_DueTracker counted a task that had never run from 0 on the loop clock,
which is host uptime, so every run_on_startup=False task (hourly data
cleanup with the Docker log prune, the weekly report check, alert
reconcile, agent age, Ansible schedules) fired on the first tick after
each deploy, while agents were flushing their backlog. Agent ingest was
slow or dropped for a few minutes after every deploy.
start_scheduler now calls tracker.begin(): such a task is first due one
interval after the loop starts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Guardrails so the fd-leak class of bug (Errno 24 lockup; recent SNMP + UniFi
fixes) surfaces early or can't compound, instead of silently killing the app.
- Self-fd watchdog (steward/core/self_monitor.py): records open_fds and
open_fds_pct (% of soft RLIMIT_NOFILE) as "steward"/"process" metrics each
minute through the normal alert pipeline, so the operator can alert on them
via the existing alert-rules UI. Built-in WARNING floor at 80% gives a
zero-config early signal. Stdlib-only (/proc + resource); degrades to a no-op
off Linux. Registered as a core ScheduledTask in app.py.
- Poll-overlap guard (steward/core/scheduler.py): extract a pure _DueTracker
that skips a tick while a task's prior run is still in flight, so a hung poll
can't stack overlapping runs (which amplify per-poll resource/fd use). A
skipped task isn't penalised — it retries the next tick after it completes.
- fd-stability tests (tests/core/): _DueTracker overlap policy, the watchdog
metric/warning/degradation paths, and a real-fd canary that hammers tcp_check
and asserts /proc/self/fd doesn't grow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>