perf: cut queries on announce, list and middleware hot paths

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Results

Benchmarked on a production build (node .output/server/index.mjs) against a local Postgres and Redis. The data set is 2000 users and 500 approved torrents, and the load is 50 concurrent clients using real passkeys and info hashes.

Scenario	Before	After
Announce, steady state (updates)	1397 req/s, p50 32 ms, p95 60 ms	8239 req/s, p50 3.9 ms, p95 7.8 ms
Announce started	1627 req/s, p50 29 ms	10866 req/s, p50 4.0 ms
GET /api/torrents (25 per page)	458 req/s, p50 43 ms	671 req/s, p50 27 ms
Torznab search	433 req/s, p50 46 ms	599 req/s, p50 33 ms
GET /api/torrents/:hash	652 req/s	671 req/s
GET /api/auth/status	984 req/s	893 req/s (same)

Work per request:

• Announce update: 9 → 2 SQL queries.
• Torrent list: 54 → 4 Redis commands.

After the run, I checked that every account was credited and that the peers were stored.

Changes

Tracker announce (the hottest path)

• Lookup caches: the user behind a passkey, the torrent behind an info hash and the snatch check are cached in memory for 30 s. Invalid passkeys are cached too, which absorbs floods of bad announces. The caches are cleared on ban, unban, role change, passkey reset, approval, rejection, deletion and panic encrypt/restore.
• Single user write: one UPDATE users now covers upload, download and bonus points; before, there were two.
• H&R seed time: updated in one statement instead of SELECT + UPDATE.
• Bonus Redis operations: batched in MULTI, so 2 round trips instead of 4.

Peer counts

• Caching: counting peers read and parsed the whole swarm hash on every call. Counts are now cached for 10 s per torrent.
• Batching: a new getStatsMany fetches every torrent of a page in one Redis pipeline. It is used by the torrent list, Torznab, both RSS feeds and user uploads.

Every request

• Banned IPs: kept in memory instead of one SQL query per request. They are reloaded every 30 s and right after a ban or unban.
• /api/auth/status: checks that a user exists instead of counting the whole users table.
• Front-end: the global middleware no longer calls /api/auth/status and refetches the session on every page navigation. Once setup is done it can't come back, and session stats refresh at most once a minute; the header refresh button still forces it.

Database

• Index: a torrents.created_at index for the date-sorted lists (0013_torrents_created_idx.sql, applied by drizzle-kit push).

Bonus fix found along the way

• Snatches without H&R: a snatch, which proves that a user really downloaded a torrent and gates seeding bonus points, was only recorded when H&R was enabled. With H&R off, only uploaders earned points.
• Fix: snatches are now always recorded, as exempt entries when H&R is disabled, so they never count as hit & runs. The insert is also a single ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.

Trade-offs

• Ban delay on the tracker: a ban or role change made through the admin API takes effect on the tracker immediately (the caches are cleared). Changes made directly in the database can take up to 30 s.
• Ratio check: the ratio gate reads upload/download values that can be up to 30 s old.
• Displayed counts: seeder and leecher counts can lag by up to 10 s.
• Single instance: the in-memory caches assume one app instance, which is what the shipped compose files run.

Test plan

• npx vitest run: 148 passing, including the new TtlCache tests
• npm run build
• Bench before/after (numbers above); announces credited correctly, no tracker errors
• On staging: ban a user and confirm the tracker refuses their next announce
• Approve a pending torrent and confirm another user can announce on it right away
• Seed with H&R disabled and confirm bonus points still accrue for downloaders

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance
  • Torrent listings, uploads, RSS feeds, and Torznab searches load activity statistics more efficiently.
  • Tracker requests benefit from faster lookups, and authentication status is refreshed less often when a recent result is available.
• Bug Fixes
  • Tracker information is refreshed after relevant account, torrent, and moderation changes.
  • Seeding bonus and hit-and-run tracking updates are handled more consistently.
  • Banned IP checks use current ban information.

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• server/redis/cache.ts
• server/redis/peerCount.ts
• server/utils/bannedIps.ts
• server/utils/ttlCache.ts
• tests/peer-count.test.ts
• tests/ttl-cache.test.ts

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Walkthrough

This change adds short-lived caches for tracker lookups, IP bans, and torrent statistics; updates tracker announce and HnR accounting; invalidates caches after selected admin and torrent operations; batches statistics reads across listing endpoints; adds a torrent creation-date index; and caches client auth status between middleware runs.

