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The stale mount that ate half the backup windows

The PBS datastore on the external drive was shared into the VM over a PVE virtiofs mount. Backups failed roughly half the time, always with the same error, os error 23 — ENFILE, too many open files. Half the 03:00 UTC vzdump window was going to waste, and the failure looked random.

It wasn't random, and the fix wasn't a better mount.

Why two agents on one local LLM feel slow

I ran this for a while with two agents on the same engine and both of them felt sluggish, and I couldn't work out why. The engine reported good numbers. The experience didn't match.

The answer is the prefix cache, and it's structural — not a tuning knob.