rejection, exact cleanup retry, worker re-registration, and current-generation replica convergence against the distributed PostgreSQL harness. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * fix(distributed): pass config revision CI checks Keep configured gallery sources out of authoritative runtime snapshots only after validating their real schema, and harden rollback snapshots against symlink races and non-regular files. Assisted-by: Codex: GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] --------- Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(distributed): run cold model loads as durable jobs instead of holding the advisory lock (#11514)
* fix(advisorylock): set statement_timeout alongside lock_timeout
WithLockCtx already overrides a deployment-wide lock_timeout on its
dedicated connection so a blocking pg_advisory_lock() waits its turn
instead of failing with 55P03. statement_timeout aborts that exact same
statement independently, with SQLSTATE 57014, and was not overridden.
Production roles commonly carry statement_timeout=60s. Any guarded
section longer than that (a cold model load stages for tens of minutes)
therefore killed every concurrent waiter:
advisorylock: acquiring lock 9003261067483446873: ERROR: canceling
statement due to statement timeout (SQLSTATE 57014)
Derive it from the same context budget as lock_timeout, with a matching
RESET so the pooled connection is returned clean.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
* feat(distributed): add ModelLoadJob, the durable cold-load record
A cold load in distributed mode is a long-running background job, but it
was modelled as a synchronous side effect of an inference request: the
whole of it (backend install, multi-GB staging, checkpoint load) ran
inside the per-model advisory lock. Loading a 35.7 GB GGUF held that lock
for ~20 minutes, so every concurrent request for the same model blocked
on pg_advisory_lock and died at the role's 60s statement_timeout.
Introduce the row that lets the lock shrink to a decision. Exactly one
ModelLoadJob may be active per tracking key; that uniqueness — not the
lifetime of a lock — is what de-duplicates concurrent loaders across
replicas. ClaimLoadJob does its read-then-write under the advisory lock
and nothing else: no network, file or gRPC I/O inside the guarded
section, so a claim costs milliseconds no matter how long the resulting
load takes.
LastProgress is a heartbeat rather than a byte counter. A checkpoint load
legitimately moves zero bytes for many minutes, so a reaper keyed on byte
movement would reclaim a healthy job mid-load; byte progress stays the
concern of load_deadline.go. A job whose heartbeat stops for longer than
the orphan window is reclaimable, so a replica killed mid-load cannot
wedge a model permanently.
Failed jobs keep their row for a short grace so an immediately-following
request reports the real cause instead of silently starting a fresh load
of a model that just failed.
No caller yet — the router moves onto this in the next commit.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
* refactor(distributed): run cold loads as jobs, outside the advisory lock
Route wrapped the entire cold load — node selection, backend install,
multi-GB staging and the remote LoadModel — in the per-model advisory
lock. The lock's job is to de-duplicate concurrent loaders, a decision
that takes milliseconds; holding it for the tens of minutes the resulting
work takes is what turned a dedup mechanism into a cluster-wide outage
for that model.
Split it into a claim and a run. The claim is the only thing left inside
the lock. The run is a background job owned by the claiming replica and
bounded by the same progress-extended deadline as before; every other
request for that model — local or on another replica — attaches as a
waiter and is served the moment the model is ready, with no duplicate
load and no lock contention.
Waiters share one broadcast rather than an ordered queue: they all want
the identical outcome, so ordering them would add fairness machinery that
changes no result. The local channel wakes same-replica waiters instantly
and a 2s DB poll is the authority, because a waiter on another replica
has no channel to close. On wake a waiter re-runs the warm path rather
than trusting the signal — the model may have been evicted in between.
A waiter whose client disconnects returns immediately and the job keeps
running; it belongs to the job record, not to the request. A failure is
recorded on the row so every waiter reports the real cause, and the row
survives briefly so the next request does not read "no job" as "not
loading" and start a duplicate load of a model that just failed.
The runner heartbeats the row on a fixed interval whether or not bytes
are moving, which is what keeps a legitimately silent checkpoint load
from being reclaimed as an orphan. Phase (installing/staging/loading) and
placement ride to the heartbeat on the context, the same seam
load_deadline.go already uses, so single-host paths are untouched.
Non-distributed mode (no DB) keeps the inline load exactly as it was.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
* feat(distributed): bound the wait for a loading model and answer with progress
A request whose model is cold-loading now attaches to the running job and
is served the moment the model is ready. That wait has to be bounded: a
held HTTP request cannot survive real infrastructure, and an ingress or LB
idle timeout kills a twenty-minute request regardless of what LocalAI
does.
New LOCALAI_MODEL_LOAD_WAIT (default 60s) bounds the CALLER, never the
load — the job keeps running either way. On expiry the request gets 503
with Retry-After and a structured body naming the model, the node, the
phase, byte progress and an ETA. The `error` envelope keeps OpenAI
clients working; `loading` is additive so they ignore it.
The ETA comes from the job's own observed rate and is omitted rather than
guessed until enough bytes have moved for that rate to mean anything: a
confidently wrong ETA on a twenty-minute wait is worse than none.
Retry-After is that ETA when known, clamped to [5s, 300s], and the wait
budget otherwise.
LOCALAI_MODEL_LOAD_WAIT=0 waits unbounded, for deployments with no proxy
in front. Zero in the config struct still means "unset, use the default",
so the CLI records the operator's zero as ModelLoadWaitUnbounded rather
than losing the distinction.
The distributed branch of ModelLoader.loadModel wrapped the router's
error with %s, which flattened it to a string. Use %w: the typed error is
what the HTTP layer keys the 503 off.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
* feat(api): add GET /api/models/{id}/load-status
A client that receives 503 while a model stages onto a worker needs
somewhere to poll. This returns the same `loading` object the 503 carries
— phase, node, byte progress and ETA — or 404 when no load is running.
Read-only and observability-shaped, so it is deliberately neither
admin-gated nor feature-gated: it explains a 503 the caller just
received, and hiding that behind a per-modality feature would make the
explanation for a failed image request depend on chat permissions. It
also gets no MCP tool, since there is nothing here an admin would manage
conversationally.
Registered on the surfaces from .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md: the
swagger block (existing `models` tag, so /api/instructions needs no new
area), the endpoint discovery maps in RegisterLocalAIRoutes, regenerated
swagger, and the distributed-mode docs page. No FLAG_* usecase is
involved, so capabilities.js is unchanged.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
* feat(ui): show cold-load progress in Chat and retry when the model is ready
A chat request for a model that is still staging onto a worker now gets a
503 carrying live progress instead of an error. Render it: the composer
shows the phase (installing / staging / loading), the node, the percent
and the ETA, then polls load-status and re-sends the request the moment
the model is ready.
