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From: Kefu Chai <k.chai@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH http-server 0/1] fix pveproxy OOM during PDM cross-cluster migration to LVM-thin
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:12:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260412111209.3960421-1-k.chai@proxmox.com> (raw)

pveproxy on the destination host can be OOM-killed during PDM offline
cross-cluster migration when the target storage (e.g. LVM-thin) writes more
slowly than data arrives over the network [1].

the websocket proxy already had wbuf_max set on the backend handle, but it
turns out not to help. AnyEvent::Handle only checks it inside the
`if (!$self->{_ww})` guard in _drain_wbuf:

    if (!$self->{_ww} && length $self->{wbuf}) {
        ...
        if (defined $self->{wbuf_max} && $self->{wbuf_max} < ...) {
            $self->_error(Errno::ENOSPC, 1);
        }
    }

once the first EAGAIN installs the write watcher (_ww), all subsequent
push_write calls return immediately without reaching the check, so wbuf
grows without bound.

to fix this, follow the same approach response_stream() already takes: stop
reading from the source handle when the backend write buffer exceeds the
limit, and resume via on_drain once it empties.

handle_spice_proxy_request() has the same issue and even carries a
"# todo: use stop_read/start_read" comment acknowledging it, but is not
addressed here as SPICE carries interactive VM console traffic rather than
bulk data.

tested with a synthetic AnyEvent script that drives a fast writer through a
proxy into a slow reader. without backpressure, the proxy write buffer grows
to ~1.4 GB in 5 seconds (2254x the limit). with the fix, it stays bounded at
just over the 640 KB limit, as expected.

[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7483

Kefu Chai (1):
  fix #7483: apiserver: add backpressure to websocket proxy

 src/PVE/APIServer/AnyEvent.pm | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

-- 
2.47.3





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