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@@ -60,3 +60,24 @@ hit a consent wall from EU IPs, and the inner `AU_yqL` id is only resolvable via
 Google's private batchexecute API. Do not retry. The news seed uses Bing News
 RSS instead (`ENABLE_NEWS_SEED`, real publisher URL in the `?url=` param of
 apiclick.aspx — unwrapped by `_unwrap_news_link`).
+
+## Large sources can OOM-kill the pod
+
+On 2026-07-10 the pod was OOMKilled (memory limit was 1Gi) mid-research: a
+batch of 20 concurrent sources hit a 98k-word document plus several large PDFs
+at once, and pdfplumber's parse spiked RAM past the limit. The in-memory
+research task died with the pod and its session sat in `running` forever.
+
+Mitigations now in place:
+
+- Memory limit raised to 2Gi (`k8s-manifests/researchowl/deployment.yaml`).
+- PDFs capped at 15MB (was 50MB), checked both via Content-Length and actual
+  body size; pdfplumber runs in `run_in_executor` (it is sync + CPU-heavy and
+  also froze the event loop, same class of bug as DDGS) and flushes its page
+  cache per page.
+- Extracted content is truncated to `max_content_length` (300k chars) before
+  hitting `source_contents`.
+- On startup the bot marks orphaned `running` sessions as `interrupted`.
+
+If a research still dies, the scraped sources survive in the DB: `/process`
+re-chunks and scores them without re-scraping.