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Fixes the memory growth reported in #6947. Very likely also the root cause of #6731,
which reported the same symptom (production OOM on /v1/responses after ~64h) but was
closed for template reasons — that report is what made me look for a shared mechanism
rather than treat ours as a local quirk.

The problem

newRelayHTTPTransport() bounds the dial, the TLS handshake and expect-continue — but
nothing bounds how long it waits for the upstream response headers after the request
has been written:

transport = &http.Transport{
    Proxy:                 http.ProxyFromEnvironment,
    DialContext:           dialer.DialContext,      // 30s ✅
    ForceAttemptHTTP2:     true,
    TLSHandshakeTimeout:   10 * time.Second,        // 10s ✅
    ExpectContinueTimeout: time.Second,             //     ✅
    //                       ResponseHeaderTimeout  ❌ unset → wait forever
}

An upstream that accepts the connection and then never answers — without sending
FIN/RST
, which is what happens when a NAT/firewall silently drops the flow or the
provider hangs — parks the goroutine in net/http.(*persistConn).roundTrip forever.

That goroutine keeps the whole request alive, so three copies of the request body stay
reachable for the lifetime of the process
: the raw bytes from io.ReadAll in
CreateBodyStorageFromReader, the decoded messages held as json.RawMessage, and the
re-marshalled upstream body from common.Marshal.

BodyStorageCleanup cannot help here — it is registered correctly, but it runs after
c.Next() returns, and for these requests c.Next() never returns.

Evidence (v1.0.0-rc.23, production, ~1000 users)

23 goroutines stuck in persistConn.roundTrip on a single 40h-old instance, blocked
between 353 and 1894 minutes (5.9h to 31.5h), all entered through the relay:

goroutine 63245 [select, 1894 minutes]:
net/http.(*persistConn).roundTrip(...)      /usr/local/go/src/net/http/transport.go:2911
net/http.(*Client).Do(...)
github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/relay/channel.doRequest(...)
github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/relay/channel.DoApiRequest(...)
github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/relay.ResponsesHelper(...)
github.com/QuantumNous/new-api/controller.Relay(...)

96.9% of the live heap, sampled after a forced GC (/debug/pprof/heap?gc=1), sits in
those three body copies — 892 MiB surviving three GC cycles, HeapObjects dropping 30×
while bytes dropped only 25% (i.e. what survives is all large buffers).

The floor tracks uptime — same image, same config, same load:

uptime live heap after forced GC
0.1 h 33.7 MiB
13.8 h 89.2 MiB
40.1 h 510.0 MiB
146.8 h 955.2 MiB
172.9 h OOMKilled (137)

Doubling the memory limit and adding GOMEMLIMIT only moved the OOM from 132h to 172.9h
(+31%). Full write-up, pprof -traces retention chain and reproduction steps are in #6947.

The fix

One effective line, plus a configurable knob:

if common.RelayResponseHeaderTimeout > 0 {
    transport.ResponseHeaderTimeout = time.Duration(common.RelayResponseHeaderTimeout) * time.Second
}

Three things worth flagging for review:

1. Why not RELAY_TIMEOUT. That sets http.Client.Timeout, which covers the whole
response read and would cut legitimate long streaming calls — which is exactly why it
defaults to 0. ResponseHeaderTimeout only bounds the wait for the headers; streaming
after the headers arrive is unaffected
.

2. Why the default is 1800s and not something tight. Non-streaming upstreams usually
send the response headers only once generation has finished, so this value has to leave
room for a long completion. 1800s is 12× shorter than the shortest hang observed here
while leaving several times the headroom a normal non-streaming request needs. 0 restores
the previous unbounded behaviour. Happy to change the default if you'd prefer something
more conservative — the mechanism matters more than the number, since any finite value
turns "held forever" into "held for at most N minutes".

3. Why the assignment is outside the else branch. newRelayHTTPTransport() normally
takes the http.DefaultTransport.Clone() path, so the literal in the else block is rarely
executed — and http.DefaultTransport does not set ResponseHeaderTimeout either. Putting
it next to the other transport.* lines covers both paths.

This repo already sets ResponseHeaderTimeout on its other outbound transports
(controller/model_sync.go:100, controller/ratio_sync.go:200), so this looks like the
relay path was simply missed rather than a deliberate choice.

