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Two families of tests encoded idle-machine timing as correctness, and both flake under real CI load with no product defect present.

  • The sdk cancellation fixtures (java, rust, typescript) asserted that cancellation completes inside 0.5s while the operations being cancelled slept only 2s. Under contention an otherwise-green run measured 3.7s for the cancel path. The bound is now 5s and the cancelled sleeps 60s - so the bound has headroom, and a regression that ignored cancellation can no longer finish inside it and pass by accident.
  • The bex_events prof soak test bounded each round's flush ack at 1s. Under a full CI fan-out one round measured >15s natively, and under Miri the 1s bound failed deterministically on some hosts. Each round is now bounded at 30s native / 1 min Miri: a wedged consumer still fails fast with the named panic (64 x 30s = 32 min, inside the job timeout), but machine speed is no longer part of the assertion.

We hit both while running this suite at high parallelism on 64-core machines; the numbers above are from those runs. The fixes make the tests honest on any hardware, including yours.

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    • Improved cancellation test reliability across Java, Rust, and TypeScript SDKs by allowing additional time for cancellation and timeout operations.
    • Enhanced long-running soak-test validation with environment-appropriate acknowledgment timeouts.
    • These updates reduce timing-related test failures, particularly in slower or instrumented environments.

Two families of tests encoded idle-machine timing as correctness:

- The sdk cancellation tests asserted cancellation completes inside
  0.5s while the operations they cancel slept only 2s. Under CI
  contention an otherwise-green run measured 3.7s of wall clock for the
  cancel path, failing the test with no product defect. Raise the bound
  to 5s and the cancelled sleeps to 60s, so the bound has headroom and a
  regression that ignored cancellation can no longer finish inside it
  and pass by accident.

- The bex_events prof soak test bounded each round's flush ack at 1s.
  Natively one round measured >15s under a full CI fan-out (the suite
  ran ~50x slower than idle); under Miri the 1s bound failed
  deterministically on some hosts. Bound each round at 30s native / 1
  min Miri: still fails fast with the named panic on a wedged consumer
  (64 x 30s = 32 min, inside the job timeout) instead of encoding
  machine speed.
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The change increases cancellation-test operation durations and timing bounds across Java, Rust, and TypeScript. It also adds platform-specific acknowledgment timeouts for the orphan-churn soak test.

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Timing updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Orphan-churn acknowledgment timeout
baml_language/crates/bex_events/src/prof/consumer.rs
The soak test uses a one-minute acknowledgment timeout under Miri and a 30-second timeout otherwise. Churn-round flushes use this timeout.
Cross-language cancellation timing
baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/java/function_calls/customizable/TestCancellation.java, baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/function_calls/customizable/test_cancellation.rs, baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/typescript/function_calls/customizable/cancellation.test.ts
Cancellation operations now sleep for 60 seconds. Cancellation timing bounds increase to 5 seconds where applicable.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2954f

The PR makes timing-based tests more tolerant of CI load, but the Java fixture can leave a 60-second asynchronous call running after a timeout, potentially destabilizing test runs; merge should wait for cancellation cleanup or explicit owner acceptance.

Suggested reviewers: sxlijin, antoniosarosi

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A rabbit checks the timers bright,
Sixty-second sleeps hold tight.
Five-second bounds let tests proceed,
Miri gets the time it needs.
Churn flushes wait with care,
Reliable timing everywhere.

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`@baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/java/function_calls/customizable/TestCancellation.java`:
- Around line 50-51: Update the timeout cleanup around the future returned by
Fns.SleepMs_async(60000L) so a TimeoutException triggers future.cancel(true)
before continuing or asserting. Preserve the existing timed get behavior and
ensure cancellation applies to the in-flight engine call.

In
`@baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/function_calls/customizable/test_cancellation.rs`:
- Around line 15-17: Update the Rust test invocation for test_cancellation.rs to
use baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/Cargo.toml with the --lib target,
ensuring the Gate::Later-gated cancellation test is executed instead of
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Comment on lines +50 to +51
// The cancelled calls below sleep 60s: the operation must dwarf this bound,
// or a regression that ignored cancellation would finish inside it and pass.

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Cancel the timed-out future.

future.get(50, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) does not cancel the in-flight Fns.SleepMs_async(60000L) call. Cancel future in a timeout cleanup path. Its cancel(true) implementation also cancels the engine call.

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In
`@baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/java/function_calls/customizable/TestCancellation.java`
around lines 50 - 51, Update the timeout cleanup around the future returned by
Fns.SleepMs_async(60000L) so a TimeoutException triggers future.cancel(true)
before continuing or asserting. Preserve the existing timed get behavior and
ensure cancellation applies to the in-flight engine call.

Comment on lines +15 to +17
const _MAX_CANCELLATION_SECONDS: f64 = 5.0;
// The cancelled calls below sleep 60s: the operation must dwarf this bound, or a
// regression that ignored cancellation would still finish inside it and pass.

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Run the Rust crate test command with the Rust manifest.

Use cargo test --manifest-path baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/Cargo.toml --lib. The current lookup selects sdk_test_cpp. test_cancellation.rs is also gated with Gate::Later, so this command does not execute it.

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In
`@baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/function_calls/customizable/test_cancellation.rs`
around lines 15 - 17, Update the Rust test invocation for test_cancellation.rs
to use baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/Cargo.toml with the --lib target,
ensuring the Gate::Later-gated cancellation test is executed instead of
selecting sdk_test_cpp.

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Folded into #4483: these bounds exist because the ix preview runs the suite at higher parallelism than 16-vCPU runners, so the change travels with the machines that need it (disclosed in that PR's body) instead of asking for standalone review.

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