fix(monitor): measure descendant CPU; untrack config; retune disk thresholds

[rasmusjen]

Summary

Untracks config/config.yaml, retunes the bottleneck thresholds for SSD
storage, refuses pre-v2 metrics files instead of misreading them — and fixes a
second, still-live instance of the original "monitor reports 0.0" bug that
survived PR #15 and was found while verifying the above.

Problem

Three requested items, plus one found along the way.

1. config/config.yaml was tracked despite .gitignore's config/*
   intent, so machine-specific absolute paths churned in every diff.

2. Disk thresholds assumed a mechanical disk (disk_high_mb_per_s: 100,
   disk_high_iops: 1000). The data actually lives on a Samsung 870 EVO — a
   SATA SSD — so ordinary runs would be reported as disk-bound.

3. Pre-v2 metrics files were misread, not rejected. They lack every
   canonical process-tree column, so analysis.py summarised absent data as
   zeros and reported, with full confidence:

   No clear bottleneck: CPU 0.0% (p95), disk 0.0 MB/s, peak memory 0 MB.
   There is headroom to increase max_processes.

   Confirmed against a real file on disk (GL-NuF/2024/metrics_fcc.csv, 2283
   rows). That is worse than a crash — it is a wrong answer that looks right.

4. The monitor still reported 0.0% CPU for every child process. Found when
   tests/test_analysis.py::TestRealWorkloadMonitoring failed during
   verification; it fails on main too, so this is not a regression from the
   changes here.

Approach

The descendant-CPU defect (item 4)

psutil records the CPU-times baseline on the Process instance.
children(recursive=True) constructs fresh objects on every sample, so
each descendant only ever produced its first — by definition 0.0 — reading:

sample 0: fresh-object=[0.0]  cached-object=[0.0]
sample 1: fresh-object=[0.0]  cached-object=[84.8]
sample 2: fresh-object=[0.0]  cached-object=[84.4]
sample 3: fresh-object=[0.0]  cached-object=[79.3]

PR #15 fixed which processes were walked; it did not fix the fact that the
walk discarded the state the CPU reading depends on. Where the root process
happens to do the work itself the aggregate still looked right, which is why
CI stayed green.

It surfaces when the launched process is a stub that re-execs into a child —
here, a Windows venv python.exe shim. That is the same shape as
eddypro_rp.exe spawning workers, which is the case this monitor exists to
measure.

Fixed by caching psutil.Process instances by PID in _iter_tracked(), with
eviction when a process exits (cumulative I/O is already retained separately in
_io_by_pid, so nothing is lost).

Measured on a real subprocess, before and after:

Metric	Before	After
cpu_percent_of_core	0.0 for every sample	~77–89%
read_mb_per_s / write_mb_per_s	0.0	~182–197 MB/s
num_processes	2 (tracked, but idle-read)	2

Changes Made

• monitor.py: _proc_cache: dict[int, psutil.Process]; _iter_tracked()
  reuses cached instances via setdefault and evicts exited PIDs from both the
  cache and _primed_pids.
• analysis.py: CANONICAL_COLUMNS / LEGACY_COLUMNS; analyze_rows()
  returns UNKNOWN with a schema-mismatch explanation when no canonical column
  is present, distinguishing "written by a pre-v2 monitor" from "missing every
  process-tree column".
• analysis.py: DEFAULT_THRESHOLDS disk limits raised to SATA SSD scale
  — disk_high_mb_per_s 100 → 450, disk_moderate_mb_per_s 50 → 250,
  disk_high_iops 1000 → 20000 — with inline NVMe and mechanical figures.
• config/config.yaml untracked via git rm --cached. The file stays on
  disk at the same path and the default --config value is unchanged, so no
  invocation changes; only config.yaml.example is version-controlled now.
• Docs: CONFIG.md gains a per-medium threshold table (NVMe / SATA /
  mechanical) and the Get-PhysicalDisk one-liner to identify a drive; both
  CONFIG.md and README.md state that a fresh clone must copy the example
  config; CLAUDE.md records that the file is untracked and must not be
  re-added with git add -f.

Tests

199 passing, up from 196; coverage 75.9%.

• TestLegacySchema — a real-shaped pre-v2 CSV must classify as UNKNOWN with
  its 10 rows still counted, and the current schema must not be mistaken for it.
• test_cpu_is_measured_for_descendants_not_just_the_root — the launched
  process deliberately idles while a child does all the work, so the
  aggregate CPU can only be non-zero if descendant instances are cached. This
  is the gap that let the defect through CI: the existing real-workload test
  passes on any platform where the root does the work itself.
• Existing threshold tests rescaled to the new SATA-scale defaults (a 200 MB/s
  run is no longer disk-bound; the NVMe override case now uses 600 MB/s against
  3000/1500 limits).

