diff --git a/scripts/frank-archon.env b/scripts/frank-archon.env
index 2d2aae4..0d4b363 100644
--- a/scripts/frank-archon.env
+++ b/scripts/frank-archon.env
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ FRANK_ARCHON_PLACEMENT=expert_tiered
 # rest, so growing the pool moves experts off the card and shrinking it spills
 # them onto VRAM the cache wanted. Under-sizing it is a boot failure (36,864
 # refused a boot). The ledger's coverage line is the referee, not this file.
-FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=44928
+# Sized so the cache clears the 3 x MAX_MODEL_LEN contract: the 1.8.1 boot at
+# 44,928 resolved the cache to 556,348 tokens — 2.8 sessions — and three
+# concurrent full-height requests came back 400 in 0.0 s. Tokens scale with the
+# GiB the cache wins, so +640 MiB a rank buys ~44,000 tokens of ceiling with
+# ~2.5% off the expert slab.
+FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=45568
 # VRAM left unclaimed per card (publisher default 96 MiB); the engine's settle
 # floor is built from it.
 FRANK_ARCHON_GPU_HEADROOM_MIB=96
@@ -107,11 +112,14 @@ FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_CACHE_MIB=8192
 # read. `ram` REFUSES the start if memlock is too small — the unit's
 # LimitMEMLOCK=infinity is the other half of this law.
 FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT=ram
-# TTM preflight. The pinned ledger (~147 GiB) rides TTM's shared pages, and the
-# kernel RESETS pages_limit to half of RAM on every boot; below the plan the
-# load dies mid-pin with an anonymous allocator error. ttm-preflight.sh raises
-# the knob itself before refusing by name, so recovery is a boot, not a visit.
-FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000
+# TTM preflight. The pinned ledger rides TTM's shared pages, and the kernel
+# RESETS pages_limit to half of RAM on every boot; below the plan the load dies
+# mid-pin with an anonymous allocator error. ttm-preflight.sh raises the knob
+# itself before refusing by name, so recovery is a boot, not a visit.
+# Floor = 2 x HOST_POOL + 48,824 (static weights + arena) + PREFIX_CACHE + MNBT
+# per the bats ledger test; at the 45,568 pool that computes to 150,200 MiB, so
+# the floor sits just above it.
+FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=152000
 FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800
 # Escape hatch for experiments. Unset -> no extra argv; the serve script expands
 # this unquoted on purpose, so keep multi-flag values as one string.
diff --git a/tests/frank_archon_unit.bats b/tests/frank_archon_unit.bats
index 386fa90..73682ba 100755
--- a/tests/frank_archon_unit.bats
+++ b/tests/frank_archon_unit.bats
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ nosudo_bin() {
     # so the pool's token count is a boot-ledger line — verified live by the
     # capacity leg of scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py at every cutover.
     grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_PLACEMENT=expert_tiered$' "$ENV_FILE"
-    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=44928$' "$ENV_FILE"
+    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=45568$' "$ENV_FILE"
     grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=fp8$' "$ENV_FILE"
     grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT=ram$' "$ENV_FILE"
     # Prefix cache: pinned host RAM only (the disk tier was removed), and the