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Closes #399. Partially addresses #434 (see below).

What was wrong

Four assertion shapes in the nightly chaos and benchmark suites were calibrated on an idle machine and run on shared runners. Each failed while every invariant it exists for was intact, which is the worst kind of failure — it erodes trust in the gates that justify the TLA+ and chaos work, and it costs a rerun on most full-CI passes.

All scaling now lives in one place, awa/tests/ci_timing.rs, with unit tests. It only ever loosens a bound, and only when CI is set — a local run keeps the strict values, so a real regression still fails fast on a developer machine. AWA_CHAOS_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER overrides the factor and is clamped to >= 1.0.

1. Duplicate completions in the mixed-fleet chaos test

test_mixed_rust_and_python_workers_share_same_queue set heartbeat_staleness to 250ms against a 50ms heartbeat_interval — a 5x margin. Under contention a live worker's heartbeat missed that window, so the runtime correctly rescued a healthy attempt and the test saw a genuine duplicate completion.

This is the one worth reading twice: a margin problem that presents as a correctness bug. scaled_staleness gives the staleness window margin while deliberately leaving the heartbeat and rescue intervals at chaos cadence, so the rescue path is still exercised. Applied to all four chaos clients on that cadence, not just the one named in #399.

2. Assert-after-drain quiet window (same test)

After all markers arrived, the test watched both completion streams for a fixed 250ms quiet window to catch duplicates. That's the race #335 fixed in test_weight_proportionality: a duplicate arriving at 251ms was missed, and on a slow runner the window expired while work was still moving.

It now waits for the queue itself to reach a terminal state — the authoritative drain signal — then drains both streams with try_recv. Once the queue is terminal no further completion can be produced, so anything still buffered is a real duplicate. Duplicate detection no longer has any wall-clock dependency.

3. Receipt-plane rotation floor

The floor was duration_secs / 4 (45 rotations in 180s), documented as "25% of the 1s rotate interval's wall-clock ticks". That model is wrong: rotation is driven by the maintenance loop reaching a rotate decision, not by the interval alone, so the healthy steady state is ~40–45 in 180s — flush against the floor. It fired on 2026-07-07 at 41 rotations with zero dead rows in every claim and closure partition.

contention_floor divides by the multiplier, giving 15 on CI: ~3x margin under the observed rate, while a pinned ring — the regression the gate exists for, which shows ~0 — still fails. The floor can never reach 0 regardless of multiplier.

4. scheduling_benchmark_test.rs had no scaling at all

Its wait_for_leader / wait_for_dispatch readiness gates and post-handler completion waits were hard 5s and 30s deadlines. They now scale. recv_until deliberately does not — its duration is the measurement window that defines what the benchmark samples, not a timeout.

#420: Python suite exhausted the server's connection slots

Late in a full run, one or two tests ERRORed at fixture setup with pool timed out while waiting for an open connection, always ~15 minutes in, always rerun-clearable.

My first hypothesis — two fixtures that return a client instead of yielding and closing it — was wrong, and measuring said so: an instrumented full run showed backends peaking at 2. So I ran the reproduction the issue itself suggested, against a max_connections=30 server, and caught the real mechanism live: 19 of 30 backends sitting idle, held by pools belonging to tests that had finished up to 4 minutes earlier.

Clients default to a 10-connection pool and sqlx parks an idle connection for its 10-minute idle timeout, so each new fixture asked for up to 10 more against a server with none left. sqlx then cannot grow the pool and its 30s acquire timeout expires — which is the reported error, and why the victim is whichever test came next rather than the test at fault.

awa-python/tests/conftest.py caps what tests ask for (an explicit max_connections still wins, so test_migration_concurrency.py is unaffected). The two return-style fixtures are still fixed — pool lifetime shouldn't depend on GC timing — and a session guard fails the run with a named backend count if one reappears.

Validation: same full suite, same constrained 30-connection server. Pre-fix parked 11–19 of 30 backends; post-fix holds 3 and passes all 312.

