Live symptom: jobsub intermittently failed with 'Connection timed out' even
though the cluster had quorum. Root cause: the synchronous commit barrier waits
only DEFAULT_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MS=50ms for durable majority replication, and that was
not configurable. 50ms is too tight for durable sync majority replication —
especially since standbys now fdatasync each replicated entry before ACK — so a
multi-entry jobsub's later WAL entry intermittently misses the window:
commit: WAIT deadline expired without commit (lsn=3 committed_lsn=2 timeout_ms=50)
-> persist hook returns -ETIMEDOUT -> handle_jobsubmit rejects -> client ETIMEDOUT.
Fix:
- Raise DEFAULT_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MS 50 -> 500 (config.h) — realistic for durable sync
majority replication, still bounded for failure detection.
- Add a --sync-timeout-ms controller flag threaded arguments -> myconf ->
persist pcfg (override applied before persist_init); 0 = use default, positive
overrides — so operators can tune per environment.
TDD: literal-pinned persist_config_defaults().sync_timeout_ms == 500. All
timeout-sensitive tests already pass an explicit timeout_ms (none rely on the
default), so none are slowed; full controller suite green under ASAN. No
commit-engine/barrier/replication/wire change beyond the default value + plumbing.
bug-561.
Rongsong Shen
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