CHANGELOG.md

@@ -40,10 +40,11 @@
   count as next to nothing, so a peer could hold far more than the cap. **Raise a `maxOctets` you
   tuned low**: it now holds several times fewer segments, and an incomplete message evicted over
   the cap is lost, since its segments were already answered.
-- A message arriving while the application holds 1000 unanswered, or 64 MiB of them by the
-  `maxOctets` charge, is refused with `ESME_RTHROTTLED` (`ESME_RX_T_APPN` on a `deliver_sm`), so the
-  peer keeps it and retries. The oldest used to be dropped to make room, which freed nothing while
-  the application still held it and let `close()` stop waiting for a message the peer was owed.
+- A message arriving while the application holds 1000 unanswered, or 64 MiB of them counted the way
+  `maxOctets` counts segments, is refused with `ESME_RTHROTTLED` (`ESME_RX_T_APPN` on a
+  `deliver_sm`), so the peer keeps it and retries. **Call `sendResp()` on every `sms`, multipart
+  included**: 1000 left unanswered now stop inbound traffic for up to five minutes, where the oldest
+  used to be dropped with a warning.
 - A `submit_sm` segment the reassembly buffer has no room for is refused with `ESME_RTHROTTLED`,
   where it was `ESME_RMSGQFUL`.
 - `server()` refuses a `maxOctets` below 1 or not a whole number, `Infinity` included, like its

README.md

@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ session.on('sms', async sms => {
 });
 ```
 
-Call `sendResp()` for every message; it is part of the protocol. Delivery receipts reach you as
-`dlr` events, not here. A multipart message arrives reassembled and already answered segment by
-segment, so `sendResp()` there only says you are done with it: [Receiving in depth](#receiving-in-depth).
+Call `sendResp()` for every message, multipart included: until you do, it counts toward the bound
+past which the peer's messages are refused. Delivery receipts reach you as `dlr` events, not here. A
+multipart message arrives reassembled and already answered segment by segment, so `sendResp()` there
+puts nothing on the wire and releases it: [Receiving in depth](#receiving-in-depth).
 
 ## Run an SMPP server
 
@@ -383,10 +384,7 @@ holds for `session.send()`.
    message has failed. Answering through `sendReturn()` instead leaves the wait running.
 3. Tear down what is left, resolving to an `err` that says what was lost.
 
-A message arriving while 1000 unanswered messages, or 64 MiB of them by the `maxOctets` charge, are
-held is refused with `ESME_RTHROTTLED` (`ESME_RX_T_APPN` on a `deliver_sm`), so the peer retries it.
-One held five minutes is dropped with a warning on the log and waited for no longer. None of the
-bounds is an option.
+A message left unanswered for five minutes is no longer waited for.
 `close({ signal })` cuts the wait short. `unbind()` takes no signal, and waits a further
 `responseTimeout` for its own response.
 
@@ -434,6 +432,12 @@ const { err, pduObj } = await session.send({
   each is two messages.
 - **Answered on arrival.** Each segment was answered as it landed, before you see the message:
   [Server in depth](#server-in-depth).
+- **Unanswered messages.** While 1000 messages you have not called `sendResp()` on, or 64 MiB of
+  them counted the way `maxOctets` counts segments, are held, every new message is refused with
+  `ESME_RTHROTTLED` (`ESME_RX_T_APPN` on a `deliver_sm`) so the peer retries it, and no `sms` fires.
+  Reaching the bound logs one `warn`, and falling back below it one `info`. A message left five
+  minutes is dropped from the count with a `warn`; a later `sendResp()` still answers it. Neither
+  bound is an option.
 - **Where the body is.** A body in the `message_payload` TLV, SMPP's way of carrying up to 64 KB and
   the only place a `data_sm` has, reads exactly like one in `short_message`, concatenated messages
   and receipts included. A PDU filling both is read from `short_message`.

docs/decisions.md

@@ -685,7 +685,9 @@ rule and an index of the titles below.
   retry status, so the peer keeps it (goal 2). Rejected: dropping the oldest to make room, which
   frees nothing while the application still holds its `Sms`, and stops the drain waiting for a
   message the peer is owed. Rejected: pausing the socket, which also stalls every answer and
-  `enquire_link` on the link. A message held past its timeout is still dropped, so `close()` can
+  `enquire_link` on the link. Reaching the bound is a log line and nothing more (goal 8): an event
+  or a public count would be surface for what the application already knows, since it is the one
+  not answering. A message held past its timeout is still dropped, so `close()` can
   report fewer unanswered than there were — accepted, because the alternative is holding what
   nothing will answer.
 

interop-tests/compose.dumbclient.yaml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ services:
     image: nicolaka/netshoot:v0.16
     <<: *log-limits
     command: ["sleep", "infinity"]
+    init: true
 
   dumbclient-w2000:
     build: ./interop-tests/peers/dumbclient

interop-tests/findings/07-load.md

@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ event to a listener added after it fired. Fixed by attaching every session's `cl
 
 Three runs of `./interop-tests/run.py dumbclient`. Run 1 (the original 300,000-count soak) surfaced
 the S6 harness bug above; run 2 fixed it; run 3, with the namespace owner above and the held-message
-throttle in `src/`, is the one Scenarios reports. The capture figures below are run 2's. `smppload.test.ts` passed on every run it was given (three, across the investigation
-above); its one scenario needs no repeat - a second run reproduces the identical corrupted PDU,
+throttle in `src/`, is the one Scenarios reports. The capture figures below are run 2's.
+`smppload.test.ts` passed on every run it was given (three, across the investigation above); its one scenario needs no repeat - a second run reproduces the identical corrupted PDU,
 adding nothing.
 