Reuses the staging progress idiom the page already had rather than
inventing a second one — the two sources are folded into one
loadProgress, with the load job winning because it is authoritative
across frontend replicas and knows the phase, where the staging operation
only knows about a byte transfer this replica happens to be performing.
Waiting is bounded (three send attempts, ~30 min of polling each), so a
load that never finishes still surfaces as an error rather than as a
spinner nobody questions. An aborted generation stops the polling too.
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
* fix(distributed): check warm-path cleanup errors
The router moved legacy cleanup calls onto newly linted lines. Report
cleanup failures while preserving the fallback to a cold load.
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feat(ui): replace the stacked operations bar with a one-line strip and an Activity page (#11163)
* feat(ui): record finished gallery operations in a bounded history ring The operations panel drops an operation the moment it succeeds, so a user who steps away cannot tell whether an install finished, failed or was never started. OpCache now keeps the last 50 terminal operations, recorded from the point where an op leaves the cache. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): pin the history ring's dedupe, outcome order and start stamp Review of the history ring found four gaps. The dedupe guard and the bounded seen set were unreachable through the exported API and so had no coverage; an in-package spec file now drives opHistory directly. The outcome switch claimed an ordering was load bearing that nothing pinned, so an errored op that never reached Processed now has a spec. Two behaviour fixes come with it. StartedAt was the zero time for ops recovered from the store or replicated from a peer, since neither path stamps a start time, which would have rendered as a two-millennia duration; it now falls back to the finish time. Reusing a cache key with a fresh job ID orphaned the previous stamp, so Set and SetBackend now drop it. The comment on the outcome switch described a state the code cannot be in: CancelOperation sets Cancelled and Processed synchronously before the handler removes the entry, so status.Cancelled already covers the cancel endpoint. The !Processed clause stays for the dismiss endpoint firing on an in-flight op, and the comments now say so. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): record operations that end on a peer replica The NATS end event is the only signal a replica gets for an install another replica ran. Record from applyEnd too, deduped by job ID so the originating replica does not record its own broadcast twice. Three start-stamp defects in the same path go with it. applyEnd now drops the stamp unconditionally, since recordTerminal only cleans up on the path where it found a cache key and an end event can overtake the local Set. applyStart drops the stamp of the job whose cache key it replaces, which a peer-driven retry previously stranded. And recordTerminal reads the stamp once instead of testing Exists and then reading, so a concurrent record for the same job can no longer delete the stamp between the two and let the zero time overwrite the finish-time fallback, which the Activity page would render as a two-millennia run. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): do not guess the outcome of a peer operation with no local status A replica that restarts mid-operation hydrates its OpCache keys from PostgreSQL, but gallery statuses are in-memory only and come back empty. The end broadcast then landed on recordTerminal's nil-status branch, which reads a missing status as queued-and-removed and filed a successful install as cancelled. That reading is right locally and wrong on the peer path, where a missing status means the outcome was never held here. recordTerminal now takes the source of the terminal event and records nothing when the peer path finds no status, restoring what the replica did before the end event started recording. The local path is unchanged. Also move the ApplyEndForTest seam to the conventional export_test.go, and stop the dedupe spec from claiming to guard the ring's seen set: the local delete removes the status keys, so the broadcast that follows returns before reaching it. An in-package spec that calls recordTerminal twice does the pinning. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(api): add GET and DELETE /api/operations/history Admin gated like the rest of the operations API. The live /api/operations payload is unchanged so the one second poll stays small. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): expose operation history through OperationsContext Fetched on demand and when the live list shrinks, never on the one second poll interval. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): detect operation departure by identity and ignore committing ops in the ETA gate Refetching history on a shrinking live count missed a completion that coincided with a start, which is the common case during a batch install. Track the live job IDs instead, so any departure triggers the refetch regardless of how the count moved. An operation that has finished downloading stays live at currentBytes == totalBytes for the whole commit and install phase and can never produce an estimate, so counting it in the all-or-nothing gate blanked every other operation's time remaining for as long as it lasted. Only operations still moving bytes get a vote. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): let only downloading operations gate the time remaining estimate Verifying pins an operation flat below its total for the whole sha256 pass: the AfterDownload hook reports completedBytes plus the finished file against a total summed over every file, then hashes synchronously without emitting progress. Files download sequentially, so a 15 shard model enters that window 14 times, and a byte comparison cannot see it because the counter is genuinely below the total throughout. Gating on phase closes resolving, verifying, committing and persisting in one predicate, so a quiet neighbour no longer blanks every other operation's estimate for minutes at a time. The byte clauses stay: a producer can report downloading with bytes already at the total. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): collapse the operations bar to a single line Four concurrent installs used to take four rows above every page. The strip now shows one operation, failure first, with a counter linking to Activity. The close button hides the strip and no longer cancels an install. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): keep the operations strip from widening the page and from muting a failure A long install error made the strip report a 1600px minimum width, which sized main-content to fit and gave every page under it a horizontal scrollbar. Inline-size containment plus shrinkable detail and bytes cells keep it inside the viewport. Hiding is no longer able to swallow the hidden job's own failure, a completed removal or staging says so instead of claiming an install, a cancelling operation renders as cancelling, and the live region no longer covers the per-second percentage. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): shrink main-content instead of containing the strip, and expose progress min-width on .main-content is what actually lets a long install error shrink, and unlike inline-size containment it has no browser support floor and no latent collapse if the strip ever lands in a shrink-to-fit context. It matches what .app-layout-chat .main-content already does, and it clears pre-existing horizontal overflow on narrow viewports as a side effect. The progress track is now a labelled progressbar, so assistive tech can read the value on demand rather than losing it to the aria-hidden that stopped the live region re-announcing every poll. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): add the live operation card for the Activity page Carries the detail the one-line strip has to drop: phase, bytes, the per-node breakdown for cluster installs, and a labelled Cancel button. Cancelling is destructive, so it gets a labelled button rather than a glyph. A cancelling operation drops its progress bar and its time estimate, the same call the strip makes: a percentage still climbing under "Cancelling" reads as the cancel not having taken. