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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.
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title: frank-archon — R9V radiance-vLLM Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored IQ4_XS
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service: frank-archon
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host: dankserver
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port: 7770
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status: retired
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retired: 2026-09-27
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superseded_by: "[[frank-archon-r9v-radiance-qwen38-q8]]"
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supersedes: "[[frank-archon-llamacpp-qwen38-flash-next-q8]]"
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tags: [llm, frank-archon, r9v, vllm, radiance, gfx1201, retired]
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---
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# frank-archon — R9V radiance-vLLM (dankserver, RETIRED)
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> **RETIRED 2026-09-27** — superseded the same day by the Q8_0 cutover,
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> [[frank-archon-r9v-radiance-qwen38-q8]]. Kept as the rollback runbook:
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> the uncensored state dir, frozen config and payload are intact on disk;
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> the rollback procedure lives in that page's Ops section.
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The Dankserver LLM endpoint is the **R9V radiance-vLLM fork**
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(`drwolfen/radiance-vllm-qwen4exp`, docker-pinned prebuilt) serving
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`Dyluhn/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-R9V-IQ4_XS` — the abliterated
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at IQ4_XS (92.39 GiB, 3 GGUF shards) with the blockfp8
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MTP4 head and the F16 mmproj — on **both R9700s** (gfx1201, BDFs
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`0000:03:00.0` / `0000:07:00.0`) as `frank-archon` on **:7770**.
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Replaced llama.cpp b11030 (Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q_8) on 2026-09-27 at Frank's
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direction; downtime window ~1 h 20 min (killed 02:47, healthy 04:11 PDT).
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Rollback target: [[frank-archon-llamacpp-qwen38-flash-next-q8]] — the
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llama.cpp trio (unit/env/serve) is at commit `4992e5a`+ (the repo-side
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wiring; host unit was the relinked one) and the GGUF payload stays on disk,
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so a rollback is a redeploy.
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## Production shape (repo-tracked)
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The repo carries a **thin** wiring; the engine shape lives on-host:
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| Piece | File | Law |
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|---|---|---|
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| Unit | `scripts/frank-archon.service` | Root unit, `User=dank`, `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity`, `ExecStop=podman stop -t 120 frank-archon-r9v`, `Restart=on-failure` |
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| Env | `scripts/frank-archon.env` | Production overrides ONLY: bind 0.0.0.0, :7770, alias `frank-archon`, container `frank-archon-r9v`, GPU BDFs |
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| Serve | `scripts/serve-frank-archon.sh` | Layers setup state under repo env → execs the fork's own `scripts/launch.sh` via the docker→podman shim → `docker wait` |
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| Deployer | `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` `deploy_llm_archon` | Gates on setup state ready, image digest, PLE bytes, shard files; MainPID false-green check |
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**Why the tuned shape lives on-host:** the profile's setup run qualified a
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104-key `R9V_*` config (tiered-expert placement, per-rank offload budgets
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146.25/78.75 GiB, CED on, MTP4, parser wiring, `MAX_MODEL_LEN=196608`). It
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is written to `/home/dank/r9v-state/uncensored/setup.json` and the serve
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script layers it UNDER the repo env (repo keys win). Copying those values
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into the repo would drift from the qualification — don't.
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**Self-healing law:** the launcher `--detach`es; the serve script therefore
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blocks on `docker wait`. Without the wait, a crashed engine is a green
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unit. `docker wait` cannot stop the container child, hence `ExecStop`.
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## Fork checkout + shim (on-host, outside the repo)
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- Checkout: `/home/dank/GitPackages/radiance-vllm-qwen4exp`
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- State: `/home/dank/r9v-state/uncensored/setup.json` (0600, `ready: true`)
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- Model dir: `/home/dank/models/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-R9V-IQ4_XS/`
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(92.39 GiB payload + `r9v-data/per_layer_token_embd.iq4_nl.bin` 26.82 GiB
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PLE, sha256 `34fa36f8…`)
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- Docker→podman shim: `/home/dank/GitPackages/radiance-vllm-qwen4exp/.podman-shim/docker`
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(PATH-prepended by the serve script). The R9V tooling is docker-pinned;
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the shim carries three laws:
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1. **Image ID law** — the bundle is a containerd/OCI docker-save; docker
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keys the image by its OCI MANIFEST digest (`sha256:2dac17a2…`), podman
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by config digest but preserves the manifest digest in **RepoDigests**.
