CB-589: document that weighted placement is not cheapest-first
The weight ratio does not express a preference order. weighted spreads spawns across every profile with a free slot, so paid spawns happen while the free box is idle - and a profile at maxLoad freezes its score, so it can lose the next pick after a slot frees. The real fix is a cost-first policy (CB-589). This documents the workaround and its trap next to the key, because bridged.yaml is gitignored: a fresh host starts without the workaround and quietly pays, with nothing to tell the operator why. Comments only. BridgedConfigTest: 85 tests, BUILD SUCCESS.
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@@ -275,6 +275,26 @@ profiles:
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# argv: ["opencode"]
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# How an unqualified spawn chooses a profile: fixed (default, reproduces pre-CB-518 behaviour),
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# round-robin, or weighted. Omitting this key is a strict no-op for existing configs.
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#
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# `weighted` IS NOT "cheapest first" — read this before you set weights (CB-589).
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# It is smooth weighted round-robin: it spreads spawns across EVERY profile that has a free slot,
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# in weight ratio. It has no idea which profile costs money. So with local:10 / paid:2 you do not
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# get "use local, overflow to paid" — you get roughly one spawn in six going to the paid profile
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# while the local box still has a free slot.
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#
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# There is a sharper second effect. The policy's running score map lives for the daemon's whole
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# life. While a profile is at maxLoad it is filtered out and its score FREEZES, so the paid
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# profiles keep accumulating against it. When the local slot frees up it returns with a stale
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# score and can LOSE the next pick — a paid spawn while the free box sits idle.
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#
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# Until a real cost-first policy exists, the workaround is to make the ratio decisive rather than
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# proportional: give the free profile a weight so large that it wins every pick it is eligible
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# for, and paid profiles only ever take genuine overflow. On this host that is local weight 100
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# against paid weights of ~1.
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#
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# The gotcha with that workaround: it expresses a PREFERENCE ORDER through a RATIO knob. Add a
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# future profile at weight 150 and it silently outranks the free box, with nothing to warn you.
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# Re-check the weights whenever you add a profile.
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placement: weighted
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# How long a credential sits out after a BACKEND_EXHAUSTED classification (CB-578 stage B), in
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