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Frank 0f203dfa41 docs(open-webui): document the 3-model LLM picker and host.containers.internal routing
The LLM backends section said two ROCmFPX endpoints; the fleet now serves
three (frank-large/medium/small) with different runtimes. Rewrite it, fix the
gotcha that claimed host.containers.internal does not resolve on a bridge
(it does — verified end-to-end for both on-host endpoints), and add a History
entry for the 2026-09-21 model-picker rebuild.
2026-09-21 16:30:18 -07:00
Frank d63acd489c open-webui: make the SearXNG web-search wiring git-managed
The per-key config DB already pointed web search at SearXNG (engine=searxng,
query URL http://192.168.0.143:8081/search), but only inside the data volume.
The quadlet now carries the same values as seeding env vars, so a fresh data
dir comes up wired, and the doc records the access path: the internal
host-published port, not the search. vhost — the Anubis->Authentik guard
chain is browser-only, and the bridge egress sits in SearXNG's pass_ip, so
the 4-req/IP/hour JSON cap never applies.
2026-09-21 15:22:49 -07:00
Frank 9e0c918b6e docs(frank-small): record the CACHE_RAM=2048 cap in the deployed flags 2026-09-21 15:06:05 -07:00
Frank 5d774752ff docs(log): frank-large cutover verified live (MTP drafting, tools, e2e 32/32) 2026-09-21 14:08:59 -07:00
Frank d6f9b8539a fix(frank-large): load the model as its native 3-way split, not a concatenated file
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/
2026-09-21 13:58:54 -07:00
Frank 384747a72f homepage: sectioned panels, WIP open/closed, current model facts, Tautulli card
Both pages now group their panels under section headings rendered by shared
renderSection()/renderPanel() components in app.js (SECTION_ORDER fixes each
page's order: user = AI, Web Apps, Media Library Apps; admin = Media Library
Apps, Observability, AI, Infrastructure). The WIP badge splits into WIP: OPEN
and WIP: CLOSED via the wip value ("open"/"closed"); the checker passes the
value through as wip-open/wip-closed. The frank-large card follows the
unsloth llama.cpp cutover, frank-medium follows the FP8 checkpoint, and the
/docs model guide matches. Tautulli (Plex statistics, 192.168.0.235:8181)
joins the admin page's Media Library Apps section with an open link.
2026-09-21 13:20:15 -07:00
Frank 32eafeb7c5 docs(log): Calibre Content Server deployment entry 2026-09-21 12:53:54 -07:00
Frank 22204b49f5 docs(calibre-server): correct the port map - pasta is port-forward mode
Only the 8084 forward is exposed; the desktop GUI runs inside the
container netns and is internal-only. Drop the now-unneeded
CUSTOM_HTTPS_PORT (no host-port conflict exists inside the netns).
2026-09-21 12:51:06 -07:00
Frank 94cfb90ead feat(calibre-server): Calibre Content Server as a boot-persistent Quadlet
lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:9.15.0 (desktop build) running calibre-server
as the s6 main service on internal 8090 -> host 8084, auth-gated with a
plaintext userdb (mode 600) bootstrapped once by the deploy handler.
The desktop GUI is kept on 8080/8182, basic-authed with the same
credential pair via the machine-local env file.
2026-09-21 12:46:02 -07:00
Frank 660db661b6 fix(frank-large): verify exactly the fetched file set, not the whole Hub tree
The verification looped over every LFS file under UD-IQ4_XS/ and MTP/ in
the live Hub tree — the five MTP head variants we do not fetch (BF16,
Q4_K_M, Q8_0, shared-BF16, shared-Q4_K_M) printed MISSING, set ok=False,
and set -e killed the script silently between verification and assembly
after a 3-hour download. Verify exactly the FILES set instead (passed to
python as argv), and report NOT IN HUB TREE when an expected file has
vanished upstream. Also fix the layout comment: the transport parts live
in UD-IQ4_XS/, not parts/.
2026-09-21 12:41:52 -07:00
Frank 7010f5b754 docs(frank-large): unsloth Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runbook; retire the CIRU Orca runbook
New runbook frank-large-unsloth-qwen38-flash-next.md (runtime, payload,
deployed config, the explicit -md, the 114 GiB GTT memory model, client
contract, rollback). frank-large-ciru-orca.md marked RETIRED (rollback
target, payload and runtime intact on disk). AGENTS.md topology row,
frank-large section, harness note, runbook index, and the GPU-budget
lesson (GTT aperture ~114 GiB, not the stale 64 GiB rocm-smi figure —
the CIRU Orca held 92.6 GiB on the same device). LLM index header,
mermaid, active list, and the vault root index updated. Work-log entry.
2026-09-21 12:30:35 -07:00
Frank e5a1f8e767 docs: work-log entry for the node-dankclaw scrape fix 2026-09-21 11:22:02 -07:00
Frank 3b28b2afb7 docs(frank-medium): record the Qwen-Sharp v22.4.0 chat template
Runbook deployed-flags table and AGENTS.md now name the template
(froggeric v22.4.0, repo-tracked, terse by default) and the rollback
target; the stale qwen-fixed-v22.3.jinja row and the long-gone
MM_MERGE_ENGINE note are gone.
2026-09-21 11:18:58 -07:00
Frank 5c1006dda6 fix(monitoring): scrape node-dankclaw via host.containers.internal
node-exporter is net=host, so its 192.168.0.143:9100 bind is a host bind,
not a published port — the bridge-networked Prometheus container cannot
reach its own host's LAN IP there (netavark DNATs published ports only).
The node-dankclaw target has been red by construction since the
observability cutover while the container reported healthy. Point it at
host.containers.internal:9100 (netavark delivers that to the host LAN IP,
where node-exporter listens) — the same rule frank-large and frank-small
already use. node-dankserver is a different machine and keeps its LAN
address. Update the cross-file contract test and the Targets table.
2026-09-21 11:09:03 -07:00
Frank f998a2d9f2 test(frank-medium): A/B DFlash2 vs MTP on FP8 — DFlash2 wins on decode
DFlash2 (100.0 t/s decode, 287.1 t/s burst-4) beats MTP self-speculation
(85.9 t/s, 179.7 t/s) despite a lower accept length (4.24 vs 5.66): the
small separate drafter steps faster than the target's own MTP layer applied
autoregressively. DFlash2 is the deployed shape; both swap-script paths now
default to dflash/7. Docs updated.
2026-09-20 22:20:53 -07:00
Frank c1a4ccbbcd feat(frank-medium): swap MXFP4 -> FP8; add the one-command swap toolchain
Checkpoint: just1moremodel/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-MXFP4-awq ->
orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-FP8 (FP8 E4M3 block-wise, 30.9 GB / 7
shards, its own single-layer MTP head). The quantization-aware entrypoint
serves the plain FP8 path: --quantization fp8, ROCM_AITER_UNIFIED_ATTN, MTP
self-speculation (SPEC_METHOD=mtp, SPEC=8). Measured: MTP mean accept 5.66/8
(66.2% draft acceptance), KV pool auto-sized to 461,540 tokens (1.76x),
battery 85.9 t/s decode / 0.06 s TTFT / 179.7 burst-4 (vs MXFP4 92.4/0.22/
248.9). MXFP4 checkpoint stays on disk as the rollback target.