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): give the operation card a verb, live node disclosure and its per-node detail The card carried no verb, so an install, a removal and a staging op rendered as spinner plus name plus kind tag and were indistinguishable. It now runs the same verb and icon chain as the one-line strip, which is what stops the page that is meant to carry more detail from carrying less. The auto-expand default was evaluated once at mount. An operation is listed as soon as it is admitted but its nodes are filled in only when the fan-out starts reporting, so a card mounted at creation latched on the empty list and stayed collapsed. The default is a live expression now, and state holds only an explicit choice. Also: an optional onRetry gates a Retry button, so the page can own the install reconstruction without the card ever showing a control with nothing behind it; the disclosure moved above the region it controls and gained aria-controls; the toggle is gated at more than one node so the count is never "1 nodes"; an unmapped node status is passed through instead of being relabelled "Queued"; error text is clamped with the full string in the title; and file_name plus the per-node progress bar are rendered again, reviving three CSS rules that had gone dead along with the detail they styled. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): add the Activity page Live operations, unacknowledged failures and the record of what finished, at /app/activity in the Operate console. Cancelling an install now lives here behind a labelled button rather than on the strip, and a failed install can be retried: the retry dismisses the failure first so it still reaches the record, then reissues the model, backend or node-scoped backend install. The sidebar Operate entry carries the operation count. The console rail is only rendered on an Operate route and can be collapsed, so a badge there could vanish while operations were still running. Two follow-ups from review fold in here: a failed removal or staging job no longer reports a failed install on either the card or the strip, and the card's error text can shrink so one unbroken token cannot widen the card. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): dismiss operations by job, and stop the Activity page contradicting itself Dismissing resolved the job by display id, but /api/operations strips the "node:<nodeID>:" prefix before emitting, so a local install and a node-scoped install of one backend arrive as two jobs sharing one id. Dismissing by id retired whichever came first. That defeated the guarantee retry was built around: with the wrong job dismissed, the reinstall overwrote the acted-on failure's opcache entry in place, bypassing recordTerminal, while an unrelated failure vanished from Needs attention. dismissFailedOp, the card's dismiss control and the strip now all pass the jobID, which is what the endpoint takes. A filter matching nothing rendered the "nothing has ever run" empty state while the header counted the records the filter had hidden. The empty state is now gated on the All chip and a narrowed view gets its own message plus a way back; the header counts the instance rather than the chip, so selecting Backends no longer reports "Nothing running" over running model installs. Also: the summary drops a zero clause instead of rendering "0 needs attention" on the happy path and pluralises both counts; a record duration is floored at "< 1s" and rejected above a day, so a zero-value start stamp cannot render a span of millennia and a zero span cannot render "installed in" with nothing after it; a deletion cancelled mid-flight reports the cancellation rather than claiming it was removed; and the retry variant comment names the fix instead of calling the gap closed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: document the Activity page and the operations history endpoints Adds an Activity page under Operations covering the one-line operations strip, the /app/activity sections and filters, per-operation cancel, retry and dismiss, the in-memory 50-entry record, and the sidebar count. Documents GET and DELETE /api/operations/history, and fills the gap in the admin-only endpoint list, which also omitted the pre-existing POST /api/operations/:jobID/dismiss. Corrects the distributed-mode install-watching section: the per-node breakdown now lives on the Activity page rather than on the strip, which rolls a fan-out up into a single phrase. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: correct nine details in the Activity page documentation The operations strip never renders a file name: its detail line is the error, the node roll-up, the target node, the phase or the queued note. Drops the stale clause in the distributed-mode section, where the per-node bullet is now the only place a file name is described. Scopes the phase vocabulary to artifact-backed gallery models, since a plain GGUF install emits no phase. Corrects the per-node list: the toggle exists for any fan-out of two or more workers and the four-node threshold only governs whether it starts open, while the N nodes tag needs more than one node. Notes that a cancelled operation can sit in the live section reading Cancelling, that cluster staging never reaches the record, and that Clear history appears only when the record has something in it. Names the operations response envelope, with a JSON example, so callers do not index a bare array, and stops describing the icon-only dismiss control as a labelled button. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: drop the unreachable Cancelling state and scope the byte claims An operation can only report isCancelled while it is unprocessed, but every writer of Cancelled sets Processed in the same breath, on the peer path as much as the local one, and the cache evicts cancelled entries before the handler sees them. The state cannot reach the page, so the live section is described again as running or queued operations. Byte counts come from the artifact bridge alone, the same producer as the phase, so a plain GGUF install, a removal and a backend install report none. Scopes both to artifact-backed gallery models and leaves the verb, the name and the percentage as what every operation shows. A worker backend install reports its bytes through fields the operations payload does not carry, so the distributed section now describes the percentage and the node roll-up, with per-file counts pointed at the per-node detail. Also: staging jobs carry no error, so they never reach Needs attention and Retry never had a staging case to exclude; an install that involves workers is no longer called node-scoped, which this page uses for node-targeted installs; and the record timestamps carry nanoseconds. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: state only the verb and the name as unconditional on the strip The percentage is as conditional as the bytes were: it renders only for a running operation that has reported progress, so a queued operation, a failed one and a removal never carry it. A removal in particular sits at progress zero for its whole visible life, since the delete path reports none and its completion is filtered out. Both the strip and the card paragraphs now lead with what always shows and list the rest as conditions. The Cluster chip matches on a node list that finished operations do not carry, so a fan-out install leaves the chip once it reaches the record. Scoped that claim to the live sections. Two more of the same shape, found by re-reading each clause alone: the strip also appears for a failure, which is not running, and the four-second hold only applies when nothing replaces the operation that just finished. