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Investigate sporadic bursts in CPU and memory usage during batch cancel test

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by running tests.test_solver.Submission.test_cancel_batch repeatedly and observe its runtime, CPU, and memory behavior. Investigate whether prolonged execution or SAPI/QPU user throttling causes the resource spike. Done means identifying the cause and ensuring the test or client behavior prevents CPU and memory usage from reaching the reported levels.

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Description

bug

Running the tests.test_solver.Submission.test_cancel_batch test, sometimes causes CPU and/or memory usage to increase to 100%/3-4GiB during prolonged test time of few minutes. Usually the test runs within 1m, but it has been observed to take 10m.

It is possible the reason for this is SAPI/QPU load, i.e. user throttling. Even if the reason is SAPI user throttling, the CPU/memory impact should be curbed.

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