Re-vendor the canonical files from sneak/prompts at 0653579 (closes #221)

REPO_POLICIES.md, script/cibuild, script/docker, script/lint and
script/test are their copies at that commit. In every Dockerfile stage
the system package install and the Go module download now come before
ARG CACHEBUST, so check builds keep those layers until the base image,
the install line, go.mod or go.sum change; every step that lints, tests
or compiles still reruns. golangci-lint run also mounts golangci-lint's
cache. The stages install their packages with apt-get and apk directly
instead of through script/bootstrap --cgo. The test phase installs no
recommended packages and names libheif's AVIF encoder,
libheif-plugin-aomenc, which the tests use.

Model: opus-5-5

Dockerfile

@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/go-build \
 FROM golang@sha256:a02d35efc036053fdf0da8c15919276bf777a80cbfda6a35c5e9f087e652adfc AS test
 
 # govips compiles against the libvips and libheif headers, and the tests
-# need libvips' JPEG XL support and libheif's AVIF encoder. Debian's
-# libvips-dev brings all of them, the encoder as a recommended package,
-# so recommended packages are installed here.
+# need libvips' JPEG XL support; libvips-dev brings all three. The tests
+# also encode AVIF, which needs libheif's AVIF encoder,
+# libheif-plugin-aomenc: Debian only recommends it, so it is named here.
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libvips-dev \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libvips-dev libheif-plugin-aomenc \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 WORKDIR /src

README.md

@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ it uses libvips through CGO. pixad does not start unless libvips has its JPEG XL
 support, which on Alpine is the `vips-jxl` package and which the nix and brew
 packages of libvips include, as do the apt ones from Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04
 on. Building pixa also needs the development files of libvips and libheif,
-`pkg-config` and a C compiler. `script/bootstrap --cgo` installs all of these,
-as the `Dockerfile` does where it compiles pixa. Plain `script/bootstrap`, which
+`pkg-config` and a C compiler. `script/bootstrap --cgo` installs all of these;
+the `Dockerfile` installs its own packages. Plain `script/bootstrap`, which
 `script/setup` and `script/cibuild` run, installs git, make and Go, and Node,
 Yarn and the prettier pinned in `yarn.lock` for formatting the markdown, but
 none of the C libraries: the checks compile pixa in Docker. Docker itself must
@@ -199,7 +199,11 @@ into place, so a crash leaves no file under its own name with part of its data.
 When pixa starts, and every five minutes after, it removes each cached source or
 transformed image whose file is empty, or not the size the database records for
 it, with a warning naming the file; the next request for it fetches the source
-or converts the image again.
+or converts the image again. Looking for those files reads the database once for
+every cached file, so pixa skips each five-minute look that would start less
+than ten times as long after the last look ended as that look took. After a look
+that took one minute, the next one starts 10 to 15 minutes after that look
+ended.
 