Streamlining: scripts/hf-manifest.py (generate a <filename> <size> <sha256>
manifest from the live repo tree), scripts/hf-fetch.sh (resumable, byte +
sha256 verified, idempotent fetch), scripts/swap-frank-medium.sh (generate
manifest -> download -> detect quantization -> edit the quadlet -> deploy).

Docs: new frank-medium-model-swap runbook; radiance runbook, both indexes,
AGENTS.md, and log.md flipped to the FP8 shape.
2026-09-20 21:53:00 -07:00
Frank c42780f9f3 fix(monitoring): llama.cpp reuse ratio, dashboard re-cut for both namespaces, measured prefix-cache granularity
- shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml: the llamacpp reuse recording rule
  divided cached by prompt, but llama.cpp's prompt_tokens_total EXCLUDES
  cached tokens (its own HELP line), so the ratio was unbounded — measured
  77 on a fully-warm frank-large, meaning LlmPrefixCacheCollapse could never
  fire on that side. Now cached / (cached + prompt), with the traffic floor
  counting both terms too; the header documents the unit trap. Also fixed the
  LlmEndpointDown description: frank-large's CIRU llama.cpp build DOES export
  the llamacpp:* family (verified live), so the alert covers all three
  endpoints.
- shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/llm-fleet.json: re-cut for two
  namespaces. Every panel reads both (the endpoint picker selects); the
  KV-pool-fill panel retired 2026-09-16 returned with
  vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc; the latency p95 panel returned with the vLLM
  histograms (TTFT/ITL/e2e); the alerts panel is scoped to the fleet's
  Llm.* rules; the stale halogen-era description is gone. All 21 panel
  expressions validated against the live endpoints.
- runbook + log + Observability: prefix caching measured, not inferred —
  reuse happens at 1,648-token block granularity (attention block size padded
  to the mamba page size); an identical 13,021-token prompt went 2.30 s cold
  to 0.68 s warm with 9,888 tokens (76 %) reused, while a 2,521-token prompt
  registered zero hits. Rule counts corrected to 6 alerts + 3 recording rules.

