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Problem

Store.Get in the Olric-backed rate limiter wrote a new or expired key in
two separate steps: an initial Put with no TTL, followed by a second
Put to attach the TTL. If anything interrupted that second write (or the
reset path for an expired key), the key was left permanently in the store
with no expiry — an "immortal" key that never gets cleaned up.

Fix

Both the new-key path and the expired-key reset path now issue a single
Put call that already carries the TTL option, so a key is never
observable in a state where it exists but has no TTL. The unbounded-tier
case (Rate.Period == 0) is unchanged: it still writes with no TTL option,
matching prior behavior for limiters with no expiry by design.

The increment path (live key) now re-writes with PXAT using the key's existing absolute expiry, instead of PX(time.Until(expiry)). A relative PX can truncate to 0 (no TTL) and is re-based on the server clock on every increment.

Related to #1571

Testing

Added olric_store_test.go, a regression test built against a minimal
fake of olric.DMap. It asserts, for each of the three cases above, that
Store.Get performs exactly one Put call and that the call's TTL option
count matches expectations:

  • TestGet_NewKey_SetsTTLOnCreatingWrite
  • TestGet_NewKey_UnboundedTier_NoTTLOption
  • TestGet_ExpiredKey_ResetGetsTTLOnSameWrite

All three pass locally (go test ./... -run TestGet -v), and go build ./... / go vet ./... are clean.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Rate limits with a defined period now expire correctly when created, retrieved, or reset.
    • Existing rate limits retain their expiration while still active, and expired limits reset with a fresh expiration.
    • Very short positive periods now receive the minimum supported expiration instead of remaining unbounded.
    • Rate limits with no positive period continue without expiration, and expiration times are interpreted consistently.

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Store.Get applies TTLs in the same write that creates or resets a key. It preserves the expiry of a live key and interprets Olric expiry values as absolute Unix-millisecond timestamps. Tests cover bounded, unbounded, reset, sub-millisecond, and expiry-option behavior.

Changes: Rate limiter TTL handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
TTL-aware key writes
src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go, src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store_test.go
Key creation and expired-key resets apply TTL options in the same Put. Positive periods below one millisecond use a one-millisecond TTL. A zero period uses no TTL option. Tests check bounded, unbounded, reset, and sub-millisecond cases.
Expiry conversion and options
src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go, src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store_test.go, src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store_ttl_test.go
Existing-key expiry values are converted from absolute Unix-millisecond timestamps. Tests check that live expiries use PXAT, new-key TTLs use PX, and expiry conversion returns the expected time.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7fa6e

The change sets TTLs on new and reset rate-limit keys at write time, which addresses the memory growth from keys that never expire. No merge-blocking risk remains; the log-context suggestion is minor.

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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #1571 identifies the no-TTL creation and expired-key reset writes as the measured immortal-key cause. Store.Get now sends one Put with newKeyPutOptions(rate) for both paths. Positive perio…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed production code remains in Store.Get and its TTL helpers. The absolute-expiry handling prevents live-key increments from restarting or misreading the rate-limit window. The tests cover t…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 81.82% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 3 files.
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Title check Passed The title uses the required Conventional Commits format, includes the required scope for a fix, and accurately describes the TTL bug fix for newly created rate-limiter keys.
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🟡 Minor · Use result.TTL() as an absolute expiry. · olric_store.go:135-150

src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go:135-150
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use result.TTL() as an absolute expiry. Store.Get reaches this branch through rateEntry.Limiter.Get. Olric's result.TTL() is an absolute Unix timestamp in milliseconds, but the code treats it as a duration. This produces an incorrect Context.Reset timestamp for callers that consume it.

Set expiration with time.UnixMilli(result.TTL()) instead.

