Frank 9f7457e39e docs(vault): answer "what are we doing wrong" on decode-vs-prefill
frank-archon Laws: add the measured interference census (decode-only step
15.5 ms vs 166 ms chunk steps; 4.7% of steps hold 34% of step time; median
decode 166 -> 13 t/s above 5k prefill tok/s, per-stream 6.7 t/s = one token
per shared step; TTFT p90 2.4 -> 18.0 s for arriving requests), the lag test
that kills the residency theory, the busy_cap arithmetic, and the correction
that --prefill-interleave is the decoder dial and auto is not.

Facts that change how an operator reads this box: /diagnostics exists and
reports link-below-max at 100% busy; latency metrics live under vllm:, cadence
under radiance:; preemption is vllm:num_preemptions_total (264 this boot, all
bursts) while the radiance gauge is instant depth; both root ports are x8 Gen5
max by board (31.5 GB/s ceiling, not 64); DDR is back at 4800 MT/s while the
4600 corruption fix is recorded -- verify before blaming garbage tokens.

§9 (LLM Performance Diagnosis): method corrected to the phase-ratio counters,
dead 1.0.13 numbers destroyed, four PromQL traps added (metric prefix, 1 s EMA
gauges vs 15 s scrape, counter resets across builds, 2-minute mean diluting the
chunk), instruments that cannot be reached from Prometheus, and the knob list
priced from the pinned 1.8.1 source instead of the stale guide.
2026-10-20 22:08:00 -07:00
2026-10-15 18:22:22 -07:00

Server App Configs

AI Disclosures:

  • Slop rating: 2/5 - Actively using, actively de-slopping, repository mostly human owned, lacks formal process.
  • Completeness: Unfinished, planning planned, no plan yet
  • Datacenter model/spend: Less than $20 of Deepseek 4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash
  • Local model: Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

slop rating of 2 or lower indicates human reading is a worthwhile exercise, and that Frank has read the code and knows the architecture.

slop rating of 2 indicates that while this project is human owned, no human contribution process exists and/or release is agentically driven.

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 vllmScripts repository (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 stack
  • dankclaw/ — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stack
  • shared/ — homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpers
  • scripts/ — deploy.sh and deploy-remote.sh (service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnesses
  • old/ — retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)
  • serverAppConfigs-docs/ — project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks). serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/ is the LLM fleet
  • tests/ — 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.

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