diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index 25c5f80e0..7d5771a65 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -2690,7 +2690,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         task.type = SERVER_TASK_TYPE_METRICS;
 
         ctx_server.queue_results.add_waiting_task_id(task.id);
-        ctx_server.queue_tasks.post(task);
+        ctx_server.queue_tasks.post(task, true); // high-priority task
 
         // get the result
         server_task_result result = ctx_server.queue_results.recv(task.id);
@@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         task.data.push_back({{"reset_bucket", true}});
 
         ctx_server.queue_results.add_waiting_task_id(task.id);
-        ctx_server.queue_tasks.post(task);
+        ctx_server.queue_tasks.post(task, true); // high-priority task
 
         // get the result
         server_task_result result = ctx_server.queue_results.recv(task.id);
@@ -2822,7 +2822,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         task.data = {
             { "id_slot", id_slot },
             { "filename", filename },
-            { "filepath", filepath }
+            { "filepath", filepath },
         };
 
         const int id_task = ctx_server.queue_tasks.post(task);
@@ -2852,7 +2852,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         task.data = {
             { "id_slot", id_slot },
             { "filename", filename },
-            { "filepath", filepath }
+            { "filepath", filepath },
         };
 
         const int id_task = ctx_server.queue_tasks.post(task);
@@ -2930,7 +2930,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             { "system_prompt",               ctx_server.system_prompt.c_str() },
             { "default_generation_settings", ctx_server.default_generation_settings_for_props },
             { "total_slots",                 ctx_server.params.n_parallel },
-            { "chat_template",               curr_tmpl.c_str() }
+            { "chat_template",               curr_tmpl.c_str() },
         };
 
         res_ok(res, data);
@@ -3041,13 +3041,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         json models = {
             {"object", "list"},
             {"data", {
-                 {
-                     {"id",       params.model_alias},
-                     {"object",   "model"},
-                     {"created",  std::time(0)},
-                     {"owned_by", "llamacpp"},
-                     {"meta",     ctx_server.model_meta()}
-                 },
+                {
+                    {"id",       params.model_alias},
+                    {"object",   "model"},
+                    {"created",  std::time(0)},
+                    {"owned_by", "llamacpp"},
+                    {"meta",     ctx_server.model_meta()}
+                },
              }}
         };
 
diff --git a/examples/server/tests/features/passkey.feature b/examples/server/tests/features/passkey.feature
index 6a5a84e6a..ff0a82cc4 100644
--- a/examples/server/tests/features/passkey.feature
+++ b/examples/server/tests/features/passkey.feature
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Feature: Passkey / Self-extend with context shift
     And   <n_junk> as number of junk
     And   <n_predicted> server max tokens to predict
     And   42 as seed
+    And   0.0 temperature
     And   <n_ctx> KV cache size
     And   1 slots
     And   <n_ga> group attention factor to extend context size through self-extend
@@ -22,7 +23,8 @@ Feature: Passkey / Self-extend with context shift
     # Can be override with N_GPU_LAYERS
     And   <ngl> GPU offloaded layers
     Then  the server is starting
-    Then  the server is healthy
+    # Higher timeout because the model may need to be downloaded from the internet
+    Then  the server is healthy with timeout 120 seconds
     Given available models
     Then  model 0 is trained on <n_ctx_train> tokens context
     Given a prefix prompt:
diff --git a/examples/server/tests/features/steps/steps.py b/examples/server/tests/features/steps/steps.py
index 1864a694f..a418b013f 100644
--- a/examples/server/tests/features/steps/steps.py
+++ b/examples/server/tests/features/steps/steps.py
@@ -200,17 +200,15 @@ def step_start_server(context):
             time.sleep(0.1)
 
 
-@step("the server is {expecting_status}")
-@async_run_until_complete
-async def step_wait_for_the_server_to_be_started(context, expecting_status: Literal['healthy', 'ready', 'idle', 'busy'] | str):
+async def wait_for_server_status_with_timeout(context, expecting_status: Literal['healthy', 'ready', 'idle', 'busy'] | str, timeout: int):
     match expecting_status:
         case 'healthy':
             await wait_for_slots_status(context, context.base_url, 200,
-                                        timeout=30)
+                                        timeout=timeout)
 
         case 'ready' | 'idle':
             await wait_for_slots_status(context, context.base_url, 200,
-                                        timeout=30,
+                                        timeout=timeout,
                                         params={'fail_on_no_slot': 1},
                                         slots_idle=context.n_slots,
                                         slots_processing=0)
@@ -223,6 +221,17 @@ async def step_wait_for_the_server_to_be_started(context, expecting_status: Lite
             assert False, "unknown status"
 
 
+@step("the server is {expecting_status} with timeout {timeout:d} seconds")
+@async_run_until_complete
+async def step_wait_for_server_status_with_timeout(context, expecting_status: Literal['healthy', 'ready', 'idle', 'busy'] | str, timeout: int):
+    await wait_for_server_status_with_timeout(context, expecting_status, timeout)
+
+
+@step("the server is {expecting_status}")
+async def step_wait_for_server_status(context, expecting_status: Literal['healthy', 'ready', 'idle', 'busy'] | str):
+    await wait_for_server_status_with_timeout(context, expecting_status, 30)
+
+
 @step('all slots are {expected_slot_status_string}')
 @async_run_until_complete
 async def step_all_slots_status(context, expected_slot_status_string: Literal['idle', 'busy'] | str):