# Head tunables — Qwen3.8-27B pipeline-parallel head (Dankclaw). # # The head is the LOCAL side of the split. It runs llama-server (b10433, # HIP+Vulkan+RPC build in /home/dank/llama.cpp/build) with --rpc pointing at # the worker on Dankserver. The model file lives on this machine only; the # worker receives its tensor share over the network at load time. # # CRITICAL: this script must NOT pass --device. When --device is set, # llama.cpp uses exactly that device list and silently drops the RPC device # (src/llama.cpp llama_prepare_model_devices). Default device selection # inserts RPC servers at the FRONT of the device list, so the split becomes # [RPC0, iGPU] and --tensor-split index 0 is the worker. # # WARNING: do not name any variable here TEMP, HOST, or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE # (HIP runtime collision, see the 2026-08-13 TEMP incident). MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models MODEL_FILE=Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf HEAD_BIN=/home/dank/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server ALIAS=frank-default-large BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0 LISTEN_PORT=7770 # Comma-separated RPC endpoints (host:port). One worker here. RPC_SERVERS=192.168.0.235:50052 # Model split fractions, one per device in order [RPC0, iGPU]. # 0.53,0.47 = 34 of 65 blocks on the 3090 (blocks 0-33) - the maximum # provably-safe split, measured 2026-08-17 (two failed attempts): # - 0.50: 32 blocks, KV 8192 MiB (8 FA) -> healthy, 1477 MiB free. # - 0.54: weights 35 blocks but KV jumps to 9216 MiB (9th FA block) -> # cudaMalloc OOM by ~740 MiB. The KV-per-device count rounds the # split fraction over 66 layers, independent of the weight boundary; # the flip to 9 FA sits at f ~= 0.538, just below the weight # threshold for block 35. 0.53 keeps 8 FA under every rounding rule. # GGUF block scan: FA at 3,7,...,63; linear blocks 431 MB, FA 410 MB. TENSOR_SPLIT=0.53,0.47 # Context pool. 262144 total = 1 parallel slot x 262144 per slot # (n_ctx_seq = n_ctx / n_seq_max, llama-context.cpp:293). CTX_SIZE=262144 PARALLEL=1 # Speculative decoding. Matches production frank-default-large: MTP (bundled # head, n_max 4 per the published tuning curve) with the ngram-mod fallback. # Set SPEC_NONE=1 for a raw baseline with no speculation. SPEC_NONE=0 SPEC_DEFAULT=1 MTP=1 SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=4 # Optional standalone MTP draft head (e.g. the Q4_0 ggml-org file). When set, # it replaces the bundled in-model head via --spec-draft-model. SPEC_DRAFT_MODEL= SPEC_NGRAM_MOD_N_MIN=48 SPEC_NGRAM_MOD_N_MAX=64 SPEC_NGRAM_MOD_N_MATCH=24 # KV on GPU, unquantized (f16). 16 full-attention layers x 2 (K,V) x 4 heads # x 256 dim x 2 bytes = 64 KiB/token -> 262144 tokens = 16.6 GiB total, # held in proportion to the full-attention layers each device holds. # Keep K == V so Flash Attention stays enabled. CACHE_TYPE_K=f16 CACHE_TYPE_V=f16 # Batch sizing: production-verified values (2026-08-14). BATCH_SIZE=8192 UBATCH_SIZE=256 # Sampling — Qwen3.8 thinking-mode defaults. TEMPERATURE=1.0 TOP_K=20 TOP_P=0.95 MIN_P=0.0 THREADS=12 THREADS_HTTP=1 # 4 (info): clean journal for interactive use. Raise to 10 only when # debugging the layer split (the per-layer assignment lines are debug-level). VERBOSITY=4 # 1: --direct-io model load. Required in practice for large models loaded # over RPC (load hangs otherwise; visorcraft Strix RPC finding). DIRECT_IO=1