./tests/run.sh: 325 pass.
2026-09-20 19:53:14 -07:00
Frank 08f1c7ad09 feat(monitoring,harness): follow frank-medium onto vllm:* metrics and fix red-by-construction targets
The radiance TP=2 cutover changed the metric namespace frank-medium exports
(llamacpp:* -> vllm:*) and left two scrape targets addressing host processes
by an address a container cannot reach.

- shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml: two namespaces side by side. Added
  LlmRequestsWaiting, LlmKvCacheSaturated (vllm-only gauges llama.cpp never
  had), the job:llm_vllm_prefix_cache_reuse:rate5m and
  job:llm_spec_accept_length:rate5m recording rules, and re-cut
  LlmPrefixCacheCollapse / LlmSpecDecodeOff to OR both families with
  per-family traffic floors so an idle endpoint cannot fire them. Every
  expression validated against live Prometheus.
- shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml: frank-small -> host.containers.internal:7771
  and frank-large scraped at host.containers.internal:7770. Both are HOST
  processes on Dankclaw and netavark DNATs published container ports only, so
  the LAN-IP targets were red by construction; frank-large's CIRU llama.cpp
  build does export the llamacpp:* family, contra the old comment.
- tests/observability_quadlet.bats: the two seams now encode the new contract
  (per-endpoint reachability by process type; every named series must be on the
  measured list for its engine; engine-independent rules must name both).
- homepage docs.html/services.json: frank-medium sees pictures, frank-large is
  CIRU Orca with a single seat (was halogen w4b, two seats, 200k).
- docs: radiance runbook is ACTIVE (deployed flags, three-arm battery, verified
  capabilities, rollback, replica-era sections labelled); llama.cpp runbook
  carries the SUPERSEDED banner; Dual-R9700-Cooperation states the measured
  verdict; Observability records the namespace split and the DNAT lesson;
  AGENTS.md topology/frank-medium/Model Config/Benchmarking Policy/runbook
  index flipped; both indexes updated; work-log entry added.

Also repaired agent-pass damage: prose prepended above frontmatter openers,
duplicated runbook bodies, a literal tool-call token pasted into a runbook, and
an index destroyed by diff artifacts (restored from HEAD, flips re-applied).
Vault link check: 128 pages, 0 unresolved. ./tests/run.sh: 325 pass.
2026-09-20 19:35:56 -07:00
Frank d16e8e554e docs: dankserver board swap clears the PCIe-atomics wall
Reanalysis after the 2026-09-20 swap to an ASUS ProArt B850-Creator WiFi
NEO: both R9700s now sit on CPU GPP root ports (x8/x8 Gen5 bifurcation),
every bridge reads AtomicOpsCap Routing+, and both endpoints read
AtomicOpsCtl ReqEn+ (CAP_EXP+28.w = 0x1440) — the exact precondition
Dual-R9700-Cooperation's test plan named. TP=2 is therefore unblocked,
not proven: no collective has been dispatched since the swap,
GGML_HIP_RCCL is still OFF, and the 272 t/s "tensor" number on record
measured a butterfly fallback.

- Dual-R9700-Cooperation: short answer rewritten, re-measured 2026-09-20
  topology table, rebuild-hypothesis door marked moot, probe plan is now
  standing work.
- Dankserver System Specs: Motherboard section; GPU BDFs 0b:00.0 ->
  07:00.0, iGPU 10:00.0 -> 11:00.0, kernel 7.0.0-31, SMT on, and the new
  eno2 (192.168.0.247) second 5GbE port holding the low-metric default
  route while eno1 keeps the fleet's static .235.
- frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2: rationale and hardware row split past
  from present; dated work-log sections stay as history.
- AGENTS.md + both indexes: no longer assert a wall that no longer exists.

