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Regression on clean 0.16.0: daemon pileup (38 procs) + doctor hang + wire_accept→wire_send peer_unknown recur (ref #284) #352

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Summary

The cascade reported and closed in #284 (daemon/doctor hang + process pileup + wire_send peer_unknown on a VERIFIED peer) recurs on a clean wire 0.16.0. #284 was filed during a 0.15.0→0.16.0 mid-session upgrade; this report is steady-state 0.16.0, so the fixes are either incomplete or regressed.

Environment:

  • OS: Windows 10 Pro (19045)
  • Binary: C:\Users\Willard\.local\bin\wire.exe, wire 0.16.0
  • Relay: https://wireup.net
  • Host: Claude Code MCP integration (session-keyed WIRE_HOME)

Observed (this session)

Process pileup (#284 §2): Get-Process wire showed 38 wire.exe:

  • ~23 × wire daemon --interval 5 (should be 1) — one runaway at 134 CPU-s
  • 14 × wire mcp (stacked across resumes; each boot appears to auto-start a daemon → cascade)
  • 1 × wire monitor --json, 1 × hung wire doctor

Root cause looks like: each wire mcp startup ensures/spawns a daemon, and nothing reaps prior ones → N resumes ⇒ N daemons contending on relay.lock/slot files ⇒ MCP calls crawl (multi-second). Killing the 21 surplus daemons + restarting a single one (wire up) restored sub-second MCP latency immediately.

wire doctor hangs (#284 §1): wire doctor produced zero output and never returned; had to kill it (it reported exit 127 on kill). The diagnostic command still hangs on the unhealthy condition it is meant to diagnose.

wire_sendpeer_unknown on a freshly VERIFIED peer (#284 §6): Right after wire_accept returned status: bilateral_accepted for peer velvet-ember, the next wire_send to that peer returned:

"status":"peer_unknown","reason":"peer 'velvet-ember' not pinned — run `wire dial ...`"

wire_accept reported success but did not leave the peer in a send-pinnable state; an explicit wire_dial velvet-ember@wireup.net was required before wire_send would deliver. Accept and the send-side pin set are out of sync.

Expectation

Cross-ref: identity-split issue #351 (the WIRE_HOME / DID drift that compounds the pileup).

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