The ad-hoc status commands kept producing wrong readings, most seriously
reporting "MemAvailable 0.0 GiB" on a host that actually had 240 GiB free.
Cause: /proc/meminfo separates key from value with a TAB, so
grep MemAvailable /proc/meminfo | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2
returns an empty field and awk prints 0.0. A false "host is out of memory"
reading is worse than no reading, because it invites an unnecessary abort.
dankstatus.sh parses on a colon split (tab-agnostic), cross-checks
MemAvailable against MemTotal before printing either, and refuses to print
a zero value. It also pins the rocm-smi CSV column order (device, total,
used) which was previously read swapped, and takes only the first line of
systemctl is-active/is-enabled, which emit more than one line here.
Incidental finding while validating: rocm-smi reports card2 (the 7700X iGPU)
as 0.50 GiB total, not the 123.0 GiB torch.cuda reports. torch was exposing
the GTT aperture. The device is smaller than documented, not larger.
Tests: 346/346 pass (no test surface touched).
gufo is a vertical inference engine built for exactly this hardware
(Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 / Radeon 8060S, gfx1151), and Dankclaw's frank-large
has swapped runtimes seven times in search of a better one. This one
ships no prebuilt Linux binary, so the runtime is BUILT FROM SOURCE on
the host and the payload, port, alias and client contract stay exactly
where they are.
Runtime: gufo v0.1.1 (b0f8673) at /home/dank/GitPackages/gufo-v0.1.1,
built by the new scripts/build-gufo.sh. It links the host ROCm 7.2.4
through its RPATH — the opposite of the unsloth prebuilt it replaces,
which carried its own — so two host workarounds are encoded in that
script: Ubuntu's librocwmma-dev installs a truncated rocWMMA header set
that shadows AMD's and cannot be overridden with -I in HIP mode, and the
ROCm clang prefers Ubuntu 26.04's GCC 16 headers over the GCC 15 whose
libstdc++ is actually installed.
Shape is unchanged: one session, full 262144 ctx, the same UD-Q8_K_XL
target and the same DFlash2 drafter, greedy, text-only. Speculation
moves from llama.cpp's fixed depth 4 to gufo's adaptive block policy
capped at 7 proposals.
Client-contract deltas, all documented: the chat template is compiled
into the binary (no --chat-template-file, so the Qwen-Sharp 73k-token
failure mode is gone), reasoning_effort now takes the full OpenAI set
(so models.yml's reasoningEffortMap fold is no longer required — kept
anyway, so this commit does not also move every high role from xhigh to
high effort), and there is no KV-quant or prompt-cache-RAM flag.
The test seam now runs the serve script against a stub engine and
asserts on the argv it actually execs, instead of grepping the script's
text. The deploy handler gates on the runtime binary and returns before
it stops the serving unit.
Measured trade, from gufo's own Q8_K_XL tables against llama.cpp
b11069: prefill +37% to +80%, cold load 4.5x faster, decode +7% at zero
depth — but -14% at 65,536 tokens of depth and -24% at 131,072. On the
8-bit target the crossover is ~32k, and frank-large runs one 262,144
conversation. The Q4_K_XL target shows no such regression.
Both b11030 serve scripts never passed --metrics, so /metrics answered
501 and Prometheus could not scrape frank-large (silently down since
its deploy) or frank-primary. frank-primary also gets -lv 4 (VERBOSITY
env tunable, default 4) for the full per-buffer load breakdown.
The frank-medium retirement tail the 2026-09-26 lucebox cutover left
uncommitted: the radiance quadlet tree, its swap/fetch tooling and its
seam test are deleted (archive copies live in dankserver/.AGENTTRASH/
20260926-frank-medium-radiance/ and scripts/.AGENTTRASH/20260926-
frank-medium-radiance/), the planner/allowlist/test-changed mappings
drop the service, and frank-large's chat template moves to scripts/
(its old home was the retired frank-medium dir).
Finished here:
- tests/frank_primary_unit.bats: the lucebox quadlet seam (boot
persistence, host-network bind, HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1, HIP-reserved
env-name guard, checkout-mounted entrypoint/healthcheck, first-start
patience, deployer payload/port gates).
- test-changed.sh: explicit .AGENTTRASH/ case — retirement commits move
files to trash, and the wrapper refused those additions with "no
focused-test mapping".
- observability: the vllm: namespace left with the radiance runtime.
Rules keep only llamacpp:* series (prefix-cache reuse, spec-decode,
queueing, endpoint-down); the dashboard drops the vLLM KV/latency
panels; prometheus.yml documents that frank-primary (lucebox) has no
/metrics and therefore no scrape job. llm-fleet.json was left
corrupted mid-edit (missing opening brace) and is rewritten from HEAD.
Suite: 339 green (was 7 red).
The serve script only passed --chat-template-kwargs, so the binary fell
back to the built-in peg-native template. A 250-token request produced a
73,600-token prompt (280x the expected ~260). Wiring in --chat-template-file
drops the prompt to 62 tokens. Draft acceptance 0.79 (mean 4.14), model
answers correctly, reasoning lands in reasoning_content.
The first cutover crash-looped the unit with 'invalid split file name':
the fetch script concatenated the three split parts into a single GGUF,
but part 1's header carries ggml.file_count=3, so the byte-correct
concatenation still advertises itself as a split and the loader demands
a -NNNNN-of-NNNNN filename.
- serve-frank-large.sh: -m points at part 1; llama.cpp loads the split
natively (parts 2-3 auto-discovered in the same directory)
- deploy-remote.sh: LLM_LARGE_MODEL gate path follows
- download-frank-large-unsloth.sh: assembly removed; the parts ARE the
canonical payload, verified against live Hub LFS oids
- docs: runbook model section + troubleshooting note, AGENTS.md, log
- the redundant 87 GiB assembled file is staged on dankclaw at
~/.AGENTTRASH/20260921-frank-large-assembled/
Replace the CIRU v4.4.1 Orca runtime with the unsloth llama.cpp prebuilt
(b11030-mix-5ff778e, ROCm gfx1151, bundles its own ROCm) serving
unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:UD-IQ4_XS (87.3 GiB, three HF split parts
concatenated) on the Strix Halo iGPU. One conversation, 200,000 ctx,
PARALLEL_SLOTS=1, MTP depth 2 via the explicit -md shared-Q8_0 head
(sidecar auto-discovery does not search the mtp/ subfolder), text-only.
Fleet contract unchanged: port 7770, alias frank-large.
- serve-frank-large.sh: unsloth binary, -m/-md, --spec-type draft-mtp
--spec-draft-n-max 2, --jinja, preserve_thinking; gates on binary,
GGUF, MTP head; conditional --mmproj on ENABLE_VISION=1
- download-frank-large-unsloth.sh: resumable fetch of 3 parts + MTP head
+ mmproj, each verified against its LFS sha256 fetched live from the
Hub tree API; concatenates parts, records/verifies SHA256SUMS
- deploy-remote.sh: LLM_LARGE_MODEL/LLM_LARGE_DRAFT paths, pkill pattern
on the model path (not the binary name), wait_port_free gate
- tests: seams for 200k/1-slot, explicit -md, text-only, handler gates,
sweep safety
The CIRU launcher gates on hip/lib/libamdhip64.so + rocr/lib/libhsa-runtime64.so
under its runtime root and exits 2 without them; the build links the private
venv through its RUNPATH, so point those entries at the venv's unversioned
devel symlinks (idempotent ln -sfn). Without this the unit crash-looped for
the full 2400s health gate on first deploy.
Operator call 2026-09-19: switch the iGPU endpoint from
halogen-flash-server to jcbtc/Qwen3.8-Flash-CIRU-STRIX-Orca on the CIRU
v4.4.1 runtime with the QSA window hotfix (host build against the private
ROCm 10 SDK), one stream of the full 262144 trained window. The service
leaves the quadlet shape for a root unit (the same shape as frank-small and
frank-medium: a private-SDK host binary has no image to install and no
generated unit to dodge); the halogen quadlet is archived, the deploy
handler retires it on the host, gates on 7770, and its stray-run sweep
matches the model path so it cannot take frank-small down.