Docs only; frank-medium stayed active and healthy throughout (verified
/health). ./tests/run.sh 331/331.
2026-09-20 14:39:54 -07:00
Frank a43ab90105 docs: work-log entry for the 2026-09-19 fleet cutover 2026-09-19 06:42:37 -07:00
Frank 88331e2df1 docs: frank-medium deployed-flags table + halogen retirement banner
The frank-medium runbook's deployed-flags table still carried the
predecessor's values (35,30 / 393216 / 196608 / draft-mtp / BF16 mmproj);
updated to the deployed shape (32,33 / 327680 / 163840 / draft-dflash / f16
mmproj) from scripts/frank-medium.env. The halogen runbook still described
itself as 'the active frank-large runbook'; marked RETIRED 2026-09-19 with a
pointer to [[frank-large-ciru-orca]].
2026-09-19 06:20:57 -07:00
Frank 764cf41222 docs: wrap up the 2026-09-19 fleet cutover
frank-large -> CIRU v4.4.1 Orca (new runbook), frank-medium -> the deployed
orcarouter Q8_0 / DFlash2 Q4_K_M / balanced 32:33 / 327680 state. The d374ab9
frank-medium deploy updated only scripts/tests and left AGENTS.md, the runbook
and both indexes on the predecessor (ajgazin Swift UD-Q8_K_XL, 35:30, 393216).

- AGENTS.md: frank-large section (CIRU Orca, root unit, runtime gate, PLE, MTP)
  + frank-medium section and topology row to the deployed shape
- new runbook frank-large-ciru-orca.md
- frank-medium runbook header/intro: orcarouter Q8_0 swap, 32:33, 327680;
  predecessor kept as calibration history
- LLM index.md: intro + mermaid (halogen->CIRU, GSQ-RCO->Gemma4, Swift->orcarouter),
  add ciru-orca, retire halogen
- top-level index.md: add ciru-orca link (docs-index seam), retire halogen,
  fix frank-medium entry
2026-09-19 06:12:33 -07:00
Frank 374041cd7a frank-small: revert vLLM cutover — back to llama.cpp Gemma4-12B Q4_K_M
The vLLM detour (a2b39b1, same day) is retired: the Q4_K_M llama.cpp setup
is the requested shape and the vLLM KV-quant options on sm_86 all measured
dead (fp8 hardware-impossible, int8 page-size unification, turboquant
mm-prefix). Root unit restored, vLLM quadlet/Dockerfile/fetch script moved
to .AGENTTRASH, runbook listed as same-day-reverted. Rollback target:
frank-small-vllm-gemma4.
2026-09-19 01:42:37 -07:00
Frank a2b39b179a frank-small: llama.cpp -> vLLM (gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct, w4a16 Marlin)
Runtime swap on the RTX 3090 (port 7771):
- vLLM gemma-x86_64-cu129 dev build, digest-pinned, audio extra pip-installed
  into localhost/vllm/vllm-openai:frank-small (Dockerfile, no COPY lines)
- google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct (10.26 GiB int4) + Google's bf16 MTP
  assistant (845 MB) — the w4a16-ct assistant cannot draft in vLLM (drafter
  path skips Marlin; acceptance 1.00), bf16 measures 2.80-3.56
- root systemd unit -> rootless Quadlet (dankclaw/frank-small/quadlet/);
  manual CUDA device+lib mounts (no nvidia-container-toolkit on host)
- bf16 KV (fp8 hardware-dead on sm_86), 289,647-token pool, 2 concurrent
  full-context sessions, CUDA graphs on
- native text+image+audio: the fleet's multimodal endpoint
- measured: pp@67k 1293 t/s, pp@213k 608 t/s, tg@213k ~13.6 t/s,
  tg@85k ~17.6 t/s
- host driver 610.57.04 (Ubuntu 26.04); sm_86 is correct, no arch override
- planner/scoping: frank-small now selected by dankclaw/frank-small/ +
  env/serve/download trio; old unit retired to scripts/.AGENTTRASH/
- docs: new runbook frank-small-vllm-gemma4.md; AGENTS.md, LLM index,
  top docs index updated; old runbook moved to retired
2026-09-18 21:06:46 -07:00
Frank cf06c4eab8 docs: frank-medium prompt cache -- why the cap is load-bearing, and the vision correction 2026-09-18 15:57:25 -07:00
Frank 3364e9afad log: frank-medium prompt cache doubled to 16 GiB 2026-09-18 15:26:25 -07:00
Frank 1acca430a7 frank-medium: double the host-RAM prompt cache to 16 GiB
--cache-ram caps the total bytes of saved prompt states in HOST RAM, and
alloc() refuses any single state larger than the whole cap. That refusal was
firing in production: 137 times in the two days from 2026-09-16, at 11.0-11.4
GiB per state, so every conversation past ~170k tokens was uncacheable and
re-prefilled from scratch on its next turn.

The state law at this shape is 68 KiB/token (16 full-attention layers x 4 kv
heads x 256 dim x 2 B x 2 for K/V, plus the MTP draft context's 4096 B), so
8192 MiB held ~120k tokens and 16384 holds ~240k: a FULL 196608-token slot
state (~12.8 GiB) now fits with ~3 GiB spare.

