From 44c2f9641816bc617be0aa32e13d6361a2015de2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean McGivern <sean@linear.app>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 12:41:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] pubsub: stop creating negative timeouts

---
 handwritten/pubsub/src/lease-manager.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/handwritten/pubsub/src/lease-manager.ts b/handwritten/pubsub/src/lease-manager.ts
index 447c4d7e6e8c..282aa55ece91 100644
--- a/handwritten/pubsub/src/lease-manager.ts
+++ b/handwritten/pubsub/src/lease-manager.ts
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ export class LeaseManager extends EventEmitter {
     const deadline = this._subscriber.ackDeadline * 1000;
     const latency = this._subscriber.modAckLatency;
 
-    return (deadline * 0.9 - latency) * jitter;
+    return Math.max(0, deadline * 0.9 - latency) * jitter;
   }
   /**
    * Schedules an deadline extension for all messages.