Version matrix

  • Postgres 17 and 18 across the sharded suite and the queue-storage leg. Both majors run the whole suite rather than a smoke subset — the schema, its partitioning, and the planner behaviour the claim path depends on are all version-sensitive. Note pg18 was already in CI via telemetry-validation and the Python nightly, in two places, unsystematically.
  • CPython 3.13 and 3.14, up from 3.12 alone. The abi3-py310 wheel covers the whole requires-python window from one artifact, so the legs exist to exercise the asyncio integration (pyo3-async-runtimes) where version skew actually lands, not to re-prove the ABI per interpreter.

I verified the interpreters rather than assuming: built the abi3 wheel and ran 109 core tests on each of 3.10, 3.13 and 3.14 — all pass, all deps resolve.

One judgement call worth flagging: pyproject.toml now carries per-version classifiers for 3.10–3.14, i.e. the support window, which is wider than the test matrix. That matches what the package has always claimed via requires-python and what abi3 genuinely delivers. If you'd rather the classifiers track CI exactly, that's a support-window decision and I'd want it to be yours.

#434

This PR covers the flake half. The remaining python-nightly failure is not a flake — it's a SIGSEGV at interpreter shutdown. Diagnosis and fix in a follow-up PR; see the comment on #434.

Checks

cargo fmt --check, clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -D warnings, ci-test-shard.sh check, ci_timing's 7 unit tests, and the affected Python suites all pass locally. The chaos and benchmark suites themselves are #[ignore]d and nightly-only, so the real proof is the next few nightlies.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Testing
    • Expanded continuous integration coverage across PostgreSQL 17/18 and Python 3.13/3.14.
    • Improved reliability for contention-sensitive chaos, scheduling, and receipt-rotation tests in CI.
    • Added safeguards to detect database connection leaks and ensure test clients are cleaned up.
  • Compatibility
    • Added package metadata for Python 3.10 through 3.14.
  • Documentation
    • Updated release notes and development guidance with supported versions, testing practices, and connection-management expectations.

…atrix

Four assertion shapes in the nightly chaos and benchmark suites were tight
enough that shared-runner CPU contention failed them while every invariant
they exist for was intact (#399, #434). All scaling now lives in
awa/tests/ci_timing.rs and only ever loosens a bound, and only when CI is
set, so a local run keeps the strict values.

- The mixed-fleet chaos test set heartbeat_staleness to 250ms against a
  50ms heartbeat interval. Under contention a live worker's heartbeat
  missed that window, the runtime correctly rescued a healthy attempt, and
  the test saw a genuine duplicate completion. scaled_staleness gives the
  window margin while leaving the heartbeat and rescue intervals at chaos
  cadence, so rescue is still exercised.
- That test's assert-after-drain step watched both completion streams for
  a fixed 250ms quiet window — the race #335 fixed in
  test_weight_proportionality. It now waits for the queue to reach a
  terminal state, then drains both streams with try_recv, so duplicate
  detection has no wall-clock dependency.
- The receipt-plane rotation floor came from the 1s rotate interval's
  nominal tick rate, but rotation is driven by the maintenance loop
  reaching a rotate decision, so the healthy steady state is ~40-45 in
  180s and the >= 45 floor had no margin. contention_floor keeps a
  pinned-ring floor (a pinned ring shows ~0) with ~3x margin.
- scheduling_benchmark_test.rs had no scaling at all. Its readiness gates
  and completion waits now scale; recv_until does not, because its
  duration is the measurement window rather than a timeout.

The Python suite exhausted the server's connection slots late in a run
(#420). Clients default to a 10-connection pool and sqlx parks an idle
connection for its 10-minute idle timeout, so pools from finished tests
held slots while each new fixture asked for up to 10 more; with none left,
sqlx could not grow the pool and its 30s acquire timeout expired, failing
whichever test came next. tests/conftest.py caps what tests ask for and
guards against regression; two fixtures that returned a client instead of
yielding and closing it now tear down deterministically. Against a
constrained 30-connection server the pre-fix run parked 11-19 of 30
backends; the post-fix run holds 3 and passes all 312.