 pixa's target is 1-5k r/s, which has not been measured at that rate (see Load
 Test). Toward it, pixa keeps in memory the content types of the 10,000
@@ -697,7 +701,9 @@ Key settings in more detail:
   benchmark, NAT64, and the like); an invalid CIDR aborts startup. An IPv6
   address in the IPv4-mapped form (`::ffff:a.b.c.d`) is matched only as the IPv4
   address it holds, so an IPv6 range such as `::/0` refuses neither it nor a
-  plain IPv4 address
+  plain IPv4 address. An entry written in that form is read as the IPv4 range it
+  covers, so `::ffff:10.0.0.0/104` refuses what `10.0.0.0/8` refuses; such an
+  entry shorter than `/96` covers more than IPv4 addresses and aborts startup
 - `trusted_proxies` — list of CIDR ranges of the reverse proxies in front of
   pixa. `X-Forwarded-For` is believed only when the direct peer falls inside one
   of these ranges; the logged and login-recorded client address is then the
@@ -707,16 +713,22 @@ Key settings in more detail:
   omitted key defaults to the RFC 1918 private ranges (`10.0.0.0/8`,
   `172.16.0.0/12`, `192.168.0.0/16`), since pixa is deployed behind a proxy on a
   private network; an explicitly empty list (`[]`) trusts no one, and an
-  explicit list replaces the default. An invalid CIDR aborts startup. Set this
-  to the address pixa sees for requests that come through your proxy, such as
-  `172.17.0.1/32`, when the defaults do not cover it, or to trust nothing else
-  (see the login limit and `image_requests_per_minute` under Routes). For a
-  proxy on the Docker host that connects to pixa over `127.0.0.1`, that address
-  is the gateway of the container's Docker network (`172.17.0.1` on the default
-  bridge), not the proxy's own address; a proxy that connects through another of
-  the host's addresses is seen with that address. To be sure which address it
-  is, set this to `[]` (or `PIXA_TRUSTED_PROXIES` to empty), send a request
-  through the proxy, and read `remoteIP` in pixa's request log line for it
+  explicit list replaces the default. An invalid CIDR aborts startup. An IPv6
+  address in the IPv4-mapped form (`::ffff:a.b.c.d`) is matched only as the IPv4
+  address it holds, so an IPv6 range such as `::/0` trusts neither it nor a
+  plain IPv4 address. An entry written in that form is read as the IPv4 range it
+  covers, so `::ffff:10.0.0.0/104` trusts what `10.0.0.0/8` trusts; such an
+  entry shorter than `/96` covers more than IPv4 addresses and aborts startup.
+  Set this to the address pixa sees for requests that come through your proxy,
+  such as `172.17.0.1/32`, when the defaults do not cover it, or to trust
+  nothing else (see the login limit and `image_requests_per_minute` under
+  Routes). For a proxy on the Docker host that connects to pixa over
+  `127.0.0.1`, that address is the gateway of the container's Docker network
+  (`172.17.0.1` on the default bridge), not the proxy's own address; a proxy
+  that connects through another of the host's addresses is seen with that
+  address. To be sure which address it is, set this to `[]` (or
+  `PIXA_TRUSTED_PROXIES` to empty), send a request through the proxy, and read
+  `remoteIP` in pixa's request log line for it
 - `upstream_fetch_timeout` — time allowed for one fetch from an upstream host,
   as a duration such as `30s` (the default) or `2m`
 - `upstream_max_response_size` — largest upstream response accepted, in bytes;
@@ -834,15 +846,16 @@ cache is kept from build to build: the steps that compile mount it, so a package
 whose inputs are unchanged is not compiled again, and both `go test` runs pass
 `-count=1` so that no stored test result is replayed. The lint step also mounts
 golangci-lint's cache, which reuses a package's findings only when its files,
-those of the packages it imports, `go.mod`, `.golangci.yml` and the
-golangci-lint version are all unchanged. The `test` phase runs on the Debian Go
-image, with Debian's libvips and libheif; the image pixa ships is built and runs
-on Alpine. `script/check`, `script/cibuild`, `script/docker`, `script/lint`,
-`script/test`, `script/setup` and `script/install-precommit` are the standard
-copies from `sneak/prompts`, kept identical to them. `script/fmt` and
-`script/fmt-check` are the standard copies with pixa's `gofmt` step kept before
-prettier. prettier formats the markdown only, not the HTML templates, as it
-cannot parse a Go template action inside a tag.
+those of the packages it imports, `go.mod`, the linters and their settings in
+`.golangci.yml`, and the golangci-lint version are all unchanged. The `test`
+phase runs on the Debian Go image, with Debian's libvips and libheif; the image
+pixa ships is built and runs on Alpine. `script/check`, `script/cibuild`,
+`script/docker`, `script/lint`, `script/test`, `script/setup` and
+`script/install-precommit` are the standard copies from `sneak/prompts`, kept
+identical to them. `script/fmt` and `script/fmt-check` are the standard copies
+with pixa's `gofmt` step kept before prettier. prettier formats the markdown
+only, not the HTML templates, as it cannot parse a Go template action inside a
+tag.
 
