A failed JBD read retried forever inside a client request and blocked every other device and client. The server now starts one polling thread for each device, and a request returns the last snapshot. Only the first request after startup waits, until each device completes one read attempt.
One lock makes sure that only one Bluetooth collection runs at a time. A serial BMS retries a failed read after 1 second and keeps its last snapshot for 30 seconds. An error in a collection does not end the polling of that device.
The server tests left main() in a thread after each test. These threads kept their patches active and delayed the suite. Each test now sends an invalid command, which ends the server loop, and then joins the thread. The suite time drops from about 8.5 seconds to about 2 seconds.
Remove one unused line from a test.
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