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siftlode/backend/app/downloads/gc.py
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peter 9ae6c47d6c perf(downloads): de-prioritize worker transcodes + idle-back-off polls to stop LAN slowdown
The download/edit child (yt-dlp + ffmpeg) shares one LAN box with the API,
Postgres, and Plex playback. A CPU re-encode pegged every core for ~30s and
starved web requests + playback until it finished. Full-scope S4 mitigations:

- Child self-de-prioritizes at startup (inherited by every ffmpeg/yt-dlp
  descendant): CPU nice increment + best-effort idle ionice class + an
  OMP_NUM_THREADS budget, all config-gated and independently disable-able.
- Cap the browser-safe re-encode's encoder threads (`-threads`) so a transcode
  reserves a core for foreground work instead of claiming all of them.
- Throttle the retention GC's whole-tree orphan sweep (yield IO after each
  batch of files) so its rglob can't monopolize disk IO in the API process.
- Idle-back-off the Download Center (2s→15s when nothing queued/running) and
  UsageBar (2s→15s when running_jobs is 0) polls; both snap back to 2s on the
  next fetch after an enqueue (invalidateDownloads refetches immediately).

Tests: encode_thread_cap (pin/reserve-core/edge), -threads flag presence,
_deprioritize (nice/ionice/OMP branches), GC sweep throttle batching.
2026-08-28 02:37:56 +02:00

