fix(core): share one LMDB env per path within a process - #775
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds process-wide LMDB environment pooling. Trackers share compatible environments, coordinate database opening and garbage collection, reject conflicting specifications, and support exclusive destruction. Auxiliary finders receive configured persistence paths. Rust and Bun tests cover sharing and multi-session use. ChangesLMDB environment pooling
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR changes LMDB environment sharing and size-cap cleanup; concurrent processes using the same database can become desynchronized when database files are removed, while pooled opens and teardown may be unnecessarily serialized. The external-root test also does not reliably prove that the requested path is forwarded, so the PR should not merge without addressing these risks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Tracker
participant SharedEnv
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Tracker->>SharedEnv: get_or_open database path and specification
SharedEnv->>LMDB: open or reuse environment
LMDB-->>SharedEnv: environment handle and health
SharedEnv-->>Tracker: shared environment
Tracker->>SharedEnv: lock DBI opening
SharedEnv->>LMDB: open database
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SharedDb->>SharedEnv: request destruction
SharedEnv->>SharedEnv: check remaining holders
SharedEnv->>LMDB: close environment
LMDB-->>SharedDb: closing event
SharedDb->>SharedDb: remove database directory
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs`:
- Around line 107-116: The EnvSpecMismatch handling in the environment
validation path must expose whether map_size or max_dbs differs when labels
match. Update the mismatch error payload or message associated with
existing.label, existing.map_size, and existing.max_dbs to include the relevant
existing and requested size values, while preserving the current label mismatch
reporting.
- Around line 87-89: Convert the doc comments above get_or_open and
begin_exclusive_destroy from /// to plain // comments. Reduce the file to no
more than two impl blocks by moving SharedEnv and its associated impls
(including Deref and Debug) into a separate file, while keeping PooledEnv’s Drop
implementation and behavior unchanged.
- Around line 195-207: Update begin_exclusive_destroy and the SharedDb::destroy
flow to mark the environment as destroying before removing the pool entry, keep
that marker active through tracker release and directory deletion, and clear it
only after deletion completes. Make FrecencyTracker::open and QueryTracker::open
reject or wait while the corresponding environment is marked destroying,
preventing reopen until destruction finishes.
- Around line 100-170: Refactor the open flow around lock_pool,
erase_if_oversized, and EnvOpenOptions::open so the POOL mutex is released
before filesystem work or mdb_env_open. Perform the initial lookup under the
lock, open outside it, then re-lock and re-check for an existing entry before
inserting the newly opened PooledEnv; preserve the existing EnvSpecMismatch
handling and EnvAlreadyOpened retry behavior, closing or discarding any losing
duplicate environment as needed.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs` around lines 148 -
186: Same global-mutex-across-I/O issue and remediation.
In `@crates/fff-core/tests/lmdb_env_pool.rs`:
- Around line 1-3: Remove the top-file module comment beginning with “One
process must be able…” from the LMDB environment pool test file, leaving the
test implementation unchanged.
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| /// One process must never hold two LMDB envs over one path (POSIX lock rules), | ||
| /// so opens of an already-pooled canonical path return the shared handle. | ||
| pub(crate) fn get_or_open(db_path: &Path, spec: &EnvSpec) -> Result<SharedEnv> { |
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Guideline breaches: doc comments on non-public items, and four impls in one file.
get_or_open and begin_exclusive_destroy are pub(crate) yet carry /// docs. Convert them to plain // comments. The file also holds four impl blocks (Drop for PooledEnv, Deref for SharedEnv, Debug for SharedEnv, SharedEnv); split SharedEnv into its own file.
As per coding guidelines: "Do not add doc comments to the private functions/structs" and "If there is more than 2 impls in the file - create new file".
Also applies to: 193-195
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs` around lines 87 - 89, Convert the doc
comments above get_or_open and begin_exclusive_destroy from /// to plain //
comments. Reduce the file to no more than two impl blocks by moving SharedEnv
and its associated impls (including Deref and Debug) into a separate file, while
keeping PooledEnv’s Drop implementation and behavior unchanged.
