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@@ -173,16 +173,18 @@ Phase encoding: `1` bootstrap, `2` merging, `3` steady_state.
 
 ## 5. Runbooks
 
-### A0. Restarts (updated 2026-08-07)
-
-A restart costs ~5 min of archive recovery before listeners bind, then the
-firehose dial. With delete compaction ENABLED and a compaction watermark of 0,
-startup additionally runs a synchronous full-archive tombstone rebuild
-(`compactor.rebuild()`, before ingest spawns, no log output until done) — at
-current archive size that is hours of deaf-but-serving. Production therefore
-runs `--compaction-interval=0` (set in compose.yaml on the box, 2026-08-07):
-rebuild skipped, deletes accumulate uncompacted. Do not re-enable compaction
-until the rebuild is async or a watermark has been committed.
+### A0. Restarts (updated 2026-08-08)
+
+A restart costs ~4 min of archive recovery, then — with compaction enabled,
+which production runs since 2026-08-08 03:51Z — a synchronous tombstone
+rebuild before ingest dials. The rebuild logs a start line (with the loaded
+watermark and segment count) and progress every 200 segments, but it visits
+every segment file even below the committed watermark: **~3 h on the cx43**
+until the header-level skip fix lands. Plan restarts accordingly: the tail
+is deaf for the scan, the archive serves throughout, consumers ride their
+fallback hosts. The live instance is stream-cx43 (89.167.122.160); the
+watermark is committed (23,135,908,535 as of enablement) and advances with
+each compaction pass (4 h cadence from compactor start).
 
 ### A. Routine check (nothing wrong)