The watchman sees a review queue one lane deep, and names its cause - #4470
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…s its cause dispatches.unreviewed sat between 16 and 20 all afternoon while every bee that finished waited. The rule could not see it: its threshold was twice the lane count, which at twenty lanes means forty. The number that matters is whether the backlog is bigger than what the swarm produces in one round, because past that point it can only grow. THE CAUSE IS A BUDGET, and the rule now says so. The sweep buys TRIOS_QUEEN_REVIEWS_PER_ROUND reviews a round - default 3 - and TRIOS_QUEEN_MEASUREMENTS_PER_ROUND measurements, also 3, both capped at 32, and neither was set on the deployment. The swarm went from 8.5 to 80 dispatches an hour this afternoon when the worker model changed; the review budget did not move. Raised on the deployment to 8 and 6, which is a step and not the ceiling: the sweep runs BEFORE the dispatch half of the round and holds it, so a budget large enough to fill four minutes is a swarm that stops handing out work. Twenty-eight rule shapes, eleven of them ones a moving system must NOT fire, including three unreviewed against ten lanes. Closes #4469 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Closes #4469
dispatches.unreviewedsat between 16 and 20 all afternoon while every beethat finished waited. The rule never fired: its threshold was twice the lane
count — forty, at twenty lanes.
The cause it never named
The swarm went from 8.5 to 80 dispatches an hour this afternoon when the
worker model changed. The review budget did not move. Faster bees do not make a
faster swarm if the sweep still buys three.
Raised on the deployment to 8 and 6 — a step, not the ceiling: the sweep
runs before the dispatch half of the round and holds it, so a budget large
enough to fill four minutes is a swarm that stops handing out work.
Three unreviewed against ten lanes is one of the eleven — it is not a backlog.
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