stress,client: nonce chaos and failed execution options

core/client/tx.go

@@ -44,9 +44,12 @@ func (c *Client) newTx(ctx context.Context, data transactions.Payload, txOpts *c
 	}
 
 	// estimate price
-	price, err := c.txClient.EstimateCost(ctx, tx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to estimate price: %w", err)
+	price := txOpts.Fee
+	if price == nil {
+		price, err = c.txClient.EstimateCost(ctx, tx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to estimate price: %w", err)
+		}
 	}
 
 	// set fee

test/stress/db.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"math/rand"
 	"time"
 
 	clientType "github.com/kwilteam/kwil-db/core/types/client"
@@ -178,7 +179,20 @@ func (h *harness) createPost(ctx context.Context, dbid string, postID int, title
 */
 
 func (h *harness) createPostAsync(ctx context.Context, dbid string, postID int, title, content string) (<-chan asyncResp, error) {
-	txHash, err := h.executeActionAsync(ctx, dbid, actCreatePost, [][]any{{postID, title, content}})
+	args := [][]any{{postID, title, content}}
+	// Randomly fail execution. TODO: make frequency flag, like execFailRate,
+	// but we really don't need it to succeed, only be mined. The failures
+	// ensure expected nonce and balance updates regardless.
+	if rand.Intn(6) == 0 {
+		if rand.Intn(2) == 0 {
+			// kwild.abci: "msg":"failed to execute transaction","error":"ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bigint: \"not integer\" (SQLSTATE 22P02)"
+			args = [][]any{{"not integer", title, content}} // id not integer (SQL exec error)
+		} else {
+			// kwild.abci: "msg":"failed to execute transaction","error":"incorrect number of arguments: procedure \"create_post\" requires 3 arguments, but 2 were provided"
+			args = [][]any{{postID, title}} // too few args (engine procedure call error)
+		}
+	}
+	txHash, err := h.executeActionAsync(ctx, dbid, actCreatePost, args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}

test/stress/hammer.go

@@ -133,6 +133,14 @@ func hammer(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	userID, userName, err := h.getOrCreateUser(ctx, dbid)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("getOrCreateUser: %w", err)
+	}
+	h.printf("user ID = %d / user name = %v", userID, userName)
+
+	h.nonceChaos = nonceChaos // after successfully deploying the test db and creating a user in it
+
 	// ## badgering read-only requests to various systems
 
 	// bother the account store
@@ -209,12 +217,6 @@ func hammer(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 	var pid atomic.Int64 // post ID accessed by separate goroutines
 
-	userID, userName, err := h.getOrCreateUser(ctx, dbid)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("getOrCreateUser: %w", err)
-	}
-	h.printf("user ID = %d / user name = %v", userID, userName)
-
 	nextPostID, err := h.nextPostID(ctx, dbid, userID)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("nextPostID: %w", err)

test/stress/harness.go

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"math/big"
+	"math/rand"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/kwilteam/kwil-db/core/crypto/auth"
@@ -28,25 +28,42 @@ type harness struct {
 	nonceMtx sync.Mutex
 	nonce    int64 // atomic.Int64
 
-	concurrentBroadcast bool // be wreckless with nonces
+	concurrentBroadcast bool // broadcast many before confirm, still coordinate nonces
+	nonceChaos          int  // apply random nonce-jitter every 1/n times
 
 	nestedLogger *log.Logger
 }
 
+// for about 1 in every f times, produce a non-zero nonce jitter:
+// {-2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4}
+func randNonceJitter(f int) int64 {
+	if f == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if rand.Intn(f) > 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	n := rand.Int63n(6) - 2
+	if n >= 0 { // 0-3 => 1-4
+		return n + 1
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
 func (h *harness) underNonceLock(ctx context.Context, fn func(int64) error) error {
 	if h.concurrentBroadcast {
 		// Grab the next nonce in a thread-safe manner, but do not wait for
 		// broadcast to complete to release the lock. If there is a nonce error,
 		// there will be more chaos with concurrent broadcasting.
 		h.nonceMtx.Lock()
 		h.nonce++
-		nonce := h.nonce // chaos: + int64(rand.Intn(2))
+		nonce := h.nonce + randNonceJitter(h.nonceChaos)
 		h.nonceMtx.Unlock()
 		if err := fn(nonce); err != nil {
 			if errors.Is(err, transactions.ErrInvalidNonce) {
 				// Note: several goroutines may all try to do this if they all hit the nonce error
 				h.recoverNonce(ctx)
-				h.printf("error, nonce reverting to %d\n", h.nonce)
+				h.printf("error, nonce %d was wrong, reverting to %d\n", nonce, h.nonce)
 			}
 			return err
 		}
@@ -100,13 +117,13 @@ func (h *harness) printRecs(ctx context.Context, recs *clientType.Records) {
 	}
 }
 
-func (h *harness) executeActionAsync(ctx context.Context, dbid string, action string,
+func (h *harness) executeActionAsync(ctx context.Context, dbid, action string,
 	inputs [][]any) (transactions.TxHash, error) {
 	var txHash transactions.TxHash
 	err := h.underNonceLock(ctx, func(nonce int64) error {
 		var err error
 		txHash, err = h.ExecuteAction(ctx, dbid, action, inputs,
-			clientType.WithNonce(nonce), clientType.WithFee(&big.Int{}))
+			clientType.WithNonce(nonce) /*, clientType.WithFee(&big.Int{})*/) // TODO: badFee mode
 		return err
 	})
 	if err != nil {

test/stress/main.go

@@ -39,10 +39,9 @@ var (
 	txPollInterval time.Duration
 
 	sequentialBroadcast bool
+	nonceChaos          int
 	rpcTiming           bool
 
-	// badNonces bool
-
 	wg sync.WaitGroup
 )
 
@@ -69,6 +68,7 @@ func main() {
 	flag.IntVar(&maxContentLen, "el", 50_000, "maximum content length in an executed post action")
 
 	flag.BoolVar(&sequentialBroadcast, "sb", false, "sequential broadcast (disallow concurrent broadcast, waiting for broadcast result before releasing nonce lock)")
+	flag.IntVar(&nonceChaos, "nc", 0, "nonce chaos rate (apply nonce jitter every 1/nc times)")
 	flag.BoolVar(&rpcTiming, "v", false, "print RPC durations")
 
 	flag.DurationVar(&txPollInterval, "pollint", 200*time.Millisecond, "polling interval when waiting for tx confirmation")