 ## Load Test
 

TODO.md

@@ -34,6 +34,16 @@ P2: security: per-origin rate limiting
   each `Dockerfile` stage installs its system packages and downloads the Go
   modules above `ARG CACHEBUST`, so check builds keep them, and the lint step
   keeps golangci-lint's cache.
+- 2026-10-19 a `trusted_proxies` entry in the IPv4-mapped form trusted nothing;
+  it is now read as the IPv4 range it covers by the same code that reads
+  `blocked_networks`, and such an entry shorter than `/96` aborts startup
+  (closes #303).
+- 2026-10-18 the next reconciliation pass waits at least ten times as long as
+  the last one took, so passes on a large cache no longer run back to back
+  (closes #250).
+- 2026-10-18 a `blocked_networks` entry in the IPv4-mapped form refused nothing;
+  `::ffff:10.0.0.0/104` is now read as `10.0.0.0/8`, and such an entry shorter
+  than `/96` aborts startup (closes #301).
 - 2026-10-16 P1 security bug: the check that keeps pixa from fetching internal
   addresses refuses the local-use NAT64 range (`64:ff9b:1::/48`, RFC 8215) as it
   refuses `64:ff9b::/96`, and refuses an IPv6 address in the IPv4-compatible

internal/config/blocked_networks_internal_test.go

@@ -88,3 +88,56 @@ func TestBlockedNetworksInvalidAbortsStartup(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	})
 }
+
+// TestBlockedNetworksMappedEntryIsIPv4Range checks that an entry written in
+// the IPv4-mapped form (::ffff:a.b.c.d) is kept as the IPv4 range it covers,
+// since the fetcher matches an IPv4-mapped address as the IPv4 address it
+// holds. /96, the shortest such entry, covers every IPv4 address.
+func TestBlockedNetworksMappedEntryIsIPv4Range(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	yamlContent := signingKeyLine + `blocked_networks:
+  - "::ffff:10.0.0.0/104"
+  - "::ffff:0:0/96"
+`
+
+	c, err := configFromYAML(t, yamlContent)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("IPv4-mapped blocked_networks entries should load, got error: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	want := []string{"10.0.0.0/8", "0.0.0.0/0"}
+	if len(c.BlockedNetworks) != len(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("BlockedNetworks = %v, want %d entries", c.BlockedNetworks, len(want))
+	}
+
+	for i, w := range want {
+		if got := c.BlockedNetworks[i].String(); got != w {
+			t.Errorf("BlockedNetworks[%d] = %q, want %q", i, got, w)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestBlockedNetworksMappedEntryShorterThan96AbortsStartup checks that an
+// entry in the IPv4-mapped form shorter than /96, which covers more than the
+// IPv4 addresses, aborts startup with an error naming the key and the value.
+func TestBlockedNetworksMappedEntryShorterThan96AbortsStartup(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	runAbortCases(t, []abortCase{
+		{
+			name: "mapped-shorter-than-96",
+			yaml: signingKeyLine + `blocked_networks:
+  - "::ffff:0.0.0.0/80"
+`,
+			wantErrSubstrings: []string{keyBlockedNetworks, "::ffff:0.0.0.0/80"},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "mapped-95",
+			yaml: signingKeyLine + `blocked_networks:
+  - "::ffff:0:0/95"
+`,
+			wantErrSubstrings: []string{keyBlockedNetworks},
+		},
+	})
+}

