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Testing the progress-based cold-load deadline on the live cluster surfaced a false positive. The stall window observed UPLOAD bytes only, but the staging path has a phase that does real work while moving zero upload bytes: the resumable-upload verify phase. When a shard is already present on the worker from an earlier attempt, the frontend HEADs it, hashes the local copy to confirm it matches, and skips the transfer. Staging a 70 GB model with 56 GB already staged: 17:27:34 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... 17:28:20 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... 17:29:07 INFO Upload skipped (file already exists with matching hash) ... ... six-plus consecutive minutes, no bytes uploaded at all ~45s per skipped ~4 GB shard. That is correct and desirable - it is what makes resume work - but it was indistinguishable from a stall. At 45s per shard it sits inside the 5m window, so the run in flight was fine; the problem is the 600 GB scale this machinery exists to enable, where one shard can plausibly hash for longer than the window. The guard would then fire during verification of a transfer that is working perfectly. Verified mechanism: probeExisting() HEADs the worker and then calls downloader.CalculateSHA(). The staging progress callback is only consulted inside doUpload(), which the skip path never reaches, so observeLoadProgress was called zero times for the whole verify phase. Verification exposed a second, worse bug in the same path: CalculateSHA consults no context at all. An expired cold load kept hashing to completion, compared the hashes, and returned success - reporting a file as staged on a dead load. The failure only surfaced on the NEXT file, whose HEAD died immediately. That is exactly the shape of the red test here, which fails on shard 3. Fix: hash in 1 MiB chunks via hashFileWithActivity(), ticking the cold-load deadline per chunk and checking ctx per chunk. A successful HEAD also counts, since a 200 with a content hash proves the worker is serving right now. Counting hash progress does not make a dead transfer look alive: hashing is bounded, terminating work proportional to file size, in probeExisting it runs only after a HEAD proved the worker was up, and the 24h absolute cap still bounds the whole hold. The alternative of simply widening the window was rejected - it would reintroduce the size cliff this work removes. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>