Host RAM only, allocated on demand and never pinned, so the VRAM fit is
untouched. New seam: the cap must clear one full slot's state and stay under
half the host's RAM (it fails on the old 8192 and passes on 16384). Also
corrects the adjacent claim that 0 is the build's default for
--ctx-checkpoints -- this binary's --help says 32.
2026-09-18 15:25:55 -07:00
Frank cfabe07959 log: frank-medium restored after orphaned merge-build server held both R9700s 2026-09-18 12:29:36 -07:00
Frank 59c76035d3 log: frank-medium left down after bench round 04:25, restored and verified 2026-09-18 08:15:14 -07:00
Frank 9764e86986 log: homepage model docs, fleet sweep, guard audit, sightsound runner lockout fix 2026-09-17 23:37:53 -07:00
Frank 32751c02d5 homepage: live model info on the fleet cards, user docs page at /docs
- services.json: frank-large/medium/small move from admin-only to the user
  page with current descriptions (halogen w4b iGPU; 35:30 layer-split MTP
  27B on the R9700s; Gemma4-12B QAT vision path on the 3090) and docs
  links to /docs#models
- docs.html: static user documentation (access chain, model guide, media
  how-tos, troubleshooting); served at /docs via the post-auth homepage
  listener; shipped by deploy_homepage; footer + index link to it
- tests: pages seam asserts the docs contract (page, link, Caddy route,
  deployer copy)
- vault: Homepage.md synced (docs landing shipped, cards reclassified)
2026-09-17 23:25:50 -07:00
Frank 2fc0689858 frank-medium runbook: record the verified 35:30 post-deploy state 2026-09-17 20:14:10 -07:00
Frank 6569c63ec4 frank-medium: shift the layer split to 35:30, leaning work onto the x16 card
The two R9700s sit on unequal PCIe paths: ROCm0 (03:00.0) is CPU-root-port
Gen4 x16 (~31.5 GB/s); ROCm1 (0b:00.0) rides the B650 chipset through
bridges negotiating Gen4 x1 (~1.97 GB/s).  With the MTP drafter, output
layers and heavier compute buffers pinned to the last-layers card, live
rocm-smi read 98% busy on the x1 card vs 40% on the x16 card.  Moving one
DeltaNet layer (34) to ROCm0 shifts ~0.43 GiB off the bottlenecked card;
the seam fit lands 30.59/30.01 with gap 0.58 GiB, inside floor and slack.
36:29 fails both gates, so this lever is spent.
2026-09-17 18:58:06 -07:00
Frank 698759c61e relay: address the account by phone number and pass the message via -m
signal-cli 0.14.7 parses an all-digit -a value as a phone number (the
numeric account name never resolves), and the message is a -m option,
not a positional (a positional is parsed as a second recipient).
Verified live: corrected invocation returns type SUCCESS.
2026-09-17 18:28:20 -07:00
Frank d251dbfe62 relay: admit loopback and the host itself before the DROP
The bridge-subnet-only pair dropped the host's own health probe
(source 192.168.0.143/127.0.0.1) and failed a healthy deploy. The
deployer now installs the full set: ACCEPT 127.0.0.1, ACCEPT the host
IP, ACCEPT 10.89.0.0/16, then DROP.
2026-09-17 14:37:38 -07:00
Frank f73fd43027 relay: bind the host LAN IP, admit the podman bridge subnet only
169.254.1.2 is not a local address on this host (netavark runs its
bridges in aardvark-dns' netns), so the relay cannot bind it — and a
loopback bind refuses container traffic. Probe-socket proof: a host
socket on 192.168.0.143:18094 answers the container's 169.254.1.2:18094
dial while the LAN IP refuses from the container. The relay binds
192.168.0.143:18093 and the deployer installs an iptables INPUT pair
(ACCEPT 10.89.0.0/16, DROP rest) so the unauthenticated endpoint stays
off the LAN.
2026-09-17 13:52:20 -07:00
Frank 8f747a2104 relay: bind 169.254.1.2 (host.containers.internal), not loopback
A socket bound to 127.0.0.1 refuses container traffic that arrives via
the podman bridge: the first live webhook failed with 'dial tcp
169.254.1.2:18093: connection refused'. The relay now binds the
host-gateway endpoint — link-local to the podman bridge, off the LAN —
and the deployer's health probe follows it there.
2026-09-17 13:26:24 -07:00
Frank 49ddce9d00 docs: halogen 400-zone note (compaction gap vs fit check); chore: gitignore third_party/ fork tree against peer stash sweeps 2026-09-17 13:14:51 -07:00
Frank 590853c133 alerting: Alertmanager + Signal relay deliver firing rules to Frank's phone
- dankclaw/observability/quadlet/alertmanager.container: loopback :9093,
  config from shared/prometheus/alertmanager.yml, family conventions
- shared/prometheus/alertmanager.yml: single signal receiver, group_by
  alertname, 30s/5m/4h intervals, webhook to host.containers.internal:18093
- scripts/signal-relay.py + .service: host-side user unit, loopback :18093,
  15-min dedupe, sends via signal-cli account 318311
- prometheus.yml: alerting block to alertmanager:9093; stale comments fixed
- llm-fleet.yml: delivery header; LlmSpecDecodeOff annotation now drafter-agnostic
- deploy.sh/deploy-remote.sh/deploy-plan.py: alertmanager service, config
  copy, relay install, planner routing for config + relay files
- homepage: alertmanager status card (loopback probe)
- tests: alertmanager in UNITS/loopback/health/PAIRS/planner + five new
  delivery-path seams (webhook<->relay contract, prometheus target, relay
  unit, signal-cli account, planner routing)
- docs: Alertmanager.md component page, Observability.md, Prometheus.md,
  index.md, AGENTS.md delivery line
2026-09-17 13:09:59 -07:00
Frank 17450dd172 docs: the max-length sweep tabled; frank-small.env NGL/FLASH_ATTN restored
- runbook: identity now 4x262144, audio verified, throughput table with
  the OOM and negative-result rows, deployed flags updated to reality.
- AGENTS.md frank-small paragraph matches the deployed shape.
- log.md: the sweep entry.
- scripts/frank-small.env: my earlier line-range edit had clobbered
  NGL=999 and FLASH_ATTN=on out of the file; the seams caught it. The
  live service was unaffected because the script's defaults match the
  declared values exactly, but the file contract is restored.
Suite: ALL TESTS PASSED (321), vault 125 pages 0 unresolved.
2026-09-17 04:56:59 -07:00
Frank 74dda30fc7 frank-medium: seam recalibrated to measured MTP charge; docs to MTP/393216/34:31
The 393216/34:31/MTP deploy measured 30.78 GiB on ROCm1 against the
fit's 28.32 — the MTP draft buffers (one nextn layer's KV, 4096 B/pos,
plus draft buffers) came in 2.46 GiB above the estimate. Recalibrate
the seam's MTP constant to the measured 4.20 GiB total charge on card
1 and drop the floor 1.5 -> 1.0 GiB for this shape (ROCm1's 1.08 GiB
headroom is real; 35:30/36:29 fail card 0's floor at this pool, so
34:31 is the only split that fits 2x196k).

