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Thomas Eizinger a217e7de91 chore(snownet): print warning when we don't have any relays (#6615)
Self-hosted users often forget to deploy relays. Without relays,
`snownet` cannot establish any connections because we never figure out
our server-reflexive address and local host address. Even if relays are
configured, if STUN / TURN is blocked, we may end up with no relays.

In that case, any newly created connection will very likely fail unless
new TURN servers are added within the 10s timeout that we have when
waiting for candidates. To make it easier to detect these situations, we
log a warning if we see that a new connection is being created without
any active relays.

One may argue that we should just disallow the connection altogether,
i.e. return a `Result`. Yet, this situation happens so rarely that
having to handle this `Result` further up the stack is quite the
ergonomic hit.
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the bench profile.
  2. sudo perf perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.