Frank
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Measured by boot probe on the shape-D base (production stopped, candidate booted AS the service), plan numbers read off the engine's own log: runtime overhead 7.60 -> 5.25 GiB (precise gfx1201 TP2 registry) expert cache 14.87 -> 17.22 GiB slots 6,496 -> 7,522 (+1,026, +16%) swap region 13.7 GiB / 5,986 slots boot healthy in 420 s, no OOM '--expert-precise-memory': True also appears in non-default args, so a silent argparse drop is visible. The pool is NOT cut (option A) because the pool is not an arena lever: 3.15e9/rank keeps shape D's measured 1.99x concurrency, and a 2.2e9 arm probed in the same window (277,686 tokens, 1.38x) is recorded as the conservative fallback. Boot-cost bug found while diffing Frank's 3xR9700 recipe: the image ships no /root/.cache at all, our boot writes 1.1 GB of vLLM AOT/torch_compile artifacts (4,665 files) plus 229 MB of comgr JIT kernels into the ephemeral layer, and podman rm -f discards them — so every deploy/restart/reboot re-pays 'torch.compile took 181.20 s in total' (173.19 s of it one graph). Mounting FRANK_PRIMARY_CACHE_DIR at /root/.cache persists both and hides nothing. GPU_MAX_HW_QUEUES=2 added at Frank's direction (real HSA knob); not A/B measured. Retracted my own recipe-diff claim that cudagraph_capture_sizes needed pinning: capture is 3 PIECEWISE + 2 FULL graphs, 3 s, 0.31 GiB. Tests: 367/367.
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-large (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-large | 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.