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Description
What is failing
The RoutingGrain route-dispatch pool saturates under burst load on the portal: the in-flight count hits the 64-dispatch reporting threshold with 59–63 legs queued waiting for a pool slot while the subscribing gauge reads 0 — i.e. legs are blocked before they can even enter their subscribe prologue. Dispatches queue behind pool slots, delaying stream deliveries to client activations.
Probable cause (medium confidence)
The routing pool's slot capacity (and/or the ThreadPool feeding it) is the bottleneck. Evidence: in every sample the slot-wait gauge is near the full in-flight count while subscribing is 0, per the log site's own diagnostic text (see issues #5009 and #5018 referenced by the log) that pattern means a thread/slot shortage rather than downstream I/O or a leaked slot. The counter-evidence for a leak: oldest legs are 3–5 ms old in four of five samples, and the episode counter increments on the same activation (#1→#4), meaning each episode drained. So the pool is simply under-provisioned for the dispatch rate, or the silo was briefly CPU/thread-starved (the pool gauges cannot distinguish those two without thread-pool metrics). Not an established defect with a named root cause — capacity tuning vs. thread starvation needs a human with silo metrics to rule.
Impact
Transient: 5 occurrences in a 90-second window on both portal pods, episodes self-draining within seconds. User-visible effect is delayed stream routing during the burst; no evidence of lost or stuck deliveries.
Where to look
MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain — the route-dispatch pool sizing and the pre-subscribe slot-wait path. Compare the pool's configured slot cap against the 64-dispatch threshold, and check silo ThreadPool queue depth at 2026-09-22T11:25Z to separate capacity shortfall from CPU starvation. Sibling incidents for the same log site exist (Admin/_LogIncident/e4a97855ab595beb and several [ROUTE] Routing back-pressure fingerprints) — check whether one of them already covers this before doing fresh work.
Evidence
| Fingerprint | 19feaa4ef4a0e8c3 |
| Category | MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain |
| Severity | Critical |
| Namespace | memex-cloud |
| Pods | memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-d5tld, memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-wpg9m |
| Occurrences | 5 |
| First seen | 2026-09-22 11:25:07Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22 11:26:37Z |
| Routing | not determined — no configured route matches the category MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain. This repository is the configured fallback, not a finding about who owns the fault; the category names the LOGGER, which may not be the subject. |
Recent log lines
2026-09-22 11:25:07Z memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-d5tld crit: MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain[0]
[ROUTE] Routing back-pressure [a511e451#1 started 2026-09-22T11:25:07.7509755Z]: 64 route dispatches in flight (reporting threshold 64); ordered channels queued 0 over 0 stream destination(s), deepest per-channel queue 0, routing pool subscribing 0, waiting for a pool slot 62; oldest leg in flight 5 ms — dispatch → jeandavid.goetz/_Install/HomeAssistant (delivery EXZvbN_l-kG6-R7gpg5nsA). Latest dispatch target ahcene.allou/_Install/OgCard — the address that happened to cross the threshold, NOT a diagnosis. A slot is held from dispatch until the leg terminates, INCLUDING the unbounded wait for a ThreadPool thread before the leg's own timeouts start, so a CPU-starved silo raises this with nothing stuck. A CHANNEL is (destination, stream), so a deepest queue of 1 or more means legs of the SAME stream are blocked behind one another (head-of-line within one channel); 0 means nothing is waiting on anything, so read it as load. Many channels over FEW destinations is a multiplexer hub draining in parallel, which is load too — before issue #5009 those legs shared one channel and read as head-of-line. 🚨 THE TWO POOL GAUGES ANSWER DIFFERENT QUESTIONS AND ONLY ONE SEES THE WAIT NAMED ABOVE — issue #5018. 'subscribing' counts legs inside their SUBSCRIBE PROLOGUE only, so a leg still waiting for a ThreadPool thread and a leg already past its subscribe BOTH read 0 there; 'waiting for a pool slot' is the gauge that sees the pre-subscribe wait. High while subscribing is below the pool's cap is a THREAD shortage; both near zero means the legs are past their subscribe and the wait is downstream I/O. 🚨 READ THE OLDEST LEG FIRST: it is the only load-vs-leak discriminator available from a SINGLE line — every leg young is load the silo is absorbing, one leg minutes old is a slot that never came back and the label names it — whereas the episode stamp below needs a SECOND line to say anything. 🚨 Deepest is sampled AT THE CROSSING, so…[truncated]
