Description

Gateway becomes unresponsive and requires frequent restarts when processing long-running tasks.

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Gateway normally
2. Process several voice recognition requests
3. Gateway becomes slow and unresponsive
4. API calls start timing out

Expected behavior

Gateway should handle multiple requests without needing restart

Actual behavior

• Works fine initially
• After processing several tasks, becomes very slow
• /v1/responses API times out
• Must restart Gateway to recover

Workaround

Restart Gateway with: openclaw gateway restart

Environment

• OpenClaw 2026.3.7
• Windows
• Local processing with FunASR