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"""Download retention garbage collector (a scheduler job).
Five passes each run:
1. Pre-expiry warning — for ready assets expiring within the grace window, notify each holder
once (gc_notified flag) so a download isn't silently deleted.
2. Expiry deletion — delete assets past their TTL (files + row). The FK SET NULL nulls the
holders' jobs' asset_id, so those jobs surface as "expired" (re-downloadable) in the UI.
3. LRU eviction — if a total cache cap is set and exceeded, delete least-recently-accessed
ready assets until back under it.
4. Orphan reap — delete errored, fileless, unreferenced asset rows (they carry no TTL, so
passes 1-3 skip them; benign row-count hygiene).
5. Orphan FILE sweep — delete on-disk files/dirs no surviving asset owns (cruft left when a
re-download renames an asset, e.g. old accented channel dirs), skipping system trees and
anything newer than an hour so an in-flight download is never touched.
Runs in the API process (which mounts DOWNLOAD_ROOT). Pure disk/DB work — no YouTube quota.
"""
import logging
import time
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from pathlib import Path
from sqlalchemy import func, select
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from app import sysconfig
from app.config import settings
from app.downloads import storage
from app.models import DownloadJob, MediaAsset
from app.notifications import create_notification
log = logging.getLogger("siftlode.downloads.gc")
# Dot-prefixed top-level trees that are NOT part of the Plex/flat asset layout — the orphan sweep
# never touches them (user clips, Plex HLS/img caches, in-progress staging, editor storyboards).
_SYSTEM_TREE = {".edits", ".plex-hls", ".plex-img-cache", ".staging", ".storyboards"}
_ORPHAN_MIN_AGE_S = 3600 # only sweep files older than this, so an in-flight download is never hit
def _holders(db: Session, asset_id: int) -> list[int]:
return list(
db.execute(
select(DownloadJob.user_id).where(DownloadJob.asset_id == asset_id).distinct()
).scalars()
)
def _notify_holders(db: Session, asset: MediaAsset, ntype: str) -> None:
title = asset.title or "download"
for uid in _holders(db, asset.id):
create_notification(
db,
user_id=uid,
type=ntype,
title=title, # English fallback; the client renders a translated message from data
data={"kind": ntype, "title": asset.title, "video_id": asset.source_ref},
commit=False,
)
def _delete_asset(db: Session, asset: MediaAsset, ntype: str) -> None:
if asset.rel_path:
storage.delete_asset_files(settings.download_root, asset.rel_path)
_notify_holders(db, asset, ntype)
db.delete(asset) # jobs.asset_id -> NULL via FK ON DELETE SET NULL
def _sweep_orphan_files(db: Session, download_root: str) -> int:
"""Delete media/sidecar files (and now-empty dirs) under DOWNLOAD_ROOT that no `ready` asset
owns — cruft left when a re-download changes an asset's on-disk name (e.g. an old accented
channel dir, or a poster from a superseded naming scheme). Skips the dot-prefixed system trees
and only removes files older than `_ORPHAN_MIN_AGE_S`, so a just-completed or in-flight download
is never deleted, and only files NOT owned by a surviving asset."""
root = Path(download_root)
if not root.is_dir():
return 0
keep: set[Path] = set()
for rel in db.execute(
select(MediaAsset.rel_path).where(
MediaAsset.status == "ready", MediaAsset.rel_path.is_not(None)
)
).scalars():
media = (root / rel).resolve()
keep |= {media, media.with_suffix(".nfo"), media.with_suffix(".jpg")}
cutoff = time.time() - _ORPHAN_MIN_AGE_S
removed = 0
# Throttle the whole-tree walk: this runs in the API process, and an unpaced rglob+stat over a
# large download root monopolizes disk IO long enough to make web requests + playback stutter.
# Yield the IO channel after every `batch` files touched so foreground work interleaves.
pause_s = max(0, settings.download_gc_sweep_pause_ms) / 1000.0
batch = max(1, settings.download_gc_sweep_batch)
touched = 0
def _throttle() -> None:
nonlocal touched
touched += 1
if pause_s and touched % batch == 0:
time.sleep(pause_s)
for entry in root.iterdir():
if entry.name.startswith("."): # .edits / .plex-* / .staging / .storyboards + any dotfile
continue
files = [entry] if entry.is_file() else [p for p in entry.rglob("*") if p.is_file()]
for f in files:
_throttle()
try:
if f.resolve() in keep or f.stat().st_mtime > cutoff:
continue
f.unlink()
removed += 1
except OSError:
pass
if entry.is_dir(): # prune emptied dirs (deepest first), then the channel dir itself
for d in sorted(
(p for p in entry.rglob("*") if p.is_dir()),
key=lambda p: len(p.parts),
reverse=True,
):
try:
d.rmdir()
except OSError:
pass
try:
entry.rmdir()
except OSError:
pass
return removed
def run_download_gc(db: Session) -> dict:
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
grace_days = sysconfig.get_int(db, "download_gc_grace_days")
warned = expired = evicted = reaped = 0
# 1. Pre-expiry warnings.
warn_before = now + timedelta(days=grace_days)
soon = (
db.execute(
select(MediaAsset).where(
MediaAsset.status == "ready",
MediaAsset.gc_notified.is_(False),
MediaAsset.expires_at.is_not(None),
MediaAsset.expires_at > now,
MediaAsset.expires_at <= warn_before,
)
)
.scalars()
.all()
)
for asset in soon:
_notify_holders(db, asset, "download_expiring")
asset.gc_notified = True
warned += 1
if soon:
db.commit()
# 2. Expiry deletion (ready assets past TTL, and any errored leftovers with a TTL).
dead = (
db.execute(
select(MediaAsset).where(
MediaAsset.status.in_(("ready", "error")),
MediaAsset.expires_at.is_not(None),
MediaAsset.expires_at <= now,
)
)
.scalars()
.all()
)
for asset in dead:
_delete_asset(db, asset, "download_expired")
expired += 1
if dead:
db.commit()
# 3. LRU eviction over the total cache cap.
cap = sysconfig.get_int(db, "download_total_max_bytes")
if cap > 0:
total = (
db.execute(
select(func.coalesce(func.sum(MediaAsset.size_bytes), 0)).where(
MediaAsset.status == "ready"
)
).scalar()
or 0
)
if total > cap:
candidates = (
db.execute(
select(MediaAsset)
.where(MediaAsset.status == "ready")
.order_by(MediaAsset.last_access_at.asc().nulls_first())
)
.scalars()
.all()
)
for asset in candidates:
if total <= cap:
break
total -= asset.size_bytes or 0
_delete_asset(db, asset, "download_evicted")
evicted += 1
db.commit()
# 4. Reap orphaned errored rows (no file, no holder). get_or_create_asset resets a still-
# referenced errored row to pending on re-enqueue, so these only accumulate once every
# holder is gone; they carry no expires_at, so passes 1-3 never touch them.
orphans = (
db.execute(
select(MediaAsset).where(
MediaAsset.status == "error",
MediaAsset.ref_count == 0,
MediaAsset.rel_path.is_(None),
)
)
.scalars()
.all()
)
for asset in orphans:
db.delete(asset) # no file to unlink; FK SET NULL clears any stray job.asset_id
reaped += 1
if orphans:
db.commit()
# 5. Orphan FILE sweep — remove on-disk cruft no surviving asset owns (old accented dirs, stale
# posters). Runs last so the keep-set reflects the assets that survived passes 2-4.
swept = _sweep_orphan_files(db, settings.download_root)
result = {
"warned": warned,
"expired": expired,
"evicted": evicted,
"reaped": reaped,
"swept": swept,
}
log.info("download_gc %s", result)
return result