CI gains Postgres 18 across the sharded suite and the queue-storage leg
(it was already used by telemetry-validation and the Python nightly,
unsystematically), and the Python matrix moves from 3.12 to 3.13 and 3.14.
The abi3-py310 wheel covers the whole requires-python window from one
artifact, so the legs exercise the asyncio integration where version skew
lands rather than re-proving the ABI per interpreter.
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CI coverage now includes PostgreSQL 17/18 and Python 3.13/3.14. Rust tests use shared contention-aware timing helpers. Chaos tests drain queue state before validating output. Python fixtures cap pools, close clients, and detect connection leaks.

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CI and Test Reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Version matrix and support declarations
.github/workflows/ci.yml, AGENTS.md, awa-python/pyproject.toml, CHANGELOG.md
CI runs Rust tests across PostgreSQL 17/18 and Python tests across 3.13/3.14. Package classifiers and repository guidance document the supported versions.
Shared contention timing utilities
awa/tests/ci_timing.rs, awa/tests/receipt_plane_regression_gate.rs, awa/tests/scheduling_benchmark_test.rs, AGENTS.md
Shared helpers scale timeouts and staleness windows in CI and adjust contention-sensitive progress floors. Benchmark measurement windows remain unchanged.
Chaos completion and staleness handling
awa/tests/chaos_suite_test.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Chaos tests scale heartbeat staleness and wait for terminal queue state before draining buffered completion output.
Python test connection lifecycle
awa-python/tests/conftest.py, awa-python/tests/test_bridge.py, awa-python/tests/test_unique_insert.py, AGENTS.md
Test clients use bounded default pools, explicit teardown, reusable fixtures, and session-level connection leak detection.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cfa58

The PR changes CI timing, completion draining, and Python fixture cleanup while expanding the test matrix. The current changes can still lose valid chaos-test output, leak database connections when setup fails, or panic nightly tests for an invalid timeout override, so these issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Timers stretch when runners are tight,
Clients close cleanly by end of night.
Queues drain before markers appear—
CI bounds a little more clear.

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.promote_interval(Duration::from_millis(50))
.heartbeat_rescue_interval(Duration::from_millis(100))
.heartbeat_staleness(Duration::from_millis(250))
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P1 Badge Scale the Python worker's heartbeat staleness too

When CI contention stalls the Python helper's event loop, scaling only this Rust builder leaves the other client in the same test at the hard-coded 250 ms setting in awa-python/tests/mixed_fleet_helper.py:43-50. A live Python attempt can therefore still be rescued and emit a duplicate completion, so the nightly flake this change targets remains possible; propagate the multiplier to the helper and scale its staleness as well.

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P2 Badge Wait for the stdout reader before declaring the stream drained

When a duplicate is emitted by the Python worker immediately before its handler returns, the database can reach the terminal state before the spawned stdout_reader task has transferred the flushed line from the OS pipe into this channel. try_recv() then reports an empty channel, and the subsequent stop()/drop path kills the helper and aborts the reader, silently missing the duplicate; use an explicit reader barrier or otherwise synchronize with the pipe reader before declaring the stream drained.

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In `@awa-python/tests/test_bridge.py`:
- Around line 50-53: Move the try scope in awa-python/tests/test_bridge.py lines
50-53 to immediately follow each awa.Client(DATABASE_URL) construction, keeping
migration and reset setup inside it while yielding the client and closing it in
finally. Apply the same change in awa-python/tests/test_unique_insert.py lines
29-43 for every asynchronous and synchronous client construction, ensuring all
setup occurs after entering try and cleanup remains guaranteed.

