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The 2026-10-01 bf16 shape (2 x 262144, --expert-precise-memory) crash-looped at graph capture — the arena is DEVICE-resident and that shape had 0.13 GiB to spare. The plain bf16 2 x 262144 also did not stay up: 0 bytes free at runtime, and a real client request (995-token prompt, max_tokens=261149) killed the worker with . The correction is a pool cut, not a downgrade. FP8 KV (7,701 B/token), two 200704 windows (401,408 tokens -> 3.091e9 B floor, pinned 3.15e9), MNBT 1024. The fork's expert planner sizes the arena AFTER the KV override, so the ~2.95 GiB/rank reclaimed becomes arena: ~7,500 slots vs 6,248. Two contexts at 200704 is a capacity contract, not a throughput one (2-way concurrency summed BELOW parity at 4064 ctx), so the slot buys the VRAM headroom long generations need. Refs [[dankserver-qwen38-fp8-expert-offload-tuning]]. - scripts/frank-primary.env: MAXLEN 200704, SEQS 2, KV_BYTES 3.15e9, MNBT 1024, rewritten shape comment - scripts/serve-frank-primary.sh: header comment updated - tests/frank_primary_unit.bats: assertions updated, new seam pins the arena-floor pool law (the pool must move with a context change or the reduction buys nothing) - docs + AGENTS.md: fleet topology and deployed shape corrected
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.