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Why

Users report the database growing without bound — several GB in some reports. Nothing in the suite measured storage over time or load time against history length: the existing Stopwatch uses time single operations, and #223 only added codec/index unit tests. This adds a soak that does both, so a regression in either shows up as a red run instead of a user report.

What it does

test/db_growth_soak_test.dart, opt-in with OPENSTRAP_SOAK=1 (skipped in the normal flutter test; a simulated day costs 15–30 s).

Growth. Simulates days of wear through the real commitSyncBatch, the real derive pass (DerivationEngine.run(heavy: true), which prunes and archives) and vacuumIfBloated, and records file / used / freelist / WAL bytes and per-table size for every day in build/soak/db_growth.csv. After a warm-up of rawRetentionDays + 3 days it fails if:

  • decoded_onehz keeps growing (it should plateau at the retention window);
  • the file plus its -wal holds much more than the data needs (> 1.25× used + 32 MB);
  • used bytes grow faster than SOAK_BUDGET_MB (default 3 MB/day, least-squares slope).

All three are checked and reported together.

Load time. Ages the same database to 30 / 180 / 365 / 730 days of history and times, median of 5 after a warm-up:

  • launch: close + reopen, latestSample, refreshComputeFreshness;
  • home: HomeData.load + availableDays, with getToday / getInsights / availableDays split out;
  • trends: getChart('readiness') + getChart('hrv').

It fails if the longest history is more than SOAK_MAX_RATIO (default 2) × the shortest + 25 ms.

Knobs: SOAK_DAYS (default 14), SOAK_DEVICE (gen4 or mg; MG adds the ~10.5k undecodable_rec_v20 frames a day the MG strap produces), SOAK_HISTORY, SOAK_BUDGET_MB, SOAK_MAX_RATIO.

One approximation. Real analytics take ~75 s a day under flutter test, so one day is derived for real and its derived rows (day_result, metric_series, metric_series_version, sleep_session_candidates, wake_day_features) are cloned onto the other days and marked finalized. The prune then behaves as on a healthy install where every day finalizes. History for the load test is built the same way, plus cloned substrate_archive buckets for the archive policy's 365 days.

.github/workflows/soak.yml runs it nightly (and on workflow_dispatch) for gen4 and MG, with the same Flutter pin as test.yml, contents: read, and the CSV uploaded as an artifact.

What it finds on current main

gen4 WHOOP MG
Growth/day once pruning runs 1.99 MB ✅ 3.53 MB ❌
Growth/day before pruning ~21 MB ~115 MB
Disk after the first VACUUM 165 MB file + 19 MB WAL 698 MB file + 702 MB WAL ❌
Home load, 30 → 730 days 22 → 303 ms ❌ 32 → 321 ms ❌
Trends, 30 → 730 days 7 → 55 ms 12 → 60 ms
  1. The -wal stays the size of the whole database after a VACUUM. In WAL mode VACUUM writes every page through the WAL, and with no journal_size_limit a checkpoint never shrinks it, so disk use doubles for good.
  2. MG undecodable frames cost 115 MB/day until the prune. raw_archive's primary key is (device_id, hex), so each 4,256-character frame is stored in the table and again in its key index; the thinned remainder still adds ~1.5 MB/day.
  3. getToday slows with history. recentDayResults joins every day's full row and sorts it before its LIMIT.

sleep_session_candidates also grows ~73 MB/year (it is never pruned per day); minor.

So the nightly job is red on main until those are fixed. Fixes follow as separate PRs. Times are desktop debug-mode flutter test, so phones are slower; the ratios are what the test asserts.

Tests

  • flutter analyze: no issues.
  • Without OPENSTRAP_SOAK both tests skip (flutter test test/db_growth_soak_test.dart → all skipped), so the PR workflow is unaffected.
  • Ran locally at defaults for gen4 and MG; results above.

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Summary by Sourcery

Add an opt-in database soak suite to detect unbounded storage growth and history-dependent load-time regressions.

New Features:

  • Add an opt-in database soak test covering long-term storage growth and load-time scaling across multiple history lengths and device types.

Enhancements:

  • Measure retention pruning, database file/WAL usage, table sizes, and steady-state growth against configurable budgets.
  • Measure launch, home, and trends performance as database history grows, with configurable thresholds and CSV reporting.

CI:

  • Run the soak tests nightly and on demand for Gen4 and MG configurations, uploading storage reports as artifacts.

Tests:

  • Add synthetic end-to-end soak coverage through ingestion, derivation, pruning, archiving, vacuuming, and representative repository loads.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Chores
    • Added nightly and on-demand database growth checks for supported devices. On-demand runs can specify test duration and history periods.
    • Checks run on two device types, and available results are saved as CSV reports, including when a check fails. This change does not alter app features or behavior.

Simulates days of use through the real sync commit, derive-pass prune,
substrate archive and VACUUM, and records per-table size per day in
build/soak/db_growth.csv. Then ages the install to 30/180/365/730 days of
history and times the launch reads, the home load and the trend charts.

