Claw is ~120s slower than direct Ollama/Qwen2.5:7b calls on a local setup

Claw is configured for a local Ollama-backed qwen2.5:7b setup on Linux Mint. It loads both ~/.claw/settings.json and /home/prakhar/claw-code/rust/.claw.json, resolves the model as qwen2.5:7b, and uses workspace-write permissions. The shell environment contains:

OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1

Ollama itself appears healthy and local:

• curl -v http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/tags returns HTTP 200 and shows qwen2.5:7b.
• ss -tlnp confirms Ollama is listening on 127.0.0.1:11434.
• A direct OpenAI-compatible request to http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1/chat/completions completes in approximately 7.4s for a trivial prompt.

However, Claw interactive prompts such as:

• Hi
• How are you?

take approximately 2 minutes to return a response.

Additional observations:

• The issue reproduces even when Claw is started from an unrelated directory outside the repository.
• strace shows Claw connecting directly to 127.0.0.1:11434.
• No connections to external providers were observed during testing.
• Direct requests to the same local Ollama endpoint complete in approximately 7 seconds, while equivalent prompts through Claw take approximately 120 seconds.

Attached files:

1. claw.txt - strace output captured during a slow interaction.
2. Report.txt - additional diagnostics and command output.

Please let me know if there are additional diagnostics I should collect.

Report.txt

claw.txt