Dankclaw's endpoints are re-split. frank-large is the halogen-flash-server
quadlet again -- the 2026-09-13 unit file was never touched by the two-day
ik_llama.cpp interlude, so the runtime was still in the repo and its image is
still in local storage -- retuned to the shape asked for: HALOGEN_CTX 200192
with a 400,384-position pool and two slots, exactly two 200k conversations.
frank-small is new: mainline llama.cpp on the RTX 3090 serving
ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF at IQ3_S, using the -mtp build (it carries
blk.64.nextn.*, which is what lets --spec-type draft-mtp run on the main
model's own weights instead of a second 12 GiB copy) plus the BF16 vision
projector, as one 131,072-token slot with f16 KV on port 7771.
The host is shared now, and that is what the halogen retune pays for:
HALOGEN_MAX_TOK 24576 (arena 20.6 -> 16.4 GiB, ~4-5% prefill) and the vision
tower dropped (1.97 GiB) hand ~6 GiB back to the host, and the reserve rises to
20 to keep the fit check honest. Vision moved wholesale to frank-small.
Retired to scripts/.AGENTTRASH/: the ik trio (env, service, serve script), the
Qwen-Sharp template only that runtime read, and four benchmark harnesses bound
to retired runtimes. Because retiring a file makes any test that greps it pass
by absence, the seams assert the archive exists AND the live path does not.
frank-large moves from the kingjones30/ROCmFPX llama.cpp build to
peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server 0.5.8 serving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (w4b
.hgn 115.55 GiB + quality overlay). Upstream measures this engine at
roughly 4x the prefill throughput of the llama.cpp family on the same
gfx1151 silicon, and prefill dominates any prompt with real context.
Shape: a rootless Quadlet container (dankclaw/frank-large/quadlet/),
engine on container loopback :8730 (never published), OpenAI front-end
:8731 published as host 7770, HALOGEN_MODEL_ID=frank-large so no client
renamed anything. Context 262144, KV pool 262144 positions (~7.2 GiB,
conservative for a shared 121 GiB host), 4 slots, host reserve 24,
vision tower on, weights pinned, all other flags at vendor defaults.
Weights are fetched by HALOGEN_DOWNLOAD on first start into a writable
/home/dank/models/halogen.
The llama.cpp era (unit, env, serve script) is staged in .AGENTTRASH/
rather than deleted; the STRIX payload and the ROCmFPX build stay on
disk as the rollback target. deploy_llm_large becomes a user-quadlet
handler: it retires the old ROOT unit (moving its checkout symlink into
the home trash, never rm) and gates the first start on the download
rather than reporting a failure for a fetch that is working exactly as
designed.
frank-npu is retired in the same change. The kernel cmdline moves from
iommu=pt to amd_iommu=off for the 13-16% of prefill upstream measured,
and that takes the XDNA2 NPU with it: without PASID/SVA the driver
cannot open /dev/accel/accel0 (err=-19). Its five dependent routes are
repointed (Hermes vision -> frank-large, Hermes title generation ->
frank-small, harness vision -> frank-large, tiny -> frank-small, task ->
frank-large:medium) and its provider blocks are removed from both the
harness config and Hermes's live config. Audio input leaves the fleet
with no replacement; image input survives on halogen's vision tower.
Docs: new halogen-flash-server runbook, new IOMMU decision record, and
frank-npu rewritten as a retirement record. AGENTS.md topology, runtime
sections, benchmarking policy (frank-large is a user unit now) and the
harness model-config section are corrected.
frank-default-large -> frank-large (Dankclaw :7770), frank-default-small ->
frank-small (Dankserver :7770), frank-default-sightsound -> frank-npu
(Dankclaw :7771). Units, env files, serve scripts, deploy-plan mappings,
deploy-remote dispatch (stop/disable old units + relink + enable new), and the
test seams move together. Retired frank-default-npu.* artifacts moved to
scripts/.AGENTTRASH/ (tracked-in-history; ignored on disk).