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): stop reporting a cancelled install as installed, and make queued real Three defects that all trace to one root cause: `isCancelled: true` is unreachable from /api/operations. Every writer of Cancelled=true also sets Processed=true, the handler skips Processed && Cancelled, and OpCache.GetStatus evicts a cancelled op before the handler iterates it. Cancelling the last running operation put a green "Installed model X" on the strip for four seconds: the completion hold was guarded by `!previous.isCancelled`, which is dead. A cancellation deletes the operation server side, so the strip sees exactly what it sees on a completion, and nothing in the payload separates the two. The signal now comes from the side that issued the cancel: the operations context remembers the job IDs it cancelled (pruned after a minute) and the strip asks before it holds anything. A cancelled operation goes as soon as it stops; the record already reports it as cancelled. isQueued was set only when the gallery status was missing, but markQueued publishes a "queued" status at admission, so a queued op has a status for its whole queued life and the state was unreachable outside a microsecond window. Every operation waiting behind a running install rendered as "Installing model X" with a spinner. The queued phase is now the signal, via an exported PhaseQueued and a nil-safe OpStatus.IsQueued() next to the writer. With those two fixed, the Cancelling state has no way to be entered: cancelling is instantaneous from the API's point of view. Its branches, CSS, locale key and the isCancelled field itself are removed rather than left for a future reader to assume they work. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): keep a removal a removal, and say what an install is doing OpStatus.Deletion was set once, at admission, and lost on the next status write: UpdateStatus replaces the whole status and only carried Nodes forward. Every later writer (the worker's first write, the progress ticks, the failure path) leaves the field at its zero value, so the flag survived only the queued window, and both surfaces test isQueued first. The reachable consequence is that a failed removal reported itself as a failed install, which is exactly the shape the Activity page offers Retry for, and Retry installs: pressing it on a removal that failed re-downloaded the model. A running delete also rendered as "Installing model X" with a spinner, and a successful one as "Installed model X". Carry Deletion forward the way Nodes already is. A job is a delete or an install for its whole life; an unset flag means "no new information", not "this is an install". Pinned by Go specs on both the service and /api/operations: the existing Playwright specs were green only because they stubbed a payload the server could not emit. Also restore the operation's own status message on the Activity card. Phases and byte counters exist only on the managed-artifact path, so a legacy files: gallery model and every backend install rendered a sub-row with nothing in it but the verb. The strip stays terse on purpose. And give the strip's name a min-width floor: overflow: hidden zeroes its automatic minimum, so a long error squeezed the name down to "mod…" and the identity of the thing that broke was the first thing lost. primaryOperation is made module-private: its comment claimed the Activity page selected the same operation, but that page shows all of them, partitioned into failed and running, and never imported it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(activity): read the operations record from PostgreSQL The Activity page's record of finished installs and removals was a 50-entry in-memory ring per frontend replica. In distributed mode that is the wrong place for it: each replica keeps its own copy, a replica added by a scale-out or a rolling deploy starts empty and never backfills, and "Clear history" clears only the replica that served the request, so the record reappears on the next poll routed elsewhere. The data is already in gallery_operations. Read it from there. GalleryStore gains ListTerminal and ClearTerminal, sharing a lifted terminalStatuses set with CleanOld so there is one definition of "finished". ListTerminal orders by updated_at, when the operation reached its terminal status, because the record reports what finished and when. OpCache.History and ClearHistory dispatch on whether a store is wired, so the HTTP handlers and the OpRecord JSON shape are unchanged and the page needed no change. A failed store read falls back to the local ring rather than blanking the page, and ClearHistory empties the ring as well so a database blip cannot resurrect a record the admin just cleared. The name derivation in recordTerminal is lifted into operationDisplayName and used by both paths, so the ring and the store cannot name the same operation differently. Also fixes a pre-existing bug the store path made visible: the backend channel hardcoded op_type "backend_install" even for a removal, while the model channel derives model_install/model_delete from op.Delete. Both channels carry the same ManagementOp, whose Delete field the backend handler already branches on, so the backend channel now derives backend_delete the same way. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): keep a cancelled operation cancelled, and report a failed clear Review follow-up on the store-backed Activity record. A cancelled install was recorded as a failure. The cancel handler persists "cancelled" synchronously, then the handler goroutine unwinds with the context error and Start hands that to updateError unconditionally, which overwrote the row with "failed: context canceled". The page rendered a cancelled install as a red failure card offering Retry, with a raw context error as the reason. Fixed in GalleryStore rather than in Start, because an operation finishes once and the paths that retire one are not mutually exclusive: UpdateStatus now refuses to rewrite a row that already reached a terminal status. That also pins updated_at to when the operation really finished, which is the key the record is ordered by, and Create's upsert now freezes the same columns so a worker dequeuing an operation the admin cancelled while it was queued cannot reopen it as pending. ClearHistory returned nothing, so a failed delete logged a warning while the handler still answered 200. The admin watched the record clear and come back on the next fetch with nothing said about why. It now returns the error, the DELETE handler answers 500, and the store is cleared before the local ring so a failure leaves the fallback record intact rather than faking an empty one. Hydrate is the only reader that decides from op_type whether an operation is a removal, and it tested for "model_delete" exactly, so the backend_delete added in the previous commit hydrated as an install: a replica restarting during a backend removal rendered "Installing backend X". Both discriminations now go through IsDeleteOpType/IsBackendOpType so a fifth op_type cannot silently read as an install in whichever consumer was missed. Also: the backend channel now persists Cancellable as !op.Delete, matching the model channel; IsBackend falls back to the op_type prefix, since is_backend_op is only written by UpsertCacheKey and the rows needing the name fallback were reporting backend operations as models; and an unrecognized terminal status is logged rather than quietly filed as a success, which is what the comment already claimed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): keep a reaped operation correctable by its real outcome The terminal-status freeze added in the previous commit was too wide. It froze "failed" alongside "completed" and "cancelled", and the stale reaper writes "failed" onto operations that are still going to run. The gallery worker is a single goroutine consuming both channels serially, so an operation queued behind a large download sits in "pending" with nothing bumping updated_at, and ReapStaleOperations gives up on it after 30 minutes. That used to be self-healing: the worker dequeued it, Create reset the row to "pending", and the operation reported its real outcome. With the freeze the row stayed "failed" forever while the install ran and succeeded underneath it: a red failure card offering Retry for a model that is installed, omitted from ListActive so no replica hydrates it, and no longer deduped cluster-wide by FindDuplicate. Freeze on ("completed", "cancelled") instead. That is all the cancelled-install fix ever needed, and it leaves a failure correctable by what actually happened. The set is separate from terminalStatuses, which ListTerminal, ClearTerminal and CleanOld all still want in full, because the two mean different things: a failure can be superseded by a real outcome, a completion or a cancellation is the real outcome. UpdateStatus now writes the error column unconditionally, so a corrected outcome drops the previous attempt's reason rather than being recorded as completed while still carrying "stale operation reaped" as its error. Also adds the route-level spec for the 500 branch of DELETE /api/operations/history, and trims a comment that credited the persisted cancellable column with more than it survives long enough to do. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): offer Cancel in the phase that can honour it The cancellable flag was set at both ends of an operation's life and was wrong at both, in opposite directions. A queued operation is cancellable whatever it is. EnqueueModelOp and EnqueueBackendOp select on the operation context, so cancelling one that is still waiting releases the delivery goroutine and abandonQueued retires it: the worker never sees it, nothing is downloaded, nothing is deleted. markQueued nevertheless wrote Cancellable: !deletion, so a queued removal reported cancellable: false and the UI hid the Cancel button in the one window where pressing it both works and leaves no trace. A removal queued behind a large install was stuck there until the install finished. A running removal is not cancellable at all. DeleteModel and DeleteBackend take no context, and modelHandler only checks the operation context after the call returns, so a "cancelled" verdict would land after the model was already gone. Both handlers nevertheless wrote Cancellable: true unconditionally at entry, ahead of the op.Delete branch, offering a Cancel button the server cannot honour. So the queued phase is more cancellable than the running phase, which is the reverse of the usual shape. markQueued now reports true unconditionally, and the handler-entry writes report !op.Delete. Both sites carry a comment saying why, because reading either one alone suggests the other is a bug. GalleryStore.Create keeps !op.Delete: it runs at dequeue, so its value already describes the running phase. Its comment now says so. Specs cover queued removal, queued install, running removal and running install through the handlers, plus the queued-removal case through /api/operations where the flag is consumed, plus the behaviour the whole asymmetry rests on: a removal cancelled while queued never reaches the worker and deletes nothing. No existing spec asserted the old values. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(activity): clamp the installer message, and add a real-binary e2e spec Running the page against a real local-ai showed the legacy installer message wrapping to three lines and dominating the card: it embeds an absolute file path, so it is both long and a single unbreakable token. One line, ellipsised, full text in the title, matching what the error string already does. The spec that found it runs with no route stubbing at all. Every other spec here stubs /api/operations, which is how a payload the server cannot emit (isDeletion true on a live operation) stayed green through a full review while the UI rendered a removal as an install. It is skipped unless LOCALAI_REAL_BINARY is set, so CI is unaffected. 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fix(nodes): never schedule a model onto a node that cannot store it (#11054)
* fix(nodes): never schedule a model onto a node that cannot store it
A worker whose models filesystem was 100% full kept advertising
`status: healthy`, stayed a scheduling candidate, was picked to host a
70 GB video model, accepted the staging request, transferred ~17 GB and
only then failed:
staging .../whisper-large-v3/model.fp32-00001-of-00002.safetensors:
upload to node b7bacbf4-... failed with status 500:
writing file: /models/longcat-video-avatar-1.5/...: no space left on device
The node was at 937G/937G/0-avail. Total elapsed before the truth
surfaced: 16 minutes, for a decision that could never have succeeded.
The worker health signal only ever proved liveness. `/readyz`
(WorkerReadiness/NATSReadiness) checks the NATS link; `status: healthy`
in the registry is driven by heartbeat recency. Node capacity carried
VRAM and RAM but no disk figure at all, and the router compared model
size against VRAM only — nothing anywhere looked at free space on the
filesystem that staging actually writes to.
Report it, then use it:
- Workers now measure the filesystem backing their MODELS directory
(not `/` -- staged weights land in the models path, and that mount is
very often separate) and report `total_disk`/`available_disk` on
registration and on every heartbeat. Free disk moves faster than VRAM
under staging traffic, so the per-heartbeat refresh matters.
- The SmartRouter drops nodes that cannot store the model before it
picks one. The requirement comes from `modelPayloadBytes` -- the same
local paths `stageModelFiles` uploads, already computed for the
size-derived load budget -- plus a 5% / 1 GiB margin, rather than a
fixed percentage of the node's disk. A percentage threshold would take
a small-but-usable node out of rotation for models it could hold, and
on a homogeneous cluster would strand every node at once.
- When no node fits, scheduling fails immediately with an error naming
the requirement and each node's free space, instead of picking one and
discovering it mid-transfer.
Two deliberate non-changes. Low disk does not mark a node `unhealthy`:
the check is per model, so a node too small for one model stays a valid
target for smaller ones. And `total_disk == 0` means "does not report
disk" (pre-upgrade worker, or a failed stat), not "full" -- such nodes
pass through untouched so a rolling upgrade never empties the candidate
pool. A genuinely full node is distinguishable: non-zero total, zero
available. Registry read failures are logged and scheduling continues
unfiltered; a database hiccup must not wedge a cluster.
Free space is surfaced on the node detail page next to VRAM, since the
incident's signature was a node that looked entirely healthy.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash]
* feat(nodes): make the disk-headroom check operator-controllable
The admission check added in the previous commit had no off switch. A
scheduler-side veto with no escape hatch is a liability: our size
estimate can be wrong (deduplicating or compressing filesystems, a
backend that fetches its own weights rather than loading the staged
copy), and an operator who hits that has no way out but a downgrade.
Add one knob with two surfaces that share a single source of truth:
- `--distributed-disk-headroom-check` / `LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_DISK_HEADROOM_CHECK`
(default true), following the `--distributed-prefix-cache` pattern for
a default-on distributed feature.
- `distributed_disk_headroom_check` in the runtime-settings registry, so
it can be flipped without a restart from `POST /api/settings` and from
Settings -> Distributed in the WebUI.
Both write `DistributedConfig.DiskHeadroomDisabled`, and the SmartRouter
reads that member LIVE on every scheduling decision through a closure
over the application config rather than a value snapshotted at
construction. Env/CLI sets the boot value, the runtime setting overrides
it live, last write wins, and there is exactly one member to read.
Snapshotting would have made the runtime toggle a no-op until restart.
Disabled means WARN, not SKIP. Selection goes back to ignoring free disk
-- byte for byte the pre-check behaviour -- but the check still runs, and
when it would have rejected every node it says so, naming the knob that
suppressed it. Going quiet when switched off would reproduce the exact
condition that made the original incident expensive: a cluster doing
something that could not work and saying nothing. Disabling is also
logged once at startup. Warning only on the total-rejection case keeps
it actionable rather than chatty on a heterogeneous cluster.
Also fixes a false positive in the check itself: shared-models mode
(LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS) stages nothing at all -- every node
already mounts this models directory at this path -- so demanding the
full checkpoint size of free space per node would have rejected a
cluster that needs no new bytes. The check is skipped there entirely.
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fix(distributed): scale the remote model-load deadline with checkpoint size (#11030)
The gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel call was a fixed 5m. It starts
only after the backend install and file staging have completed, so it
covers the worker's checkpoint read and pipeline init alone - work whose
duration is proportional to the bytes on disk. A fixed value is therefore
a model-size cliff, not a timeout.
