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Problem

Hermes gateway experiences daily platform adapter failures (feishu, etc.) with errors:

  • DNS resolution failures (NameResolutionError)

Root cause: SQLite database connections are not closed when adapters disconnect/reconnect, causing file descriptor leak.

Evidence from logs:

Fix

Add call in method.

Before: FDs accumulate to 225+ over ~24 hours
After: FDs stay at 6-10 (normal range)

Testing

  • Verified fix deployed locally
  • FD monitor script confirms stable FD count
  • Gateway restarts cleanly

Related

This causes daily gateway failures requiring manual restart.

Prevent file descriptor leak when adapters reconnect. The ResponseStore
SQLite connection was not being closed in disconnect(), causing FDs to
accumulate until hitting the system limit (256 on macOS default).

This manifested as:
- [Errno 24] Too many open files errors
- DNS resolution failures (couldn't create sockets)
- Platform adapters (feishu, etc.) becoming unresponsive daily

Fix: Call ResponseStore.close() in APIServerAdapter.disconnect().
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Hermes Agent auto-review — fd-leak fix in ResponseStore.close(): ✅ clean and minimal. Three sqlite3 fds per leaked APIServerAdapter is the kind of silent leak that surfaces as Errno 24 days later. Good surgical fix in the existing disconnect() path. Approve.

@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working P1 High — major feature broken, no workaround comp/gateway Gateway runner, session dispatch, delivery labels Jun 2, 2026
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Part of the gateway ResponseStore fd-leak fix cluster for #37011. Overlaps with #37260, #37238, #37018, #37053 which all address the same leak; this is a single-file subset (only api_server.py disconnect, no reconnect-loop disconnect). Flagging for consolidation.

Fearvox added a commit to Fearvox/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 2, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
teknium1 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 3, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes #37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes #37018, #37110, #37238, #37260, #37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
Yuki-14544869 pushed a commit to Yuki-14544869/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 4, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
davidgut1982 pushed a commit to davidgut1982/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 5, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
changman pushed a commit to changman/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 10, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
alt-glitch pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 14, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes #37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes #37018, #37110, #37238, #37260, #37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
kossteg pushed a commit to kossteg/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 16, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
T02200059 pushed a commit to T02200059/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jun 18, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
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This looks implemented on current main by the consolidated gateway fd-leak fix. Automated hermes-sweeper review.

Evidence:

  • gateway/platforms/api_server.py:4500 now calls self._response_store.close() inside APIServerAdapter.disconnect(), which is the surgical fix this PR proposed.
  • 4b06c98fe4f4686f89873933ac616cb6e76b298d (fix(gateway): close ResponseStore + dispose unowned adapter on reconnect failure) explicitly supersedes fix(gateway): close ResponseStore DB connection on adapter disconnect #37110 and the related leak-fix cluster mentioned in the maintainer comment.
  • The merged fix also covers the reconnect-loop leak paths in gateway/run.py via _dispose_unused_adapter(), and adds regression coverage in tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py for the ResponseStore close plus retryable, non-retryable, and exception reconnect failures.
  • git tag --contains 4b06c98fe4f4686f89873933ac616cb6e76b298d shows the fix is included in v2026.6.5.

@teknium1 teknium1 closed this Jun 21, 2026
@teknium1 teknium1 added the sweeper:implemented-on-main Sweeper: behavior already present on current main label Jun 21, 2026
waefrebeorn pushed a commit to waefrebeorn/slermes that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
santhreal pushed a commit to santhreal/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
donbowman pushed a commit to donbowman/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 13, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
Gravezzz pushed a commit to Gravezzz/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Jul 21, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
leewenjie pushed a commit to leewenjie/hermes-agent that referenced this pull request Aug 7, 2026
…ect failure

Three separate code paths in the gateway's platform reconnect loop
leaked file descriptors every retry, exhausting the default 2560-fd
ulimit in ~12 hours of continuous failure and turning the gateway
into a zombie that raises OSError: [Errno 24] on every open() (NousResearch#37011).

Root cause:
  * APIServerAdapter.__init__ opens a ResponseStore SQLite connection
    that holds 2 fds (db file + WAL sidecar).
  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() previously only stopped the aiohttp
    web server — the ResponseStore connection was never closed.
  * The reconnect watcher in _platform_reconnect_watcher constructs a
    fresh adapter on every retry attempt. When the connect call fails
    (3 paths: non-retryable error, retryable error, exception during
    connect) the adapter is dropped without ever being installed on
    self.adapters, so nothing else calls its disconnect(). Result: the
    2 ResponseStore fds stay open until GC sweeps the unreachable
    object, which Python's cyclic GC does not do promptly for
    asyncio-bound native handles.

  2 fds × 1 retry × (3600s / 300s backoff cap) ≈ 12 fds/hour.
  2560 fds / 12 fds/hr ≈ 12h to ulimit exhaustion.

Fix:

  * APIServerAdapter.disconnect() now also calls
    self._response_store.close() (with a try/except so a SQLite
    close failure doesn't abort the aiohttp teardown).
  * New module-level helper _dispose_unused_adapter(adapter) in
    gateway/run.py that calls adapter.disconnect() and swallows
    any exception (so half-constructed adapters whose __init__
    crashed don't kill the watcher loop).
  * _platform_reconnect_watcher calls _dispose_unused_adapter() in
    all three failure paths: non-retryable, retryable, and the
    except Exception arm. adapter = None is initialized
    before the try so the except arm can see the partial
    construction.

Tests:

  * New file tests/gateway/test_platform_reconnect_fd_leak.py with
    7 regression tests covering all three failure paths, the
    _dispose_unused_adapter helper (None + raising-disconnect cases),
    and the APIServerAdapter ResponseStore close behavior (success +
    close-exception cases). The _CountingAdapter fixture tracks
    disconnect() invocations and an _open_fds counter that is
    decremented on dispose, so the assertion is the literal
    observable behavior of the leak.

Refs:
  - Closes NousResearch#37011 (the original fd-leak report)
  - Supersedes NousResearch#37018, NousResearch#37110, NousResearch#37238, NousResearch#37260, NousResearch#37394 (7 competing
    open PRs all addressing the same root cause from different angles;
    none of them rebased cleanly against current main, and none
    covered all three failure paths in one fix with regression tests
    for both the watcher and the platform-level close behavior)
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