A knowledge-base import sends far more than the cluster can take at once,
and every band waited the same 30 s. A band now has its own queue_ttl, so
one for bulk work waits behind people instead of being turned away.
And a request turned away because the cluster stayed busy — the queue
full (503) or waited as long as its band may (504) — now carries
Retry-After: 10. Without it llmgw-kb, which retries only what says when
to, counted each such passage as failed; that is what turned parts of the
metallurgy import away.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>