fix(jobs): bound in-memory task state retention - #903
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Finished tasks were never removed from the TaskStateManager, so the detached actor grew by about 2.5 KB per indexed file until it ran out of memory. Settled tasks now expire after 24h or once a 10,000 record cap is exceeded, and stored tracebacks are capped. Running tasks and cancellations whose worker has not settled are never evicted, so the cancellation fence still holds. Refs #660
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe task state manager now uses persisted deadlines for bounded terminal retention. It evicts expired or excess records, preserves active cancellation fences, applies cleanup during reads, and exposes a capability checked during worker bootstrap. ChangesTask State Retention
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~40 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TaskStateManager
participant RecoverableStore
participant TerminalLedger
participant TaskRegistry
TaskStateManager->>RecoverableStore: Persist task state and deadlines
TaskStateManager->>TerminalLedger: Record terminal settlement
TerminalLedger->>TerminalLedger: Apply receipt and fence deadlines
TerminalLedger->>TaskRegistry: Remove expired or excess records
TaskStateManager->>RecoverableStore: Delete evicted task
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Cancellation records can be deleted before their 24-hour fence expires, allowing late worker updates to recreate cancelled tasks. This should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@openrag/services/workers/task_state.py`:
- Line 287: Update the terminal-task eligibility logic around
TERMINAL_TASK_STATES to use one shared retention predicate that includes
CANCELLED only when _cancelled_task_has_worker_fence(info) is false. Apply the
same predicate both when updating terminal_tasks and in _persist_task_locked,
preserving fenced cancellations from retention.
- Line 288: Update the recovery flow around _load_recoverable_tasks so each
recovered task preserves its persisted expires_at or settled_at value instead of
using the actor-recovery timestamp now. Initialize terminal_tasks[task_id] from
that original retention deadline, and update the recovery test to provide and
assert a record with its original deadline.
- Line 297: Update get_state to invoke _evict_terminal_tasks_locked before
looking up the requested task, ensuring expired terminal records return 404 even
when no subsequent task is admitted. Add a regression test that polls an expired
task without creating another task and verifies the record is no longer
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Retention only ran when a new task was admitted, so a queue that went quiet kept its last records and still reported them as live history. Status polling now expires them too, being the one read that does not iterate the task map. Recovery also restarted the retention clock, letting a record recovered near its deadline live for a second full window. The persisted deadline now seeds the settle time instead.
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Please handle the remaining retention gap from review: terminal task records should be evicted when clients poll queue/list data, not only when new tasks arrive or an individual task is queried. Please cover |
A read-only workload polls the listing and admits nothing, so retention never ran. All three listing reads now evict before they read the task map.
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Fixed in e8c86ad. |
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317-317: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winEnforce the terminal cap after ledger insertion.
When the ledger already contains
_MAX_TERMINAL_TASKSrecords,_ensure_taskdoes not evict. This line then adds one more terminal record. If no later admission or supported read occurs, 10,001 records remain in memory. Call_evict_terminal_tasks_locked()after insertion and make the cap test require at most_MAX_TERMINAL_TASKSretained records.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@openrag/services/workers/task_state.py`:
- Line 317: Update the terminal-record insertion in _ensure_task to call
_evict_terminal_tasks_locked() immediately after adding
self.terminal_tasks[task_id], ensuring the retained ledger size is at most
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Postgres holds the durable job history, so the in-memory copy only has to answer the reads that follow a job settling. At 10,000 records each able to carry an 8,000 character traceback the cap alone allowed roughly 80MB of error text inside the actor. Retention no longer aliases the cancellation tombstone TTL. The tombstone fences late workers rather than answering reads, so it keeps its own longer window and the two lifetimes are now set independently.
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286-305: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPreserve the terminal retention deadline separately from the tombstone deadline.