In `@awa/tests/chaos_suite_test.rs`:
- Around line 1939-1951: Update the Python worker shutdown flow around
python_worker.stop() so the child is killed first, stdout_reader is awaited
until EOF, and stdout_lines is drained afterward. Preserve the existing marker
validation using mixed_fleet_marker_from_line, expected_markers, and
completed_markers, ensuring all buffered completion markers are asserted before
aborting or finishing shutdown.

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- Around line 1-141: Run the required Rust validation checks for the CI timing
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awa/tests/ci_timing.rs lines 1-141 requires no code change;
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try:
yield c
finally:
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Put all client setup inside the cleanup scope. Each fixture creates a client before entering try. A setup failure then bypasses close() and can retain pooled PostgreSQL connections.

  • awa-python/tests/test_bridge.py#L50-L53: enter try immediately after awa.Client(DATABASE_URL), then run migration and reset inside it.
  • awa-python/tests/test_unique_insert.py#L29-L43: enter try immediately after each async or synchronous client construction, then run all setup inside it.

As per coding guidelines, a fixture that builds a client must yield it and close it in a finally.

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In `@awa-python/tests/test_bridge.py` around lines 50 - 53, Move the try scope in
awa-python/tests/test_bridge.py lines 50-53 to immediately follow each
awa.Client(DATABASE_URL) construction, keeping migration and reset setup inside
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while let Ok(line) = python_worker.stdout_lines.try_recv() {
if line.contains("COMPLETE mode=worker_chaos_probe") {
let marker = mixed_fleet_marker_from_line(&line)
.unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("Python completion line missing marker: {line}"))
.to_string();
assert!(
expected_markers.contains(&marker),
"Unexpected Python marker processed after queue drain: {marker}"
);
assert!(
completed_markers.insert(marker.clone()),
"Marker completed more than once after queue drain: {marker}"
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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In `@awa/tests/chaos_suite_test.rs` around lines 1939 - 1951, Update the Python
worker shutdown flow around python_worker.stop() so the child is killed first,
stdout_reader is awaited until EOF, and stdout_lines is drained afterward.
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expected_markers, and completed_markers, ensuring all buffered completion
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//! Shared CI contention scaling for the nightly chaos and benchmark suites.
//!
//! The nightly suites run on shared GitHub runners whose CPU allocation
//! varies run to run. Three assertion shapes are sensitive to that and
//! flaked repeatedly through 2026-07 (#399, #434):
//!
//! 1. **Wall-clock waits.** A test waits N seconds for a state the
//! runtime reaches in milliseconds when it has a core to itself.
//! Scale with [`scaled_timeout`].
//!
//! 2. **Aggressive rescue cadences.** A chaos client sets
//! `heartbeat_staleness` a few multiples above `heartbeat_interval`
//! so its own backdating triggers rescue promptly. Under contention
//! a *live* worker's heartbeat can miss that window, so the runtime
//! correctly rescues a healthy attempt — and the test sees a genuine
//! duplicate completion, which reads as a correctness failure. Scale
//! with [`scaled_staleness`]: the interval stays fast so rescue is
//! still exercised, but the staleness window gains the same margin
//! as the waits around it.
//!
//! 3. **Minimum-progress floors.** A gate asserts "at least N of these
//! happened" to catch a stalled subsystem. The floor must sit far
//! below the *observed* operating point, not just below the nominal
//! one. Scale with [`contention_floor`].
//!
//! Scaling only ever loosens a bound, and only on CI. A local run keeps
//! the strict values, so a real regression still fails fast on a
//! developer machine. Override with `AWA_CHAOS_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER`.
#![allow(dead_code)]

use std::time::Duration;

/// How much slack to give contention-sensitive bounds. `1.0` locally,
/// `3.0` on CI, or the `AWA_CHAOS_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER` override (clamped
/// to `>= 1.0` so the override can only ever loosen).
pub fn chaos_timeout_multiplier() -> f64 {
let override_var = std::env::var("AWA_CHAOS_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER").ok();
multiplier_from(override_var.as_deref(), std::env::var_os("CI").is_some())
}

