Live step-shape census on frank-archon (radiance 1.0.13, boot of 2026-10-15):
decode-only steps run 18.7 ms, prefill+mixed steps 317 ms — 60 % of engine
wall-clock inside 8 % of the steps — and a day of Prometheus shows decode at
13.3 t/s median while prefill runs >=1000 t/s against 106-240 t/s when it does
not. The lag test says the penalty is confined to the prefill window: no
lingering expert-residency tail, and preemptions are zero.
Adds the method as LLM Performance Diagnosis S9 (counter arithmetic, the lagged
bucket correlation that separates step contention from residency churn, and the
four radiance knobs with their published costs), and the endpoint's own numbers
plus the verdict as two frank-archon laws: --busy-prefill-chunk and
--prefill-interleave are absent from this pin (proven via the running
container's --help), so MNBT is the only crank here and an image bump is gated
by the 1.2.0 numerics dead end.
No behavior change; docs only.
Enforces "one fact, one owner": technique pages keep mechanism, laws, traps
and verdicts; per-endpoint shapes, digests and era measurements are cited to
the endpoint page that owns them.
Also repairs the four pointers the pass left empty (each verified against the
cited owner before landing):
- EMULATION dequant doubles host RAM (118 GiB -> ~238 GiB) -> [[frank-archon]]
- 12.11 tok/s flat 304 -> 16,095 tokens -> [[Tcclaviger Fork Ops]]
- bundled-head acceptance ladder 0.739/0.554/0.427/0.340 -> [[Qwen3.8 PP Deployment]]
- llama.cpp PR #23897 dedup provenance -> [[qwen3.8-spec-matrix]]
Replaces the retired-shape illustration in Llama Cpp Serving Sizing with the
owned MiMo Q5_K_M row (6.40 GiB payload -> 20,530 MiB used), and unwraps a
hard-wrapped [[Dankserver System Specs]] link that failed link integrity.
Orphan census over the diff: 0 numbers lost (comma-insensitive match against
the whole vault plus AGENTS.md).
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