Frank
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Measured A/B on the shipped pair 25600/5120: A-cold 43.5k prefill 3,290 -> 3,584 t/s (+8.9 %) and the 3-way 197k aggregate 3,051 -> 3,589 t/s (+17.6 %, wall 193.7 -> 164.5 s). The prediction I shipped with the arm -- slab is a threshold below ~26 GiB, so 1,600 MiB buys ~0 -- is falsified by the measurement it asked for. Two slab points inside noise of EACH OTHER (22,208 / 24,000) are not a plateau. The cliff is above 25,600: 26,071 measured 4,379 t/s. Ceiling re-derived from the engine's own budget table (card 32,624 MiB, pair at 29,120 settling 2,058 MiB free against its 209.19 MiB floor => 30,969 claimable). The 29,120 bound was my 1 GiB \`keep free\` reserve; the seam now derives the number, so the next resize starts from the engine's arithmetic. Ledger for the record: slab 16,235 -> 17,548 slots while the pinned host pool hands the same experts back (8,893 -> 7,580) -- the transfer is the mechanism, the pinned pool is the slow path. Capacity contract live-verified at 3 slots: 3 x 199,984-token prompts accepted (599,952 tokens), fourth refused as too large to ever fit. Probe law learned: the oversized-prompt refusal names the prompt's token count BEFORE prefill (free calibration) and fires on prompt tokens ALONE, not on prompt + max_tokens; the window is ~514,286 chars at 2.5714 chars/token.
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.