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Four configurations of the same binary, identical prompts at temperature 0, the unit stopped between runs, on the deployed payload: none 17.7 tok/s card1 26.07 GB draft-mtp n=3 32.4 tok/s 58 % accepted card1 29.35 GB draft-mtp n=7 26.7 tok/s 33 % accepted card1 29.65 GB draft-dflash 7 43.5 tok/s 41 % accepted card1 29.42 GB DFlash2 is worth 2.46x over autoregressive and 34 % over the best MTP, and all four produced IDENTICAL greedy text, so the 'lossless verification' claim in the runbook is now a check rather than an assumption. MTP is not the cheaper option either: its head loads ~3.3 GB against the drafter's 2.06 GB file, and deeper drafting loses (n=7 accepts a third of its proposals, n=3 more than half). The two CANNOT be chained, and the failure is structural rather than tunable: 'spec-type draft-mtp,draft-dflash' dies at load with 'context type MTP requested but model doesn't contain MTP layers', because a chain has ONE draft context and MTP builds against whatever model that context holds -- here the DFlash2 file. The serve script therefore passes --spec-draft-model in the dflash branch ONLY, and the seam now asserts exactly that (the wiring whose violation is this error), plus that the deployment stays on the measured winner. scripts/bench-spec-ab.py makes the comparison reproducible: the benchmarking policy wants the runtime's own harness for this, and the numbers above were otherwise unreproducible one-offs.
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 (CIRU ROCmFPX, Qwen3.8-27B) | 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.