2026-09-22 11:26:16Z memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-d5tld crit: MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain[0]
[ROUTE] Routing back-pressure [a511e451#2 started 2026-09-22T11:26:16.5818870Z]: 64 route dispatches in flight (reporting threshold 64); ordered channels queued 0 over 0 stream destination(s), deepest per-channel queue 0, routing pool subscribing 0, waiting for a pool slot 63; oldest leg in flight 4 ms — dispatch → RolePlay/_Access/sysauter_Access (delivery D_Y_TxU-eEiD1sfvXzYQXg). Latest dispatch target ThreeBody/_Access/jean-yves.lam_Access — the address that happened to cross the threshold, NOT a diagnosis. A slot is held from dispatch until the leg terminates, INCLUDING the unbounded wait for a ThreadPool thread before the leg's own timeouts start, so a CPU-starved silo raises this with nothing stuck. A CHANNEL is (destination, stream), so a deepest queue of 1 or more means legs of the SAME stream are blocked behind one another (head-of-line within one channel); 0 means nothing is waiting on anything, so read it as load. Many channels over FEW destinations is a multiplexer hub draining in parallel, which is load too — before issue #5009 those legs shared one channel and read as head-of-line. 🚨 THE TWO POOL GAUGES ANSWER DIFFERENT QUESTIONS AND ONLY ONE SEES THE WAIT NAMED ABOVE — issue #5018. 'subscribing' counts legs inside their SUBSCRIBE PROLOGUE only, so a leg still waiting for a ThreadPool thread and a leg already past its subscribe BOTH read 0 there; 'waiting for a pool slot' is the gauge that sees the pre-subscribe wait. High while subscribing is below the pool's cap is a THREAD shortage; both near zero means the legs are past their subscribe and the wait is downstream I/O. 🚨 READ THE OLDEST LEG FIRST: it is the only load-vs-leak discriminator available from a SINGLE line — every leg young is load the silo is absorbing, one leg minutes old is a slot that never came back and the label names it — whereas the episode stamp below needs a SECOND line to say anything. 🚨 Deepest is sampled AT THE CROSSING…[truncated]
2026-09-22 11:26:21Z memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-d5tld crit: MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain[0]
[ROUTE] Routing back-pressure [a511e451#3 started 2026-09-22T11:26:21.2520767Z]: 64 route dispatches in flight (reporting threshold 64); ordered channels queued 0 over 0 stream destination(s), deepest per-channel queue 0, routing pool subscribing 0, waiting for a pool slot 59; oldest leg in flight 5 ms — dispatch → lehmannmartin77/_Install/Systemorph-MeshWeaver.Plugins (delivery fMFlIIWesky7rwS2ZSOQXg). Latest dispatch target OpenStreetMap/_Access/bari_Access — the address that happened to cross the threshold, NOT a diagnosis. A slot is held from dispatch until the leg terminates, INCLUDING the unbounded wait for a ThreadPool thread before the leg's own timeouts start, so a CPU-starved silo raises this with nothing stuck. A CHANNEL is (destination, stream), so a deepest queue of 1 or more means legs of the SAME stream are blocked behind one another (head-of-line within one channel); 0 means nothing is waiting on anything, so read it as load. Many channels over FEW destinations is a multiplexer hub draining in parallel, which is load too — before issue #5009 those legs shared one channel and read as head-of-line. 🚨 THE TWO POOL GAUGES ANSWER DIFFERENT QUESTIONS AND ONLY ONE SEES THE WAIT NAMED ABOVE — issue #5018. 'subscribing' counts legs inside their SUBSCRIBE PROLOGUE only, so a leg still waiting for a ThreadPool thread and a leg already past its subscribe BOTH read 0 there; 'waiting for a pool slot' is the gauge that sees the pre-subscribe wait. High while subscribing is below the pool's cap is a THREAD shortage; both near zero means the legs are past their subscribe and the wait is downstream I/O. 🚨 READ THE OLDEST LEG FIRST: it is the only load-vs-leak discriminator available from a SINGLE line — every leg young is load the silo is absorbing, one leg minutes old is a slot that never came back and the label names it — whereas the episode stamp below needs a SECOND line to say anything. 🚨 Deepest is sample…[truncated]