Measured in production: a 70 GB video checkpoint (longcat-video-avatar-1.5)
on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor worker failed reproducibly with
"rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded" after 953.5s of wall clock. Backend
install plus staging consumed ~11m, then LoadModel got its 5m and expired.
The load never had a chance, and the operator saw only a generic
DeadlineExceeded with no hint that a config value was the cause.
Raising the constant does not fix this. It moves the cliff to the next
larger model - the cluster has to support 600 GB checkpoints - and it makes
a genuinely wedged SMALL model hang for the whole inflated duration before
anyone notices, which is a real regression in failure latency.
So derive the budget from the checkpoint size instead:
budget = 5m + 20s/GiB, capped at 6h
2 GiB -> 5m40s, 70 GiB -> 28m20s, 600 GiB -> 3h25m. The per-GiB rate is
deliberately pessimistic (~54 MB/s of weight read) because the errors are
not symmetric: too long costs only failure latency on a load that was going
to fail anyway, too short is a guaranteed false failure on a healthy load.
The size is measured from the frontend's local model files, over the same
path set stageModelFiles uploads. When those files are not present locally -
a backend handed a bare HuggingFace repo id fetches its own weights on the
worker - there is nothing to measure and the budget stays at today's 5m.
An explicit LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT still wins outright, in both
directions: a shorter override is honoured, so an operator who wants fast
failure is not silently extended by the heuristic.
The cold-load hold needed widening to match. It extends on staging progress,
but LoadModel reports none, so once the last byte lands the hold expires a
stall window later and would cancel a load still well inside its own budget.
scheduleAndLoad now extends the hold by the load budget plus the staging
margin as it enters the load phase; ModelLoadCeilingFor stays the hold's
starting budget rather than its maximum.
Finally, a deadline that does expire now names the budget, the checkpoint
size it was derived from, and the knob that overrides it, instead of
surfacing a bare "context deadline exceeded".
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fix(distributed): count staging verification as progress, not as a stall (#11026)
Testing the progress-based cold-load deadline on the live cluster surfaced a false positive. The stall window observed UPLOAD bytes only, but the staging path has a phase that does real work while moving zero upload bytes: the resumable-upload verify phase. When a shard is already present on the worker from an earlier attempt, the frontend HEADs it, hashes the local copy to confirm it matches, and skips the transfer. Staging a 70 GB model with 56 GB already staged: 17:27:34 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... 17:28:20 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... 17:29:07 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... ... six-plus consecutive minutes, no bytes uploaded at all ~45s per skipped ~4 GB shard. That is correct and desirable - it is what makes resume work - but it was indistinguishable from a stall. At 45s per shard it sits inside the 5m window, so the run in flight was fine; the problem is the 600 GB scale this machinery exists to enable, where one shard can plausibly hash for longer than the window. The guard would then fire during verification of a transfer that is working perfectly. Verified mechanism: probeExisting() HEADs the worker and then calls downloader.CalculateSHA(). The staging progress callback is only consulted inside doUpload(), which the skip path never reaches, so observeLoadProgress was called zero times for the whole verify phase. Verification exposed a second, worse bug in the same path: CalculateSHA consults no context at all. An expired cold load kept hashing to completion, compared the hashes, and returned success - reporting a file as staged on a dead load. The failure only surfaced on the NEXT file, whose HEAD died immediately. That is exactly the shape of the red test here, which fails on shard 3. Fix: hash in 1 MiB chunks via hashFileWithActivity(), ticking the cold-load deadline per chunk and checking ctx per chunk. A successful HEAD also counts, since a 200 with a content hash proves the worker is serving right now. Counting hash progress does not make a dead transfer look alive: hashing is bounded, terminating work proportional to file size, in probeExisting it runs only after a HEAD proved the worker was up, and the 24h absolute cap still bounds the whole hold. The alternative of simply widening the window was rejected - it would reintroduce the size cliff this work removes. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(distributed): make the cold-load hold scale with progress, not wall-clock (#11019)
A 70 GB video checkpoint (longcat-video-avatar-1.5) could not be loaded on a
distributed cluster. The request failed with HTTP 500 after 1499.98s - exactly
the 25m00s cold-load ceiling - while staging was demonstrably healthy: 26 of 57
files and 39 GB transferred at a sustained ~26 MB/s, zero errors, no stalls. It
was not wedged, it was killed by a timer.
ModelLoadCeilingFor covers node selection, backend install, file staging and the
remote LoadModel. Install and load carry their own budgets; staging was covered
only by a FIXED 5-minute margin. But staging time is bytes over bandwidth, not a
constant: 70 GB at 26 MB/s needs ~45m against a 25m ceiling, so the failure is
deterministic for any sufficiently large model rather than a flake. Simply
raising the constant moves the cliff to the next model size - the deployment
target here is checkpoints of 600 GB and beyond.
The ceiling's real purpose is that "a wedged worker can never pin the lock
indefinitely". Progress, not elapsed time, is what distinguishes a wedged worker
from a large one. The hold is now a deadline that extends whenever the transfer
reports bytes and expires a 5-minute stall window after they stop:
- A large model transferring fine continues, for hours if needed.
- A worker that died mid-transfer still fails within the stall window.
Progress is observed at byte level on the transfer itself, via the existing
staging progress callback. Per-file completion would be too coarse - a single
600 GB shard would be indistinguishable from a stall for hours. The observation
point is back-pressured by the socket, so it reflects the network rather than
local disk reads. Observation is coarsened to one timer touch per stall/20 so
the per-read callback stays cheap.
The base budget (unchanged, and still derived from the install and load
timeouts) continues to cover the steps that report no progress, so
LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT keeps working exactly as before. An absolute
cap of 24h bounds the hold even while progress keeps arriving, so a peer
trickling bytes forever cannot pin the advisory lock; 600 GB at the measured
26 MB/s is ~6.5h, so the cap sits far above any legitimate transfer.
Also fixes the incoherent layering the same error exposed: the resumable upload
carried a 1h retry budget nested inside the 25m ceiling, so the inner budget was
unreachable and the message still blamed it ("failed after 1 attempts within
1h0m0s budget") while the 25m parent was the actual killer. The upload now
adopts the caller's deadline when there is one, and applies its fixed budget
only when nothing above bounded it - which also stops a fixed 1h from
reintroducing the size cliff under the now-extendable parent.
This is the successor to #10968, where a hardcoded 5-minute LoadModel gRPC
timeout was replaced by this derived ceiling. Fixing the inner timeout exposed
the outer ceiling as the new binding constraint.