AGENTS.md and the runbook move to the MTP drafter: 34:31, 393216 pool
(196608 per conversation), the DFlash2 sidecar documented as a
one-line revert, and a dated part-2 section with the fit/measured
table and the recalibration.
2026-09-17 03:35:46 -07:00
Frank 87caca4894 docs: frank-small is Gemma4-12B QAT now — new runbook, Qwen retired as rollback target
AGENTS.md topology, Active Services, the CUDA-quant-KV lesson (f16 is no
longer why), and the runbook index. New frank-small-gemma4-12b runbook:
payload digests, the SWA/q8 arithmetic behind --fit's 262k window, the
MTP-sidecar + ngram-mod chain, the always-accepted reasoning_effort, and
the fit-probe error that looks like a fault at boot. The Qwen runbook and
both indexes carry the retirement; work log updated.
2026-09-17 02:18:44 -07:00
Frank 0a25351caa docs: the 2026-09-17 frank-medium shape -- 36:29, 327680 pool, vision
AGENTS.md topology row and section, and the runbook: the pool is 327680
positions (163840 per conversation over two slots), the split is 36:29 -- one
layer past the 34:31 balance at this context, on purpose, for headroom on the
drafter card (fit 29.19/26.04, measured 28.40/26.66 GiB at load, 3.46/5.20
headroom) -- and vision is on via the explicit --mmproj flag, because this
build has no autoload (the first deploy came up text-only and 500'd image
requests). The rope caveat is written down where the cap lives: the GGUF has
no scaling keys, so the top 65k of the pool extrapolates on the base rope.
2026-09-17 02:08:14 -07:00
Frank 24cdbb0e45 docs: the VRAM figures settle 0.2 GiB below the post-load reading
6.44 / 6.90 is the state straight after load; after the service has served
traffic it sits at 6.23 / 6.64, with and without requests in flight. Both are
~5 GiB above the floor, but the runbook should not imply a load-dependent
difference that the two readings do not actually show.
2026-09-17 00:29:21 -07:00
Frank 6472d706be docs: the ubatch optimum, the rebalance, and the live atomics chain
New page [[frank-medium-batch-ubatch]]: the sweep's method (one invocation per
cell, a VRAM sampler per cell, 64k prefill measured AT 64k depth), the full
batch x ubatch matrix, the depth-0 control, the deployed-shape VRAM table, and
the limitations — including the one that cost me two runs, that amdgpu does not
return ~26 GiB at once, so a reload after a kill fails with "unable to allocate
ROCm0 buffer" and reads exactly like a configuration that does not fit.

