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[Bug]: Crawl4Ai pod goes unresponsive after few days of successful crawl #1754

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crawl4ai version

v0.8.0

Expected Behavior

Craw4Ai should not deteriorate after some days of crawling.

Current Behavior

After a few days of successfull crawling, I am getting this log in the crawl4ai pod

2026-02-10 06:59:17,220 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s
2026-02-10 06:59:26,221 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s
2026-02-10 06:59:35,223 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s
2026-02-10 06:59:44,225 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s
2026-02-10 06:59:53,226 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s
2026-02-10 07:00:02,229 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s
2026-02-10 07:00:11,231 - server - WARNING - Timeline update timeout after 4s

and this is forever. Crawl4ai pod becomes unresponsive. Can't start a new crawl, the ongoing crawl can't move further.

Only solution at this point is either restart the pod, or flush-all the Crawl4ai Redis. But thats not a proper solution.

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3.12

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