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Photon zombie-stream watchdog incorrect restart condition

Cluster 124010 · agent. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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1open issue
1open PR
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Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 2 PRs closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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Still open
1 issue and 1 PR.

A bug in the Photon sidecar causes the zombie-stream watchdog to restart healthy but quiet connections every 10 minutes. Fixes narrow the restart trigger to require an overdue outbound echo rather than mere silence plus a probe-alive signal.

Open issues1

  • Issue#124010[Bug]: Photon sidecar: since v2026.9.24 the zombie-stream watchdog restarts a healthy but quiet dedicated line every 10 minutes

Open PRs1

  • PR#134604fix(photon): use the stream's server heartbeat so quiet lines aren't restarted

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: other 2

  • #124388 fix(photon): require overdue outbound echo before zombie-stream restart · other → #124010
  • #126878 fix(photon): the zombie watchdog needs a send whose echo never came back, not silence + probe-alive (fixes #124010) · other → #124010
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  • Pairwise link density 0.50: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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