diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 1afa439..9914e43 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -567,8 +567,10 @@ linked runbooks.
   stale token is not enough, and `podman system migrate` segfaults in
   `teardownNetworkBackend`. Repair: **reboot** (`/run/user` clears and all 28
   quadlets return on their own — check `Linger=yes` and `WantedBy=default.target`
-  first). Observed trigger 2026-09-16: memory pressure from an iGPU run that
-  committed 116 of the host's 121 GiB.
+  first). Seen 2026-09-16, hours into heavy GPU work on the same host — but the
+  trigger is NOT established (`journalctl -k` recorded no OOM kill; the kernel
+  had no other word on it). Treat the pause process as host state that can die
+  for its own reasons, and reach for the reboot when it does.
 - **A container cannot reach a `Network=host` service at the host's LAN IP.**
   netavark DNATs *published* ports only: from a bridge container
   `192.168.0.143:<published>` answers while `192.168.0.143:<host bind>` and the
diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/x4-pair-experiment.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/x4-pair-experiment.md
index beeb553..f83acef 100644
--- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/x4-pair-experiment.md
+++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/x4-pair-experiment.md
@@ -210,11 +210,13 @@ distinguishes a real split from a mislabelled sweep.
   3.2 GB in a few minutes, no error, no exit. Use `llama-server` for scripted
   runs, or `-st/--single-turn` with llama-cli. (`-no-cnv` is not a flag in this
   build.)
-- **A killed rootless podman pause process takes the whole host's container
-  management down.** After the experiment the pause process was gone (plausible
-  cause: memory pressure from the 116 GiB iGPU runs), and every `podman` command
-  for the user failed with `invalid internal status … could not find any running
-  process`. `podman system migrate` — the remedy podman itself names — **panics**
+- **A dead rootless podman pause process takes the whole host's container
+  management down.** After the experiment the pause process was gone and every
+  `podman` command for the user failed with `invalid internal status … could not
+  find any running process`. The trigger is **not** established: `journalctl -k`
+  holds no OOM kill for that window, so the tempting reading ("the 116 GiB runs
+  squeezed it out") is a guess and is recorded as one.
+  `podman system migrate` — the remedy podman itself names — **panics**
   in 5.7.0 (`teardownNetworkBackend` nil deref). The rootless netns that holds
   podman's bridge addresses is gone with it, so `aardvark-dns` cannot bind
   `10.89.x.1:53` and *every* container start fails. Repair: reboot (it clears
@@ -226,8 +228,10 @@ distinguishes a real split from a mislabelled sweep.
   same evening when `hermes.franksdank.cloud` 502'd — fixed in the Caddyfile and
   guarded by a strengthened seam (`tests/hermes_webui.bats`).
 - **The memory budget includes the co-tenants' patience.** The iGPU runs held
-  116 of 121 GiB; the pause-process death above is the visible cost of running a
-  model that big on a host that also serves.
+  116 of the host's 121 GiB for minutes at a time. Nothing in the kernel log
+  proves damage came of it, but running a model that big on a host that also
+  serves ~28 containers is asking the question — do it in a window, not
+  alongside.
 
 ## Conclusion
 
diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md
index 86a2449..4d776c1 100644
--- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md
+++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md
@@ -687,8 +687,9 @@ timestamp: 2026-09-14
   their experts with them (1.62 GiB per layer), the 12 attention layers are spread
   every 4th across the depth, and the 32.8 GiB PLE must stay on the main device —
   so KV cannot be consolidated on the 3090.
-- **Incident, same evening:** the rootless podman pause process died (memory
-  pressure from the 116 GiB iGPU runs is the plausible cause). Every `podman`
+- **Incident, same evening:** the rootless podman pause process died — trigger
+  NOT established (no OOM kill in `journalctl -k` for that window, so "the
+  116 GiB runs squeezed it out" is a guess, not a finding). Every `podman`
   command then failed (`invalid internal status … could not find any running
   process`), every container start failed on aardvark-dns binding `10.89.x.1:53`
   (the rootless netns holding the bridges was gone), and all 28 quadlets looped.