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fix(worker): give the worker a real health endpoint and a mode-aware HEALTHCHECK (#10999)
fix(worker): give the worker a real health endpoint (#10987) The image bakes in a single HEALTHCHECK that curls http://localhost:8080/readyz, but the same image also runs `local-ai worker`, which serves HTTP on the gRPC base port minus one and never binds 8080. Every worker container was therefore permanently `unhealthy` (43 consecutive failures observed on a production node), which is worse than having no healthcheck: a genuinely broken worker and a perfectly good one both report `unhealthy`, so the signal carries no information and orchestration that keys on it misbehaves. The worker already served /readyz on that port via the file-transfer server, but as a constant 200 — it only proved the listener was bound, which is precisely the failure mode at issue. Readiness now tracks the live NATS connection: all of a worker's actual work (backend lifecycle events, inference dispatch, file staging) arrives over NATS, so a worker whose link is dead is up and useless. Registration is already implied, since the server only starts after registration succeeds. This reports something the controller cannot already see. The node registry's status/last_heartbeat is fed by an HTTP heartbeat to the frontend, a different network path from NATS — a worker can keep heartbeating while its NATS connection is dead and still look healthy in the registry. /healthz stays a constant 200: liveness must not follow readiness, or a NATS blip becomes a cluster-wide restart storm. The HEALTHCHECK is now a script that derives its endpoint from the mode the container is actually running plus the env vars that configure the bind address, so a frontend moved off 8080 with LOCALAI_ADDRESS (broken the same way) and a worker on a non-default base port are both probed correctly. Modes with no HTTP surface (agent-worker, one-shot commands) report healthy rather than false-unhealthy. HEALTHCHECK_ENDPOINT remains as an explicit override, so the workaround shipped in docker-compose.distributed.yaml keeps working; both overrides in that file are now unnecessary and have been removed. Also fixes the latent --start-period gap. Since #10949 a frontend's startup preload materializes HuggingFace artifacts before the HTTP server binds (31 GB observed on a live cluster), so a healthy replica can legitimately fail probes for a long time. --start-period is Docker's knob for exactly this: failures inside it leave the container `starting` instead of burning retries, and it ends early on the first success, so a generous 60m costs a fast-starting container nothing. --timeout drops from 10m to 10s — it is a per-probe deadline, and a localhost curl that has not answered in 10s is itself the fault being detected. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(worker): bound the gRPC port allocator and stop leaking dead backends' ports (#10968)
The worker's gRPC port allocator grew monotonically with no upper bound: nextPort started at the base port and incremented whenever freePorts was empty, and nothing checked 65535. Past that it handed out integers that cannot be bound, surfacing as an opaque "backend won't start". #10961 estimated this needed ~15,000 concurrent-peak allocations, i.e. effectively unreachable. It is not, because of a second defect: the "process died unexpectedly" branch in startBackend deleted the process map entry without releasing its port at all. That port was leaked, never quarantined and never reused. A crash-looping backend leaks one port per restart, so a backend dying every 30s walks 50051 to 65535 in about five days. The leak, not concurrent peak, is the realistic route to exhaustion. Fixing the leak alone would have been wrong. Releasing that port makes it re-bindable, and the death path is the one teardown path with no request/reply to carry StoppedProcessKeys back to the controller (#10952's eager row removal), so a stale NodeModel row could then resolve to a live listener belonging to a different backend. probeHealth verifies liveness, not identity, so the request is silently misrouted. The 15s port quarantine does not cover this: the only reaper is the per-model health check at ~45s, and it can be disabled outright. The residual was masked only because the port was never rebound. So both are fixed together: - The allocator takes an explicit [basePort, LOCALAI_GRPC_MAX_PORT] range and returns ErrNoFreePort naming the range, the live backend count, the quarantined count, and the knob to raise. Exhaustion is now diagnosable instead of surfacing as an unbindable port. - Released ports carry per-key affinity: a port is offered back to the process key that last held it before any other key. Process keys (modelID#replica) and NodeModel rows (nodeID, modelName, replicaIndex) are isomorphic, so a port that can only be re-bound by its previous owner can only ever be named by that owner's row, which that key's re-registration overwrites. Misrouting to a different model becomes impossible by construction rather than by racing the quarantine timer. Affinity is a preference, not a reservation: under range pressure an owned port is stolen with a warning, because a guaranteed outage is worse than a rare misroute window on a port long out of quarantine. Claiming a port evicts its previous owner's entry, keeping ownership injective over ports so the affinity map can never exceed the range width regardless of how many distinct model keys the worker sees. Ownership also expires. It is only load-bearing while a controller row could still name the port, which the per-model reaper bounds at roughly 45s, so it lapses after five minutes and the port becomes ordinary free space again. Holding it indefinitely would have made every distinct model the worker ever served consume a port permanently: every release path is keyed, so nothing would ever be unowned, the allocator would climb to the end of its range on distinct-key count rather than concurrency, stealing would become routine, and the steal warning would tell operators to widen a range that was not the constraint. With expiry, reaching the steal branch means the worker is genuinely out of concurrent capacity, so that advice is correct when it appears. Closes #10961 Closes #10952 Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(distributed): configurable remote model-load timeout, and reap the load when it times out (#10948)
* fix(distributed): make the remote LoadModel deadline configurable
The router hardcoded a 5 minute gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel
call. Staging finishes before the timer starts, so those five minutes
cover only the worker backend's own checkpoint load and pipeline init.
A cold load of meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5 (~83 GB) on an
ARM64 Thor worker fails at exactly 302s with DeadlineExceeded while the
backend process is still making progress (CPU time accumulating, RSS
moving as weights are mapped), so the load was cut short rather than
wedged.
Add LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT / --model-load-timeout mirroring the
existing backend-install timeout knob, defaulting to 5m so unset
clusters keep today's behaviour.
The cold-load hold ceiling (which bounds how long one load may hold the
per-model advisory lock) was derived from the install timeout alone, so
raising the load deadline past it would have been silently clipped.
Derive it from both budgets via ModelLoadCeilingFor:
max(install + load + 5m staging margin, 25m)
With the defaults that is 15m + 5m + 5m = 25m, identical to the previous
constant, and the 25m floor means shrinking either budget can never
tighten the ceiling below what clusters relied on before.
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* fix(distributed): reap the abandoned replica when a remote load times out
The gRPC deadline on the remote LoadModel call only cancels the client
side. A backend blocked in a synchronous weight load never observes its
cancelled handler context, so when scheduleAndLoad gave up it left the
worker loading with nobody waiting for the result.