Opt-in (OPENSTRAP_SOAK=1), a simulated day costs 15-30 s; the new soak
workflow runs it nightly for gen4 and WHOOP MG and keeps the CSV.

On current main it fails on three real problems:
- after a VACUUM the -wal stays the size of the whole database (no
  journal_size_limit), doubling disk use;
- WHOOP MG grows 3.5 MB/day in steady state (thinned v20 frames), 115 MB/day
  before the prune;
- getToday goes from ~20 ms to ~300-400 ms between 30 and 730 days of
  history: recentDayResults sorts every day's full row before its LIMIT.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This PR introduces an opt-in database growth and load-time soak built around production database and derivation paths, with configurable thresholds and CSV diagnostics, then runs it nightly and on demand for gen4 and MG configurations in CI.

Sequence diagram for the database growth soak day

sequenceDiagram
    participant Soak as db_growth_soak_test
    participant DB as Database
    participant DerivationEngine
    participant Vacuum as vacuumIfBloated
    participant CSV as db_growth.csv

    Soak->>DB: commitSyncBatch
    Soak->>DerivationEngine: run(heavy: true)
    DerivationEngine->>DB: prune and archive
    Soak->>Vacuum: vacuumIfBloated
    Soak->>DB: collect file, used, freelist, WAL, and table sizes
    Soak->>CSV: record daily measurements
    Soak->>Soak: check decoded_onehz plateau and growth slope
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Sequence diagram for history-dependent load-time measurements

sequenceDiagram
    participant Soak as db_growth_soak_test
    participant DB as Database
    participant HomeData
    participant Charts as ChartQueries

    Soak->>DB: close and reopen
    Soak->>DB: latestSample
    Soak->>DB: refreshComputeFreshness
    Soak->>HomeData: load
    HomeData->>DB: getToday
    HomeData->>DB: getInsights
    HomeData->>DB: availableDays
    Soak->>Charts: getChart(readiness)
    Soak->>Charts: getChart(hrv)
    Soak->>Soak: compare median timings across history lengths
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Change Details Files
Adds an opt-in end-to-end soak test that measures database storage growth across simulated days and load-time scaling across database history lengths.
  • Feeds synthetic data through production ingest, derivation, pruning, archiving, and vacuum paths.
  • Records file, used, freelist, WAL, row-count, per-table, and per-day timing metrics in a CSV report.
  • Checks retention plateau, disk-overhead limits, steady-state growth slope, and history-dependent load-time ratios.
  • Supports configurable device, duration, history, growth budget, and timing thresholds through environment variables.
  • Uses a one-day real analytics derive and clones finalized derived rows for the remaining synthetic days, explicitly approximating expensive analytics while preserving pruning behavior.
test/db_growth_soak_test.dart
Adds scheduled and manually triggerable CI coverage for the soak on both supported device scenarios.
  • Runs nightly and via workflow_dispatch with configurable simulated days and history lengths.
  • Tests gen4 and MG in independent matrix jobs with serialized Flutter test execution and a two-hour job timeout.
  • Pins Flutter, installs dependencies, enables the soak flag, and uploads the CSV report even when the test fails.
.github/workflows/soak.yml

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Adds a GitHub Actions workflow that runs database growth soak tests nightly or on demand. It tests gen4 and mg and attempts to upload each device’s report when the job finishes.

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Runs nightly at 02:30 UTC or on manual dispatch with configurable days and history. Uses a two-device matrix, installs Flutter and dependencies, runs the soak test, and attempts to upload each device’s CSV report. Cancels an in-progress run for the same ref.

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Pin the workflow actions to commit SHAs.

actions/checkout@v4, subosito/flutter-action@v2 at Line 40, and actions/upload-artifact@v4 at Line 59 use mutable tags. Pin all three to full-length commit SHAs so a tag change cannot alter a future soak run without a workflow change. The supplied zizmor hint flags all three references. (docs.github.com)

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Hey - I've found 5 issues

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Please address the comments from this code review:

## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="test/db_growth_soak_test.dart" line_range="500" />
<code_context>
+          longest = results[history.last]!;
+      final slow = [
+        for (final k in loads.keys)
+          if (longest[k]! > shortest[k]! * ratio + slackMs)
+            '$k: ${shortest[k]} ms at ${history.first} days of history, '
+                '${longest[k]} ms at ${history.last}',
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Empty home data passes load soak**

When a `getToday` regression returns an empty result quickly, `getToday` can return an empty/default result immediately and still satisfy the timing comparison at line 500; the test records durations for `home.today` at line 461 but never checks its result. The soak then passes while the home load is broken.

