# frank-primary — unsloth llama.cpp (b11030-mix prebuilt, ROCm gfx120X) # serving unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF at Q8_0 on the two Radeon AI PRO # R9700s (gfx1201), with the shared Q8_0 MTP drafter head, the BF16 vision # projector, and the draft-mtp + ngram-mod spec chain. # # These are the tunables read by scripts/serve-frank-primary.sh. The flag # list is owned by the serve script; this file only sets fleet values. # # DO NOT name a new tunable TEMP, HOST or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE: the HIP # runtime reads those bare (the 2026-08-13 TEMP incident). The bind address # is BIND_HOST, not HOST — frank-large's env predates that lesson and gets # away with it; do not copy the shape. # The payload (scripts/download-frank-primary.sh): the serve script refuses # to start without all six Q8_0 parts, the MTP head and the projector. MODEL_ROOT=/home/dank/models/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF # The runtime: the unsloth b11030-mix prebuilt for gfx120X (the same # b11030-mix build frank-large runs on gfx1151 — it bundles its own ROCm # runtime, no host SDK gate). RUNTIME_DIR=/home/dank/GitPackages/unsloth-llama-b11030 # Fleet endpoint: the port and alias the lucebox DS4.1 quadlet held before # the 2026-09-26 swap, so no client, probe or models.yml entry changes # address. BIND_HOST=0.0.0.0 PORT=7770 # Four conversations, each the model's full native 262144 window. # --parallel divides --ctx-size into slots — the pool is 4x262144 cells # (~23 GiB at the V-quantized law below, split across both cards). Slots # DIVIDE the pool; they never multiply it. Per-slot window stays the # full native 262144, so no client or models.yml change is implied. CONTEXT_SIZE=1048576 PARALLEL_SLOTS=4 # Spec chain: draft-mtp (the shared Q8_0 head) at depth 2, with the # draftless ngram-mod matcher chained behind it. Depth 2 is the measured # optimum class for this pair at long contexts (the retired Dankclaw # Flash-Next deployment ran exactly this head at depth 2 with 0.83-0.92 # acceptance); each extra verified position re-batches the CPU expert # reads, so depth buys less than bandwidth here. SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=2 # Device placement. -ngl 999 puts every layer's non-overridden tensors on # the GPUs; the big overrides then move the bandwidth-huge tensors to host # RAM (computed there — the x4-pair measurement: streaming over PCIe loses, # computing in RAM does not care). OT_OVERRIDES is ONE comma-separated # = list passed as a single --override-tensor # flag (b11030 logs DEPRECATED for repeated flags and wants the joined # form), and the loader applies the FIRST matching pattern per tensor — # so the block-specific patterns MUST precede the broad exps=CPU sweep. # # Hot expert blocks stay GPU-resident (2026-09-26): -ot granularity is the # whole per-block expert tensor (512 experts share one tensor), so "critical # experts" = blocks co-located on the card that holds their layers. # Measured cost: 2.42 GiB/block on ROCm0, 2.49 GiB/block on ROCm1. # Blocks 0-3 on ROCm0 + 45-47 on ROCm1 leave ~4.9 GB / ~3.4 GB free under # load (vision graph included). A 5th block on ROCm0 lands at 2.27 GB — # under the 3 GB checkpoint floor — so it stays off; blocks are atomic, # nothing lands card0 inside the 3-4 GB band. # * exps=CPU — the remaining routed experts (blk.*.ffn_*_exps.weight, # ~100 GiB at Q8_0 even with 7 blocks GPU-side), read once per token; # the CPU backend computes them from page cache. # * per_layer_token_embd.weight=CPU — the 51B-element PLE n-gram table # (dims [160, 320001536], Q8_0, 54.4 GiB — the whole of part 3): # sparse row lookups, tiny PCIe traffic from CPU RAM. It doubles as # the shared MTP head's borrow tensor — GPU-resident, the draft load # crashes with "invalid vector subscript" (llama.cpp PR #28243) — so # this override is REQUIRED, not just a placement choice. NEVER give # it a GPU target (the 23 -> 13.4 t/s regression) and never --no-mmap # (the table must stay page-cache-backed; anonymous memory # cgroup-kills silently). NGL=999 OT_OVERRIDES='blk\.[0-3]\.ffn_(up|gate|down)_exps=ROCm0,blk\.4[5-7]\.ffn_(up|gate|down)_exps=ROCm1,exps=CPU,per_layer_token_embd.weight=CPU' TENSOR_SPLIT=1,1 # The drafter MUST sit on the SECOND R9700 (ROCm1): with -ts 1,1 the main # model's output head lands on the last-layers card, and the shared MTP head # BORROWS it. --override-tensor sets has_tensor_overrides(), which pins # n_copies==1 in the draft's scheduler — a borrowed output.weight sitting in # a ROCm1 buffer then aborts the draft graph with ggml-backend.cpp:941 # "pre-allocated tensor (output.weight) in a buffer (ROCm1) that cannot run # the operation" when the draft is elsewhere (verified live 2026-09-26: the # ROCm0 placement crash-looped 4x at ~12 s, ROCm1 loaded and served). SPEC_DRAFT_DEVICE=ROCm1 # Batch geometry: logical batch 8192 with ubatch 512 — the measured optimum # class on this fleet's ROCm stack (a bigger logical batch is free; compute # buffers reserve at max graph size). ubatch 512 balances prefill # throughput against the asymmetric compute-buffer cost on the card that # holds the output layers and the drafter. BATCH_SIZE=8192 UBATCH_SIZE=512 # KV cache types: V quantized to q8_0, K held at the f16 default. The V # half is what quantizes on this build: main KV drops 24,576 -> 18,816 # B/token (12 of 48 layers carry KV; the 36 SSM layers are constant-state # and never scale with ctx). NOTE the shared MTP drafter's KV ignores the # V type (measured: draft pool 2,048 MiB = the f16 law at 1,048,576 # cells) — one layer's worth, so the miss costs ~0.5 GiB on ROCm1. CACHE_TYPE_K=f16 CACHE_TYPE_V=q8_0 # Prompt-cache budget: 16 GiB. The V-quantized KV pool at four full # windows is ~23 GiB spread across both cards (the hybrid DeltaNet/QSA # pattern keeps even 4x262144 a fraction of a full-ctx x all-layers # pool); the prompt cache is the RAM-side spend that actually moves # prefill on repeat traffic. Host RAM budget: ~90 GiB of expert pages + # this cache + the server's own arenas inside 246 GiB. CACHE_RAM=16384