Observed on an ARM64 Thor worker loading LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5: the
client returned DeadlineExceeded at 302s, and the backend process was
still alive 30 minutes later having pulled ~57GB from HuggingFace. Every
retry stacked another multi-GB loader on the worker; they had to be
reaped by hand via POST /api/nodes/:id/models/unload.
Send backend.stop for the exact `modelID#replicaIndex` process key we
just abandoned. The exact key matters: a bare model ID stops every
replica on that node, including healthy ones serving traffic.
Only a deadline or cancellation triggers the reap. Any other LoadModel
failure is the backend answering, which means its handler returned and
the process is idle - stopping it there would discard a warm process and
its downloaded weights. The reap is best-effort and never replaces the
load error the caller is waiting on.
The `modelID#replicaIndex` format was already hand-rolled in two places
(the worker's buildProcessKey and pkg/model's log store). Rather than add
a third, export model.BackendProcessKey from pkg/model, the lowest common
dependency of both sides.
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docs: onboarding overhaul, dedup, and error docs (#7711) (#10895)
* docs: fix CPU image tag (latest, not latest-cpu) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: use canonical localai/localai registry in models guide Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: replace dead llama-stable backend with llama-cpp Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: correct mitm-proxy intercept config and redaction tier Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fix text-to-audio endpoint and broken notice block Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fix VAD example, stale FAQ, broken link, CLI list, whats-new dump Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: render advanced/reference section indexes (consolidate _index) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: remove duplicate getting-started build/kubernetes pages Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fold container image reference into installation/containers Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: remove stale advanced fine-tuning page (superseded by features/fine-tuning) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: fold distribution/longcat/sound pages into their parents Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: make getting-started index accurate and complete Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: carry one concrete model through the getting-started path Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add end-to-end 'build your first agent' walkthrough Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add runtime errors reference; consolidate troubleshooting from FAQ Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add agent actions catalog Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: agent-scoped MCP, skills walkthrough, agentic disambiguation Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add concrete gallery install lines to media feature pages Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: merge installation into getting-started (URLs preserved via aliases) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add Operations section; move operator pages and P2P API reference Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: journey-ordered top nav and grouped feature sections Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: add docs-with-code process gate (PR template + agent instructions) Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: remove em/en dashes from documentation prose Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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feat(vram): per-node VRAM allocation budget (LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET) (#10833)
* feat(vram): add vrambudget primitive for per-node VRAM caps Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): apply default VRAM budget in xsysinfo aggregate getters Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): wire LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET flag to xsysinfo default budget Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): persist VRAM budget via runtime settings with live apply Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(vram): reset process-global VRAM budget after runtime-settings spec Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add VRAM budget field to Settings page Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): store and enforce per-node VRAM budget in the node registry Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): apply per-node VRAM budget in router hardware defaults Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): report worker VRAM budget in node registration The distributed worker now reports its operator-set VRAM budget string (LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET) to the server on registration. The worker keeps reporting RAW total/available VRAM and never sets the xsysinfo process-global budget (that stays standalone-only); the server resolves and enforces the budget uniformly (Task 6). Also closes a Task 6 gap: on re-registration, a struct Updates zero-skips an empty budget, so a worker that dropped LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET left the stale cap in place. For non-admin-override nodes the budget columns are now force-written (map Updates) even when empty, so removing the env var clears the cap; admin overrides are preserved unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(vram): drop em dash from worker-clear comment Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add node VRAM budget admin endpoints Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add node VRAM budget control to the node UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): expose set_node_vram_budget MCP admin tool Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(vram): document LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET and node VRAM budget UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(vram): avoid double-applying VRAM budget in GetResourceAggregateInfo The GPU-branch aggregate returned by GetResourceInfo is sourced from GetGPUAggregateInfo, which already caps total/free/used against the process-wide VRAM budget. GetResourceAggregateInfo then applied the budget a second time. For an absolute budget this is idempotent, but for a percentage budget b.Apply resolves the ceiling as a fraction of its input total, so a second pass yields P*(P*T) instead of P*T and distorts UsagePercent (read by the memory reclaimer in pkg/model/watchdog.go). Remove the redundant second application so the budget is applied exactly once, against the raw physical totals, upstream in GetGPUAggregateInfo. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(vram): implement SetNodeVRAMBudget on mcp assistant test stub The LocalAIClient interface gained SetNodeVRAMBudget; the stubClient in core/http/endpoints/mcp used by the assistant tests is a separate implementer and needs the method too (broke golangci-lint typecheck and both test jobs). Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |
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fix(distributed): make per-node backend upgrade actually upgrade (#10838)
* test(core/http): make the suite's HTTP port overridable app_test.go and openresponses_test.go hardcoded 127.0.0.1:9090. When another service already listens on 9090 the suite does not fail fast: the server goroutine logs the bind error and the specs then poll whatever is squatting the port until Eventually times out. On machines where 9090 is permanently taken this makes the pre-commit coverage gate impossible to pass. Introduce testHTTPAddr, defaulting to 127.0.0.1:9090 (what CI has always used) and overridable via LOCALAI_TEST_HTTP_PORT for local runs. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 golangci-lint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(distributed): make per-node backend upgrade actually upgrade The node detail page's Upgrade button reused the node-scoped install path (POST /api/nodes/:id/backends/install). That fires NATS backend.install with force=false, and the worker's install handler is deliberately "ensure installed": when the backend binary already exists on disk it short-circuits without touching the gallery. Since only an installed backend can be upgraded, the whole chain was a guaranteed successful no-op - the UI then toasted "backend upgraded" without even waiting for the async job. Route upgrades through the real force-reinstall path instead: - BackendManager.UpgradeBackend now receives the ManagementOp (like InstallBackend already did) so implementations can honor op.TargetNodeID. - DistributedBackendManager.UpgradeBackend scopes the backend.upgrade fan-out to op.TargetNodeID when set, and errors when the target node does not report the backend as installed. - New POST /api/nodes/:id/backends/upgrade endpoint enqueues an Upgrade=true node-scoped op (async 202 + jobID, mirroring install). - NodeDetail UI calls the new endpoint and reports the dispatch ("Upgrading ... on this node...") instead of claiming success; the Operations panel tracks the actual job. Verified against a live local cluster (NATS + Postgres + two workers): the target worker stops the running process, force-reinstalls from the gallery and re-downloads the OCI image; the second worker receives no backend.upgrade event; upgrading a backend missing from the target node fails the job with a clear error. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 golangci-lint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> |