# frank-small — llama.cpp (master, CUDA sm_86) serving # bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF:Q5_K_M on the RTX 3090, :7771. # # 2026-10-02 (Frank): THREE contexts, vision on, and a hard instruction to # leave 2-3 GiB of the card free. Both new demands cost memory, so the per-slot # window shrinks — see the budget below. # # Two measurements on this card, this runtime, price the terms: # 2 x 262,144, no projector: 20,190 MiB used / 4,386 free # KV = 524,288 tok x 24.5 KiB = 12,800 MiB => non-KV (weights 6,557 + # DeltaNet state ~25/slot + compute buffers + CUDA graphs) = 7,390 MiB # 3 x 196,608, projector on: 22,972 MiB used / 1,153 free # KV = 14,113 MiB => non-KV WITH the vision tower = 8,859 MiB # The tower costs ~1.4 GiB, not the ~1.0 its file size suggested, so 196,608 # per slot left only 1.1 GiB free — outside the band. The pool therefore is # 3 x 180,224 = 540,672 tokens: KV ~12,936 + non-KV 8,859 = ~21,800 MiB predicted. # MEASURED at this shape: 21,684 MiB used / 2,441 MiB free — inside the band, and # the number the bats budget gate reproduces (it prices non-KV at 9 GiB). # # KV arithmetic: attention KV exists only in the 8 full-attention layers # (4 KV heads x 256 head_dim). K f16 = 16 KiB/token, V q8_0 = 8.5 KiB/token # (34 B per 32-element block) => 24.5 KiB/token, so 12,288 tokens (=4096/slot) # is one 293 MiB step — that is the ladder to walk if this moves again. The # native 262,144 per slot is NOT reachable three times: 3 x 262,144 x # 24.5 KiB = 18.4 GiB of KV before anything else is loaded. # # Why V stays q8_0 and K stays f16: full-precision V would add 8 KiB/token — # +4.5 GiB on this pool — which is what pushes the card past its 24 GiB. K is # the tensor the asymmetric-KV contract exists to protect. LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-master/build-cuda/bin/llama-server MODEL_FILE=/home/dank/models/MiMo-Q5KM/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-Q5_K_M.gguf # Vision: the Q5_K_M GGUF ships no `v.*` tensors, so the projector file IS the # vision capability (sha256 ff348f31..., 918,166,048 B, fetched by # scripts/download-frank-small.sh). Empty string = text-only on purpose. MMPROJ_FILE=/home/dank/models/MiMo-Q5KM/mmproj-MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-f16.gguf # Fleet endpoint: same port and alias as every frank-small before it, so the # harness models.yml id and the homepage probe do not move. ALIAS=frank-small BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0 LISTEN_PORT=7771 # Three independent conversations. llama.cpp divides --ctx-size across # --parallel slots (n_ctx_slot = CTX_SIZE/PARALLEL), and a mamba-hybrid model # cannot use unified KV, so each slot gets its own cache and its own window. # 180,224 per slot is BELOW the native 262,144, and that is the cost of the # third slot: a longer single prompt needs compaction instead of one shot. # Consequence worth knowing: frank-primary's compaction trigger is 183,501 # tokens, which no longer fits a frank-small slot — see the runbook's # "three slots vs compaction" note. CTX_SIZE=540672 PARALLEL=3 # The KV contract (Frank, 2026-10-01 night): unquantized K, q8_0 V. # q8_0 on V is only served by the flash-attention path; the serve script # pins --flash-attn on and must never lose it. CACHE_TYPE_K=f16 CACHE_TYPE_V=q8_0 NGL=99