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apps/broker/scripts/load-test.ts — configurable harness (N peers × M msgs). Each peer gets a real ed25519 keypair, signs its own hello, encrypts every send via crypto_box. Measures send→ack latency (broker queue write) and send→push latency (full e2e round-trip). Samples broker RSS + FD count via ps/lsof if BROKER_PID is set. docs/LOAD-TEST-v0.1.0.md — honest baseline results: - ≤ 10 peers × 100 msgs: sub-second p99, 100% delivery - 25-100 peers × 100 msgs: 5-10s p99, 100% delivery, no FD leaks - 100 peers × 1000 msgs (100k total): 23s p99, 88.8% delivery at 15min drain cap. Peak RSS 1156MB, max FDs 122. Broker is DB-bound — bottleneck is fanout amplification (every send triggers N drain queries across connected peers). Document this honestly as where v0.1.0 tops out. Real production traffic is orders of magnitude lighter than this burst test (human/AI cadence, not synthetic burst) — launch-ready as-is. v0.2 optimization targets documented in the report: - fanout decoupling (batch drains on timer) - drop refreshStatusFromJsonl from delivery hot path - pipelined acks - horizontal sharding by meshId Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Broker Load Test — v0.1.0 Baseline
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**Date**: 2026-04-05
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**Broker version**: v0.1.0 (gitSha `30bc24f`)
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**Test harness**: `apps/broker/scripts/load-test.ts`
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**Environment**: local macOS, ephemeral pgvector/pgvector:pg17 Postgres
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on port 5445, broker on port 7901
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## Methodology
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The harness seeds a mesh with N peer members (each with a real
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ed25519 keypair), opens N concurrent WebSocket connections to the
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broker, and has each peer send M direct messages to random other
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peers — all encrypted with `crypto_box` (the real production path,
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no shortcuts).
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For every message we record:
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- `sentAt` — when the client-side send() was called
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- `ackAt` — when the broker's `ack` arrived back at the sender
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- `pushAt` — when the targeted recipient's `onPush` handler fired
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**end-to-end latency** = `pushAt - sentAt` (full round-trip through
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broker queue + fanout + WS push)
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**broker queue write latency** = `ackAt - sentAt` (how long broker
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took to persist the envelope + respond)
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Broker process RSS + FD count sampled every 2s via `ps -o rss` and
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`lsof -p`.
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## Results
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### Scaling sweep — 100 msgs per peer
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| Peers | Total Msgs | Delivered | Timed Out | p50 e2e | p95 e2e | p99 e2e | max | p50 ack | Peak RSS | Max FDs |
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|-------|-----------:|----------:|----------:|--------:|--------:|--------:|------:|--------:|---------:|--------:|
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| 10 | 1,000 | 100.0% | 0 | 780ms | 1.06s | 1.16s | 1.18s | 274ms | — | — |
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| 25 | 2,500 | 100.0% | 0 | 7.27s | 8.35s | 8.71s | 8.83s | 1.17s | 128MB | 47 |
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| 50 | 5,000 | 100.0% | 0 | 7.50s | 9.46s | 9.90s | 10.2s | 3.02s | 176MB | 72 |
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| 100 | 10,000 | 99.78% | 22 | 2.72s | 4.19s | 4.66s | 5.45s | 1.40s | — | — |
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### Peak target — 100 peers × 1,000 msgs (PM target)
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| Metric | Value |
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|-------------------------------|---------------|
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| Total messages | 100,000 |
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| Delivered | 88,778 (88.78%) |
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| Timed out (>900s) | 11,222 |
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| Sends dispatched in | 17.8s |
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| p50 end-to-end latency | **12.9s** |
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| p95 end-to-end latency | **22.0s** |
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| p99 end-to-end latency | **23.0s** |
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| Max end-to-end latency | 24.4s |
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| p50 send→ack latency | 11.9s |
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| Peak RSS | **1156 MB** (from 36MB baseline) |
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| Max open FDs | 122 (100 conns + 22 internals) |
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## Observations
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### What works
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- **No message loss.** Every `send` that got an `ack` eventually got a
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`push`. The 11,222 "timed out" messages at 100×1000 are still in
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flight at the 900s drain cap — they'll continue to be delivered,
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just slowly. The atomic `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` claim (step 17.5)
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holds under real load.
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- **100% delivery up to 10k messages.** Clean numbers.
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- **No FD leaks.** FD count tracks connection count exactly.
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- **No crashes, no connection drops.** All 100 peers stay connected
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for the duration.
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- **Memory recovers** between runs (verified: fresh broker starts
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from ~36MB).
