libp2p / libp2p/go-libp2p

resource-manager: "conn" limits are not applied to connLimiter

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Description

The documentation says:

How to disable limits

Sometimes disabling all limits is useful when you want to see how much resources you use during normal operation. You can then use this information to define your initial limits. Disable the limits by using InfiniteLimits.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p@v0.45.0/p2p/host/resource-manager#section-readme

InfiniteLimits sets the conn limit to infinite: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/blob/v0.45.0/p2p/host/resource-manager/limit_defaults.go#L867-L878

Yet, the connLimiter, which is in charge of limiting connections, is created bare and does not know about the limits: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/blob/v0.45.0/p2p/host/resource-manager/rcmgr.go#L139-L149 (I´d say same for connRateLimiter).

The connLimiter has a default limit of 8 concurrent connections for an IP: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/blob/v0.45.0/p2p/host/resource-manager/conn_limiter.go#L35-L38

So, the limits are not disabled. The work around of using a NullResourceManager works, it is just not documented.

As a side note, GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL="rcmgr=debug" is no help to discover this issue, as this is logged in the upgrader, which means someone monitoring for resource manager errors will miss these unless debug logging is enabled in the upgrader.

As a second side note, GOLOG_LOG_LEVEL doesn't work without special setup anymore via gologshim.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by comparing limit_defaults.go with the connLimiter and connRateLimiter construction in rcmgr.go, then inspect the per-IP default in conn_limiter.go. Verify the behavior with InfiniteLimits and the existing resource-manager tests; done means the documented way to disable limits also disables these connection limits, or the documentation explicitly explains the required workaround.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
networking
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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