Kian Jones ddfa922cde fix(core): prevent event loop saturation from ClickHouse and socket trace writes (#9617) ...

* fix(core): prevent event loop saturation from ClickHouse and socket trace writes

Two issues were causing the event loop watchdog to fire and liveness probes
to fail under load:

1. LLMTraceWriter held an asyncio.Lock across each ClickHouse write, and
   wait_for_async_insert=1 meant each write held that lock for ~1s. Under high
   request volume, N background tasks all queued for the lock simultaneously,
   saturating the event loop with task management overhead. Fix: switch to
   wait_for_async_insert=0 (ClickHouse async_insert handles server-side batching
   — no acknowledgment wait needed) and remove the lock (clickhouse_connect uses
   a thread-safe connection pool). The sync insert still runs in asyncio.to_thread
   so it never blocks the event loop. No traces are dropped.

2. SocketProviderTraceBackend spawned one OS thread per trace with a 60s socket
   timeout. During crouton restarts, threads accumulated blocking on sock.sendall
   for up to 3 minutes each (3 retries x 60s). Fix: reduce socket timeout from
   60s to 5s — the socket is local (Unix socket), so 5s is already generous, and
   fast failure lets retries resolve before threads pile up.

Root cause analysis: event_loop_watchdog.py was detecting saturation (lag >2s)
every ~60s on gke-letta-default-pool-c6915745-fmq6 via thread dumps. The
saturated event loop caused k8s liveness probes to time out, triggering restarts.

* chore(core): sync socket backend with main and document ClickHouse thread safety

2026-03-03 18:34:01 -08:00

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