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Gateway starvation from leaked background subprocesses

Cluster 76115. Data as of 2026-10-23 11:54 UTC

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An abandoned agent turn fails to clean up its background subprocesses, causing unbounded memory growth in the gateway cgroup and event loop starvation. The associated fixes scope subprocess reaping to only those created by the abandoned turn.

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#76687 fix(gateway): reap only the background processes an abandoned turn created

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files: gateway/platforms/api_server.py, gateway/run.py, gateway/turn_context.py, tests/gateway/test_abandoned_turn_process_cleanup.py, tests/gateway/test_api_server.py, tests/gateway/test_tool_response_drop_recovery.py, tests/tools/test_process_registry.py, tools/process_registry.py

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 2 · merged via another change 1

#76172 fix: reap stale background processes to prevent gateway starvation (#76115) · duplicate → #76188, #76183
#76183 fix: reap stale background processes to prevent gateway starvation (#76115) · duplicate → #76188, #76172
#76188 fix(gateway): reap only the background processes an abandoned turn created · merged via another change → 80e4fb5, a356917, 1b88682, #76687

Closed issues · 1

Closed#76115Abandoned agent turn leaks its background subprocess (e.g. next build) unbounded → gateway cgroup hits MemoryHigh, event loop starves, all platforms/crons time out

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Merged PRs: #76687
Closed issues: 1
Attempts: 3 PRs closed without merging
Fix link checked: 2 Aug 2026

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