Changes

file what
service/http_client.go set ResponseHeaderTimeout on the relay transport
common/constants.go new RelayResponseHeaderTimeout var + doc comment
common/init.go RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT, default 1800
service/http_client_response_header_timeout_test.go covers both the configured value and 0 = disabled
README.md, .env.example document the new variable

go build ./..., go vet, and go test ./common/... ./service/... all pass.

I run this in production and can supply further profiles or long-run data on request.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a configurable timeout for waiting for upstream response headers.
    • Defaults to 1,800 seconds and can be disabled by setting the value to 0.
    • Streaming remains unaffected once response headers arrive.
    • Large timeout values are safely handled to prevent unexpectedly short timeouts.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the new configuration option, supported values, and behavior in the environment example and README.

…nded heap growth)

The relay transport sets a dial timeout, a TLS handshake timeout and an expect-continue
timeout, but nothing bounds how long it waits for the upstream *response headers* after
the request has been written. An upstream that accepts the connection and then never
answers -- without sending FIN/RST, which is what happens when a NAT/firewall silently
drops the flow or the provider hangs -- parks the goroutine in
net/http.(*persistConn).roundTrip forever.

That goroutine keeps the whole request alive, which in practice means three copies of the
request body stay reachable for the lifetime of the process: the raw bytes from
io.ReadAll in CreateBodyStorageFromReader, the decoded messages held as json.RawMessage,
and the re-marshalled upstream body from common.Marshal. BodyStorageCleanup cannot help
here: it runs after c.Next() returns, and for these requests c.Next() never returns.

Measured on v1.0.0-rc.23 in production (see QuantumNous#6947 for the full evidence):

  - 23 goroutines stuck in persistConn.roundTrip on a single 40h-old instance,
    blocked between 353 and 1894 minutes (5.9h to 31.5h)
  - 96.9% of the live heap, sampled after a forced GC, attributable to those three
    body copies (HeapAlloc 892 MiB surviving three GC cycles; HeapObjects dropping
    30x while bytes dropped only 25%)
  - the live floor grows with uptime: 33.7 MiB at 0.1h, 89.2 at 13.8h, 510.0 at 40.1h,
    955.2 at 146.8h, OOMKilled at 172.9h -- same image, same config, same load

Doubling the memory limit and adding GOMEMLIMIT only moved the OOM from 132h to 172.9h.

RELAY_TIMEOUT (http.Client.Timeout) cannot be used for this: it covers the whole response
read and would cut legitimate long streaming calls, which is why it defaults to 0.
ResponseHeaderTimeout only bounds the wait for the headers; streaming after they arrive is
unaffected.

The default is deliberately generous. Non-streaming upstreams usually send the response
headers only once generation has finished, so the value has to leave room for a long
completion. 1800s is 12x shorter than the shortest hang observed here while leaving
several times the headroom a normal non-streaming request needs; 0 restores the previous
unbounded behaviour.

The assignment goes next to the other transport.* lines rather than inside the else
branch: newRelayHTTPTransport() normally takes the http.DefaultTransport.Clone() path,
and DefaultTransport does not set ResponseHeaderTimeout either.

This repo already sets ResponseHeaderTimeout on its other outbound transports
(controller/model_sync.go, controller/ratio_sync.go); the relay path appears to have
been missed.

Refs QuantumNous#6947. Likely also the root cause of QuantumNous#6731, which reported the same symptom
(production OOM on /v1/responses after ~64h) but was closed for template reasons.
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The relay now supports RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT. The setting defaults to 1800 seconds, applies only while waiting for upstream response headers, and can be disabled with 0. Documentation and transport tests were added.

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Relay response header timeout

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeout configuration and documentation
.env.example, README.md, common/constants.go, common/init.go
Adds the exported setting, environment-variable initialization, default value, zero-value behavior, and usage documentation.
Transport timeout application and validation
service/http_client.go, service/http_client_response_header_timeout_test.go
Clamps oversized positive values before conversion to time.Duration. Tests conversion, disabled values, overflow handling, and global-setting restoration.