 ```
@@ -152,10 +152,9 @@ that never gets as far as a readable PDU.
 - **smppload's `bind_transceiver` is corrupted on the wire** - see Setup. Not chased past `oserl`'s
   `pack/2` (which is correct on inspection) given the time-box.
 - **`smpp-dumb-client` treats `ESME_RTHROTTLED` as final** - a throttled message counts as sent
-  and is never resubmitted. Its `enquire_link`
-  interval (10s once bound as an ESME) is also hardcoded (`smpp.go`, `enquireSender(10)`), not
-  exposed through `config.yml` at all - the no-ping binary built for S6 patches the call site out
-  rather than configuring it.
+  and is never resubmitted. Its `enquire_link` interval (10s once bound as an ESME) is hardcoded
+  (`smpp.go`, `enquireSender(10)`), not exposed through `config.yml` at all - the no-ping binary
+  built for S6 patches the call site out rather than configuring it.
 - **`smpp.remote` takes a literal IP, never a hostname** (`net.ParseIP`, no DNS resolution) - see
   Setup.
 

src/incoming-requests.ts

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ export class IncomingRequests {
 	private readonly smsIdFormat: SmsIdFormat;
 	private readonly systemId: string;
 	private linkGeneration = 0;
+	private refusing = false;
 
 	constructor(options: IncomingRequestsOptions) {
 		this.dlrMerger = options.dlrMerger;
@@ -148,6 +149,7 @@ export class IncomingRequests {
 	/** Drops the segments of every message that never became whole, and of every one still held. */
 	clear(): void {
 		this.linkGeneration++;
+		this.refusing = false;
 		this.held.clear();
 		this.reassembler.clear();
 	}
@@ -217,6 +219,13 @@ export class IncomingRequests {
 	 */
 	private async onMessage(pduObj: PduObject): Promise<void> {
 		if (this.held.full()) {
+			if (!this.refusing) {
+				this.refusing = true;
+				this.log.warn('session - unanswered messages at their bound, refusing new ones until the application answers', {
+					messages: this.held.size,
+				});
+			}
+
 			this.log.verbose('session - unanswered messages at their bound, asking the peer to retry', {
 				cmdName: pduObj.cmdName,
 				seqNr: pduObj.seqNr,
@@ -226,6 +235,11 @@ export class IncomingRequests {
 			return;
 		}
 
+		if (this.refusing) {
+			this.refusing = false;
+			this.log.info('session - unanswered messages below their bound, accepting again', { messages: this.held.size });
+		}
+
 		const concat = concatOf(pduObj);
 
 		if (!concat) {

test/session-extras.test.ts

@@ -1530,9 +1530,10 @@ describe('held message bounds', () => {
 		closeAfter(t, session);
 		session.boundAs = 'transceiver';
 
+		const warnings: string[] = [];
 		const incoming = new IncomingRequests({
 			dlrMerger: new DlrMerger({ log: silentLog, max: 10, timeout: 10_000 }),
-			log: silentLog,
+			log: { ...silentLog, warn: message => { warnings.push(message); } },
 			sendPastDrain: () => Promise.resolve({ err: new Error('never sent') }),
 			session,
 		});
@@ -1557,12 +1558,14 @@ describe('held message bounds', () => {
 
 		assert.equal(received.length, defaults.maxHeldMessages);
 		assert.deepEqual(answers, ['ESME_RTHROTTLED', 'ESME_RTHROTTLED']);
+		assert.equal(warnings.length, 1, 'reaching the bound warns once, not per refusal');
 
-		// The refused first segment joined no group, so the second one completes nothing.
+		// The refused first segment joined no group, so the second one is taken and completes nothing.
 		await received[0]?.sendResp();
-		await delay(0);
+		await new Promise(resolve => { setImmediate(resolve); });
 		await incoming.handle(segment(7, 2, 2));
 
+		assert.equal(answers.at(-1), 'ESME_ROK');
 		assert.equal(received.length, defaults.maxHeldMessages);
 		incoming.clear();
 	});

todo.md

@@ -405,6 +405,11 @@ and is also what the panel ranked hardest — two methods, one answer.
 
 ## Worth doing, not blocking
 
+- [ ] **Make the dumbclient soak's memory sample evidence of no library leak again.** Its rss ends at
+      its maximum (298 MiB, heapUsed 81 MiB after 173,820 messages), which the harness's own per-id
+      `Set` and `answerOrder` explain but cannot separate from a leak in `src/`: sample the heap
+      after the bookkeeping is cleared. From the stability review of #29.
+
 - [ ] **Decide whether `alert_notification` reaches the application as more than `incomingPduObj`.**
       It is the SMSC saying a handset it could not reach is reachable again (`esme_addr`,
       `ms_availability_status`); a client has no `onRequest`, so the raw PDU event is the only way in.