feat(chunk): default chunk retrieval to miners before gateway peers - #878
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Flip CHUNK_DATA_RETRIEVAL_ORDER and CHUNK_METADATA_RETRIEVAL_ORDER defaults from `ar-io-network,arweave-network` to `arweave-network,ar-io-network`. Arweave miners are incentivized to store and serve arbitrary chunks. AR.IO gateways only hold what they happened to cache. Asking the gateway layer first therefore turns the common case into a near certain miss, and those misses concentrate on whichever gateway originated the data. Probing four independent AR.IO gateways for an offset one node serves returned clean 404s from all four: the peer tier is healthy, it just is not where arbitrary chunks live. Measured on a single development gateway across paired windows, moving the peer tier to second position cut outbound AR.IO peer chunk requests by 23 to 41 percent at equal request volume. Total delivery is unchanged in principle, because peers first serves |P| + |M\P| and miners first serves |M| + |P\M|, which are the same union. The measured delivery difference was swamped by workload variance (three windows of the same config spanned 9x), so this makes no delivery claim in either direction. `ar-io-network` stays in the chain as a fallback, where it is useful for chunks the miner set cannot serve. Operators who tuned these variables are unaffected: only the default moves, and one env var reverts it. Two risks worth naming: 1. This shifts first hop load onto the Arweave node set, and for nodes that have not discovered many peers it concentrates on TRUSTED_NODE_URL (arweave.net by default). Bucket filtered peer selection can leave ~10 candidate nodes per offset even on a gateway that knows 128, so peer discovery warmup deserves a parallel look. 2. When a client abandons a chunk request, the peer fan out cancels (the client signal is merged into each peer fetch) but the miner fetch does not: `getChunkByAny` deliberately keeps the shared `chunkPromiseCache` entry running so other waiters still get the result. Miners first therefore moves abandoned request work from the cancellable path to the non cancellable one. The work still populates the cache, and measured total outbound volume fell rather than rose, but the interaction is real. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChunk retrieval defaults now probe Arweave miners before AR.IO gateways. Environment examples and documentation add legacy sources and parallelism settings. ChangesChunk retrieval configuration
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Chunk retrieval now prefers Arweave miners, but cancelled requests may continue issuing miner fetches for an extended period. This can increase unnecessary outbound work and resource use under abandoned requests, so the cleanup bound and cancellation behavior should be addressed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@src/config.ts`:
- Line 1277: Update ArweaveCompositeClient.getChunkByAny so cancellation of one
caller does not cancel the shared fetch, but the shared peerGetChunk operation
has a documented total cleanup deadline rather than waiting through all peer
timeouts. Propagate the internal bound across the peer-fetch path and preserve
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| export const CHUNK_DATA_RETRIEVAL_ORDER = env | ||
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| .varOrDefault('CHUNK_DATA_RETRIEVAL_ORDER', 'arweave-network,ar-io-network') |
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Bound the shared miner fetch after client cancellation.
When ArweaveCompositeClient.getChunkByAny receives an aborted signal, it stops only that caller's wait. The shared fetch calls peerGetChunk without a signal, so it can continue through up to 50 peers with a 500 ms per-peer timeout. Add delayed miner tests for data and metadata, and enforce a documented total cleanup bound without cancelling fetches for other waiters.
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In `@src/config.ts` at line 1277, Update ArweaveCompositeClient.getChunkByAny so
cancellation of one caller does not cancel the shared fetch, but the shared
peerGetChunk operation has a documented total cleanup deadline rather than
waiting through all peer timeouts. Propagate the internal bound across the
peer-fetch path and preserve completion for other waiters. Add delayed-miner
tests covering both chunk data and metadata cancellation behavior.
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The mechanism is real, one of the numbers is not, and I do not think the fix belongs in this PR. Confirmed. The shared fetch is uncancellable. Corrected. The bound is not 50 peers. Scope. This PR flips two default strings. It does not create the detached fetch, and the fetch behaves identically with either ordering. What changes is how often abandoned requests land on that path, which is worth saying and is said. Adding a cleanup bound plus delayed-miner tests for both the data and metadata entry points is a behavioral change to Measured for context, since it decides whether this is urgent: over a 146-hour window on a production gateway, 99.3% of peer-origin chunk requests past the cache were cancelled by the caller, and 0.31% delivered bytes. So detached work is the common case rather than the exception, but it is bounded at roughly 5 seconds and it populates the cache, which is why it was built this way. Filed separately so it is not lost: #885. 🤖 Generated with Claude Code |
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What changed
CHUNK_DATA_RETRIEVAL_ORDERandCHUNK_METADATA_RETRIEVAL_ORDERnow default toarweave-network,ar-io-networkinstead ofar-io-network,arweave-network.docs/envs.mdgains rows for both, plus the two*_SOURCE_PARALLELISMknobs, none of which were documented.docker-compose.yamlalready passes all four through, so it needs no change.What needs your judgement
Why
Arweave miners are incentivized to store and serve arbitrary chunks. AR.IO gateways only hold what they happened to cache. Asking the gateway layer first therefore turns the common case into a near certain miss, and those misses concentrate on whichever gateway originated the data.
Probing four independent AR.IO gateways for an offset that a node serves successfully returned clean 404s from all four. The peer tier is healthy. It just is not where arbitrary chunks live.
Evidence, and its limits
Measured on one development gateway, in paired alternating windows:
|P| + |M\P|, miners first serves|M| + |P\M|, which are the same union, so ordering changes who serves and what it costs rather than whether a chunk is obtainable. Three windows of the same config spanned 9x in measured delivery rate, so the metric cannot resolve an effect this size at this duration. Both directions appeared in the data depending on the window.Risks
TRUSTED_NODE_URL(arweave.netby default). Bucket filtered peer selection left about 10 candidate nodes per offset on a gateway that knew 128.getChunkByAnydeliberately keeps the sharedchunkPromiseCacheentry running so other waiters still receive the result. Miners first therefore moves that work to the non cancellable path. It still populates the cache, and measured total outbound volume fell rather than rose, but the interaction is real.Rollback
Set either variable back in
.envand restart. Operators who already tuned these are unaffected: only the default moves. No migration, no schema change, and nothing here touches verification or the trust headers.