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Workflow Steps Don't Run After Sleep

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Description

I have a workflow that sleeps and on random occasions, the workflow does not resume. The sleep duration usually ranges from 50 - 9000ms. When I rounded to the nearest second, it seems to reduce the issue but it occured at around 30 minutes mark of my workflow. In Vercel logs, there is a timeout log observed everytime the error occurs

async function sleepIfRequired(startTime: number, delayMs: number) {
	// BUG: Rounded to the nearest thousand seem to not lead to any issues
	const timeTaken = Date.now() - startTime;
	const sleepTime = Math.ceil((delayMs - timeTaken) / 1000) * 1000;
	if (sleepTime >= 1000) {
		await sleep(sleepTime);
	}
}

I am using: "workflow": "4.0.1-beta.32"

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Start with the sleepIfRequired function shown in the issue and inspect how workflow 4.0.1-beta.32 schedules delays and handles Vercel timeouts. Reproduce the failure with non-second-aligned delays, then verify that workflows resume reliably after sleep.

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Tech stack
typescript
Domain
distributed-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
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