lofty dragon
Hi, I'm having an issue where the Discord bot connects successfully but
disconnects shortly after receiving a message due to event loop blocking.
Setup:
- OS: Windows 11
- OpenClaw: 2026.4.29
- Node.js: v22.22.2
- Model: google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
- Channel: Discord
Symptoms:
- Gateway starts and Discord logs in successfully
- Bot receives messages and starts processing
- Event loop blocks at 100% utilization for 50-100+ seconds
- Discord disconnects with "Gateway heartbeat ACK timeout" or "Opening handshake has timed out"
- Bot eventually responds but only after Discord has already disconnected and reconnected
- fetch-timeout errors appear consistently during Discord provider startup
Relevant log entries:
17:49:20 [discord] discord gateway error: Error: Gateway heartbeat ACK timeout
17:50:18 [fetch-timeout] fetch timeout reached; aborting operation
17:50:18 [diagnostic] liveness warning: reasons=event_loop_delay,event_loop_utilization interval=57s eventLoopDelayP99Ms=54123.3 eventLoopDelayMaxMs=54123.3 eventLoopUtilization=1 cpuCoreRatio=0.06 active=0 waiting=0 queued=0
17:50:18 [discord] discord gateway error: Error: Opening handshake has timed out
17:50:18 [discord] gateway: Gateway websocket closed: 1006
17:51:42 [fetch-timeout] fetch timeout reached; aborting operation
17:51:42 [discord] discord gateway error: Error: Opening handshake has timed out
17:51:42 [discord] gateway: Gateway websocket closed: 1006
Things I've tried:
- Disabled Bonjour, browser, acpx plugins
- Cleared sessions
- Tried multiple models (gemini-3.1-flash-lite, gemini-2.5-flash, gemma-4-31b)
- Added node.exe exclusions to Malwarebytes and Windows Defender
- Reinstalled OpenClaw and downgraded Node.js to v22
- No proxy configured
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