backend/app/celery_app.py

@@ -61,7 +61,33 @@ def make_celery() -> Celery:
         # Heavy ML tasks need fair dispatch — see ImageRepo's precedent.
         task_acks_late=True,
         worker_prefetch_multiplier=1,
+        # Broker resilience (2026-06-24): a swarm overlay-network blip after a
+        # redeploy left Redis healthy but transiently unreachable, and a worker
+        # starting in that window crash-looped on the initial broker connect
+        # (kombu OperationalError) instead of waiting it out — needing a manual
+        # Redis reset to recover. Retry the broker FOREVER (None) on startup and
+        # at runtime so a transient outage self-heals when routing returns,
+        # rather than the worker exiting.
         broker_connection_retry_on_startup=True,
+        broker_connection_retry=True,
+        broker_connection_max_retries=None,
+        # Redis-transport socket options (apply to the BROKER connection): a
+        # short connect timeout + TCP keepalive so a dead/blocked socket is
+        # noticed and retried, and a periodic health check that proactively
+        # reconnects a live worker through a network hiccup.
+        broker_transport_options={
+            "socket_connect_timeout": 5,
+            "socket_timeout": 30,
+            "socket_keepalive": True,
+            "retry_on_timeout": True,
+            "health_check_interval": 30,
+        },
+        # Same hardening for the Redis RESULT backend (separate connection pool).
+        redis_socket_connect_timeout=5,
+        redis_socket_timeout=30,
+        redis_socket_keepalive=True,
+        redis_retry_on_timeout=True,
+        redis_backend_health_check_interval=30,
         beat_schedule={
             "recover-interrupted-tasks": {
                 "task": "backend.app.tasks.maintenance.recover_interrupted_tasks",

frontend/src/components/modal/SuggestionsPanel.vue

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@
       No suggestions above threshold.
     </div>
 
-    <template v-else>
+    <!-- Scroll-capped so a long suggestion set (the General bucket can run to
+         dozens) scrolls WITHIN this box instead of stretching the right rail
+         and shoving the Related strip below the fold. Mirrors the
+         ProvenancePanel cards/attachments treatment. -->
+    <div v-else class="fc-suggestions__list">
       <SuggestionsCategoryGroup
         v-for="cat in peopleCats" :key="cat"
         v-show="store.byCategory[cat] && store.byCategory[cat].length"
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@
         @accept="onAccept" @alias="onAlias" @remove-alias="onRemoveAlias"
         @dismiss="store.dismiss"
       />
-    </template>
+    </div>
 
     <v-dialog v-model="aliasDialog" max-width="480">
       <AliasPickerDialog
@@ -125,6 +129,16 @@ async function onRemoveAlias(s) {
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
   margin-bottom: 8px;
 }
+.fc-suggestions__list {
+  /* Cap the suggestion run so it scrolls internally rather than pushing the
+     Related strip off the bottom of the rail. Hairline scrollbar matching
+     ProvenancePanel's capped regions. */
+  max-height: 320px;
+  overflow-y: auto;
+  scrollbar-width: thin;
+  scrollbar-color: rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light)) transparent;
+  padding-right: 4px;
+}
 .fc-suggestions__skeleton { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 8px; }
 .fc-suggestions__skel-row {
   height: 18px; border-radius: 4px;

tests/test_celery_smoke.py

@@ -22,3 +22,17 @@ def test_ping_returns_pong():
 def test_ping_with_value():
     result = ping.delay("hello")
     assert result.get(timeout=1) == "hello"
+
+
+def test_broker_resilience_configured():
+    # Workers must ride out a transient broker outage (swarm overlay blip after
+    # a redeploy left Redis briefly unreachable) instead of crash-looping on the
+    # initial connect and needing a manual Redis reset (2026-06-24).
+    conf = celery.conf
+    assert conf.broker_connection_retry_on_startup is True
+    assert conf.broker_connection_max_retries is None  # retry forever
+    opts = conf.broker_transport_options
+    assert opts["socket_keepalive"] is True
+    assert opts["socket_connect_timeout"] == 5
+    assert opts["health_check_interval"] == 30
+    assert conf.redis_retry_on_timeout is True