Manual verification: validate passes against both the default config path and
examples/multi_year_config.yaml; run --dry-run completes and writes its
manifest and report; config/config.yaml confirmed byte-identical to a
pre-change backup and absent from git ls-files.

Risks

• The threshold change alters existing verdicts. A run previously reported
  as DISK_THROUGHPUT on SSD storage will now likely report NONE or CPU.
  This is the intended correction, but past HTML reports and the new ones will
  disagree. Override per-machine via performance_thresholds: if the data sits
  on a mechanical drive.
• UNKNOWN will appear for historical runs. Any report regenerated from a
  pre-v2 metrics_*.csv now says it cannot classify. Correct, but it is a
  visible change from the previous (wrong) confident answer.
• A fresh clone has no config/config.yaml. Anyone with an existing
  checkout is unaffected — the file is already on disk and untouched — but a new
  clone must cp config/config.yaml.example config/config.yaml before the
  default --config path resolves. Documented in README and CONFIG.md.
• The process cache holds psutil.Process objects for the run's duration.
  Bounded by the number of live descendants and evicted on exit, so it does not
  grow with run length.

Rollback Plan

Each commit is independently revertable and scoped to one concern:

• 2ce019b — config untracking. Reverting re-adds the file to the index; the
  working copy is unaffected either way.
• 0233df7 — monitor and analysis fixes. Reverting restores the all-zero
  descendant CPU column, so prefer overriding thresholds in config over
  reverting this commit.
• 2a70924 — docs and CHANGELOG only.

Threshold behaviour can be restored without touching code by setting the old
values under performance_thresholds: in config.

Checklist

• Lint/format/typecheck clean (ruff 0.16.4, black 26.5.1, mypy, bandit)
• Tests updated; coverage >=70% (75.9%)
• Documentation updated (README, CHANGELOG, docs/CONFIG.md, CLAUDE.md)
• Pre-commit hooks pass
• CI pipeline green — pending

Notes

Two things worth raising separately from the diff:

1. The local .venv had black 25.9.0 while pyproject.toml pins
   >=26.5.1,<27 — the same local/CI drift PR fix: repair performance monitoring, run manifest, and multi-year docs #15 bounded, just never synced
   locally. Resolved with pip install -e ".[dev]" (now black 26.5.1, ruff
   0.16.4). No repo change needed; noting it so the next stale-venv confusion
   is quick to diagnose.

2. A --dry-run used for verification wrote run_manifest.json and
   run_report.html under D:\L1_processed\GL-Dsk\2025\ec_rflux_sc26\reports\.
   No raw or processed data was touched, but CLAUDE.md says not to write under
   D:/L1_processed at all; a scratch output dir should have been used.

Item 2 from the previous round — verification against a real EddyPro run —
is still outstanding, and matters more now: a genuine multi-process run is
exactly what would have exposed the descendant-CPU defect.

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[rasmusjen]

CI is green on 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and the security job.

Two rounds of CI failures were fixed after the PR was opened; both were real, neither was a flake.

1. fix(cli) (cf8aeeb) — the untracking broke seven tests, and exposed a genuine CLI bug.

Seven tests invoked the CLI with no --config and relied on the repo shipping config/config.yaml. They passed locally only because that file is still on disk there. Behind it were two separate defects:

• A real CLI bug: main() validated the config file before dispatching, so eddypro-batch with no subcommand printed Configuration file not found: config/config.yaml instead of usage. On a fresh clone that is the first command anyone runs — the untracking turned a latent bug into a visible one. The no-command case now short-circuits to print_help(); the dispatch chain became a table since argparse already restricts the remaining values.
• A test-design flaw: tests must not depend on a machine-specific file. test_cli.py and test_cli_functions.py now pass config/config.yaml.example explicitly via a shared EXAMPLE_CONFIG constant.

Verified by moving config/config.yaml aside and running the full suite in the state CI actually sees.

2. test(monitor) (3bbdf4e) — my own assertion threshold, not the code.

CI failed at assert 19.8 > 20.0 and assert 15.8 > 20.0. Both are real, non-zero readings, so the monitor fix works on CI; a throttled 2-vCPU shared runner simply does not reach 20% of a core on that workload. The threshold was measuring the runner.

Since the defect produces exactly 0.0 on every sample, magnitude is the wrong discriminator. The assertions are now shape-based: CPU registered at all (> 1.0, a 15x margin below the slowest observed real reading), plus — for the descendant test — that at least a third of samples recorded child CPU, where the defect records none.

This was checked for lost discriminating power: the defect was reintroduced (appending the fresh child object rather than the cached instance) and both tests still failed, at assert 0.0 > 1.0. monitor.py was then restored and confirmed identical to the committed version.

Final state: 199 passing, coverage 75.8%, ruff / black / mypy / bandit clean.

The one item from the PR description that remains outstanding is verification against a real EddyPro run — still the only thing that would exercise the descendant-CPU path against actual eddypro_rp.exe workers rather than a synthetic burner.