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fix: add atexit cleanup and timeout for event loop in model_tools#8073

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fix: add atexit cleanup and timeout for event loop in model_tools#8073
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Summary

  • The persistent _tool_loop was never closed on interpreter exit, leaking resources
  • _run_async() had no timeout — leaked tasks could hang indefinitely
  • Add atexit handler to close the loop and 300s timeout with future.cancel() on expiry

Test plan

  • 5 new tests: 3 for atexit cleanup, 2 for timeout behavior
  • All 12 existing model_tools tests pass
  • All 15 existing async bridge tests pass

Closes #8043

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The persistent _tool_loop was never closed on interpreter exit, and
_run_async() had no timeout, allowing leaked tasks. Add atexit
handler to close the loop and wrap future.result() with a 300s
timeout that cancels the future on expiry.

Closes NousResearch#8043

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Review: mostly good but 4 concerns

1. loop.stop() via call_soon_threadsafe is ineffective at exit

_cleanup_tool_loop calls loop.call_soon_threadsafe(loop.stop) but nothing ever run()s the loop again to process the stop signal. At interpreter shutdown the loop gets garbage collected anyway, so this is effectively a no-op. If the intent is to release resources, loop.close() directly would be more honest — or just acknowledge this is a signal, not actual cleanup.

2. future.cancel() does NOT cancel the asyncio task

The comment in the PR acknowledges this ("we can't reach that task directly") but the docstring and error message imply the coroutine gets cancelled. future.cancel() only cancels the concurrent.futures.Future wrapper. The thread running asyncio.run(coro) continues executing until the coroutine finishes or the process exits. The 300s timeout only prevents the caller from blocking — it does not free the underlying task's resources. Consider making the error message more honest: e.g. "coroutine did not complete within 300s (background thread continues running)".

3. Missing _worker_thread_local cleanup

Issue #8043 explicitly calls out _worker_thread_local loops as a second leak vector. This PR only addresses _tool_loop. When the thread pool shrinks or threads are recycled, the thread-local loops and their bound httpx connections are never closed. An atexit handler won't help here since thread-local storage is per-thread. Consider a weak-value dict mapping threads to their loops, with cleanup on thread exit.

4. _cleanup_tool_loop fires even when no loop was created

The atexit.register() at module import time means the handler fires even if model_tools is imported just to read schemas (no loop ever created). The if _tool_loop is not None guard prevents a crash, but it's still noise. Consider registering lazily — only call atexit.register(_cleanup_tool_loop) the first time _get_tool_loop() actually creates a loop.

iRonin added a commit to iRonin/hermes-agent-nous that referenced this pull request Apr 14, 2026
- Add _cleanup_all_loops() with loop.close() (not just loop.stop())
- Track worker thread loops in _worker_loops dict for atexit cleanup
- Lazy atexit registration — only fires when a loop is actually created
- Honest timeout error message: (background thread continues running)

Improves on upstream PR NousResearch#8073 by:
- Using loop.close() instead of call_soon_threadsafe(stop) which is
  ineffective at exit since nothing runs the loop again
- Tracking worker thread loops (missing from the original PR)
- Registering atexit handler lazily (not at import time)
@alt-glitch alt-glitch added type/bug Something isn't working P2 Medium — degraded but workaround exists comp/tools Tool registry, model_tools, toolsets labels Apr 28, 2026
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Thanks for the contribution @tomqiaozc — identifying the _tool_loop resource leak and missing timeout in _run_async() was genuinely useful, and the reviewer discussion surfaced important correctness issues.

This is an automated hermes-sweeper review.

The underlying bugs have since been fixed on main with a more correct implementation:

  • 76c454914 (v2026.4.23) — added non-blocking executor shutdown on async timeout, fixing the thread-leak path you identified.
  • b0435cc16 (v2026.4.30) — rewrote _run_async() to use a worker-owned event loop, cancel tasks via call_soon_threadsafe(t.cancel) on timeout, and shut down the pool with wait=False. The commit message explicitly credits your PR for identifying the leak. This directly addresses all four concerns raised by @iRonin: future.cancel() being a no-op on running futures, loop.stop() ineffectiveness, worker-thread-local loop cleanup (handled in the finally block), and eager atexit registration (not needed with structural cleanup).

Current main has no atexit handler in model_tools.py — lifecycle is managed structurally inside _run_in_worker's finally block instead, which is the approach @iRonin recommended.

Closing as implemented on main.

@teknium1 teknium1 closed this Jun 10, 2026
@teknium1 teknium1 added the sweeper:implemented-on-main Sweeper: behavior already present on current main label Jun 10, 2026
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