Assert that the timed home calls return representative data from the populated fixture, separately from their timing checks.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path="test/db_growth_soak_test.dart" line_range="422-429" />
<code_context>
+              ).millisecondsSinceEpoch ~/
+              86400000;
+          if (archived.isNotEmpty && edgeDay - utcDay <= 365) {
+            final a = archived.first;
+            final shift = ((a['utc_day'] as int) - utcDay) * 86400;
+            await d.insert('substrate_archive', {
+              ...a,
+              'utc_day': utcDay,
+              'from_ts': (a['from_ts'] as int) - shift,
+              'to_ts': (a['to_ts'] as int) - shift,
+            }, conflictAlgorithm: ConflictAlgorithm.replace);
+          }
+        }
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Cloned archive metadata disagrees with payload**

When history extension copies an archived bucket for an older day, the copied `substrate_archive` row keeps the source `blob` and `fingerprint` while changing `utc_day`, `from_ts`, and `to_ts`. The stored bucket therefore describes timestamps different from its compressed payload, so archive consumers can reject it or read misdated substrate and the soak no longer models valid archive history.

Create each cloned bucket by decoding the source payload, shifting its timestamps, and re-encoding it with a matching fingerprint, or avoid inserting synthetic archive rows.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 3
<location path="test/db_growth_soak_test.dart" line_range="163-176" />
<code_context>
+    }
+  }
+
+  Future<void> cloneDay(String from, String to) async {
+    final d = await db();
+    for (final (table, col) in _perDayTables) {
+      final cols = [
+        for (final r in await d.rawQuery('PRAGMA table_info($table)'))
+          r['name'] as String,
+      ];
+      final select = [for (final c in cols) c == col ? '?' : c].join(', ');
+      await d.rawInsert(
+        'INSERT OR REPLACE INTO $table (${cols.join(', ')}) '
+        'SELECT $select FROM $table WHERE $col = ?',
+        [to, from],
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Cloned results retain the source day’s timestamps**

When `cloneDay` copies the template into a different `day_result` day, `cloneDay` changes the `day_result.day_id` but copies `payload_json` unchanged. `refreshComputeFreshness` associates the cloned row’s new day label with the source day’s `data_edge_sec` and sleep-window timestamps, so the aged fixture reports freshness for dates that do not match the stored result data and the launch-load measurement exercises inconsistent rows.

When cloning day results, rewrite the date-specific timestamps inside `payload_json` to match the destination day, or generate valid per-day payloads for the fixture.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 4
<location path="test/db_growth_soak_test.dart" line_range="496-497" />
<code_context>
+      final ratio = _num('SOAK_MAX_RATIO', 2);
+      // Absolute slack, so a 3 ms load going to 9 ms is not a failure.
+      const slackMs = 25;
+      final shortest = results[history.first]!,
+          longest = results[history.last]!;
+      final slow = [
+        for (final k in loads.keys)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**History scaling goes untested**

When `SOAK_HISTORY` contains only one history length, `history.first` and `history.last` select the same result, so the comparison checks that history against itself and the soak reports success even if loads regress at longer histories.

Require at least two distinct history lengths before comparing the shortest and longest results.

Also at `test/db_growth_soak_test.dart:500`.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 5
<location path="test/db_growth_soak_test.dart" line_range="410" />
<code_context>
+      Future<void> extendHistoryTo(int days) async {
+        final d = await db();
+        final target = DateTime(today.year, today.month, today.day - days);
+        while (oldest.isAfter(target)) {
+          oldest = DateTime(oldest.year, oldest.month, oldest.day - 1);
+          final label = dayLabelOf(oldest);
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**History measurements use wrong lengths**

When `SOAK_DAYS` exceeds the shortest requested history length, `oldest` starts at `first` and `extendHistoryTo` only adds older days, so a `SOAK_DAYS` value larger than the shortest `SOAK_HISTORY` entry leaves that shortest measurement with more history than its label says. The reported load-time comparison then uses the wrong baselines.

Ensure each timed scenario contains exactly the requested history, or reject configurations where `SOAK_DAYS` exceeds the shortest `SOAK_HISTORY` value.
</issue_to_address>

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Blocking findings: test/db_growth_soak_test.dart:500, test/db_growth_soak_test.dart:429, test/db_growth_soak_test.dart:176, test/db_growth_soak_test.dart:497, test/db_growth_soak_test.dart:410


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DropTabl and others added 2 commits October 22, 2026 16:00
- Concurrency group per event, so a manual run cannot cancel the nightly
  one before its CSV is uploaded.
- The load test asserts Home, today and the day list come back populated,
  so a load that got fast by returning nothing is not a pass.
- SOAK_HISTORY needs two or more distinct lengths, each at least SOAK_DAYS;
  otherwise the comparison checks a history against itself or mislabels it.
- Header notes that cloned rows keep the template's timestamps and blobs;
  nothing timed decodes them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The template's second day stepped by Duration(days: 1), which lands on the
same calendar date across a fall-back DST night (AGENTS.md 3.7); use
calendar arithmetic like the rest of the file. SOAK_HISTORY is now parsed
and checked in setUpAll, so a bad value fails in seconds instead of after
the growth run. The SOAK_MAX_RATIO header now states the per-load
comparison and the 25 ms slack.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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