_load_recoverable_tasksreturnsexpires_atvalues created with_CANCELLATION_TOMBSTONE_TTL_SECONDS(24 hours). Recovery then derivessettled_atby subtracting_TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS(1 hour). A recovered cancellation or stale failure therefore remains interminal_tasksuntil the 24-hour tombstone deadline, not the configured 1-hour terminal retention deadline.Persist or restore
settled_atseparately from the cancellation tombstone expiry, then evict the task using_TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@openrag/services/workers/task_state.py`:
- Around line 286-305: Update terminal-task persistence and recovery around
_load_recoverable_tasks so settled_at is stored or restored independently of the
cancellation tombstone expiry; do not derive it by subtracting
_TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS from a tombstone deadline. Ensure eviction uses
settled_at plus _TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS, while cancellation tombstones
continue using _CANCELLATION_TOMBSTONE_TTL_SECONDS.
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Please address these task-state retention and rolling-deployment issues before merge:
Please include regression coverage for the retention boundaries and actor replacement/reuse behavior. |
| _save_recoverable_task(task_id, info) | ||
| if info.state in TERMINAL_TASK_STATES: | ||
| self.terminal_tasks.pop(task_id, None) | ||
| self.terminal_tasks[task_id] = time.time() |
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This records the terminal timestamp but does not trigger _evict_terminal_tasks_locked(). If tasks settle in a burst without a later admission or queue read, the in-memory ledger can exceed both the TTL and cap. Please evict here or arrange an independent cleanup path.
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Fixed in b65ebd6. The settle paths (set_state, set_failed_if_not_cancelled, set_cancelled_if_active) sweep after persisting, so a burst that ends the queue sheds its own history instead of waiting for the next caller. The listing reads now sweep after the stale pass rather than before it, so anything that pass just failed is covered in the same call.
Not inside _persist_task_locked itself, though: _expire_refless_tasks_if_stale_locked iterates self.tasks and reaches it, and eviction pops from that dict. Sweeping there would raise mid-iteration on the queue listings.
Covered by test_a_settling_burst_sheds_history_with_nothing_else_running.
| # from the persisted deadline where the record carries one. | ||
| expires_at = expiries.get(task_id) | ||
| self.terminal_tasks[task_id] = ( | ||
| expires_at - _TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS if expires_at is not None else now |
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For a recovered terminal task, this reconstructs settled_at from the persisted expiry. A cancellation tombstone can carry the 24-hour deadline, which makes the receipt live until that deadline rather than for the intended one-hour retention. Persist a separate receipt deadline.
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Half fixed in b65ebd6, and I would like your read on the other half.
The arithmetic is gone: the ledger stores the deadline itself, so recovery reuses the persisted value instead of reconstructing a settle time from it. Eviction timing there is unchanged, since expires_at - retention <= now - retention and expires_at <= now are the same test.
What I have not done is split the receipt from the fence. The in-memory record is the fence: set_state, set_failed_if_not_cancelled and set_queued_details all read info.state to refuse a late writer, so dropping the record at the receipt window drops that guard whatever the KV still holds. A 1h receipt with a 24h fence needs a second structure consulted by each of those guards, plus _ensure_task no longer being allowed to recreate a blank record for a fenced id. That is a fair amount of new surface in the cancellation path for memory the 2,000 record cap already bounds.
So the rule is now explicit in both directions: a record lives to the later of the two deadlines, a fence is never cut short by the receipt window, and a receipt never inherits a fence deadline. The cost is that a cancelled task stays readable for as long as its fence is held. Say the word and I will do the split instead.
| owned.discard(task_id) | ||
| if not owned: | ||
| self.user_index.pop(user_id, None) | ||
| _delete_recoverable_task(task_id) |
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Receipt eviction reaches this method and deletes the recoverable record, including a cancellation tombstone. That couples the one-hour terminal receipt lifetime to the 24-hour cancellation fence, so a restart after one hour can lose sticky cancellation state. Keep tombstone deletion on its own expiry.
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Fixed in b65ebd6. A record with a live tombstone is no longer evicted on the receipt window, so _forget_task_locked and the KV delete only run once the fence itself has expired.
The ledger holds absolute deadlines now, and a fence sitting at the head no longer stalls the sweep for the receipts queued behind it.
