Restructure pause to: block new operations (StatusPausing), drain proxy
connections with 5s grace, force-close remaining via context cancellation,
drop page cache, inflate balloon, then freeze vCPUs. Previously connections
could arrive during the pause window and API operations weren't blocked.
Handle UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE/UNMAP/REMAP/FORK gracefully instead of crashing
the UFFD server. These events fire during balloon deflation on snapshot
restore, killing the page fault handler and preventing VM boot.
Also adds ConnTracker.ForceClose() with cancellable context propagated
through the proxy handler, so lingering proxy connections are actively
terminated rather than left dangling.
Running port-binding applications (Jupyter, http.server, NextJS) inside
sandboxes caused severe PTY sluggishness and proxy navigation errors.
Root cause: the CP sandbox proxy and Connect RPC pool shared a single
HTTP transport. Heavy proxy traffic (Jupyter WebSocket, REST polling)
interfered with PTY RPC streams via HTTP/2 flow control contention.
Transport isolation (main fix):
- Add dedicated proxy transport on CP (NewProxyTransport) with HTTP/2
disabled, separate from the RPC pool transport
- Add dedicated proxy transport on host agent, replacing
http.DefaultTransport
- Add dedicated envdclient transport with tuned connection pooling
- Replace http.DefaultClient in file streaming RPCs with per-sandbox
envd client
Proxy path rewriting (navigation fix):
- Add ModifyResponse to rewrite Location headers with /proxy/{id}/{port}
prefix, handling both root-relative and absolute-URL redirects
- Strip prefix back out in CP subdomain proxy for correct browser
behavior
- Replace path.Join with string concat in CP Director to preserve
trailing slashes (prevents redirect loops on directory listings)
Proxy resilience:
- Add dial retry with linear backoff (3 attempts) to handle socat
startup delay when ports are first detected
- Cache ReverseProxy instances per sandbox+port+host in sync.Map
- Add EvictProxy callback wired into sandbox Manager.Destroy
Buffer and server hardening:
- Increase PTY and exec stream channel buffers from 16 to 256
- Add ReadHeaderTimeout (10s) and IdleTimeout (620s) to host agent
HTTP server
Network tuning:
- Set TAP device TxQueueLen to 5000 (up from default 1000)
- Add Firecracker tx_rate_limiter (200 MB/s sustained, 100 MB burst)
to prevent guest traffic from saturating the TAP