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| loop { | ||
| let mut mid_close = false; | ||
| { | ||
| let mut pool = lock_pool(); | ||
| if let Some(existing) = pool.get(&key).and_then(Weak::upgrade) { | ||
| // Release the map lock before this Arc could drop re-entrantly. | ||
| drop(pool); | ||
| if existing.label != spec.label | ||
| || existing.map_size != spec.map_size | ||
| || existing.max_dbs != spec.max_dbs | ||
| { | ||
| return Err(Error::EnvSpecMismatch { | ||
| path: key, | ||
| open_as: existing.label, | ||
| requested_as: spec.label, | ||
| }); | ||
| } | ||
| return Ok(SharedEnv(existing)); | ||
| } | ||
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| erase_if_oversized(&key, spec); | ||
| let result = unsafe { | ||
| let mut opts = EnvOpenOptions::new(); | ||
| opts.map_size(spec.map_size); | ||
| if spec.max_dbs > 0 { | ||
| opts.max_dbs(spec.max_dbs); | ||
| } | ||
| opts.open(&key) | ||
| }; | ||
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| match result { | ||
| Ok(env) => { | ||
| let entry = Arc::new(PooledEnv { | ||
| env, | ||
| key: key.clone(), | ||
| label: spec.label, | ||
| map_size: spec.map_size, | ||
| max_dbs: spec.max_dbs, | ||
| health: DbHealth::new(), | ||
| gc_started: AtomicBool::new(false), | ||
| dbi_lock: Mutex::new(()), | ||
| }); | ||
| pool.insert(key.clone(), Arc::downgrade(&entry)); | ||
| drop(pool); | ||
| let shared = SharedEnv(entry); | ||
| reclaim_stale_readers(&shared, spec.label); | ||
| return Ok(shared); | ||
| } | ||
| // Same canonical path is mid-close on another thread: wait for | ||
| // heed to signal the real close, then retry. | ||
| Err(heed::Error::EnvAlreadyOpened) => mid_close = true, | ||
| Err(e) | ||
| if is_transient_env_open_error(&e) | ||
| && transient_retries < MAX_TRANSIENT_RETRIES => | ||
| { | ||
| transient_retries += 1; | ||
| tracing::debug!( | ||
| path = %key.display(), | ||
| transient_retries, | ||
| error = ?e, | ||
| "transient LMDB env open error, retrying" | ||
| ); | ||
| } | ||
| Err(e) => { | ||
| return Err(Error::EnvOpen { | ||
| db: spec.label, | ||
| source: e, | ||
| }); | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Release POOL before blocking I/O. get_or_open holds the global pool mutex while erase_if_oversized performs filesystem work and while opts.open(&key) opens LMDB. This serializes unrelated paths and makes PooledEnv::drop wait behind disk or LMDB operations. Look up under the lock, perform cleanup and open outside it, then re-check and insert under the lock; if another thread won, reuse its entry.
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs` around lines 100 - 170, Refactor the
open flow around lock_pool, erase_if_oversized, and EnvOpenOptions::open so the
POOL mutex is released before filesystem work or mdb_env_open. Perform the
initial lookup under the lock, open outside it, then re-lock and re-check for an
existing entry before inserting the newly opened PooledEnv; preserve the
existing EnvSpecMismatch handling and EnvAlreadyOpened retry behavior, closing
or discarding any losing duplicate environment as needed.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs` around lines 148 -
186: Same global-mutex-across-I/O issue and remediation.
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| if existing.label != spec.label | ||
| || existing.map_size != spec.map_size | ||
| || existing.max_dbs != spec.max_dbs | ||
| { | ||
| return Err(Error::EnvSpecMismatch { | ||
| path: key, | ||
| open_as: existing.label, | ||
| requested_as: spec.label, | ||
| }); | ||
| } |
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Mismatch error hides the real cause.
The check also fires when label matches and only map_size or max_dbs differ. Then the message reads "already open as 'frecency' ... requested by 'frecency'". Useless. Carry the differing options, or at least the sizes, in the error.
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs` around lines 107 - 116, The
EnvSpecMismatch handling in the environment validation path must expose whether
map_size or max_dbs differs when labels match. Update the mismatch error payload
or message associated with existing.label, existing.map_size, and
existing.max_dbs to include the relevant existing and requested size values,
while preserving the current label mismatch reporting.
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| //! One process must be able to hold many trackers over the same LMDB path | ||
| //! (issues #700/#760): they share a single pooled env instead of failing | ||
| //! with `EnvAlreadyOpened`. |
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Remove the module comment.
Lines 1-3 add a top-file module comment. Keep this test file without module comments.
As per coding guidelines, **/*.{rs,lua} specifies: “NO MODULES COMMENTS” and “NO TOP FILE COMMENTS”.