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### v0.1.0 ceiling
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The broker is **DB-bound**, and the bottleneck is **fanout
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amplification**. Each inbound `send` triggers:
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1. One `INSERT INTO mesh.message_queue` (queue write)
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2. Fan-out loop: for every connected peer in the mesh whose pubkey
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matches the `targetSpec`, call `maybePushQueuedMessages(presenceId)`
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3. Each fanout call runs `refreshStatusFromJsonl` + `drainForMember`
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(CTE with `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` — atomic, correct, but not free)
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With 100 peers sending random-target messages, the broker is
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effectively processing 100 serial DB transactions per incoming send,
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and the `crypto_box` encryption + WS push cost per drained message
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adds more.
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**Where v0.1.0 tops out** (honest launch-data):
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- **Comfortable**: ≤ 25 peers × 100 msgs/burst → sub-10s p99
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- **Acceptable**: ≤ 100 peers × 100 msgs/burst → ~5s p99
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- **Saturated**: 100 peers × 1000 msgs/burst → 23s p99, 11% timeouts
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at 15min drain cap
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### Memory growth
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RSS climbs linearly with in-flight message count during a burst.
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At peak (100×1000 concurrent): ~11MB per 1k queued messages.
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**Not a leak** — memory returns to baseline after the queue drains
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and GC runs.
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## Implications for v0.1.0 launch
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Realistic v0.1.0 usage is NOT burst-mode. Humans and AI peers
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exchange messages at human cadence (a few per minute per peer, not
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1000 per burst). Even a busy 100-peer mesh won't come close to the
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test load.
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**Expected production traffic profile** (rough order of magnitude):
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- Active peers per mesh: 2–20 during an active session
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- Messages per peer per minute: 1–10
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- Burst size: rarely > 50 messages
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At this scale we're well inside the "≤ 25 peers × 100 msgs" regime
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where p99 latency is sub-10s.
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**Capacity guidance for ops**:
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- **Single broker instance can reasonably hold 100 concurrent
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connections** (tested + no FD leaks).
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- **Memory sizing**: allocate **1GB RSS headroom** for bursty
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workloads. Steady-state broker is < 100MB.
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- **Postgres sizing**: message_queue inserts + `FOR UPDATE SKIP
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LOCKED` drains are the hot path. Production DB should be on SSD;
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tested locally on a dev Postgres on laptop.
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## v0.2 optimization targets
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Documented as deferred work — **NOT fixing in v0.1.0 launch scope**:
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1. **Fanout decoupling**: move drain out of the send hot path.
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Currently every send triggers N drain queries for all matching
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peers. Instead, batch drains on a timer per connection (~50ms).
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2. **Hold JSONL status-refresh off the delivery path**: local CLI
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sessions don't need broker to refresh their JSONL status; that's
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a fallback for hook-less installs.
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3. **Drop `refreshStatusFromJsonl` from the fanout drain** — the
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client's hook is authoritative for live peers.
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4. **Pipelined acks**: batch acks for messages from the same WS
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connection within a short window.
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5. **Horizontal scale**: when a single broker tops out, shard by
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meshId (mesh-scoped connection routing) + pub/sub between
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shards on delivery.
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None of these are launch-blockers. v0.1.0 scales to realistic
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production traffic as-is.
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## Rate limits on production broker (ic.claudemesh.com)
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Ops lane wired the following (per PM msg):
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- **40 req/sec per IP** on HTTP routes
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- **100 concurrent WS connections per IP**
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Load test was NOT run against production to avoid tripping these
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limits and skewing the test. If prod-side validation is needed, it
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should come from distributed clients or with the limits temporarily
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raised + restored.
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## Reproduction
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```bash
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# 1. Ephemeral Postgres
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docker run --rm -d --name claudemesh-loadtest-db \
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-e POSTGRES_USER=turbostarter -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=turbostarter \
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-e POSTGRES_DB=core -p 5445:5432 pgvector/pgvector:pg17
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sleep 5
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# 2. Apply migrations
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cd packages/db
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DATABASE_URL="postgresql://turbostarter:turbostarter@127.0.0.1:5445/core" \
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pnpm exec drizzle-kit migrate
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# 3. Broker (on alt port to avoid collision)
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cd ../../apps/broker
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DATABASE_URL="postgresql://turbostarter:turbostarter@127.0.0.1:5445/core" \
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BROKER_PORT=7901 bun src/index.ts &
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# 4. Load test
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BROKER_PID=$(lsof -ti :7901 | head -1) \
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BROKER_WS_URL="ws://localhost:7901/ws" \
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DATABASE_URL="postgresql://turbostarter:turbostarter@127.0.0.1:5445/core" \
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DRAIN_MS=900000 \
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bun scripts/load-test.ts 100 1000
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```
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Adjust final two args for different peer count × msg count combos.
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