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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go` around lines 135 -
150, Update the expiration calculation in the rate-entry retrieval flow around
result.TTL() to interpret the value as an absolute Unix millisecond timestamp by
using time.UnixMilli(result.TTL()), while preserving the existing positive-TTL
guard and fallback behavior.
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@shelleyshen-0 could you please review this once

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This implements the fix direction from #1571, and putting the TTL on the creating write is worth keeping. But i think we missed a write path that still leave keys with no TTL. I think the incremental path can still leave keys without ttl.

I tried to repro this locally with self hosted the memory seems still to grow. Can you try that since thats what we are using to see the memory leak issue(generate bunch of invocation requests and see memory grow)

Or change Fixes 1571 to Related to 1571

Ayana Sarkar and others added 5 commits October 14, 2026 22:29
Store.Get created new/reset rate-limit keys with a Put that set no
TTL, then applied the TTL in a separate follow-up write. Any of the
following left that window open and the key permanently immortal,
since nothing else in the store ever re-applies a TTL to a key that
already lacks one:

- rate.Period == 0 for a limiter tier, so the TTL-setting write
  never ran
- the follow-up write's ErrKeyNotFound error was silently ignored
- a crash/restart landed between the two writes

Fold the TTL into the same Put that creates/resets the key instead,
removing the second write (and its round trip) entirely.

Fixes NVIDIA#1571

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thanks @Max-NV you were right about the increment path. pushed a fix

the increment put used PX(time.Until(expiry)). a remainder under 1ms truncates to PX(0) on the wire and the server treats 0 as "no TTL". Olric also computes now+PX server-side, so each increment could push the expiry later by the Get-to-Put delay.
the increment now re-writes with PXAT using the key's existing absolute expiry, so there is no arithmetic and nothing to truncate. Keys that already lapsed take the reset path with a fresh TTL.
added tests for the option semantics (PXAT on increment, PX never truncating to 0 on create). TestRateLimiterService, including the multi-instance subtests, passes locally.

i haven't measured memory yet, so I've changed the description to "Related to #1571". ill report total keys and TTL-less keys after a load run.

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src/invocation-plane-services/ratelimiter/olric_store.go: 1

122-122: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add correlation fields to the Put-error log.

If this Put fails, the log records the error but does not identify the request or limiter context. Use a context-enriched logger or add the available correlation fields. As per path instructions, check “structured logging with required context fields (request/function/cluster/org id).”

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ran a synthetic load against an embedded single-node Olric (the max007-008 fork) calling Store.Get directly: 20k distinct keys at a 1s period, one hot key hammered by 8 goroutines for 5s, and 1k keys at period 0. After the load stopped I checked every key at 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20s.

results were the same on upstream/main and on this branch:
no bounded-period key and not the hot key ever had TTL 0, and all bounded keys had expired by +5s.
the 1k period-0 keys never expire (1000 of 1000 with no TTL), as designed.
heap rose from about 3MB to about 300MB in both builds and stayed flat after expiryso heap alone doesnt separate a leak from table allocation.

so i could not reproduce TTL less keys in the bounded tiers on either build. Caveat: single node via the embedded client, so it doesn't exercise cross-node forwarding.

@Max-NV could you share what your self-hosted setup measures (RSS vs key count), whether it is single- or multi-node,and which tiers or periods the traffic hits? If any tier uses period 0memory will grow with the number of distinct keys regardless of this PR. next im checking whether heap plateaus across repeated waves of new keys.

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@ayanasarkar Thanks, the incremental path fix looks right. We can have this as is since you changed to "relates to".

If you want to try to repro and use pprof to see locally, the single-node run can't show this bug. Please try with at least 3 members. There is some doc here some repo: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvcf/blob/main/docs/dev/local-development.md. by default it's 1 pod, just have to change or scale up to 3 pods.

also under ai-tooling, there is nvcf-self-managed-installation if you have ai tools.

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@ayanasarkar are you still looking into self hosted testing?

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@ayanasarkar are you still looking into self hosted testing?

yup i am looking into it and will inform soon

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