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feat(network): lean base pools (#2641)
**Follow-on to #2639 (merged). References a local IORingGroup `1.0.13-preview.11` pack until 1.0.13 (modernuo/IORingGroup#15) is published; do not merge before that switch.**

## Summary

Consumes IORingGroup's lean base pools (modernuo/IORingGroup#15): both network pools now start with one slab, grow a slab at a time with the population, and trim idle slabs back after quiet periods.

- Fixes the transport's send-pool cap: previously only 1024 of the 4096 connections could get a send buffer; connection 1025 was closed at accept.
- Network memory at boot drops from about 96 MB to about 10 MB at the defaults; a full 4096 logged-in connections is about 1.25 GB of base buffers plus the growth budget.
- New settings: `network.initialBufferSlabs` (default 1; slabs of each pool held from boot and the trim floor) and `network.maxBufferSlabs` (default 128; divides the connection maximum into slabs, 32 connections per slab). Both are coerced with a warning; the same value feeds the ring table and the manager so they cannot drift.
- The Debug-only maintenance line includes base-pool capacity and releases.
- `dev-docs/server-requirements.md` rewrites the network memory story and adds the two settings.

## Pre-auth buffers

Every connection starts on the transport's platform-minimum buffers (4 KB receive, 4 KB send) instead of the base pools. It is promoted to full-size buffers (64 KB receive, `network.sendBufferSize` send) when the game server verifies its account — the point where `NetState.Account` is assigned in the `GameServer_AwaitingGameServerLogin` or `GameServer_LoggedIn` state, so a verdict that lands after the parser has moved on still promotes. Nothing ever moves back. The login-server pass stays on the small buffers for its whole lifetime.

Before credentials verify, nothing promotes: the 4 KB send ring is the entire pre-auth send budget, and a connection that overruns it is dropped as exhausted, exactly as the receive side drops a packet header declaring more bytes than the receive buffer can hold (new guard in `HandlePacket`; it also closes the old 65535-byte edge on 64 KB buffers). The stock login sequence sends under 2 KB. After credentials verify, the send path promotes on demand if it ever needs to (unbudgeted, outside the memory ceiling and the shrink bookkeeping — promotion is not growth), and the oversize-packet guard waits on a pending receive promotion or retries a stalled one once for a verified account before disconnecting. A completion that fills the receive buffer arms no receive, so `HandleReceive` now calls `RingSocket.ResumeReceive()` after the parse loop — at 4 KB a burst of small packets fills the buffer in one completion.

Net effect: a flood of unauthenticated connections tops out at about 32 MB across the full 4096-connection cap where the platform minimum is 4 KB (the transport's retained slabs and the base pools used by logged-in players are separate), and never allocates a base-pool slab.

Platform note: on Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 the transport's legacy mapping path floors at 64 KB: the pre-auth receive pool is off there (its base is 64 KB), while the pre-auth send buffer starts at 64 KB under the 256 KB base. The server logs the effective sizes at startup.