AGENTS.md: the batch lesson now carries the measured curve (the peak at 512, the
10 % loss at 2048, the irrelevant logical batch, the invariant decode) instead
of the "~3.3 vs ~1.7 GiB" figure, which was measured at the bench's shape; at
the deployed shape the asymmetry is 2.41 against 1.30. Fleet row and the
frank-medium section now say 35:30 and batch 6144x512.

Runbook: deployed flags, the split history with the ubatch-512 table, the fault
note, and the verified VRAM (6.44 / 6.90 idle, 6.23 / 6.64 under two concurrent
requests).

Dual-R9700-Cooperation: the live capability table (card 0 ReqEn+ against card 1
ReqEn-, x1 effective link on card 1) and an honest label on the M.2_2 riser
premise — it is ASUS's spec sheet, not a measurement, and CPU-attached does not
imply Routing+ on this board (00:08.3 is CPU-side and Routing-).

log.md: the round trip recorded, newest first.
2026-09-17 00:27:59 -07:00
Frank a11fae07d8 frank-medium: ubatch 512, and rebalance the split to 35:30
The batch/ubatch sweep (scripts/bench-batch-ubatch.sh, 23 cells of a 28-cell
grid, 3 reps each) says the ubatch knob has an OPTIMUM, not a plateau:

  ubatch   256    384    512    768   1024   1280   1536   1792   2048
  tok/s   1046   1068   1193   1135   1152   1151   1165   1148   1078

The curve is remarkably reproducible -- 512 came out 1192.88 / 1193.23 /
1193.28 / 1193.88 across batch 2048, 4096, 6144 and 8192, and 2048 came out
1077.38 / 1077.54 / 1077.59 -- so this is a deterministic property of the
shape, not noise. The logical batch is throughput-neutral (2048..8192 all
within 2 % at a fixed ubatch) and VRAM-neutral (the compute buffers are sized
by ubatch alone). Decode is 15.88 tok/s at depth 65536 on every single cell.

So the deployed 6144x1536 was both 2.4 % slower than the optimum and 3.71 GiB
more expensive. Measured at the deployed shape (262144, 2 slots, DFlash2):

  36,29 ubatch 1536 -> 4.71 / 4.91 GiB free   (what was deployed)
  36,29 ubatch 512  -> 6.01 / 7.32 GiB free   (ubatch alone)
  35,30 ubatch 512  -> 6.44 / 6.90 GiB free   <- deployed

The ubatch move freed 1.30 GiB on ROCm0 but 2.41 GiB on ROCm1, because ROCm1
holds the output layers and the drafter's graphs -- so it shifted the balance
toward ROCm1 by 1.31 GiB and the split had to follow it one layer. 0.46 GiB is
one DeltaNet layer's worth of asymmetry, i.e. the granularity floor: no split
can be tuned finer than a layer, which is why 34,31 is not better.

Re-fitted the seam with both ubatch coefficients measured at this shape and
re-anchored it on the new deployed point (it reproduces 6.44 / 6.90 to
0.01 GiB). Every neighbouring split still fails it: 36,29 -> 1.85, 34,31 ->
0.94, 37,28 -> 3.24, 1,1 -> 3.03, 39,26 -> 6.03 GiB.

Also replaced the unit test's literal `TENSOR_SPLIT=36,29` assertion with the
shape it actually cares about -- two shares that add up to the model's 65
blocks, with ROCm1 taking the fewer -- so re-measuring the balance no longer
breaks a test about parallelism. The numeric contract lives in the seam test.
2026-09-17 00:21:48 -07:00
Frank 2f012fba39 the x4 link, measured: 6.72 GB/s — which decides the streaming question
pcie-link-test.cu (CUDA, pinned buffers, cudaEvent timing, both services stopped):
pinned H2D 6.72 GB/s and D2H 6.60 GB/s, i.e. 85 % of the Gen4 x4 ceiling. Async
is no better than sync and pageable sits within 1 % of pinned, so these copies are
link-limited rather than staging-limited — the usual "pageable costs 2x" does not
apply on this host. A 3 MiB slab costs 474 us, essentially 3 MiB / 6.72 GB/s plus
~27 us of launch.

