On the three-VM cluster about one answer in twenty-five came back as
content_filter: both judge replicas timed out within the same millisecond.
The tries shared the policy's 5 s budget, so the first replica, busy on an
oversubscribed machine, used it all and the retry on the second had nothing
left. A judge request now goes to a second replica too when the first has
not answered by half the budget, and the first answer is taken. The first
is not cut short.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
