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mainis red on5d2e20b1, but no test failed. Every suite in thetest cartopolisjob passed — 912 incartopolis, 251 incartopolis_geo, 108 incartopolis_simulator, plus the rest — andcargo fmt --checkpassed too. The job died because theHeadless flicker smoke (street)step hit its wall-clock ceiling (.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml:472-487,timeout-minutes: 15). The runner loggedcontext deadline exceededand killed the process; because the step was killed rather than exited, the step's own|| { cat /tmp/flicker.json }diagnostic never ran, so the job handed back no metrics at all.The failing job's log is job id
1350(GET $FORGEJO_API/repos/$FORGEJO_REPO/actions/jobs/1350/logs). Note the run-id trap:actions/runs/723/jobsresolves723as a run id, not the run number shown in the UI, and returns a different day's job.What the smoke actually did
dcfa1426, job 1324, 09-09 18:43b5a9c9ad, job 1331, 09-09 21:215d2e20b1, job 1350, 09-10 11:34flicker_px=505)fetch_count/fetch_mbfetch_ttfb_ms(cumulative)fetch_errorsworker_splitlod22 / surfacesdraws/frame_msgrass_slotsradius_biasTwo independent readings, one conclusion:
draws1275 → 1302 andframe_ms2837 → 3031 across the whole window. The grass work of4e77f8e/04b9844(slots 1.51 M → 2.40 M) costs about 7 % of a frame and is not what broke this.The bisect
git log --name-only dcfa142..b5a9c9agives exactly one commit that touches the client:1377721 perf(map): bound, order and share the per-cell streaming path(27 files, +1947/−237). The other two commits in the window aretools/autopilot.ts(b488d29,99e942d), which cannot change a frame, andb5a9c9aitself, which rewraps one expression incrates/cartopolis/src/utils/sun.rs.1377721did not touch the settle test — itsshot_harness.rsdiff only adds thefetch_outstandingandradius_biasreadouts. So the harness is measuring the client honestly; the client got slower.Two things inside that commit are candidates, and they are separable:
platform::fetch_gate::capacity()isio_threads × 4floored at 16 (crates/cartopolis/src/platform/fetch_gate.rs:116-120,CAPACITY_PER_IO_THREADat:87,FALLBACK_CAPACITYat:82). The CI container reportsmap streaming initialized io=4 cpu=7in both the green and red runs, so capacity there is 16 — against the "~55 simultaneous jobs" the commit body says existed before. On a link whose cumulative TTFB for one street scene is 36 s, cutting concurrency by ~3.5× lands directly on wall clock. This part is deliberate and exists to protect a handset's 4-thread IO pool.fetch_mb88 → 141 (+60 %),lod22worker jobs 25 → 50,surfaces17 → 26. A concurrency cap changes when bytes arrive, never how many. Something in the commit widened what the street viewpoint streams. It is notload_controltightening or relaxing the ring —radius_bias=0in both red runs, andload_control::radiusreduces to the oldbudget().radius(base)when the bias is 0 (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/map/load_control.rs:152-160). It is not thecell_bundle404 probe either; that latched once, 0.3 s into the run (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/map/cell_bundle.rs:97-206, and the log's singlethis host serves no cell bundlesline). I have not established the mechanism — that needs a build, which this pass may not do.The second, older problem the timeout exposed
--waitcannot bound this step, and never could.progress.elapsed += time.delta_secs()uses the virtual clock (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/dev/shot_harness.rs:2514, and the comment at:2517-2520contrasts it withrealon purpose), which Bevy clamps at 0.25 s per frame.--wait 120is therefore at least 480 frames; at the ~3 s/frame this viewpoint costs on lavapipe that is up to 24 minutes per capture, and--flickertakes two. The 15-minute step ceiling is unreachable by the flag under it. When the scene does not settle early, the runner kills the process and the step's metrics dump — the one thing that would explain the red — never prints.The green run had 2 m 48 s of headroom on a box shared with nominatim, overpass and every other agent's build. That is not a margin.
Approach
Two parts. Do them in this order; the first is the cause and the second stops the next slow run being opaque.