Served aliases become frank-large / frank-small via --alias; the NPU endpoint
serves the whole FLM registry, so its rename changes no served tags.
- runtime: charlie build-qwen38 -> kingjones30/ROCmFPX (card recipe
build, LLAMA_BUILD_WEBUI=OFF since npm/HF-bucket provisioning fails;
all 35 of our serving flags verified present in the tree)
- model: agentionai FAST imatrix -> kingjones777 STRIX single GGUF
(on-host copy sha256 == HF LFS oid c6770d74...49fa verified)
- args unchanged from our validated profile (401408x2, b4096/ub512,
t16/tb16, f16 KV, fa on, fit off); mmap stays default per card
(PLE streams via page cache; --no-mmap = silent cgroup OOM)
fa on aborted graph build: build_attn_qsa called ggml_fill on the
F16-converted kq mask (GGML_ASSERT F32 at ggml.c:5371). Patch mirrors the
MLA sparse path in llm_graph_context::build_attn (F32 base mask for the
top-k surgery, F16 cast only at the attention call, gated on
cparams.flash_attn). Vendored at scripts/patches/qwen4exp-qsa-f32-mask.patch
(sha256 f2f4a486...); the build-qwen38 binary on Dankclaw is rebuilt with
it and validated live at CTX_SIZE=32768 (health 200, real completion).
- Main model (v2 joined PLE layout, sha256 1e4160ca…) loads and serves on
build-qwen38 only with --flash-attn off: the QSA indexer path calls
ggml_fill on the F16-cast kq mask and aborts graph build (GGML_ASSERT
F32 at ggml.c:5371). Verified live: model loaded, health 200, real
completion.
- MTP draft head (agentionai FAST, 2.28 GiB) does not load on this binary:
qwen4exp loader requires full per-layer blk.<il>.hc_attn_norm.weight,
head carries only blk.48. Third confirmation (EasiiX Q8_0 + agentionai
FAST vs kingjones STRIX_LEAN previously, now own-matched pair). Spec
decoding runs ngram-mod only; head retained for a future compatible build.
- FLASH_ATTN=off and SPEC_TYPE=ngram-mod wired through env + serve script;
runbook and AGENTS.md updated with the verified constraints.
Model: agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ROCmFP4-FAST-imatrix-GGUF (87.06 GiB,
Q4_0_ROCMFP4_FAST imatrix-calibrated, per-head PLE table inside the GGUF —
fully VRAM-resident). Draft: agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-MTP-ROCmFP4-FAST
(2.28 GiB, matched ROCmFP4-FAST quant, ~66% acceptance at n-max 3).
Vision tower (f16) loaded via mmproj/.
Runtime: charlie12345/ROCmFPX build-qwen38 (HIP, ROCm 7.2.4, gfx1151) —
the only binary with the ROCmFP4 FAST types. Replaces the jcbtc CIRU v1.1
deployment (ciru-ai runtime).
Profile: card sampling table (temp 0.7, top_p 0.8, top_k 20, min_p 0.0,
presence 1.5) mixed with the validated build-qwen38 serving profile:
262144 ctx x 1 slot, b 4096 / ub 4096, t 16 / tb 16, f16 KV, fa on,
cont-batching, prompt cache + 8 GiB cache-ram + idle slots, 16 ctx
checkpoints (no --checkpoint-min-step — unsupported on this binary),
--fit off (auto-fit segfaults on qwen4exp hyper-connection config),
--spec-type draft-mtp,ngram-mod with n-max 3 (adaptive p-split measured
worse per author card), p-min 0.75. Qwen-Sharp chat template kept;
reasoning stays in DeepSeek format.
The 2026-08-28 failure of this draft head on the kingjones STRIX_LEAN
model was a cross-vendor pairing problem: the head carries
blk.48.hc_attn_norm.weight (verified in-GGUF, same shape as the working
CIRU draft). Docs: new runbook agentionai-fast-imatrix, index updates.
