Frank
a40a1aad92
Operator instruction: purge the cache so no run can serve a stale payload. The two live payloads were cleared and then re-fetched rather than left absent — deleting them without a re-fetch means neither endpoint starts. halogen's re-fetch proved the point: its sidecars had been stale *in place* (overlay.hgn 2,477,677,120 -> 2,572,466,560 bytes, overlay-speed.hgn 2,383,306,048 -> 2,478,095,488) while the 115.55 GiB checkpoint returned byte-identical. frank-small's 27B and mmproj re-fetched to Hub-matching hashes, unchanged. Trap recorded: podman refuses a bind mount whose source directory is missing (statfs ... no such file or directory), so frank-large needs /models to exist *empty* for its first-start fetch to run. Q4_K_S against the recorded Q4_K_M numbers: +2.1/+1.6/+2.6 % (iGPU-only pp512 / pp16384 / tg64), +2.7 % tg32@64k, +4.1 %/+2.0 % for the two layer-split configs, ~0 on both pp512@64k, host RAM bottoming at 10.0 GiB against ~5 GiB. A memory lever with a small speed dividend. IQ4_XS (97,473,155,360 bytes, sha256 b4787265...d0574f9d) is pulled and verified for the next comparison. Also repairs an AGENTS.md edit that landed in the wrong section: the peer session's commits shifted that file between my read and my write, so the frank-large text briefly split the Model Config section.
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.