2026-09-22 11:26:28Z memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-wpg9m crit: MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain[0]
[ROUTE] Routing back-pressure [cef4a247#1 started 2026-09-22T11:26:28.6665513Z]: 64 route dispatches in flight (reporting threshold 64); ordered channels queued 0 over 0 stream destination(s), deepest per-channel queue 0, routing pool subscribing 0, waiting for a pool slot 0; oldest leg in flight 1137 ms — dispatch → BusinessRules/Scope (delivery wkq6sdn_pk2SrUs3lWtsrw). Latest dispatch target ILS/Transaction — the address that happened to cross the threshold, NOT a diagnosis. A slot is held from dispatch until the leg terminates, INCLUDING the unbounded wait for a ThreadPool thread before the leg's own timeouts start, so a CPU-starved silo raises this with nothing stuck. A CHANNEL is (destination, stream), so a deepest queue of 1 or more means legs of the SAME stream are blocked behind one another (head-of-line within one channel); 0 means nothing is waiting on anything, so read it as load. Many channels over FEW destinations is a multiplexer hub draining in parallel, which is load too — before issue #5009 those legs shared one channel and read as head-of-line. 🚨 THE TWO POOL GAUGES ANSWER DIFFERENT QUESTIONS AND ONLY ONE SEES THE WAIT NAMED ABOVE — issue #5018. 'subscribing' counts legs inside their SUBSCRIBE PROLOGUE only, so a leg still waiting for a ThreadPool thread and a leg already past its subscribe BOTH read 0 there; 'waiting for a pool slot' is the gauge that sees the pre-subscribe wait. High while subscribing is below the pool's cap is a THREAD shortage; both near zero means the legs are past their subscribe and the wait is downstream I/O. 🚨 READ THE OLDEST LEG FIRST: it is the only load-vs-leak discriminator available from a SINGLE line — every leg young is load the silo is absorbing, one leg minutes old is a slot that never came back and the label names it — whereas the episode stamp below needs a SECOND line to say anything. 🚨 Deepest is sampled AT THE CROSSING, so like the in-flight count it i…[truncated]
2026-09-22 11:26:37Z memex-portal-deployment-58f7cdffc5-d5tld crit: MeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain[0]
[ROUTE] Routing back-pressure [a511e451#4 started 2026-09-22T11:26:37.8397818Z]: 64 route dispatches in flight (reporting threshold 64); ordered channels queued 0 over 0 stream destination(s), deepest per-channel queue 0, routing pool subscribing 0, waiting for a pool slot 63; oldest leg in flight 3 ms — dispatch → Chess/_Entitlements/nerijus.vasiliauskas (delivery RL44lwtKvEmBs4QgcyASSw). Latest dispatch target dimitris.gkanavias/_Install/Radzen — the address that happened to cross the threshold, NOT a diagnosis. A slot is held from dispatch until the leg terminates, INCLUDING the unbounded wait for a ThreadPool thread before the leg's own timeouts start, so a CPU-starved silo raises this with nothing stuck. A CHANNEL is (destination, stream), so a deepest queue of 1 or more means legs of the SAME stream are blocked behind one another (head-of-line within one channel); 0 means nothing is waiting on anything, so read it as load. Many channels over FEW destinations is a multiplexer hub draining in parallel, which is load too — before issue #5009 those legs shared one channel and read as head-of-line. 🚨 THE TWO POOL GAUGES ANSWER DIFFERENT QUESTIONS AND ONLY ONE SEES THE WAIT NAMED ABOVE — issue #5018. 'subscribing' counts legs inside their SUBSCRIBE PROLOGUE only, so a leg still waiting for a ThreadPool thread and a leg already past its subscribe BOTH read 0 there; 'waiting for a pool slot' is the gauge that sees the pre-subscribe wait. High while subscribing is below the pool's cap is a THREAD shortage; both near zero means the legs are past their subscribe and the wait is downstream I/O. 🚨 READ THE OLDEST LEG FIRST: it is the only load-vs-leak discriminator available from a SINGLE line — every leg young is load the silo is absorbing, one leg minutes old is a slot that never came back and the label names it — whereas the episode stamp below needs a SECOND line to say anything. 🚨 Deepest is sampled AT THE CROS…[truncated]
Re-addressed by the current identity function: this incident inherited e4a97855ab595beb (Systemorph/MeshWeaver.Plugins#1796). Those nodes are superseded and will not fold, file or comment again.