## Testing

Server.Tests (905) and UOContent.Tests green on the preview pack (one pre-existing `FamiliarAITests` failure from #2644 reproduces on `main`, tracked separately). New tests cover both coercions, that the ring's registration table equals `RequiredRegisteredBuffers` for the configured values, promotion on game-server auth and on a late account, no promotion on the login server, pre-credential overrun ending in exhaustion, post-credential on-demand promotion, the oversize-packet guard through loopback (error, wait, retry with an account, and a promotion made pending mid-parse), and receiving again after a burst fills the initial buffer.
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Buffers feat(buffers): add :L lowercase format spec to RawInterpolatedStringHandler (#2440) 2026-05-03 18:24:57 -07:00
Client feat: Add zero-alloc interpolation handler to ValueStringBuilder, replace all StringBuilder usage (#2387) 2026-03-22 14:23:44 -07:00
Collections feat(network): pluggable connection filters; file blocklist + contribute-first CrowdSec (#2542) 2026-07-25 11:59:37 -07:00
Comparers fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Compression feat(pathfinding): .swb format v8 compact index (#3b) (#2471) 2026-06-07 01:22:20 -07:00
Configuration fix(console): stop headless servers from pegging a CPU core (#2535) 2026-07-16 18:52:43 -07:00
Console fix(console): stop headless servers from pegging a CPU core (#2535) 2026-07-16 18:52:43 -07:00
ContextMenus fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Diagnostics fix: harden idle-sleep scheduling against bad config and misattributed saves (#2567) 2026-08-09 22:05:18 -07:00
Events perf(login): run password hashing on a parked worker thread (#2566) 2026-08-09 00:13:34 -07:00
Exceptions fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
GarbageCollection chore: Use var everywhere (#2294) 2025-12-27 16:47:28 -08:00
Geometry fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Items fix: Removes side effects from locked down items, decaying houses, bracelet of binding, and builds (#2608) 2026-09-06 09:39:00 -07:00
Json fix(json): Rectangle3DConverter loses a z-level on write (#2506) 2026-06-25 23:42:49 -07:00
Localization feat: Add zero-alloc interpolation handler to ValueStringBuilder, replace all StringBuilder usage (#2387) 2026-03-22 14:23:44 -07:00
Maps fix: Fixes pathfinding prebake and pathfinding multi-fallthrough. (#2478) 2026-06-08 11:59:24 -07:00
Menus feat: Pre-Publish 14 Crafting (supersedes #2181, #2381) (#2476) 2026-06-07 20:27:22 -07:00
Migrations refactor: decompose mobile/corpse hair, delete VirtualHairInfo, fix removal serial (#2462) (#2463) 2026-06-06 14:33:28 -07:00
Mobiles perf: keep damage entries in an inline intrusive list (#2605) 2026-09-01 23:25:14 -07:00
Network feat(network): lean base pools (#2641) 2026-09-20 00:24:15 -07:00
PropertyList fix: OPL revision hash collided on reordered and repeated properties (#2615) 2026-09-06 21:32:12 -07:00
Random fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Regions fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Serialization fix: world save failure handling — no partial snapshots, no worker crash, staged publication (#2612) 2026-09-06 13:46:14 -07:00
Targeting chore: Use var everywhere (#2294) 2025-12-27 16:47:28 -08:00
Text fix: TextDefinition was uneditable in the props gump, and where parsed constants its own way (#2624) 2026-09-10 19:36:30 -07:00
TileMatrix feat(pathfinding): JSONL recorder + public bake helpers (#2449) 2026-05-06 13:06:28 -07:00
Timer perf: Sleep the event loop when idle. Fixes networking micro-stalls. Adds event loop instrumentation. (#2559) 2026-08-09 13:24:59 -07:00
TimeZones fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Utilities fix: Removes unnecessary dictionary removal guards (#2565) 2026-08-08 11:50:01 -07:00
World fix: world save failure handling — no partial snapshots, no worker crash, staged publication (#2612) 2026-09-06 13:46:14 -07:00
AssemblyHandler.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Attributes.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
CityInfo.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Commands.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Effects.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
EntityFinalizationTracker.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
EventLoopTasks.cs perf: Sleep the event loop when idle. Fixes networking micro-stalls. Adds event loop instrumentation. (#2559) 2026-08-09 13:24:59 -07:00
ExpansionInfo.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
FeatureFlags.cs fix: Streamlines insurance. Insurance only executes when enabled. (#2550) 2026-07-26 09:47:49 -07:00
Guild.cs perf(saves): eliminate world-save freeze bottlenecks (~9.5x faster freeze) (#2525) 2026-07-16 22:53:28 -07:00
HuePicker.cs fix: Cleans up core code (#1187) 2022-10-10 21:47:08 -07:00
IAccount.cs fix: Fixes looking up accounts that were renamed. (#2078) 2025-01-18 17:11:43 -08:00
IEntity.cs perf(saves): eliminate world-save freeze bottlenecks (~9.5x faster freeze) (#2525) 2026-07-16 22:53:28 -07:00
Interfaces.cs feat: Add CanSpawnMobile overload with props Z-range support. (#2293) 2025-12-27 17:01:15 -08:00
IVirtualCheckGump.cs feat: Moves gumps out of the core (#1916) 2024-08-09 19:07:32 -07:00
KeywordList.cs fix: Cleans up core code (#1187) 2022-10-10 21:47:08 -07:00
Main.cs fix: stop the idle-sleep backoff tripping on healthy hosts (#2572) 2026-08-13 19:58:03 -07:00
MessageType.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Module.cs fix: Fixes sending packets and sidesteps a major issue with stackalloc and PGO in .NET 8 (#1607) 2023-11-21 12:18:20 -08:00
Party.cs fix: Cleans up core code (#1187) 2022-10-10 21:47:08 -07:00
Poison.cs feat: Refactor Poison system, implement Darkglow & Parasitic effects (#2385) 2026-03-21 21:27:22 -07:00
Prompt.cs fix: Cleans up core code (#1187) 2022-10-10 21:47:08 -07:00
Race.cs fix: Fixes TryParse for Race (#1244) 2022-11-12 00:31:25 -08:00
SecureTrade.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Serial.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
Server.csproj feat(network): lean base pools (#2641) 2026-09-20 00:24:15 -07:00
Skills.cs chore: Use var everywhere (#2294) 2025-12-27 16:47:28 -08:00
TileData.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00
TileList.cs fix: Bumps deps. Updates copyrights (#2353) 2026-03-05 19:36:54 -08:00