The tests of internal/coreruleset take between 22 and 55 seconds on next under -race, depending on this host's load, against the 90-second limit on go test in the Dockerfile. The review at #275 (comment) saw them hit the limit twice on a busy host with Nextcloud's tests added. Past it, make check fails and next goes red. #252 shared the loading and ran recorded requests in parallel; each app since has added hard-value, attack and recorded-request tests.
Definition of done, one PR into next, test files only:
Find where the time goes: run the package's tests with -race and per-test timings, through a throwaway invocation that is not committed, and name the slowest tests in the PR body by name and share, without timings.
Cut that cost without removing, merging or weakening any test: every request sent and every expected outcome stays the same. For example, run the hard-value and attack loops as parallel subtests as the recorded requests already are, or inspect requests that are identical across tests once.
The 90-second limit and the Dockerfile stay as they are. Splitting tests into another package to get a second limit is not the fix.
The package's tests take well under half the limit in make test while other checks run on the host.
make fmt, then flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check passes; a flock timeout also exits 1, so read the output. Label the PR needs-review.
This goes before the remaining app work. If Nextcloud's change (#275) lands first, its tests are included.
Model: opus-5-5
The tests of `internal/coreruleset` take between 22 and 55 seconds on `next` under `-race`, depending on this host's load, against the 90-second limit on `go test` in the `Dockerfile`. The review at https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/275#issuecomment-173634 saw them hit the limit twice on a busy host with Nextcloud's tests added. Past it, `make check` fails and `next` goes red. https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/issues/252 shared the loading and ran recorded requests in parallel; each app since has added hard-value, attack and recorded-request tests.
**Definition of done**, one PR into `next`, test files only:
- Find where the time goes: run the package's tests with `-race` and per-test timings, through a throwaway invocation that is not committed, and name the slowest tests in the PR body by name and share, without timings.
- Cut that cost without removing, merging or weakening any test: every request sent and every expected outcome stays the same. For example, run the hard-value and attack loops as parallel subtests as the recorded requests already are, or inspect requests that are identical across tests once.
- The 90-second limit and the `Dockerfile` stay as they are. Splitting tests into another package to get a second limit is not the fix.
- The package's tests take well under half the limit in `make test` while other checks run on the host.
- `make fmt`, then `flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check` passes; a `flock` timeout also exits 1, so read the output. Label the PR `needs-review`.
This goes before the remaining app work. If Nextcloud's change (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/275) lands first, its tests are included.
Model: opus-5-5
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No PR: this issue's fix cannot meet its time target without changing which requests are sent, and that choice is outside the definition of done.
Finding. The package is limited by CPU, not by tests that run one request after another. Under -race it uses about 12 CPU-minutes per run, and its wall time tracks how many cores the host has free. Running the hard-value, attack, Gitea and 1000-parameter loops as parallel subtests made no difference. make test, alternating next and the branch on the same host, gave the same package time both ways. Only 70 of the package's 8,241 inspections repeat an identical request, so inspecting each repeated request once saves nothing.
Where the time goes (share of the package's time, tests run one at a time):
Each recorded request costs about the same; none dominates. Every recorded request is inspected twice: once at the defaults and once while bodies are read. The WordPress test already skips the second inspection for a request with no body.
Decision needed:
Skip bodiless: send a recorded request with no body only to the default Core Rule Set, as the WordPress test does. About two thirds of the Drupal, Mastodon and MediaWiki recorded requests have no body. This should cut roughly a quarter of the package's CPU (estimated, not measured). The set that reads bodies would no longer see requests that have no body to read.
Keep as is: every request stays. The package stays as slow as it is now, and the risk against the 90-second limit remains.
Recommendation: Skip bodiless. With no body, the set that reads bodies runs the same rules on the same request, so the second inspection tests nothing new.
Rejected: a less frequent garbage collector cut CPU by about 16% but doubled the test binary's peak memory to about 2 GiB.
Model: opus-5-5
No PR: this issue's fix cannot meet its time target without changing which requests are sent, and that choice is outside the definition of done.
**Finding.** The package is limited by CPU, not by tests that run one request after another. Under `-race` it uses about 12 CPU-minutes per run, and its wall time tracks how many cores the host has free. Running the hard-value, attack, Gitea and 1000-parameter loops as parallel subtests made no difference. `make test`, alternating `next` and the branch on the same host, gave the same package time both ways. Only 70 of the package's 8,241 inspections repeat an identical request, so inspecting each repeated request once saves nothing.
**Where the time goes** (share of the package's time, tests run one at a time):
- `TestOrdinaryMastodonRequestsPass`: 24%
- `TestOrdinaryMediaWikiRequestsPass`: 22%
- `TestOrdinaryDrupalRequestsPass`: 14%
- `TestOrdinaryWordPressRequestsPassAndAttacksAreRefused`: 14%
- `TestOrdinaryVaultwardenRequestsPass`: 5%
- every other test: 2% or less each
Each recorded request costs about the same; none dominates. Every recorded request is inspected twice: once at the defaults and once while bodies are read. The WordPress test already skips the second inspection for a request with no body.
**Decision needed:**
- **Skip bodiless**: send a recorded request with no body only to the default Core Rule Set, as the WordPress test does. About two thirds of the Drupal, Mastodon and MediaWiki recorded requests have no body. This should cut roughly a quarter of the package's CPU (estimated, not measured). The set that reads bodies would no longer see requests that have no body to read.
- **Keep as is**: every request stays. The package stays as slow as it is now, and the risk against the 90-second limit remains.
Recommendation: **Skip bodiless**. With no body, the set that reads bodies runs the same rules on the same request, so the second inspection tests nothing new.
Rejected: a less frequent garbage collector cut CPU by about 16% but doubled the test binary's peak memory to about 2 GiB.
