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fix(core): bound fleet census lock waits (#1336) - #1337

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Description

Fleet census read-only SQLite connections use a 50 ms busy timeout.
Locked bank candidates enter unreadable and make bound_holds false.
Regression cases cover foreign and valid bank locks with unchanged database bytes.

Related Issue

Refs #1336.
Based on the timeout proposed by @pompousman in #1336.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Documentation update
  • Refactor / performance
  • Test improvement
  • CI / build tooling

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Existing tests still pass (pytest tests/ -v)
  • New tests added for any new functionality
  • Manual verification (describe what you tested)

Checklist

  • Version bumped in mnemosyne/__init__.py
  • CHANGELOG.md updated with a brief entry
  • README updated if user-facing behavior changed
  • Code follows the project's principles:
    • No new external dependencies without good reason
    • No cloud / API key requirement for core functionality
    • SQLite is the only database dependency

Summary

Fleet census now limits each read-only SQLite connection to a 50 ms lock wait. A candidate that cannot be read remains listed as unreadable and causes the measured bound to fail closed. Census discovery and bank contents are unchanged.

New regression tests cover locks on foreign SQLite files and valid fleet banks. They check census timing, unreadable-bank reporting, bound behavior, recovery after lock release, and unchanged database bytes.

Architectural impact

This change is limited to fleet census. It does not change tiered memory, retrieval, consolidation, veracity, sync, Hermes, MCP, CLI, or benchmark methodology.

Census continues to read local databases without writing to them. The short timeout limits delays from locked files. Reporting unreadable candidates and failing the bound closed is the right call for preserving accurate census results.

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Changes

Fleet census reads now wait up to 50 ms for SQLite locks. Locked candidates remain reported as unreadable, and the cross-bank bound remains unmeasured until all candidates can be read.

Fleet census lock handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded census reads
mnemosyne/core/fleet_census.py, tests/test_fleet_conflict_census.py, CHANGELOG.md
Read-only census connections use a 50 ms timeout. Tests cover locked foreign databases and fleet banks, unreadable-candidate reporting, bound handling, subsequent scans after lock release, and unchanged database files. The changelog records the timeout behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • mnemosyne-oss/mnemosyne#1336: The PR bounds lock waits as described in the issue. It does not change directory discovery or skip browser-profile files.

Possibly related PRs

  • mnemosyne-oss/mnemosyne#1258: Both PRs modify fleet census behavior. This PR changes lock handling for discovered candidates; PR #1258 changes which snapshot directories discovery scans.

Suggested reviewers: astraea-hermes

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f330c

Census lock waits use the intended timeout. No merge-blocking risk is established.

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Review comments at @tests/test_fleet_conflict_census.py:
- Line 441: In the single-lock test, keep the elapsed-time budget as a
scheduling-tolerance check and separately verify that the sqlite3.connect call
receives a timeout of 0.05 seconds, ensuring the configured lock-wait timeout is
tested directly.

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Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the 50 ms timeout separately from the elapsed-time budget.

The one-second limit allows a timeout much longer than 50 ms to pass, especially in the single-lock test. Keep the generous elapsed-time check for scheduling tolerance. Also inspect the sqlite3.connect call and assert timeout == 0.05. SQLite uses that argument as its lock-wait timeout. (docs.python.org)

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Review comment at @tests/test_fleet_conflict_census.py at line 441:
In the single-lock test, keep the elapsed-time budget as a scheduling-tolerance
check and separately verify that the sqlite3.connect call receives a timeout of
0.05 seconds, ensuring the configured lock-wait timeout is tested directly.

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