/// The multiplier decision, with the environment passed in so it can be
/// tested without mutating process-global state.
fn multiplier_from(override_var: Option<&str>, is_ci: bool) -> f64 {
if let Some(parsed) = override_var.and_then(|raw| raw.parse::<f64>().ok()) {
// Clamped so an override can only ever loosen a bound.
return parsed.max(1.0);
}

if is_ci {
3.0
} else {
1.0
}
}

/// Grow a wait deadline by the contention multiplier.
pub fn scaled_timeout(timeout: Duration) -> Duration {
timeout.mul_f64(chaos_timeout_multiplier())
}

/// Grow a heartbeat-staleness window by the contention multiplier.
///
/// Distinct from [`scaled_timeout`] only in intent: this one is passed to
/// `ClientBuilder::heartbeat_staleness`, where the cost of being too tight
/// is a spurious rescue of a live attempt rather than a timeout. Paired
/// heartbeat/rescue *intervals* are deliberately left unscaled so the
/// rescue path still runs at chaos cadence.
pub fn scaled_staleness(staleness: Duration) -> Duration {
staleness.mul_f64(chaos_timeout_multiplier())
}

/// Shrink a minimum-progress floor by the contention multiplier.
///
/// Use for "this subsystem must have advanced at least N times" gates.
/// The returned floor is at least 1: the regression these gates exist to
/// catch is a fully stalled subsystem, so zero progress must still fail.
pub fn contention_floor(nominal: i64) -> i64 {
let scaled = (nominal as f64 / chaos_timeout_multiplier()).floor() as i64;
scaled.max(1)
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;

#[test]
fn local_runs_keep_strict_bounds() {
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(None, false), 1.0);
}

#[test]
fn ci_runs_get_margin() {
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(None, true), 3.0);
}

#[test]
fn override_can_only_loosen() {
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(Some("0.1"), true), 1.0);
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(Some("-5"), true), 1.0);
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(Some("6"), false), 6.0);
}

#[test]
fn unparseable_override_falls_back_to_the_environment() {
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(Some("banana"), true), 3.0);
assert_eq!(multiplier_from(Some(""), false), 1.0);
}

#[test]
fn scaling_a_timeout_grows_it() {
// 250ms staleness against a 50ms heartbeat interval is a 5x margin
// locally; on CI it becomes 15x, which is what stops a contended
// runner's live worker from being rescued as if it had died.
assert_eq!(
Duration::from_millis(250).mul_f64(multiplier_from(None, true)),
Duration::from_millis(750)
);
}

#[test]
fn progress_floor_keeps_margin_under_the_observed_rate() {
// The receipt gate's nominal floor is duration_secs / 4 = 45 for a
// 180s run. #399 saw a healthy run produce 41, so the CI floor has
// to sit well under that.
let ci_floor = (45.0_f64 / multiplier_from(None, true)).floor() as i64;
assert_eq!(ci_floor, 15);
assert!(
ci_floor < 41,
"floor must clear the observed operating point"
);
}

#[test]
fn progress_floor_never_reaches_zero() {
// Whatever the multiplier, a fully pinned ring (zero rotations) has
// to keep failing — that is the regression the gate exists for.
assert_eq!(contention_floor(45), contention_floor(45).max(1));
let absurd = (45.0_f64 / multiplier_from(Some("10000"), true)).floor() as i64;
assert_eq!(absurd.max(1), 1);
}
}