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The shim answers `image inspect sha256:X` from RepoDigests and rewrites
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bare `sha256:X` run refs to `repo@sha256:X`.
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2. **LogConfig law** — podman inspect answers
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`HostConfig.LogConfig.Config: null` where docker returns the log-opts
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map (the doctor crashes on `.get("Config", {}) == null`). The shim
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records `run --log-opt` pairs and normalizes inspect output.
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3. **docker info law** — podman lacks `SecurityOptions`/`ServerVersion`;
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the shim answers rootless + `27.5.1` (liveness probe).
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- venv: `~/.r9v-venv` (huggingface_hub for fetch/verify)
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## Verified at cutover (2026-09-27)
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- Setup: **PASS=28 WARN=3 FAIL=0** — 20/20 artifacts size+sha256 verified
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(~93 GiB), PLE derived at exact pinned size, CED projector verified.
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- First-start doctor battery: **PASS=34 WARN=8 FAIL=0**, including
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`runtime-worker-transport`: **pinned UVA reads, H2D copies, TP
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all-reduce verified inside serving workers** on both BDFs.
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- Wire: `/v1/models` → `frank-archon`; `/health` + `/metrics` 200
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(Prometheus scraping); "Say PONG" (non-thinking) → `'PONG'`, stop;
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thinking requests populate `reasoning` (vLLM channel).
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- Memlock: the full tiered-expert load ran to healthy **under a plain dank
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session** before the unit existed — the pin path does NOT hard-require
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`LimitMEMLOCK=infinity` on this host, but the root unit keeps fleet
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parity and headroom for the pinned reserve.
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- e2e gate: 32 passed / 1 failed — the failure is `11-admin open links`,
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which needs FrankBook-Pro (192.168.0.112) awake; the machine was down and
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WOL from both hosts failed. Suite minus that spec: **31 passed** (the
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one-time 12-crawl flake re-passes in isolation).
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## Memory shape (measured)
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- Both cards ~29–30 GiB used of 31.86; engine budget
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`CPU_OFFLOAD_GB_BY_DEVICE=146.25,78.75` (UVA host pin ≈ 43 GiB on rank 0
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+ 16 GiB PLE pinned reserve; PLE residency mode `ssd` mmap+trim).
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- `MemAvailable` floor: 56.3 GiB (`R9V_MIN_HOST_AVAILABLE_BYTES`).
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- Context envelope: 192,608 native window served as `MAX_MODEL_LEN=196608`;
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harness `models.yml` carries `contextWindow: 196608`, `maxTokens: 57344`
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(compaction-gap math: 70% × 196,608 = 137,625 + 57,344 ≤ 196,608).
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## Ops
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- **Restart**: `sudo systemctl restart frank-archon` (root unit; the serve
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script re-gates everything, relaunch through the shim, waits).
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- **First start after boot** re-warms ~93 GiB of page cache; expect several
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minutes to /health; `TimeoutStartSec=1800`.
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- **Scratch/probe**: NEVER probe against the prod state dir. Copy it, set
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`R9V_HOST_PORT` to a free port and `R9V_CONTAINER_NAME` to a scratch
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name, and stop the probe before any deploy — a probe holding :7770
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produces a false-green deploy (the 2026-09-26 lesson, now guarded by the
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MainPID check).
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- **Qualification artifacts** (kept on-host):
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`/home/dank/r9v-state/uncensored/qualification-*`,
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failure bundles `failure-*` (review before sharing — raw logs).
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- **Models on the wire**: served alias `frank-archon`; thinking channel is
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`reasoning` (vLLM), tool parser `qwen3_coder` (not qwen3_xml like the
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vllm030 wiring had planned).
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## Known costs (accepted at selection)
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- **Abliterated weights** (Dyluhn uncensored build) — not the reference
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model; answer-quality deltas are possible.
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- **192K envelope** — down from 262,144 on llama.cpp.
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- **Docker-pinned fork** — updates flow through image bundles + the shim,
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never a bare container run; the launcher stays the single argv owner.
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