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Closes #407.

The problem

A server can sit with every job stuck at running while /healthz says ok: true. In #407 a disk walker starved the Parakeet model load on a Mac mini, so each new job hung at stage transcribe indefinitely. Nothing showed it. /healthz answered 200, no log line appeared after job.created, and a server that forwards jobs to remotes kept sending work to the stuck one.

The fix

The queue now counts stalled jobs. A running job is stalled once it has run more than 300 s plus 5 times its audio length. The audio length is used once it is known (the base alone while the file decodes).

• queue.stalled is new in /healthz and GET /v1/server. /healthz answers 503 with ok: false while it is above 0, and goes back to 200 when the job ends.
• models_ready keeps its meaning. It says whether the models are ready, not what the jobs are doing. Changing it would make a healthy server whose idle Worker let go of its model read as not ready.
• Each stalled job gets one warn line: job.stalled <id> key <key> model <model> running 301 s on 8 s of audio, stage transcribe. The idle and retention timers cannot write it because neither wakes while a Worker is busy, so a 30 s unref'd interval does it. close() clears the interval.
• Nothing is killed. The fault in healthz says ok and models_ready while the Parakeet load is starved and every job hangs at running #407 was IO on the box. A deadline would turn slow IO into failed jobs, and the next Worker would block in the same load.
• The clock is the store's running_at, on the service's own clock. Two cases start it later:
  • In the desktop app, the wait for the GPU line's turn (behind a call's final pass) does not count. The clock starts when the turn comes.
  • A job sent to a remote starts its clock when the remote first reports it running, and takes its audio length from the remote's progress.total_s. Time spent waiting in the remote's queue does not count.
• Remotes: the probe reads the remote's queue.stalled, and pick passes over a remote that reports one. A job this server can run then runs here, and one only a remote can run waits. The log says remote.stalled once, then remote.up when the remote recovers. That transition also re-routes the queue.

For #407's case (8 s clips) the flag fires 340 s into the run.

Docs: SV-P4 and SV-Q4 in docs/ux/SERVER.md, a new SV-X9 for the remote rule, the queue section of docs/server-hardware.md, and the regenerated docs/api/openapi.json. No CHANGELOG line, because the release PR writes those sections.

Evidence

New file tests/stalled-jobs.e2e.test.ts, 7 tests:

• a held job: 200 at 100 s, 503 ok:false stalled 1 past 300 s, one warn line, 200 again once it ends (app rig, held decode, injected clock; 100 s is the positive control, and the end of the job is the way out)
• the budget grows by 5 times the audio once its length is known (fake llama-server with --fake-hang; not stalled 1 s before base + 5 x audio, stalled 1 s after)
• in the desktop app, a job waiting for the GPU line's turn is not stalled
• positive control: the same job held before its turn, in its decode, is stalled
• a stalled job is logged by the 30 s check even when nobody reads the queue
• a job sent to a remote: its clock starts when the remote runs it, its audio from the remote
• pick passes over a remote with queue.stalled 1, and takes it again once it reports 0

Each rule was mutated once on a scratch copy, and each mutation turned at least one test red:

Mutation	Tests red
/healthz ignores stalled	2
audio factor dropped	2
pick ignores stalled	1
GPU-turn wait counted	1
remote queue wait counted	1
log line on every read	2
no interval	1
comparison flipped	5

Unmutated: 7 pass, 0 fail.

bun run check with Bun 1.4.2 on macOS arm64: 3353 pass, 36 skip, 0 fail, 3389 tests across 253 files in 1105 s; the floor passes (36 skips, at most 38).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Server health checks now return 503 when jobs are stalled, and include queue status showing the stalled-job count. Model readiness remains reported separately.
  • Servers forwarding jobs now skip remote servers reporting stalled jobs and can select them again once they report none.
  • Stalled jobs are logged but are not automatically stopped.
• Documentation
  • Updated API and server documentation to describe stalled-job thresholds, health status, and remote selection behavior.

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The server now detects running jobs that exceed a time allowance based on audio duration. It reports stalled jobs in queue statistics and health responses, logs newly stalled jobs, and skips remotes that report stalled work.

Changes: Stalled-job detection and routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track and report stalled jobs src/main/server/jobs.ts, src/main/server/remotes.ts, src/main/index.ts, tests/stalled-jobs.e2e.test.ts, docs/server-hardware.md, docs/ux/SERVER.md	The job service counts jobs that exceed 300 seconds plus five seconds per known audio second. It starts local timing at the GPU turn and remote timing when the remote reports a job running. It logs each newly stalled job once and does not stop it.
Apply stalled status to health and remote selection src/main/api/routes/server.ts, src/main/server/remotes.ts, tests/stalled-jobs.e2e.test.ts, docs/api/openapi.json, docs/server-hardware.md, docs/ux/SERVER.md	/healthz returns 503 when the queue reports stalled jobs. Remote probes record stalled counts, and selection skips remotes with a positive count. The tests and documentation cover these behaviors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 42317

A long-running job may generate a second stall warning, but stalled-job reporting and remote selection remain functional. The change is mergeable with this bounded logging issue acknowledged.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 5 files. (3 skipped: 3…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: /healthz now reports unhealthy when jobs remain stalled at running. It is specific, concise, and related to the pull request objectives.
Linked Issues check		The PR addresses the active coding objective in #407. It adds stalled-job detection after 300 seconds plus five times known audio length, exposes queue.stalled, returns unhealthy status while a stal…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within #407. The implementation updates queue health, server and remote routing, timing, logging, tests, and related API and server documentation. The stallCheckMs option is a test …

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The PR addresses the active coding objective in #407. It adds stalled-job detection after 300 seconds plus five times known audio length, exposes queue.stalled, returns unhealthy status while a stall exists, logs each stalled job once, and skips stalled remotes. The seven focused tests cover local, desktop GPU-turn, remote timing, logging, health recovery, and routing behavior. The proposed models_ready and separate model-load warning changes are not implemented, but #407 presents them as alternatives or proposed follow-up behavior, not mandatory acceptance criteria. The PR explicitly preserves the existing models_ready meaning.

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The changes stay within #407. The implementation updates queue health, server and remote routing, timing, logging, tests, and related API and server documentation. The stallCheckMs option is a test seam for the new behavior. No unrelated product behavior or release work is included.

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