Covered by test_cancellation_fence_outlives_the_receipt_window, which asserts _delete_recoverable_task is not called at the receipt window and is at the fence deadline, and by test_an_expired_receipt_behind_a_fence_is_still_evicted.
| # hard cap so a burst cannot outrun the time bound. The cancellation tombstone | ||
| # keeps its own, longer TTL: it fences late workers rather than answering reads, | ||
| # so the two lifetimes are deliberately not tied together. | ||
| _TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS = 60 * 60 |
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The retention behavior changes the detached actor's lifecycle, but there is no generation/feature marker for bootstrap to distinguish this actor from an older retained TaskStateManager. During a rolling deployment, get_if_exists can therefore keep the old implementation running. Please version the actor or add a capability check that forces replacement.
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Fixed in b65ebd6. TaskStateManager.supports_bounded_task_retention is the marker and _supports_task_state_recovery requires it, so an actor left detached by an earlier deployment is replaced during bootstrap the way one without restart support already is.
Covered by test_task_state_manager_without_bounded_retention_is_replaced.
…ocks Eviction ran on the receipt window alone, so it dropped a cancellation tombstone an hour into its 24h life, taking the sticky CANCELLED guard and the durable record with it. A record now lives to the later of the two deadlines, held as an absolute time so a restart reuses it rather than rebuilding it from a window. Settling sweeps too, so a burst that ends the queue sheds its own history instead of waiting for the next caller, and the listing reads sweep after the stale pass rather than before it. A capability method lets bootstrap replace an actor that predates retention, as it does for restart support.
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In `@openrag/services/workers/task_state.py`:
- Line 308: Update task recovery and terminal-task bookkeeping around
terminal_tasks, _ensure_task, _forget_task_locked, and the sweep logic to store
receipt and cancellation-tombstone deadlines separately. Preserve unexpired
cancellation tombstones during capacity eviction, scan all bounded entries
without inferring deadline type from remaining time, and retain the cancellation
fence when recovering legacy settled cancellations without expires_at. Add
regression coverage for legacy cancellations, capacity pressure, and a nearly
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| # A restart must not restart the clock: a record that was persisted | ||
| # with a fence deadline is held to that deadline, not to a fresh | ||
| # window. Only a fence has one, so the rest get the receipt window. | ||
| self.terminal_tasks[task_id] = expiries.get(task_id, now + _TERMINAL_TASK_RETENTION_SECONDS) |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep cancellation-tombstone expiry separate from receipt expiry.
terminal_tasks stores one effective deadline. Recovery gives a legacy settled cancellation without expires_at only the one-hour receipt deadline. Capacity eviction can remove an unexpired tombstone, and _forget_task_locked deletes its durable record. A later set_state call can then recreate the task through _ensure_task without the cancellation fence.
The sweep can also stop on a nearly expired tombstone before it reaches an expired receipt later in the ledger.
Store receipt and cancellation-tombstone deadlines separately. Preserve unexpired tombstones during capacity eviction, and scan all bounded entries without inferring deadline type from remaining time. Add regression cases for legacy settled cancellations, capacity pressure, and a nearly expired tombstone before an expired receipt.
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In `@openrag/services/workers/task_state.py` at line 308, Update task recovery and
terminal-task bookkeeping around terminal_tasks, _ensure_task,
_forget_task_locked, and the sweep logic to store receipt and
cancellation-tombstone deadlines separately. Preserve unexpired cancellation
tombstones during capacity eviction, scan all bounded entries without inferring
deadline type from remaining time, and retain the cancellation fence when
recovering legacy settled cancellations without expires_at. Add regression
coverage for legacy cancellations, capacity pressure, and a nearly expired
tombstone preceding an expired receipt.
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Fixes the memory leak in #660.
Finished indexing tasks were never removed from the in-memory task state actor.
It is detached, so it survives restarts and grows until it runs out of memory:
51 MB for 20,000 files, about 2.5 KB each.
Finished tasks are now dropped after 1h or past a 2,000 record cap. Running
tasks and unsettled cancellations are kept, so cancellation still fences its
worker. Tracebacks are capped at 8,000 characters. Status polling now 404s for
tasks finished over 1h ago, except a cancellation: its record is the fence that
stops a late worker, so it is held for the tombstone TTL instead.
The retention window is set independently of the cancellation tombstone TTL,
which stays at 24h: the tombstone fences late workers rather than answering
reads. Postgres holds the durable job history (#904), so the in-memory copy
only has to cover the reads that follow a job settling.
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