internal/config/config.go

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ var (
 	errNotABoolean       = errors.New("not a boolean")
 	errNotAStringList    = errors.New("not a list of strings")
 	errNotAValidCIDR     = errors.New("not a valid CIDR network")
+	errMappedTooShort    = errors.New("in the IPv4-mapped form but shorter than /96")
 	errNotAMetricsMap    = errors.New("not a map of metrics settings")
 	errEmptyListEntry    = errors.New("list contains an empty entry")
 	errEmptyEntry        = errors.New("contains an empty entry")
@@ -1248,6 +1249,13 @@ func defaultTrustedProxies() []netip.Prefix {
 // wrong type, an empty entry, a non-string entry, or an unparseable CIDR
 // aborts startup naming the key and the offending value; the default
 // (an empty list) applies only to an omitted key.
+//
+// An entry written in the IPv4-mapped form (::ffff:a.b.c.d) is kept as the
+// IPv4 range it covers: ::ffff:10.0.0.0/104 is kept as 10.0.0.0/8. Both
+// blocked_networks and trusted_proxies are matched against an IPv4-mapped
+// address as the IPv4 address it holds, so the entry as written would match
+// nothing. Such an entry shorter than /96 covers more than the IPv4
+// addresses and aborts startup.
 func parseCIDRList(sc *smartconfig.Config, key string) ([]netip.Prefix, error) {
 	raw, ok := lookupValue(sc, key)
 	if !ok {
@@ -1263,6 +1271,10 @@ func parseCIDRList(sc *smartconfig.Config, key string) ([]netip.Prefix, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// An IPv4-mapped address is the 96 bits of ::ffff:0:0/96 followed by
+	// the 32 bits of the IPv4 address it holds.
+	const mappedPrefixBits = 96
+
 	prefixes := make([]netip.Prefix, 0, len(entries))
 
 	for _, entry := range entries {
@@ -1272,6 +1284,16 @@ func parseCIDRList(sc *smartconfig.Config, key string) ([]netip.Prefix, error) {
 				settingName(key), entry, errNotAValidCIDR)
 		}
 
+		if prefix.Addr().Is4In6() && prefix.Bits() < mappedPrefixBits {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: value %q is %w",
+				settingName(key), entry, errMappedTooShort)
+		}
+
+		if prefix.Addr().Is4In6() {
+			prefix = netip.PrefixFrom(prefix.Addr().Unmap(),
+				prefix.Bits()-mappedPrefixBits)
+		}
+
 		prefixes = append(prefixes, prefix)
 	}
 

internal/config/trusted_proxies_internal_test.go

@@ -83,3 +83,41 @@ func TestTrustedProxiesInvalidAbortsStartup(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	})
 }
+
+// TestTrustedProxiesMappedEntryIsIPv4Range checks that an entry written in
+// the IPv4-mapped form (::ffff:a.b.c.d) is kept as the IPv4 range it covers,
+// since the client address is matched as the IPv4 address it holds. /96, the
+// shortest such entry, covers every IPv4 address.
+func TestTrustedProxiesMappedEntryIsIPv4Range(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	c, err := configFromYAML(t, signingKeyLine+
+		`trusted_proxies: ["::ffff:10.0.0.0/104", "::ffff:0:0/96"]`+"\n")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("IPv4-mapped trusted_proxies entries should load: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	got := make([]string, len(c.TrustedProxies))
+	for i, p := range c.TrustedProxies {
+		got[i] = p.String()
+	}
+
+	if joined := strings.Join(got, ","); joined != "10.0.0.0/8,0.0.0.0/0" {
+		t.Errorf("TrustedProxies = %v, want 10.0.0.0/8 and 0.0.0.0/0", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestTrustedProxiesMappedEntryShorterThan96AbortsStartup checks that an
+// entry in the IPv4-mapped form shorter than /96, which covers more than the
+// IPv4 addresses, aborts startup with an error naming the key and the value.
+func TestTrustedProxiesMappedEntryShorterThan96AbortsStartup(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	runAbortCases(t, []abortCase{
+		{
+			name:              "mapped-95",
+			yaml:              signingKeyLine + `trusted_proxies: ["::ffff:0:0/95"]` + "\n",
+			wantErrSubstrings: []string{keyTrustedProxies, "::ffff:0:0/95"},
+		},
+	})
+}

internal/imgcache/eviction.go

@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ import (
 // write-pressure wakeups triggered by stores.
 const DefaultEvictionInterval = 5 * time.Minute
 
+// reconciliationWaitFactor is how many times as long as a
+// reconciliation pass took the eviction loop waits at least, after that
+// pass ends, before it starts the next one. A pass reads a row and stats a
+// file for every cached file, so its time grows with the cache; waiting
+// ten times as long keeps reconciliation to at most a tenth of the time,
+// however large the cache is.
+const reconciliationWaitFactor = 10
+
 // evictionBatchSize is how many LRU candidates of each class (variants
 // and source blobs) one eviction pass fetches from the database.
 const evictionBatchSize = 100
@@ -438,10 +446,12 @@ func (c *Cache) notifyWritePressure() {
 }
 
