Frank
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The 2026-10-12 23:17 power failure reset /sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit from the manual 2026-10-05 raise (200 GiB) back to the kernel default (half of RAM = 125,988 MiB), below the pinned-RAM ledger floor of 150,000 MiB. The serve script's preflight named the refusal and exited 1; Restart=always re-ran it 6,919 times over ~20 hours and frank-archon served nobody. scripts/ttm-preflight.sh (sourced by the serve script) now RAISES the knob itself before refusing: the unit is root, the knob is a 0644 root module parameter, and the cap is a runtime knob whose default is half of RAM — so a manual sysfs write is not a repair procedure, it is a countdown to the next reboot. FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800 records the host ceiling; the gate re-reads the cap after writing and only then refuses, so a knob the kernel will not move is still a named failure. Shape change (Frank's call): FOUR decode slots x 200,000 tokens with fp8 (quantized) KV. The pool must back seqs x max-model-len, so fp8 is what funds the fourth slot: at bf16 the four slots cost 11,679 MiB of pool and would cut the resident expert slab to 17,441 MiB (-33 %); at fp8 they cost 6,601 MiB, so the pool stays 6,912 MiB (predicts 843,566 tokens), the VRAM pair stays at the measured 29,120 MiB/card ceiling, the weights slab and the 44 GiB host pool are untouched, and the fused TP all-reduce rides 4 x (1+2) = 12 rows, inside the 25-row bound where the wht6 wire is bit-exact.
Server App Configs
The single repository for the two homelab servers: the Podman container stacks and the LLM inference fleet. One repo, one checkout per host, one deploy script.
2026-08-22: the former
vllmScriptsrepository (LLM fleet) is merged into this repo with its full git history. See AGENTS.md for the merge note.
Targets
| Host | User | IP | Podman stack | LLM service | LLM port |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dankserver | dank | 192.168.0.235 | media and library | frank-medium (ROCmFPX llama.cpp, Qwen3.8-27B AGENT) | 7770 |
| dankclaw | dank | 192.168.0.143 | AI, search, development, observability | frank-dragoon (gufo, Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q8_K_XL) | 7770 |
Active Services
| Service | Host | Hostname | Port |
|---|---|---|---|
| RomM | dankserver | romm.dankserver.local | 8085 |
| Copyparty | dankserver | files.dankserver.local | 3923 |
| Calibre-Web | dankserver | books.dankserver.local | 8083 |
| frank-medium | dankserver | — (bare endpoint) | 7770 |
| SearXNG | dankclaw | search.dankclaw.local | 8081 |
| ComfyUI | dankclaw | comfyui.dankclaw.local | 8188 |
| OpenWebUI | dankclaw | chat.dankclaw.local | 3000 |
| Hermes | dankclaw | hermes.dankclaw.local | 8090 |
| Gitea | dankclaw | gitea.dankclaw.local | 3001 |
| Grafana | dankclaw | grafana.dankclaw.local | 3002 |
| Prometheus | dankclaw | prometheus.dankclaw.local | 9090 |
| frank-dragoon | dankclaw | — (bare endpoint) | 7770 |
Structure
dankserver/— compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankserver stackdankclaw/— compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stackshared/— homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpersscripts/—deploy.shanddeploy-remote.sh(service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnessesold/— retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)serverAppConfigs-docs/— project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks).serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/is the LLM fleettests/— bats test suite (see Testing Policy)
Deployment
See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Deployment Flow.md
and serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/deployment.md. Run
./scripts/deploy.sh <dankclaw|dankserver> after committing changes. It
plans and deploys only the changed services. Use --service NAME for an
explicit single-service retry; inference is restarted only when its own files
(or the shared chat template) changed.
Knowledge Base
The serverAppConfigs-docs/ directory is an Obsidian vault. Start at
serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md. The LLM fleet knowledge base lives at
serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.
Testing
Run ./tests/run.sh before every push. See
serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md.