Opened automatically from Admin/_LogIncident/19feaa4ef4a0e8c3. Recurrences are folded into this issue rather than opening new ones.
Activity
rbuergi commentedon Sep 22, 2026
Closing as a duplicate of #5118 — the fingerprint-split flood.
Why this is a duplicate. Every one of these comes from the same log site —
[ROUTE] Routing back-pressure, categoryMeshWeaver.Hosting.Orleans.RoutingGrain— split into one issue per grain activation. The 8-hex activation id survived normalization (a0e2984b→a0e2{n}b):HexBlobrequired 16+ chars, andNumber()then masked only the digit-run preceded by a digit, leaving a per-activation residue in the hash.Measured over 101 verbatim bursts drawn from 29 issues, covering 42 activation ids: the old parser yields 41 distinct fingerprints, the current parser yields 1.
The fix is already merged in MeshWeaver.Plugins — #2165 (
MixedHexId), #2167, #2168 (positional episode/target masking) and #2218 (the portal re-parses raw samples, instead of hashing text a stale watcher already masked).It is not live yet. The control instance is sealed on an older set because the Plugins Portal image rebuild workflow fails at its GitHub App token step —
actions: writeis not granted to the installation — so core's rebuild is never dispatched. Until that is granted, new split issues will keep arriving, and an issue whose activation is still alive may reopen here.Not closed by this. The underlying routing condition — cache-destination head-of-line blocking versus ThreadPool starvation — is a real defect and stays open in #5118. The normaliser itself is tracked in #5270 and #5271.
rbuergi commentedon Sep 22, 2026
Why this is its own issue, and what stops the next one — posted on each RoutingGrain back-pressure incident issue filed 2026-09-22; not a disposition of this one.
This incident's fingerprint was split from its siblings by two values the incident normaliser did not mask — the delivery id and a single-segment destination in the line's
oldest leg in flight … — dispatch → <address> (delivery <id>)field — not by the episode stamp, which was already masked. Fixed in Systemorph/MeshWeaver.Plugins#2286 (merged 2026-09-22T21:46Z asb922f070fc): over the 146 back-pressure samples quoted in the open core issues (43 filed fingerprints), the identity now yields 3 (one per leg kind, plus the pre-#5151 wording). It reaches production with the portal roll; existing incidents re-address onto their successors throughLogIncidentCorpusMigration.What the crossing itself means is a separate question and is not answered by the fix above. A line reading high
waiting for a pool slotwithrouting pool subscribing 0is legs the ThreadPool had not yet run (the pool's cap is 256 and no permit is held — see #5261 (comment)); that starvation root is being investigated separately (family: #5018, #4886). A line with a non-zerodeepest per-channel queueon acache/…destination and an old oldest leg is #5009's falsifier and should be raised there.Disposition stays with triage: a symptom gauge can invert the causal arrow, so this issue's own sample may carry evidence its siblings do not.