 // StartEviction launches the background eviction goroutine, which
-// reconciles the database accounting with the cache directories and
 // removes the expired negative cache rows at startup and again on every
-// periodic tick thereafter, and evicts to the configured limit on the
-// given periodic interval and on write-pressure notifications. On a
+// periodic tick thereafter, reconciles the database accounting with the
+// cache directories at startup and again on the first periodic tick
+// that comes at least ten times as long after a reconciliation pass
+// ended as that pass took, and evicts to the configured limit on the given
+// periodic interval and on write-pressure notifications. On a
 // disabled cache it only removes the expired negative cache rows, as
 // the negative cache is used either way. It is a no-op when already
 // started. The goroutine outlives the caller, so it runs with its own
@@ -482,7 +492,7 @@ func (c *Cache) StopEviction(ctx context.Context) error {
 func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(ctx context.Context, interval time.Duration) {
 	defer close(c.evictionDone)
 
-	c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
+	nextReconciliation := c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
 	c.runCleanExpired(ctx)
 	c.runEvictionPass(ctx)
 
@@ -494,16 +504,20 @@ func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(ctx context.Context, interval time.Duration) {
 		case <-ctx.Done():
 			return
 		case <-ticker.C:
-			// Reconciliation walks the cache directories, so it only
-			// runs on the periodic ticker rather than on every
-			// write-pressure wakeup, keeping it off the per-store hot
-			// path. Reusing the eviction interval itself (rather than a
-			// separate, longer one) is a deliberate choice: it is the
-			// simplest option that still bounds how long a store's
-			// best-effort accounting insert can stay silently
-			// unaccounted for to one interval, on a process that is
-			// already running this loop regardless.
-			c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
+			// Reconciliation walks the cache directories and reads a
+			// row for every file, so it runs only on the periodic
+			// ticker rather than on every write-pressure wakeup, and
+			// only on the first tick at or after nextReconciliation,
+			// which is ten times as long after the last pass ended as
+			// that pass took. Passes then never run back to back,
+			// however long one takes. A file whose best-effort
+			// accounting insert failed in a store stays unaccounted for
+			// until the next pass, up to about one eviction interval
+			// plus ten times the last pass's time.
+			if !time.Now().Before(nextReconciliation) {
+				nextReconciliation = c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
+			}
+
 			c.runCleanExpired(ctx)
 		case <-c.evictionPressure:
 		}
@@ -527,17 +541,25 @@ func (c *Cache) runEvictionPass(ctx context.Context) {
 }
 
 // runReconciliationPass runs one reconciliation pass, logging failures
-// instead of propagating them (the loop must keep running). It does
-// nothing once ctx is cancelled.
-func (c *Cache) runReconciliationPass(ctx context.Context) {
+// instead of propagating them (the loop must keep running), and returns
+// the earliest time the next pass may start: reconciliationWaitFactor
+// times as long after this pass ended as it took. It does nothing once
+// ctx is cancelled.
+func (c *Cache) runReconciliationPass(ctx context.Context) time.Time {
 	if ctx.Err() != nil {
-		return
+		return time.Now()
 	}
 
+	started := time.Now()
+
 	err := c.reconcileAccounting(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.log.Warn("cache accounting reconciliation failed", "error", err)
 	}
+
+	ended := time.Now()
+
+	return ended.Add(reconciliationWaitFactor * ended.Sub(started))
 }
 
 // runCleanExpired runs CleanExpired, logging a failure instead of
@@ -556,7 +578,8 @@ func (c *Cache) runCleanExpired(ctx context.Context) {
 