Runtime: ciru-ai/Qwen3.8-Flash-CIRU-STRIX-IU4 llama.cpp at tag v1.1, built
with the vendor build-linux-amd.sh flag set plus GGML_CUDA_FA +
GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS (the Q4_1_MOE_FORCE_J path is live in the hipified
mmq kernels). Model: jcbtc/Qwen3.8-Flash-CIRU-STRIX-IU4 (Q4_1 IU4 experts,
MTP Q8_0 draft, CIRUPLE1 PLE sidecar) with checksums verified at download.
Vendor production profile verbatim on first deployment: 262144 ctx x 1 slot,
b 2048 / ub 512, t 8 / tb 8, f16 KV, fa on, cont-batching, prompt cache +
8 GiB cache-ram + idle slots, 32 ctx checkpoints (min step 8192), MTP depth
3 with p-split 0.10, PLE pager env knobs (Q41_MOE_FORCE_J=32,
PLE_WORKERS=16, PLE_STRICT_SHA=0, HIPBLASLT=1). Qwen-Sharp chat template
kept deliberately; reasoning stays in DeepSeek format.
Both the EasiiX Q8_0 and agentionai ROCmFP4-FAST MTP draft heads fail
with 'missing tensor blk.0.hc_attn_norm.weight' against the STRIX_LEAN
Uncensored model. The qwen4exp binary expects this hyper-connection
attn norm tensor which neither draft GGUF carries. Using ngram-mod
only until a compatible MTP head is found.
The EasiiX Q8_0 draft was incompatible with STRIX_LEAN (missing
blk.0.hc_attn_norm.weight). Switched to agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-
MTP-ROCmFP4-FAST-GGUF (2.28 GiB, ROCmFP4-FAST quant matched to target).
n_max 3 per the HF card (n_max 4 measured worse). SPEC_TYPE=draft-mtp,ngram-mod.
The env file had the old STRIX paths (directory doesn't exist on disk).
Updated to the actual running STRIX_LEAN (Uncensored) variant:
- MODEL_DIR → kingjones-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-ROCmFP4-STRIX_LEAN
- MODEL_FILE → 3-shard Q4_0 (00001-of-00003)
- MMPROJ_PATH → mmproj-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-BF16.gguf
- serve-frank-large.sh: add --mmproj $MMPROJ_PATH
Reconciles the uncommitted local changes that were on Dankclaw.
serve-frank-large.sh: only pass --model-draft when SPEC_TYPE contains
'draft-mtp'. ngram-only configs (ngram-mod, ngram-simple, etc.) do not
need a draft model file — loading one wastes VRAM and may error.
bench-spec-decode.py: new benchmark script. Sweeps 4 configs (none,
ngram-mod, draft-mtp, draft-mtp+ngram-mod), generates 16k tokens per
config at temp 0 from a minimal prompt. Uses HTTP API (llama-bench
cannot target --spec-type). Follows benchmarking policy: stop+mask
the production service, bench, unmask+restart, health check.
The v6 restore commits dropped --chat-template-file and
--chat-template-kwargs while the artifact check still validated the
template file, so the Sharp template was checked but never applied.
Re-add both flags (with --jinja) so reasoning is emitted in DeepSeek
format and preserve_thinking/preserve_reasoning are honoured.
Reformat the script one-flag-per-line with long flag aliases
(--gpu-layers, --ctx-size, --ubatch-size, --cache-type-k/v) like
serve-frank-small, and update the 2 frank_large_config assertions
that grep the old short-flag forms (-ctk/-ctv, -ub).
- scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
- tests/frank_large_config.bats
frank-default-large now serves the kingjones Qwen3.8-27B-ROCmFPX-Q8_0-AGENT
model with a standalone MTP draft head (Q4_0), f16 K + TurboQuant V KV cache,
and the Sharp chat template. Context is maxed to 262144 (one slot); reasoning
is on with preserve_thinking + preserve_reasoning in the chat kwargs.
