fix(delete): run startup reconciliation walk off the event loop

py/services/pending_delete_service.py

@@ -500,10 +500,36 @@ class PendingDeleteService:
         QUARANTINE them (preserving the pre-registry sweep semantics). The
         walk only descends into dirs literally named ``.lm-pending-delete``,
         so false positives are structurally limited.
+
+        The filesystem walk itself runs in a worker thread so a large or slow
+        library cannot block the event loop at startup; only the (rare) batch
+        registration awaits run on the loop.
+        """
+        roots = await self._get_all_model_roots()
+        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+        staging_parents = await loop.run_in_executor(
+            None,  # Use default thread pool
+            self._collect_staging_parents,  # Run the tree walk off the loop
+            roots,
+        )
+        for staging_parent in staging_parents:
+            await self._register_batch_candidates(staging_parent)
+
+    def _collect_staging_parents(self, roots: Sequence[str]) -> List[str]:
+        """Walk every model root and return its staging-parent dirs.
+
+        Pure synchronous filesystem discovery with no awaits: walks with
+        ``followlinks=True, topdown=True``, prunes symlink cycles via a
+        per-root ``visited`` realpath set (realpath is used ONLY for this
+        dedup set - the returned paths are the unresolved business paths),
+        filters out :func:`_is_excluded_dir` dirs, and collects every dir
+        named ``.lm-pending-delete`` (including the case where a model root
+        itself is one). Results are returned in walk order.
         """
         from .model_scanner import _is_excluded_dir
 
-        for root in await self._get_all_model_roots():
+        staging_parents: List[str] = []
+        for root in roots:
             if not os.path.isdir(root):
                 continue
             visited: Set[str] = set()
@@ -518,21 +544,20 @@ class PendingDeleteService:
                 visited.add(real_dir)
                 if os.path.basename(dirpath) == PENDING_DELETE_DIR_NAME:
                     # The current dir IS a staging parent (reachable only when
-                    # a model root itself is one): register its batches.
+                    # a model root itself is one): collect its batches.
-                    await self._register_batch_candidates(dirpath)
+                    staging_parents.append(dirpath)
                     dirnames[:] = []
                     continue
                 next_dirs: List[str] = []
                 for name in dirnames:
                     if name == PENDING_DELETE_DIR_NAME:
-                        await self._register_batch_candidates(
+                        staging_parents.append(os.path.join(dirpath, name))
-                            os.path.join(dirpath, name)
-                        )
                     elif _is_excluded_dir(name):
                         continue
                     else:
                         next_dirs.append(name)
                 dirnames[:] = next_dirs
+        return staging_parents
 
     async def _register_batch_candidates(self, staging_parent: str) -> None:
         """Register every non-orphaned batch subdir of a staging parent."""

tests/services/test_pending_delete_service.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import errno
 import json
 import os
 import shutil
+import threading
 import time
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -1683,6 +1684,33 @@ async def test_reg_g_reconciliation_finds_external_batches(
     assert service._known_batch_dirs.get("ext-fresh") == str(fresh_dir)
 
 
+# (g2) reconciliation runs the filesystem walk off the event loop so a large
+#      or slow library cannot block startup
+async def test_reg_g2_reconciliation_walk_runs_in_worker_thread(
+    tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+) -> None:
+    root = tmp_path / "loras"
+    root.mkdir()
+    (root / PENDING_DELETE_DIR_NAME).mkdir()
+    await _register_model_root(monkeypatch, lora_roots=[root])
+
+    loop_thread = threading.get_ident()
+    walk_threads: List[int] = []
+    real_walk = os.walk
+
+    def _recording_walk(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any):
+        walk_threads.append(threading.get_ident())
+        return real_walk(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(os, "walk", _recording_walk)
+
+    service = await PendingDeleteService.get_instance()
+    await service._reconcile_scan_roots()
+
+    assert walk_threads, "reconciliation never walked the model roots"
+    assert all(thread_id != loop_thread for thread_id in walk_threads)
+
+
 # (h) _find_batch_dir with cleared registry locates + registers (restart sim)
 async def test_reg_h_find_batch_dir_restart_simulation(
     tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch