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Vansh Verma
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drain

mixedKubernetes · minikubeCluster & infrastructureJuly 8, 2026

the question

Does an in-flight LLM generation survive a Kubernetes pod deletion?

what came out

Only if it finishes within terminationGracePeriodSeconds -- a 12s request dies at 4s grace but completes at 30s. Exit-on-SIGTERM always drops it, and a no-handler PID-1 server counterintuitively ignores SIGTERM entirely. Real minikube, pre-registered, independently verified.

method & receipts

  • Result: mixed
  • Pre-registered — the prediction was written down and committed before the run.
  • Reproducible — one script re-runs the whole thing from scratch.
  • Independently reviewed — an adversarial review pass, kept in the repo.
  • Machine-readable claims — every reported number, in a checkable file.
  • Tested — a correctness/benchmark suite ships alongside the code.

→ read the code and re-run it

github.com/v-code01/drain