[Bug]: Insights tab stops polling after 4 minutes and never shows the finished insight
Author: chris-opendataCreated Aug 16, 2026Updated Sep 5, 2026
Labelsbugreadyarea: ui
Is this a reproducible bug?
- I confirm this is a reproducible bug, not a feature request, idea, question, or contribution proposal.
What did you do when it broke?
With Ollama local Gemma4:12b and Open Notebook on Mac M5 Pro 24GB,
- opened a 45-page article from "All Sources" panel.
- on the opened article panel, switched to "Insights" tab page.
- selected "Paper Analysis" from "Generate New Insight".
- clicked "New" to start (indicated by a pop message).
- observed the stats app's GPU indicator @99% shown in the Mac's menu bar (top right).
- paper analysis was never shown to complete, even after a hour.
- clicked "Back to Sources" to go back "All Sources" to stop.
- observed the GPU indicator going down to 0% after ~10 seconds.
- clicked the article to go to the opened article panel again.
- clicked "Insights" to switch to the tab page.
- "Paper Analysis" card was shown.
- clicked "View Insight" to see the completed analysis.
How did it break?
Expected: Paper Analysis card should be shown in Insights without a need to go back to "All Sources" to forcefully stop first. Actual: Need to go back to "All Sources" to forcefully stop first.
Logs or Screenshots
No response
Open Notebook Version
v1-latest (Docker)
Environment
- OS: Mac M5 Pro 24GB
- Browser: Edge version 151.0.4129.86
- Ollama version: 0.32.13
- Model: gemma4:12b (local)
- Ollama configuration:
OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=8h
OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL=1
OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS=1
OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=16384Additional Context
- It might be a communication issue between Ollama and Open Notebook.
- The issue also occurred to "Key Insights" and "Chat with Sources" features as tried.
Contribution
- I am a developer and would like to work on fixing this issue (pending maintainer approval)
Source: lfnovo/open-notebook