 // reconcileAccounting synchronizes the database size accounting with
 // the actual contents of the cache directories. It runs at startup and
-// again on every periodic eviction tick thereafter, off the request
+// then on the first periodic eviction tick that comes at least ten times
+// as long after the last pass ended as that pass took, off the request
 // hot path: it adopts variant files that predate the accounting table
 // (or whose accounting insert failed, e.g. StoreVariant's best-effort
 // insert under transient DB contention), drops accounting rows whose
@@ -566,9 +589,10 @@ func (c *Cache) runCleanExpired(ctx context.Context) {
 // files left behind by crashed writes, and last checks the total cache
 // usage against the tables. It reads the tables a page at a time.
 // Running it periodically, not just once, bounds how long such drift can
-// accumulate unaccounted for on a long-running process to one eviction
-// interval. Once ctx is cancelled, it stops at the next file or row and
-// returns ctx's error.
+// accumulate unaccounted for on a long-running process to about one
+// eviction interval plus ten times the last pass's time.
+// Once ctx is cancelled, it stops at the next file or row and returns
+// ctx's error.
 func (c *Cache) reconcileAccounting(ctx context.Context) error {
 	if c.disabled {
 		return nil

internal/imgcache/eviction_internal_test.go

@@ -918,6 +918,89 @@ func TestPeriodicReconciliationAdoptsFileThatAppearsAfterStartup(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestReconciliationPassesAreSpacedByTenTimesTheirTime makes the hook
+// called after every read of the reconciliation pass sleep 10 ms, runs
+// the eviction loop on a 10 ms interval, and records when each of those
+// calls starts and ends. A pass starts before its first call and ends
+// after its last, so the time from the first call's start to the last
+// call's end is at most the pass's time. The next pass's first call must
+// start at least ten times that long after the last call ended.
+func TestReconciliationPassesAreSpacedByTenTimesTheirTime(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, _ := newEvictionTestCache(t, 1<<30)
+
+	// A pass made here, before the loop starts, counts the reads one
+	// pass makes on this empty cache, so the reads recorded below can be
+	// split into passes.
+	readsPerPass := 0
+	cache.reconciliationReadTestHook = func(int) { readsPerPass++ }
+
+	err := cache.reconcileAccounting(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reconcileAccounting failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("one reconciliation pass makes %d reads", readsPerPass)
+
+	if readsPerPass == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("a reconciliation pass made no read")
+	}
+
+	// The pass at startup and two after it.
+	const passes = 3
+
+	type read struct{ start, end time.Time }
+
+	// The channel holds every read the test looks at, so none of those
+	// is dropped; reads after them are, and never block the loop.
+	reads := make(chan read, passes*readsPerPass)
+
+	cache.reconciliationReadTestHook = func(int) {
+		start := time.Now()
+
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+
+		select {
+		case reads <- read{start: start, end: time.Now()}:
+		default:
+		}
+	}
+
+	cache.StartEviction(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	defer func() { _ = cache.StopEviction(t.Context()) }()
+
+	recorded := make([]read, 0, passes*readsPerPass)
+	timeout := time.After(15 * time.Second)
+
+	for len(recorded) < passes*readsPerPass {
+		select {
+		case r := <-reads:
+			recorded = append(recorded, r)
+		case <-timeout:
+			t.Fatalf("saw %d reconciliation reads in 15 s, want %d (%d passes)",
+				len(recorded), passes*readsPerPass, passes)
+		}
+	}
+
+	for pass := range passes - 1 {
+		first := recorded[pass*readsPerPass]
+		last := recorded[(pass+1)*readsPerPass-1]
+		next := recorded[(pass+1)*readsPerPass]
+
+		passTime := last.end.Sub(first.start)
+		wait := next.start.Sub(last.end)
+
+		t.Logf("pass %d took at least %v, and the next pass started %v after it",
+			pass+1, passTime, wait)
+
+		if wait < 10*passTime {
+			t.Errorf("pass %d took at least %v, and the next pass started %v "+
+				"after it, want at least %v", pass+1, passTime, wait, 10*passTime)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // TestStopEvictionInterruptsPassInProgress holds the test database's
 // only connection, so the startup reconciliation pass waits for it, and
 // checks that StopEviction stops that pass instead of waiting for the