Frank: "shift frank-zealot to 2 parallels of unquantized kv".
Shape: CTX_SIZE 786432 -> 524288, PARALLEL 3 -> 2, CACHE_TYPE_K/V
q8_0 -> f16. The per-slot window is UNCHANGED at 262,144 (the native
trained window, and models.yml contextWindow), so what the exact cache
buys is fidelity and what it pays is one concurrent conversation.
The POOL is the term that had to move: exact KV bills 32,768 B/token at
this geometry (8 full-attention layers x 4 KV heads x 256 dim, 2 B,
K and V), so the old 786,432 pool asks 24,576 MiB against the 24,123 MiB
the driver leaves addressable. 524,288 positions = 16,384 MiB, projected
~21,200 used / ~2,900 free from the 13:19 boot ledger (only the KV pool
and one recurrent-state cell move).
Also corrects a repo-wide arithmetic error: "f16 would bill 26,112 MiB"
doubled the q8_0 ledger figure INCLUDING its 1/32 scale overhead. q8_0 is
1.0625 B/element, f16 exactly 2.0, so the true ratio is 1.882x. The wall
stands; the number was wrong.
And it corrects a false claim about the drafter: this build DOES expose
--spec-draft-type-k / --spec-draft-type-v (verified against
llama-server --help), so the draft cache is quantizable -- the
exact-KV-plus-MTP exclusion is a measurement gap, not a law, and the
1,088 MiB quantized-draft arm is recorded as unmeasured.
Seam: tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats re-pins the shape contract (2 slots,
524,288 pool, 262,144 per slot) and adds a VRAM fit gate that computes
dtype x pool + the measured non-KV ledger terms against 24,123 MiB with
>=1 GiB of slack -- and proves the gate REFUSES exact KV at the old
pool, so passing means something. 18/18 green.
The cutover deploy's FIRST boot was not the shipped payload: a stale
frank-zealot.service.d/ptq1.conf from the bench window still pointed
FRANK_ZEALOT_ENV_FILE at /tmp/zealot-arm-current.env, so the unit booted the
unmeasured 27B PTQ1_0 arm (3 slots of 133,888, 21,188 MiB) while /health
answered 200, /v1/models echoed the alias and the e2e gate passed 33/33.
Drop-in retired to ~/.AGENTTRASH/20261018-zealot-ptq1-arm/; the 13:19 restart
is the shape the docs now quote (n_ctx_slot 262144, KV 13,056.00 MiB,
settled 17,922/6,203).
Corrections the production ledger forced:
- RS buffer is 150.75 MiB (3 cells) on the shipped spec-off shape; 452.25 MiB
belongs to the SPEC-ARMED arms, where MTP depth 2 bills three seqs per slot.
The drafter triples the recurrent state on top of its 3,072 MiB of f16 KV.
- Decode measured 168.4-168.7 t/s single-stream and ~300 t/s aggregate over
three streams (102.8 each). Wall-clock timing of a generation that stops on
its own reads 4x low (72 t/s for a 24-token countdown) - measure with
ignore_eos and read the engine's timings.
- OpenWebUI stores both decoration values inside JSON columns (params/meta),
and frank-dragoon's context.length had drifted to 262,144 against its own
200,704 ceiling; both re-keyed in the live DB.
New law in AGENTS.md: after deploying a recently-benched LLM service, check
DropInPaths, then /proc/<pid>/cmdline, then the ledger. Health checks cannot
see the payload.
Swap the 3090 endpoint from Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B PQ2_0 (2 x 200,704,
fork build 10754) to Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0 with the MTP head IN the
file, three conversations at the trained 262,144 window
(--ctx-size 786432 --parallel 3), on vendor fork build 10777 -- the
minimum build that pairs MTP with a quantized V cache. q8_0 K + q8_0 V
is the only KV that fits: 13,056 MiB against a 26,112 MiB f16 pair.
Settled boot 17,876 used / 6,249 free.
MTP is armed and then DECLINED by measurement: the draft context bills
its own f16 KV over the whole pool (3,072 MiB) and at UBATCH_SIZE=2048
that halves decode (167.2 -> 109.2 t/s). The documented MTP arm
(SPEC_TYPE=draft-mtp + UBATCH_SIZE=1024, 213.5 t/s) is recorded in the
env header rather than left to rediscovery.
Two bugs the trial caught: ${SPEC_PRESENCE_PENALTY:=0.0} was a
default-assignment, so the env value always won and the no-presence-penalty
MTP arm was unreachable (now ${VAR=0.0}); and the Q8_0 mmproj is the
publisher's requirement for concurrent image requests, which matters at
--parallel 3.
contextWindow is now 262144 -- the widest in the fleet -- so :7771 is the
compaction hub. 27B runbook re-banned RETIRED with its bench-window
section closed; indexes, homepage card, OpenWebUI doc and the worklog
re-keyed.
The scrape has never worked: lastError is "server returned HTTP status 501 Not
Implemented" on http://host.containers.internal:7771/metrics, and the oldest
retained sample of up{job="frank-zealot"} (2026-10-11) is already 0 -- the target
has been red across four payload generations while /health answered 200 the whole
time, keeping the critical LlmEndpointDown alert permanently active. llama.cpp
gates /metrics behind --metrics; halogen serves it natively, which is why the
asymmetry looked like a 3090-only problem.
METRICS=1 in the shipped env, --metrics reaches the argv through EXTRA_ARGS, and
the seam asserts both directions (default ships the flag, METRICS=0 strips it).
Diagnosed via /api/v1/targets lastError rather than the alert list, which is also
the lesson: Alertmanager here has no persistence, so a reboot re-stamps startsAt
and a weeks-old fault looks fresh.
- env: Bonsai2 payload pair, CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0 (f16 OOMs at 2x200,704:
34 KiB vs 64 KiB/token over the 16 full-attention layers), measured boot
ledger 22,664 used / 1,461 free incl. the 873 MiB mmproj that lands AFTER
the engine fit check, q4_0 fallback rung, CRACK one-line MODEL_FILE swap
- deployer: runtime/model/mmproj gates re-keyed to the PrismML vendor build
(the only loader for GGML tensor type 142 + prism.hadamard.* metadata)
- seam: payload trio pinned; KV argv assertions now derived from CACHE_TYPE_*
in the env file — the wrong-var-name f16 fallback that produced the first
failed trial window can no longer pass silently
The 2026-10-09 wire aliases become the service names everywhere:
systemd units, serve scripts, env files and FRANK_* variables,
deploy-plan/deploy-remote service keys, container names, Prometheus
job names + alert rules, Grafana dashboard queries, bats seams,
runbook filenames, homepage/AGENTS lore, and historical prose.
Rollback tags renamed in lockstep. Residue in the tree: zero.
Retired frank-medium/small/npu names are history and stay.
Known casualty: scripts/patches/*.patch context lines were rewritten;
those retired-era vLLM-fork patches no longer apply byte-exact.
Frank