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Pratik Mankawde 59a0595a6e fix(telemetry): stop the workload harness issuing refused path-finding RPC
Every node the harness starts is a validator, and validators disable
pathfinding: Config.cpp:725-726 zeroes pathSearchMax whenever a
[validation_seed] or [validator_token] section is present, and
run-full-validation.sh writes [validation_seed] into every generated node
cfg (:308) with no [path_search] section to put the default back. So
doRipplePathFind refused every call at RipplePathFind.cpp:48-49 and the
3% ripple_path_find weight bought no coverage at all.

It was not free either. The pathfind.request guard is constructed at
RipplePathFind.cpp:35, above that refusal, so each refused call still
exported a span, and the enclosing rpc.command.ripple_path_find span
carried rpc_status=error. That put a steady 3% error floor into
span_calls_total for STATUS_CODE_ERROR: any error-rate threshold derived
from harness data before this change was measuring the harness rather
than xrpld, and needs re-deriving.

Removing the load makes pathfind.request unreachable, so it moves from
required to optional in expected_spans.json; without that the span check
would fail on every run. Three notes in that file and three in
expected_metrics.json made claims that are now false, two of them citing
line numbers this commit deletes; all six are corrected. The runbook
required/optional count moves 26/15 to 25/16.

Two facts a future reader needs.

First, the weights previously summed to 103, not 100, so every percentage
the docstring stated was wrong: health checks were really 38.8%, not 40%.
Dropping the 3 makes the sum exactly 100 and every stated percentage
correct for the first time. expected_spans.json also carried live
arithmetic off the old total, "25/103 ... roughly 43%", now 25/100 and
42%.

Second, baselines/baseline-timings.json was captured WITH this load. Only
span.rpc.ws_message p50/p95/p99 of the 25 gated keys sees the RPC mix,
and their trip points sit 3.1x to 5.9x above baseline, so the gate will
not fire. But a timing baseline is workload-specific and its profile
field still reads full-validation, so nothing will flag the drift:
refresh it from the next CI run's timings artifact.

Pathfinding now has no coverage in this harness at all. The workload
README section "Pathfinding is not exercised" records that cost, the
manual verification route, and a four-step restore recipe in which steps
1 and 2 alone only reinstate the error floor.
2026-08-25 16:31:23 +01:00
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