Part 1 — recover the street-level streaming time (
crates/cartopolis).Measure first, then decide. Reproduce the flicker viewpoint at
1377721and at its parentdcfa1426, and readfetch_count/fetch_mb/worker_splitout of--dump-statefor each. Then:lod22/surfacesjob counts are recoverable — i.e. the commit is fetching or meshing cells it did not need to — fix that. Likely places, in the order the evidence points:systems::cell_bundle's interaction with the six per-part loaders it prefills for (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/map/cell_bundle.rs:114-193— the parts are meant to be read back out of cache, so a loader that re-requests instead would double the fetch),platform::cell_source's unified gate/cache/breaker/request sequence, andlod22'sNear/Farbuild path (crates/cartopolis/src/systems/map/lod22.rs:87-118,:636-698; withLOD22_RADIUS = 2at:77andlast_door_rank() = 1, a static camera should build each of the 25 cells once, so 50 jobs wants explaining).Part 2 — make the gate legible and give it a budget it can meet (
.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml, possiblyshot_harness).The step must fail with its metrics rather than being killed silently. The cleanest shape is for the harness to bound a capture in wall clock so
--shotexits non-zero with a dump before the runner's deadline; atimeout-minutesraise alone re-buys margin without fixing the silence. Whatever the shape, the step's ceiling and the harness's ceiling have to be stated in terms of each other, and the reasoning goes next to the step inci.ymllike the four constraints already there.Acceptance criteria
cargo test --locked --workspace --exclude cartopolis_androidis green (it already is; this is a regression check, not the fix).1377721baseline of 5 m 53 s on the CI container, and against1377721's 10 m 04 s.fetch_mbandfetch_countat that viewpoint are measured at the branch head and compared against 88.2 MB / 332 (green) and 138.5 MB / 356 (red). Either the gap is closed, or the commit body states with the measurement why each remaining megabyte is intended.Headless flicker smoke (street)step completes inside itstimeout-minuteson the CI runner, with margin stated in the commit body — not "it passed once"./tmp/flicker.json, instead of being killed by the runner with no output. Demonstrate it (e.g. an artificially tiny wall-clock bound locally).flicker_pxat this viewpoint stays under 1500 — the thing the gate is actually for. The green run measured 505 (job 1324) and 461 (job 1319).cargo fmt --checkclean over the five owned crates (big_spaceexcluded, as the gate excludes it).docs/notes/streaming-order-and-residency.mdrecords what this cost and what was recovered — it is the note1377721wrote for exactly this, and the CI wall-clock consequence is a standing fact that belongs in it.maingoes green, andtools/deploy-main's gate (tools/deploy-main:84-92) passes for the resulting sha.Verification
Cannot be run in this pass — all of these build.
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fetch_count,fetch_mb,fetch_ttfb_ms,worker_split,draws,frame_msandsettledout of the JSON dumps; take shot-1 wall clock from the gap between thecamera placed shot=1andshot state shot=1log lines, not fromsettled_in(that is virtual seconds and does not track wall clock on a slow renderer).Note on the renderer here. This refinement brief says
--shotdoes not work in this container. The repo's ownCLAUDE.md("How to actually see what the code renders", corrected 2026-08-15) and theheadless-shots-run-in-this-containermemory both say the opposite — Mesa lavapipe is installed and headless--shotrenders. The CI runner's own dumps reportsoftware_renderer=true, i.e. the same path. The implementer should try the command; if it fails, the whole of Verification moves to a workstation or the Steam Deck GPU runner, and the timing comparison must then be taken on one machine, since every number above is wall clock on a shared box.Colour is not evidence here. Whatever else this touches, nothing in this gate may assert on colour, exposure, bloom or lighting —
docs/notes/headless-shots-software-renderer.md, and theci.ymlcomment at:427-432says the same.Out of scope
bc1dfdb,4e77f8e,04b9844,b5acac0,5d2e20b). They are the head ofmainand the natural suspects, and the numbers clear them: the smoke was already timing out atb5a9c9ad, twelve hours before any of them landed, with identicalgrass_slotsanddraws. Their combined cost isframe_ms2837 → 3031. Do not revert them.1377721wholesale. Its handset case is real — 991 MB → 371 MB over Groningen — and the commit body says why the five seams landed together. The work is to recover what it cost at street level, not to undo it.Headless scene smoke (orbit)and(orbit, phone tier)both passed in the failing run (18.3 s and clean). Leave them alone.crates/geo's allocation budgets.RENDER_DENSE_ALLOCSwas raised to 1,170 inb5acac0and passes.main's other red history. Runs 1110/1113/1114/1117 were red for acargo fmtfailure inutils/sun.rs, fixed byb5a9c9ad. That is a separate, already-closed cause.Open questions
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mainthat CI ran for is5d2e20b1, and it did not pass:test cartopolis— failureNothing can be deployed while this stands —
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e3ea1346,cargo test --locked --workspace --exclude cartopolis_androidexits 0 andcargo fmt --checkover the five owned crates exits 0 (nightly run, 2026-09-26 23:5x UTC, slot vps-1). Closing.