Changes

Tracker lookup and accounting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TTL cache and tracker lookup caches server/utils/ttlCache.ts, server/tracker/lookups.ts, tests/ttl-cache.test.ts	Adds a bounded TTL cache that shares concurrent loads, evicts entries at capacity, and supports explicit clearing. Tracker user, torrent, and snatch lookups use in-memory caches. Tests cover expiration, eviction, shared loads, failed loads, and cached null values.
Announce accounting and HnR updates server/tracker/index.ts, server/tracker/handlers.ts, server/tracker/bonusAccrual.ts, server/utils/hnr.ts	Tracker filtering and announce handling use cached lookups. Announce handling calculates bonus points and combines them with upload and download updates. Completed events mark torrents as snatched. HnR entry creation and seed-time updates use the revised database operations.
Tracker cache invalidation server/api/admin/panic/*, server/api/admin/torznab/users/[id]/reset.post.ts, server/api/admin/users/[id]/role.put.ts, server/api/mod/torrents/[hash]/*, server/api/torrents/[hash].delete.ts	Selected admin and torrent operations invalidate tracker user or torrent caches after their database changes.

IP-ban caching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached IP-ban checks and invalidation server/utils/bannedIps.ts, server/middleware/security.ts, server/api/admin/users/[id]/ban.post.ts, server/api/admin/users/[id]/unban.post.ts	Adds cached IP-ban lookups and uses them for permanent-ban checks in security middleware. Ban and unban handlers invalidate IP-ban and tracker-user caches.

Batched torrent statistics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached batched stats retrieval server/redis/cache.ts	Adds TorrentStats and getStatsMany. The function retrieves Redis data for uncached info hashes in a pipeline, counts valid non-stale peers, applies the existing swarm fallback, and caches results. getStats delegates to the batch lookup.
Batched stats in torrent endpoints server/api/torrents/index.get.ts, server/api/users/[id]/uploads.get.ts, server/api/rss/*, server/api/torznab/api/index.get.ts, server/db/schema.ts, server/db/migrations/0013_torrents_created_idx.sql	Torrent listing, upload, RSS, and Torznab handlers fetch page statistics in one batch. The schema and migration add an index on torrent creation time.

Client auth-status caching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Auth status fetch and reuse app/middleware/auth.global.ts, server/api/auth/status.get.ts	The client middleware stores auth status and its fetch time. It fetches status when the cache is missing, setup is needed, or the cached value is older than 60 seconds. The status endpoint checks for a user row instead of counting all users.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TrackerIndex
  participant TrackerLookups
  participant TrackerHandlers
  participant ComputeSeedingBonus
  participant HnrUtilities
  TrackerIndex->>TrackerLookups: Resolve user, torrent, and snatch records
  TrackerIndex->>TrackerHandlers: Pass accepted announce
  TrackerHandlers->>TrackerLookups: Resolve user and torrent records
  TrackerHandlers->>ComputeSeedingBonus: Calculate bonus points
  TrackerHandlers->>HnrUtilities: Create HnR entry and update seed time

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7eef

The caching speeds up hot paths. However, a ban or unban that lands during a cache reload can be ignored for up to 30 seconds. Stale peer entries can also build up in Redis. Fix the invalidation race before merging.

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Review comments at @server/redis/cache.ts:
- Around line 199-205: In the pipeline result handling for each hash, check the
peer and completion command errors before constructing TorrentStats; skip
caching statistics for that hash if either command failed.
- Around line 143-154: Update getStatsMany to remove stale and invalid peer
records from the Redis hash during stats-cache misses, batching the removals
rather than issuing one deletion per entry. Adjust countPeers or its caller to
retain the hash fields for entries it skips, while preserving counts for active
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Review comments at @server/utils/bannedIps.ts:
- Around line 37-39: Update invalidateBannedIps to advance a cache generation
when clearing cache. In load, capture the generation before fetching and publish
the result only if it still matches; ensure requests after invalidation start a
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invalidation prevents older in-flight loads from repopulating entries: track a
generation, capture it when a load starts, and cache its result only if the
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• app/middleware/auth.global.ts
• server/api/admin/panic/encrypt.post.ts
• server/api/admin/panic/restore.post.ts
• server/api/admin/torznab/users/[id]/reset.post.ts
• server/api/admin/users/[id]/ban.post.ts
• server/api/admin/users/[id]/role.put.ts
• server/api/admin/users/[id]/unban.post.ts
• server/api/auth/status.get.ts
• server/api/mod/torrents/[hash]/approve.post.ts
• server/api/mod/torrents/[hash]/reject.post.ts
• server/api/rss/category/[slug].get.ts
• server/api/rss/latest.get.ts
• server/api/torrents/[hash].delete.ts
• server/api/torrents/index.get.ts
• server/api/torznab/api/index.get.ts
• server/api/users/[id]/uploads.get.ts
• server/db/migrations/0013_torrents_created_idx.sql
• server/db/schema.ts
• server/middleware/security.ts
• server/redis/cache.ts
• server/tracker/bonusAccrual.ts
• server/tracker/handlers.ts
• server/tracker/index.ts
• server/tracker/lookups.ts
• server/utils/bannedIps.ts
• server/utils/hnr.ts
• server/utils/ttlCache.ts
• tests/ttl-cache.test.ts

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