- frank-default-large.env: Q8_0 AGENT model paths, CTX_SIZE=262144, REASONING=on,
REASONING_FORMAT=none, CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS {enable_thinking, preserve_thinking,
preserve_reasoning}
- serve-frank-large.sh: standalone draft-mtp profile (already switched off the
Kairic/PromptForge path)
- download-q8agent.sh: reproducible HF fetch of the three payload files
- docs/LLM/kingjones-q8agent-rocmfpx.md: Q8_0 AGENT runbook
- AGENTS.md: topology + ACTIVE runtime section + TTM/GTT load note
- qwen3.8-strix-optimizations, Dankclaw Improvements: TTM pages_limit now 114 GiB
(applied 2026-08-25), full 262k KV + Q8 payload fit in one slot
- frank_large_config.bats: assert 262144 context, reasoning + preserve_* enabled
The TTM/GTT was raised to 114 GiB (29,883,536 pages) to hold the full 262k KV.
Replace the retired kingjones ROCmFP4 STRIX MTP payload on Dankclaw with
cafonz/Qwen3.8-27B-ROCmI4-MTP-GGUF (eemin namespace, public), served by the
charlie12345/ROCmFPX llama.cpp build (ROCmI4 W4A4, c49ebdbd) on the Strix Halo
iGPU. Q4_0_ROCMI4 with an embedded NextN/MTP head (no separate draft file);
strict-Qwen MTP n16/p0.60/backend sampling on ROCm0. Binary
/home/dank/rocmi4-qwen38/ROCmFPX/build-rocmi4-w4a4/bin/llama-server; model dir
/home/dank/models/eemin-Qwen3.8-27B-ROCMI4-MTP. Updated serve script + env,
ubatch bench, large-config bats test, docs, AGENTS.md.
- frank-default-small (Dankserver): Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-CRACK Q8_0, bundled
native draft-mtp (n_max 4), MoE expert FFN tensors pinned to CPU via an
explicit --override-tensor \.ffn_(up|down|gate|gate_up)_(ch|)exps=CPU
(replaces --n-cpu-moe), Qwen-Sharp chat template.
- frank-default-large (Dankclaw): kingjones Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Q6_0
ROCmFP4 AGENT dense GGUF, standalone mtp-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_0 draft head
(--model-draft, draft-mtp n_max 4), Qwen-Sharp chat template. Drop the
retired PromptForge .pfs sidecar lanes.
- Track scripts/chat-template.jinja (v22.4.0 Sharp) and apply via
--chat-template-file on both services.
- Docs: new kingjones-strix-mtp and dealign-ornith-crack runbook pages;
update index, deployment, and both system specs; models.json names.
Smoke-tested both models on the real hardware on scratch ports before
commit: model loads, MTP draft attaches, Sharp template applies, chat
completion returns.
Operator request (2026-08-22): the primary inference server
(frank-default-large, the 27B CIRU model on Dankclaw) moves to the
standard llama.cpp port 7770. Both LLM services now listen on :7770,
distinguished by host (dankserver vs dankclaw).
Functional changes:
- scripts/frank-default-large.env: LISTEN_PORT 52625 -> 7770
- scripts/serve-frank-large.sh: default LISTEN_PORT 52625 -> 7770
- scripts/deploy.sh: LLM_HEALTH[dankclaw] -> :7770
- open-webui quadlet: OPENAI_API_BASE_URL -> 192.168.0.143:7770
(re-pointed so chat keeps working; data dir preserved)
- scripts/bench-fast-greedy.sh: PORT 52625 -> 7770
Tests updated to the new topology (both LLM endpoints on :7770 by host;
open-webui -> :7770). Docs + pi KB updated; dated historical runbooks
keep their point-in-time ports. models.json (pi client) re-pointed to
:7770 separately, effective on the next client restart.
The LLM fleet serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench
harnesses join the deploy scripts. The vllmScripts deploy.sh is
removed here; its functionality is folded into the unified
scripts/deploy.sh in a follow-up commit.
bench-spec-stack.sh gains the executable bit (required by the
scripts_syntax test seam).
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