Raising GLOBAL_LOG_LEVEL to WARNING buys quieter output but not less work: 241 INFO call sites interpolate their payload into an f-string before the logging call gets to drop it. The heaviest is get_doc, which logs every chunk id and metadata dict in a collection, so on the full-context retrieval path that is the entire knowledge base, once per chat request.
That one line at WARNING, CPython 3.12:
| knowledge base | payload | before | after |
| -------------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
| top-k of 3 | 1.2 kB | 3.8 us | 0.07 us |
| 500 chunks | 201 kB | 583.6 us | 0.08 us |
| 5000 chunks | 2.0 MB | 5.8 ms | 0.15 us |
The lazy form log.info('query_doc:result %s %s', result.ids, result.metadatas) hands the payload to record.getMessage(), which the InterceptHandler only reaches once a record has passed the level check. Output at INFO is byte-identical. Two sites that already built their message eagerly, one str concat and one % operator, move to the same lazy form.
Audit of asyncio.sleep vs time.sleep and event-loop-blocking calls:
- utils/plugin.py: run pip `install_frontmatter_requirements`
(subprocess.check_call) via asyncio.to_thread in load_tool_module_by_id,
load_function_module_by_id, and install_tool_and_function_dependencies.
- retrieval/utils.py: move the synchronous SSRF-guarded requests probe and
loader.load() in get_content_from_url into a sync helper run via
asyncio.to_thread.
- routers/audio.py: write uploaded audio to disk off the event loop in
transcription().
- routers/pipelines.py: write uploaded pipeline file off the event loop in
upload_pipeline().
The existing time.sleep call sites are all in genuinely synchronous
functions (sync requests/DB drivers/daemon threads) with async
counterparts that already use asyncio.sleep, so no time.sleep -> asyncio.sleep
changes were needed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXR5bYfsfSS42RGHQZu2Ta
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>