# NousResearch/hermes-agent · PID-reuse guard start-time drift tolerance fix

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

A bug where macOS psutil create_time drift (~1s) caused the gateway liveness check to incorrectly report live gateways as stopped. Related fixes adjust the start-time fingerprint comparison to tolerate sub-2s drift.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 2 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member 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.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #78498: Dashboard reports a live gateway as stopped: start-time PID-reuse guard breaks on ~1s psutil create_time drift (macOS)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#78504: fix(gateway): tolerate sub-2s start-time drift in PID-reuse liveness guard (#78498)**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `#78498`
- **#78526: fix(gateway): tolerate ~1s start-time fingerprint drift in PID-reuse guard**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `silent_close`; implication `active`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `gateway`