Locust spawns N virtual users (default 1000), all from 127.0.0.1 as
admin. /auth/login is rate-limited 10/5min per-IP AND per-username, so
the 11th on_start() got 429 and a RuntimeError. A @task(2) login in
the task weights turned the whole run into a 429 factory even after
ramp-up. And _login_with_retry treated 429 as non-retryable, so there
was no graceful degradation path.
Three changes, one root cause:
- decnet/web/limiter.py: read DECNET_LIMITER_ENABLED (default true).
When false, slowapi's Limiter(enabled=False) makes @limiter.limit a
no-op. Default ships unchanged; nobody should ever release with this
off.
- tests/stress/conftest.py: set DECNET_LIMITER_ENABLED=false in the
uvicorn subprocess env. Stress tests measure throughput, not rate
limiting.
- tests/stress/locustfile.py: drop the @task(2) login — it added zero
coverage (every user already logs in at on_start) and only generated
contention. Teach _login_with_retry to honour 429 + Retry-After so a
Locust pointed at a limiter-enabled server degrades gracefully
instead of crashing on_start.
- tests/**: update templates/ → decnet/templates/ paths after module move
- tests/mysql_spinup.sh: use root:root and asyncmy driver
- tests/test_auto_spawn.py: patch decnet.cli.utils._pid_dir (package split)
- tests/test_cli.py: set DECNET_MODE=master in api-command tests
- tests/stress/conftest.py: run locust out-of-process via its CLI + CSV
stats shim to avoid urllib3 RecursionError from late gevent monkey-patch;
raise uvicorn startup timeout to 60s, accept 401 from auth-gated health,
strip inherited DECNET_* env, surface stderr on 0-request runs
- tests/stress/test_stress.py: loosen baseline thresholds to match hw
Previously every user did login → change-pass → re-login in on_start
regardless of whether the server actually required a password change.
With bcrypt at ~250ms/call that's 3 bcrypt-bound requests per user.
At 2500 users the on_start queue was ~10k bcrypt ops — users never
escaped warmup, so @task endpoints never fired.
Login already returns must_change_password; only run the change-pass
+ re-login dance when the server says we have to. Cuts on_start from
3 requests to 1 for every user after the first DB initialization.
verify_password / get_password_hash are CPU-bound and take ~250ms each
at rounds=12. Called directly from async endpoints, they stall every
other coroutine for that window — the single biggest single-worker
bottleneck on the login path.
Adds averify_password / ahash_password that wrap the sync versions in
asyncio.to_thread. Sync versions stay put because _ensure_admin_user and
tests still use them.
5 call sites updated: login, change-password, create-user, reset-password.
tests/test_auth_async.py asserts parallel averify runs concurrently (~1x
of a single verify, not 2x).