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In `@crates/fff-core/tests/lmdb_env_pool.rs` around lines 1 - 3, Remove the
top-file module comment beginning with “One process must be able…” from the LMDB
environment pool test file, leaving the test implementation unchanged.
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In `@packages/pi-fff/test-native/multi-session.test.ts`:
- Around line 224-227: Update the external-root assertion in the multi-session
test to use a fixture that exists only under the external workspace, rather than
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120-129: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueAwait the main finder scan too.
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mainwas created. Its scan runs whileafterEachdestroys it, so the failure mode is flakiness, not signal. Awaitmain.value.waitForScanand assert one file from it.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/fff-core/src/dbs/env_pool.rs`:
- Around line 232-250: Update erase_if_oversized so it never removes lock.mdb;
retain the shared lock file while handling the oversized data.mdb cleanup.
Preserve the existing size check and logging behavior, and limit the change to
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In `@packages/fff-bun/test/multi-session.test.ts`:
- Around line 120-129: Update the test case around main and aux finder creation
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contains an expected file using the existing fileNames helper. Keep the existing
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because LMDB usee posix lock one process can not hold many open databases
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Sync of dmtrKovalenko/fff (b71b7cf..be2dd8d). Notable upstream work: LMDB env lifecycle overhaul — one shared env per canonical path per process (dmtrKovalenko#775) plus a new env_pool with raised max_readers to avoid MDB_READERS_FULL (dmtrKovalenko#783); standalone constraints in multi_grep (dmtrKovalenko#753); a parent-liveness watcher so the MCP no longer exits while its parent is alive (dmtrKovalenko#770); file-picker rebuild after FFFClearCache (dmtrKovalenko#772); readOnlyHint on all tools (dmtrKovalenko#771); and pi-fff global config (dmtrKovalenko#790). Why these resolutions: - Version: our workspace is 0.18.0; upstream bumped 0.10.3 -> 0.10.5. Kept 0.18.0 in every Cargo.toml/Cargo.lock version conflict while preserving upstream's non-version additions (zlob =1.6.3, fff-core crate-type = ["rlib"], fff-mcp windows-sys target dep for the new Windows parent watcher). - dbs/ module: the dbs/ reorg already lives in our shared merge base, so this sync only adds upstream's new env_pool.rs (additive, no rename conflict). Our eviction feature already targets dbs/. - dmtrKovalenko#775 shared-env x our idle/stale root eviction (f40b086): verified compatible. Eviction drops EngineState (hence FrecencyTracker's SharedEnv) via Drop only — it never calls SharedEnv::destroy and never deletes on-disk data.mdb (the only file removal in env_pool is the size-cap guard). Dropping the last holder closes the env; a re-register reopens the same canonical path from the process pool, so per-slug frecency persists across an evict -> re-register cycle. Eviction machinery unchanged: last_access_ms stamping, drop_root's Arc::strong_count>1 live-connection guard, the reaper phases, idle_root_ttl_secs config, RootHealth.last_access_age_sec (kept the appended-LAST field for bincode order), and the ctl IDLE column. - fff-mcp/Cargo.toml: unioned our fff-ipc/dirs/libc deps, clap_complete, and [package.metadata.deb] with upstream's new windows-sys target block; dev tempfile pinned to upstream's 3.8. - fff-mcp/src/main.rs: kept our set-log-level/completions args and added upstream's `mod parent;`, taking upstream's reworded idle-timeout doc comment. - multi_pattern.rs: three-way merge kept both our `recheck` field and upstream's prefilter_files standalone-constraint path. - Makefile: unioned upstream's build-e2e target with our daemon targets. - release.yaml: kept our publishing guards (PyPI gated to upstream's owner; crates.io and npm disabled via `if: false`). - install-mcp.sh: kept the pinned-tag + SHA256 block removed (we ship via Homebrew/apt); upstream's re-add discarded. Build: cargo build -p fff-mcp -p fff-engine -p fff-ctl green. Tests: 480 passed / 0 failed across fff-search, fff-engine, fff-ipc, fff-ctl, including lmdb_env_pool (4), lmdb_readers_full_repro (2), and lmdb_stale_lock_deadlock (4).
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Second stable release. Captures the idle/stale on-demand-root eviction feature and two upstream syncs since 0.18.0 (4-commit + 17-commit rounds), including LMDB shared-env-per-path (dmtrKovalenko#775), raised max_readers (dmtrKovalenko#783), multi_grep standalone constraints (dmtrKovalenko#753), and MCP parent-liveness (dmtrKovalenko#770).
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