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---
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type: configuration
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title: FreeToken frank-default-small Runbook
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description: FreeToken v0.1.2 serving Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 as frank-default-small on Dankserver (RTX 3090).
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tags:
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- freetoken
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- dankserver
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- frank-default-small
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- qwen3.6
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- moe
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- fp8
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timestamp: 2026-09-02
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---
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# FreeToken frank-default-small Runbook
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The `frank-default-small` service on Dankserver is served by
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**FreeToken v0.1.2** — an edge-native MoE serving engine that keeps
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expert weights in host RAM with an LRU GPU cache. It replaced the
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llama.cpp Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B (UD-Q6_K_XL) deployment on 2026-09-02.
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## Model
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| Field | Value |
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|-------|-------|
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| HuggingFace | `Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8` |
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| Architecture | `qwen3_5_moe` (Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration) |
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| Quant | modelopt block-fp8 (128×128 `weight_block_size`) |
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| Size on disk | 35 GB |
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| Path | `/home/dank/models/qwen36-35b-a3b-fp8` |
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| Layers | 40 (10 full-attention + 30 GDN/linear-attention) |
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| Experts | 256 per layer, 8 used per token |
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| KV heads | 2 × 256 dim |
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| Context | 262,144 (model max) |
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**Important:** This serves base Qwen3.6-35B-A3B weights, not the
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Tiel-Coder finetune that was previously served via llama.cpp.
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## Runtime
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| Field | Value |
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|-------|-------|
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| Engine | FreeToken v0.1.2 (`ft` CLI) |
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| Venv | `/home/dank/freetoken/.venv` (uv-managed CPython 3.12) |
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| Dependencies | torch 2.11.0+cu130, flashinfer 0.6.17, apache-tvm-ffi |
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| CUDA toolchain | pip-installed nvidia-cuda-nvcc/crt/nvvm/runtime 13.2.86 |
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| API | OpenAI-compatible (`/v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/models`) |
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## Pool Configuration
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The GPU budget (~17.6 GiB after weights + fixed caches) is split
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MoE-first between expert residency and KV pages:
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| Pool | Size | VRAM | Notes |
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|------|------|------|-------|
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| MoE cache | 2,048 slots (20%) | 6.0 GiB | LRU expert cache, out of 10,240 total |
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| KV cache | 453,005 tokens | 8.6 GiB | ~20 KiB/token (10 attn layers only) |
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| Mamba state | 24 slots | 1.4 GiB | Per-sequence GDN state (caps concurrency) |
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### Live Resize
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KV and MoE can be re-partitioned without restart:
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```bash
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ft ctl --base-url http://127.0.0.1:7770 cache --kv N --moe M --wait 300
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```
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- **Growing KV** (shrinking MoE): works live.
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- **Shrinking KV** (growing MoE): requires restart (old + new pools
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cannot coexist in VRAM during the swap → OOM).
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- The fit check refuses overcommit: if the plan doesn't fit, the old
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cache is retained and serving continues.
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### Benchmark Results (2026-09-02)
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See [[freetoken-benchmark-sweep]] for the full bs1/bs3/bs4/bs6 sweep
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across KV pool sizes 8k–700k.
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At the production config (20% residency, bs4):
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| Metric | Value |
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|--------|-------|
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| bs1 decode | ~30 tok/s |
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| bs4 aggregate | ~87 tok/s |
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| bs4 per-request | ~22 tok/s |
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| Prefill (4k) | ~1,130 tok/s |
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## Quantization Compatibility
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FreeToken v0.1.2 supports these safetensor quants for `qwen3_5_moe`:
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| Format | Detection | Works |
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|--------|-----------|-------|
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| BF16 (no quant config) | default | ✅ (experts too large for 60 GB RAM) |
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| modelopt block-fp8 (128×128) | `quant_method: "fp8"` + `weight_block_size` | ✅ (current) |
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| NVFP4 (modelopt) | `quant_algo: "NVFP4"` | ✅ (best for VRAM) |
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| NVFP4 (compressed-tensors) | 4-bit float, group_size=16, strategy=tensor_group | ✅ |
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| Per-tensor FP8 (modelopt) | scalar `weight_scale` | ✅ |
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| Per-channel FP8 (compressed-tensors) | `weight_scale: [O, 1]` | ❌ loader bug |
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| Quark W8A8 INT8 | per-channel scales | ❌ loader bug |
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| GGUF | only `gemma4` arch | ❌ for qwen3_5_moe |
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## Files
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| File | Purpose |
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|------|---------|
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| `scripts/serve-frank-small.sh` | Serve script (launches `ft serve`) |
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| `scripts/frank-default-small.env` | Tunables (model path, pool sizes) |
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| `scripts/frank-default-small.service` | Systemd unit |
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## Limitations
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- **Model identity**: serves base Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, not Tiel-Coder finetune.
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- **JIT compilation**: first startup compiles flashinfer/tvm-ffi kernels
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(~5–15 min cold). Cached afterward in `~/.cache/flashinfer` and
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`~/.cache/tvm-ffi`.
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- **CUDA toolchain**: driver-only install (no system CUDA toolkit). The
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venv provides pip-installed nvcc 13.2.86 for JIT compilation. All
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nvidia-cu13 packages must be at the same version.
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- **Env var collisions**: never name tunables `TEMP`, `HOST`, or
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`GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE` (HIP runtime reads these).
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## Citations
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- FreeToken paper: arXiv 2608.16157
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- FreeToken PyPI: `freetoken[accel]` v0.1.2
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- HuggingFace model: `Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8` |