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The RTX 3090 left Dankserver; two AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 cards (Navi 48, gfx1201, 32,624 MiB each) replaced it. FreeToken/CUDA cannot run there at all, so the `frank-small` service is retired and `frank-medium` takes the endpoint. New service: charlie12345/ROCmFPX llama.cpp (built for gfx1201 against the fork's self-contained ROCm 7.14 toolchain, so the host's stale /opt/rocm-6.3.3 never participates) serving kingjones777/Qwen3.8-27B-ROCmFPX-Q8_0-AGENT-GGUF -- a Q8_0_ROCMFPX_AGENT (ftype 115) checkpoint that stock llama.cpp cannot load. Placeholder config: --split-mode tensor across both cards, 131072 context, 1 slot, f16 KV, MTP draft head on ROCm0. deploy-remote.sh grows retire_root_llm_small(): the CUDA-era unit is stopped, disabled and moved to ~/.AGENTTRASH/20260915-frank-small-retire/host-units before frank-medium starts, because `systemctl disable` has been observed to delete the unit file itself on this host (2026-08-26 incident). The retired frank-small repo files (env, unit, serve script) move to scripts/.AGENTTRASH/, and the planner, dispatcher, service allow-list and the deployment test seams now name frank-medium. Follow-up (same session, measured): llama-bench on the host with the correct multi-device syntax (-dev ROCm0/ROCm1) overturned the tensor choice: single R9700 pp4096 1160.9 / tg128 19.42 (d32768: 512 / 18.4) layer 2x pp4096 1991.2 / tg128 18.76 (d32768: 859 / 17.6) tensor 2x pp4096 271.8 / tg128 26.26 (d32768: 229 / 25.1) This build has no RCCL, so tensor mode falls back to a "meta-backend butterfly" allreduce and prefill collapses 7x. Served path with MTP: layer 35.7-46.2 tok/s vs tensor 28.7. SPLIT_MODE=layer, draft pinned to ROCm1 (the card holding the last target layers). Served prefix cache with the draft head verified live: turn 2 reprocessed 22 tokens instead of 949.
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-small (llama.cpp, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) | 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-small | 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.