That settles the expert-streaming question quantitatively: 1.70 GiB of active
experts per token (A3B @ Q4_K_M, 75 GiB expert mass) is 272 ms of link time ⇒
3.7 tok/s, 4.6 with a fifth of the experts resident. The same bytes computed in
host RAM at 256 GB/s cost 7.1 ms — the link is 31x slower than the memory behind
it, which is why llama.cpp's -ot exps=CPU path measured 20.46 tok/s while an
engine that streams loses by 3-5x. The port under the card is x8-capable and the
card is x16-capable, so the x4 is the adapter; doubling it still leaves streaming
well behind.

Also records FreeToken's own constraint: it keeps experts in host RAM with an LRU
GPU cache (exactly this streaming shape) and loads only modelopt block-FP8
safetensors for qwen3_5_moe, so Q4_K_M GGUF is unloadable there regardless.
2026-09-16 23:25:06 -07:00
Frank 262ac53c14 docs: how to bench this endpoint, and the llama-bench properties that bite
The harness is in the repo now, so the runbook says how to run it and what the
tool will not tell you:

- / splits devices within one configuration and , splits sweep values, so a
  legitimate --tensor-split 36,29 would have benched one card at a time.
- there is no -c: n_ctx = n_prompt + n_gen + n_depth, so no bench can decide
  whether a configuration's buffers fit beside the deployed 262144 KV.
- a test that cannot allocate exit(1)s the process, hence one invocation per
  cell.
- a shell's memlock limit (8 MiB here) is not the unit's (infinity), which
  fails the load for the wrong reason.
- no --spec-* and no --parallel: decode figures are drafterless and slots are
  never exercised; -d is what puts KV in front of the measurement at all.
2026-09-16 22:11:14 -07:00
Frank a40a1aad92 model cache cleared, re-fetched, and the update turned out to be real
Operator instruction: purge the cache so no run can serve a stale payload. The two
live payloads were cleared and then re-fetched rather than left absent — deleting
them without a re-fetch means neither endpoint starts.

halogen's re-fetch proved the point: its sidecars had been stale *in place*
(overlay.hgn 2,477,677,120 -> 2,572,466,560 bytes, overlay-speed.hgn
2,383,306,048 -> 2,478,095,488) while the 115.55 GiB checkpoint returned
byte-identical. frank-small's 27B and mmproj re-fetched to Hub-matching hashes,
unchanged.

Trap recorded: podman refuses a bind mount whose source directory is missing
(statfs ... no such file or directory), so frank-large needs /models to exist
*empty* for its first-start fetch to run.

Q4_K_S against the recorded Q4_K_M numbers: +2.1/+1.6/+2.6 % (iGPU-only pp512 /
pp16384 / tg64), +2.7 % tg32@64k, +4.1 %/+2.0 % for the two layer-split configs,
~0 on both pp512@64k, host RAM bottoming at 10.0 GiB against ~5 GiB. A memory
lever with a small speed dividend. IQ4_XS (97,473,155,360 bytes, sha256
b4787265...d0574f9d) is pulled and verified for the next comparison.

Also repairs an AGENTS.md edit that landed in the wrong section: the peer
session's commits shifted that file between my read and my write, so the
frank-large text briefly split the Model Config section.
2026-09-16 22:07:04 -07:00
Frank f917a2ef55 docs: the runbook records the DSpark excursion as an excursion
The note described DSpark as the deployed drafter and 40:25 as the split; both
were true for a few hours. It now leads with DFlash2 at 36:29 and keeps the
excursion as the record it is:

- the drafter comparison table with DSpark's REAL size (1,455,376,576, not the
  1,359,284,737 that went into the fetch script), and why it lost: no sliding
  window, so its draft KV spanned the whole context.
- the split's two moves as one story: the batch pushed it to 40:25, the drafter
  swap pulled it back to 36:29, with both measurement tables.
- the layer-size law (0.43 GiB DeltaNet, 1.43 GiB attention) as the reason the
  balance is measured and not interpolated.
- the verified-behaviour section now carries the LIVE numbers: 4.71 / 4.91 GiB
  free (4.43 / 4.61 under load, 0.18 GiB gap), the DFlash2 init lines, and
  draft acceptance from both slots (0.63 / 0.48 on slot 1, 0.39 on slot 0).
- the fault note scopes its own evidence: 39:26 was loaded, not exercised.
2026-09-16 21:01:45 -07:00