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The relay now limits how long upstream requests can wait for response headers, reducing the risk of retained request bodies and heap growth. Merge is reasonable with explicit owner follow-up to reject negative timeout values and make the timeout limit and test portable on 32-bit builds.

Possibly related issues

  • QuantumNous/new-api#6947 — The pull request implements the proposed ResponseHeaderTimeout change in newRelayHTTPTransport.

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A rabbit sets the header clock,
The relay waits around the block.
Eighteen hundred seconds glow,
Zero says, “No timeout flow.”
After headers, streams run free.

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- Line 113: Validate RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT in the initialization path
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Comment thread common/init.go
BatchUpdateInterval = GetEnvOrDefault("BATCH_UPDATE_INTERVAL", 5)
RelayTimeout = GetEnvOrDefault("RELAY_TIMEOUT", 0)
RelayIdleConnTimeout = GetEnvOrDefault("RELAY_IDLE_CONN_TIMEOUT", 90)
RelayResponseHeaderTimeout = GetEnvOrDefault("RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT", 1800)

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	for _, seconds := range []int64{-1, 0, 1, maxSeconds, maxSeconds + 1} {
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Reject negative and overflowing RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT values.

When the value is negative, newRelayHTTPTransport leaves ResponseHeaderTimeout at zero, which disables the header timeout. Accept only 0 or values within the safe time.Duration seconds range. Use 1800 or fail startup for invalid values. Add regression tests for negative and overflow inputs.

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In `@common/init.go` at line 113, Validate RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT in the
initialization path before assigning RelayResponseHeaderTimeout, accepting only
zero or seconds that safely convert to time.Duration without overflow; use the
1800-second default or fail startup for negative and overflowing values. Update
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Addresses the two CodeRabbit findings on this PR.

Overflow (common/init.go:113): a RELAY_RESPONSE_HEADER_TIMEOUT beyond ~9.2e9 seconds
overflows time.Duration and can wrap into a *tiny positive* timeout, which would cut
every relay request instead of only the stuck ones. The value is now clamped before the
conversion, with regression tests for both the negative and the overflowing input.

I did not add fail-on-startup validation for negative values, for two reasons: the
existing `if seconds > 0` guard already treats them as "disabled", and the neighbouring
env-driven timeouts in this file are less strict still -- RelayIdleConnTimeout is
converted with no guard at all. Failing startup on a bad value would be a behaviour
change out of step with the rest of the file; happy to add it if you'd prefer that
direction repo-wide.

Test style: switched to testify (require.Equal / require.Zero / require.Positive), which
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go build, go vet and go test ./common/... ./service/... pass.
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感谢 @coderabbitai 的评审。两条都看了,一条全采纳、一条部分采纳并说明理由(commit 8d8dfd3e):

common/init.go:113 的取值校验 —— 部分采纳。

溢出这一半是真问题,已修:秒数超过约 9.2e9 时 time.Duration 会溢出,可能回绕成一个极小的正值 ——
那会把所有转发请求都打断,而不只是卡死的那些。现在转换前先 clamp,并补了负值与溢出两条回归测试。

「负值/非法值直接启动失败」这一半没做,理由两条:

  • 现有的 if seconds > 0 已把负值当作「关闭」处理;
  • 本文件邻近的同类项还更宽松 —— RelayIdleConnTimeout 是无任何 guard 直接
    time.Duration(x) * time.Second。在这里单独引入 fail-startup 会与文件其余部分不一致。

如果维护者希望在全仓统一推行 env 校验,我乐意配合改 —— 但那更像是独立的一次改动,不宜夹在本修复里。

② 测试改用 testify —— 全采纳。 核实过 service/所有测试文件都用 testify,我原来的
t.Fatalf 确实不合惯例,已改为 require.Equal / require.Zero / require.Positive

现共 4 条子测试:配置生效 / 0=关闭 / 负值=关闭 / 溢出被 clamp。
go buildgo vetgo test ./common/... ./service/... 均通过。

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maxTimeoutSeconds 会在 time.Duration 转换前限制正值。因此,超大秒数不会回绕为很小的正超时值。

负值保持为禁用行为。这个行为与现有 seconds > 0 条件一致。将环境变量统一改为启动失败可以作为独立的仓库级改动处理。

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