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fn multiplier_from(override_var: Option<&str>, is_ci: bool) -> f64 {
if let Some(parsed) = override_var.and_then(|raw| raw.parse::<f64>().ok()) {
// Clamped so an override can only ever loosen a bound.
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The Rust standard library method Duration::mul_f64 is documented to panic if the result is negative, if it overflows the Duration type, or if the provided f64 value is not finite [1][2][3][4]. This means that passing f64::INFINITY, f64::NEG_INFINITY, or f64::NAN to mul_f64 will cause a panic [1][5]. Regarding the parsing of floating-point numbers, Rust's standard f64::from_str (or the FromStr trait implementation for f64) successfully parses strings representing non-finite values, such as "inf", "infinity" (case-insensitive), and "nan" [6][7][8]. Unlike Duration::mul_f64, the f64::parse process does not treat these values as errors; it returns the corresponding f64 constant (e.g., f64::INFINITY or f64::NAN) [6][7]. In summary: - Duration::mul_f64 panics on non-finite input values because it expects a finite multiplier to produce a valid Duration [1][5]. - f64::from_str accepts "inf", "infinity", and "nan" and returns them as valid f64 values without error [6][7]. This distinction is important because if you parse a user-provided string into an f64 and then use it as a multiplier for a Duration, the resulting Duration::mul_f64 call will panic if the input was non-finite [1][5]. Developers should validate that an f64 is finite using the is_finite() method before passing it to Duration::mul_f64 if the input comes from an external source [7][8].

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Reject non-finite and excessively large multipliers.

"inf" parses as f64::INFINITY, and parsed.max(1.0) preserves it. The value reaches Duration::mul_f64 through both scaling functions, where non-finite or overflowing results panic. An invalid CI override can therefore fail affected nightly tests.

Reject non-finite values and clamp finite overrides to a documented upper bound. Add tests for "inf" and an oversized finite value.

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In `@awa/tests/ci_timing.rs` around lines 43 - 46, Update multiplier_from to
reject non-finite parsed overrides and clamp finite values to a documented upper
bound before returning them, while preserving the minimum of 1.0. Add coverage
for an "inf" override and an oversized finite override, ensuring both avoid
unsafe Duration::mul_f64 inputs.

@hardbyte hardbyte added the full-ci Run the full CI matrix (Python build+test, E2E) on this PR label Aug 24, 2026
Four findings from the Codex and CodeRabbit reviews, all valid.

Scale the Python helper's heartbeat staleness too (Codex P1). The
mixed-fleet test runs a Rust client *and* a Python helper against one
queue, and mixed_fleet_helper.py sets its own heartbeat_staleness_ms=250
against a 50ms interval. Scaling only the Rust builder left the Python
worker able to have a live attempt rescued under contention, so the
duplicate-completion flake this work targets stayed reachable from the
other side of the same test. start_python_helper now passes the resolved
multiplier down as AWA_CHAOS_TIMEOUT_MULTIPLIER and the helper scales both
of its staleness windows, mirroring scaled_staleness including its refusal
of non-finite and oversized values.

Wait for the stdout reader before declaring the stream drained (Codex P2,
CodeRabbit). Replacing the quiet window with a terminal-queue wait removed
the dependency on worker timing but not on task scheduling: the helper's
line travels Python -> OS pipe -> reader task -> channel, and none of those
hops is ordered against the database commit, so try_recv could report Empty
while a flushed duplicate was still in the pipe, and stop() would then kill
the child and abort the reader. drain_stdout kills the child so the pipe
reaches EOF, joins the reader, and lets the closed channel be drained to
completion. The Rust side keeps try_recv, where the send happens inside
perform and therefore strictly precedes the commit.

Put all fixture setup inside the cleanup scope (CodeRabbit). Both fixtures
constructed a client before entering try, so a failure in migrate or reset
skipped close() and parked pooled connections — the exact failure mode this
branch exists to fix.

Reject non-finite and clamp oversized multipliers (CodeRabbit). "inf" and
"nan" parse as f64 and survived max(1.0), and Duration::mul_f64 panics
rather than saturating on a non-finite or overflowing result, so a typo'd
override would fail the nightly it was set to rescue. Non-finite values now
fall back to the environment default and finite ones clamp to 100x.
Verified: mul_f64 does panic for both "inf" and 1e308.

The remaining CodeRabbit comment asked for the pre-commit checks to be run;
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