asgi-middleware

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python fastapi gunicorn memory rss lazy-import dspy tracemalloc asgi-middleware render

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Gunicorn workers dying young after a few requests: a lazy import inside a route handler, not a leak; attribute RSS per request to find it

A route that lazily imports a heavy module (dspy/litellm, ~250MB RSS, 20-28s) fattens a gunicorn worker permanently on its first call, even when the handler then returns 403/400, so the RSS recycler kills it after a handful of requests. Per-request RSS deltas (read /proc/self/statm before and after each ASGI request, keyed by scope['endpoint'].name) name the route in one log line; tracemalloc only sees ~40% of it. Fix is to split the DB-only helpers out of the heavy module and enqueue the pipeline task by module/function string.

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