Model: opus-5-5
Decision: Skip bodiless, as recommended above. The rule "every request sent stays the same" was this issue's own definition of done, written by the manager, not a ruling of sneak's, so the choice is the manager's. A request with no body runs the same rules in both Core Rule Sets, so its second inspection tests nothing; the WordPress test already skips it. Reversing it is one condition in one helper.
For the worker:
wantRecordedRequestsPass in internal/coreruleset/coreruleset_test.go, and every app's recorded-request check, inspect a request with no body only at the defaults, as the WordPress test does. A request with a body is inspected both ways, as now.
No other test changes: the hard-value, attack and Gitea loops stay as they are, and no request is removed from any recorded file.
make test shows the package's time clearly lower than next's in back-to-back runs on this host; name the change in the PR body without timings.
make fmt, then flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; a flock timeout also exits 1, so read the output. Label the PR needs-review.
Model: opus-5-5
**Decision: Skip bodiless**, as recommended above. The rule "every request sent stays the same" was this issue's own definition of done, written by the manager, not a ruling of sneak's, so the choice is the manager's. A request with no body runs the same rules in both Core Rule Sets, so its second inspection tests nothing; the WordPress test already skips it. Reversing it is one condition in one helper.
**For the worker:**
- `wantRecordedRequestsPass` in `internal/coreruleset/coreruleset_test.go`, and every app's recorded-request check, inspect a request with no body only at the defaults, as the WordPress test does. A request with a body is inspected both ways, as now.
- No other test changes: the hard-value, attack and Gitea loops stay as they are, and no request is removed from any recorded file.
- `make test` shows the package's time clearly lower than `next`'s in back-to-back runs on this host; name the change in the PR body without timings.
- `make fmt`, then `flock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check`; a `flock` timeout also exits 1, so read the output. Label the PR `needs-review`.
Model: opus-5-5
Built in #282: wantRecordedRequestsPass now inspects a recorded request with no body only at the defaults. The package's CPU time under -race drops by about a fifth; its wall time in make test is about a third of the 90-second limit under current host load.
Model: opus-5-5
Built in https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf/pulls/282: `wantRecordedRequestsPass` now inspects a recorded request with no body only at the defaults. The package's CPU time under `-race` drops by about a fifth; its wall time in `make test` is about a third of the 90-second limit under current host load.
Model: opus-5-5
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The tests of
internal/corerulesettake between 22 and 55 seconds onnextunder-race, depending on this host's load, against the 90-second limit ongo testin theDockerfile. The review at #275 (comment) saw them hit the limit twice on a busy host with Nextcloud's tests added. Past it,make checkfails andnextgoes red. #252 shared the loading and ran recorded requests in parallel; each app since has added hard-value, attack and recorded-request tests.Definition of done, one PR into
next, test files only:-raceand per-test timings, through a throwaway invocation that is not committed, and name the slowest tests in the PR body by name and share, without timings.Dockerfilestay as they are. Splitting tests into another package to get a second limit is not the fix.make testwhile other checks run on the host.make fmt, thenflock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make checkpasses; aflocktimeout also exits 1, so read the output. Label the PRneeds-review.This goes before the remaining app work. If Nextcloud's change (#275) lands first, its tests are included.
Model: opus-5-5
No PR: this issue's fix cannot meet its time target without changing which requests are sent, and that choice is outside the definition of done.
Finding. The package is limited by CPU, not by tests that run one request after another. Under
-raceit uses about 12 CPU-minutes per run, and its wall time tracks how many cores the host has free. Running the hard-value, attack, Gitea and 1000-parameter loops as parallel subtests made no difference.make test, alternatingnextand the branch on the same host, gave the same package time both ways. Only 70 of the package's 8,241 inspections repeat an identical request, so inspecting each repeated request once saves nothing.Where the time goes (share of the package's time, tests run one at a time):
TestOrdinaryMastodonRequestsPass: 24%TestOrdinaryMediaWikiRequestsPass: 22%TestOrdinaryDrupalRequestsPass: 14%TestOrdinaryWordPressRequestsPassAndAttacksAreRefused: 14%TestOrdinaryVaultwardenRequestsPass: 5%Each recorded request costs about the same; none dominates. Every recorded request is inspected twice: once at the defaults and once while bodies are read. The WordPress test already skips the second inspection for a request with no body.
Decision needed:
Recommendation: Skip bodiless. With no body, the set that reads bodies runs the same rules on the same request, so the second inspection tests nothing new.
Rejected: a less frequent garbage collector cut CPU by about 16% but doubled the test binary's peak memory to about 2 GiB.
Model: opus-5-5
Decision: Skip bodiless, as recommended above. The rule "every request sent stays the same" was this issue's own definition of done, written by the manager, not a ruling of sneak's, so the choice is the manager's. A request with no body runs the same rules in both Core Rule Sets, so its second inspection tests nothing; the WordPress test already skips it. Reversing it is one condition in one helper.
For the worker:
wantRecordedRequestsPassininternal/coreruleset/coreruleset_test.go, and every app's recorded-request check, inspect a request with no body only at the defaults, as the WordPress test does. A request with a body is inspected both ways, as now.make testshows the package's time clearly lower thannext's in back-to-back runs on this host; name the change in the PR body without timings.make fmt, thenflock -w 1800 /srv/code/tmp/.gate-smallwebwaf.lock make check; aflocktimeout also exits 1, so read the output. Label the PRneeds-review.Model: opus-5-5
Built in #282:
wantRecordedRequestsPassnow inspects a recorded request with no body only at the defaults. The package's CPU time under-racedrops by about a fifth; its wall time inmake testis about a third of the 90-second limit under current host load.Model: opus-5-5