serverAppConfigs/serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md

Server App Configs

Podman deployment configuration for two homelab servers: Dankserver and Dankclaw.

This repository is the single source of truth for both hosts. It tracks the container stacks and the LLM inference fleet. Edits flow through this repo, then deploy to the targets with scripts/deploy.sh (one script per target covers both workloads).

2026-08-22: the former vllmScripts repository (LLM fleet) is merged into this repo with its full git history. Its knowledge base now lives at serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.

Hosts

Host	IP	Role	OS
Dankserver	192.168.0.235	Media & library stack	Ubuntu 24.04
Dankclaw	192.168.0.143	AI, search & development stack	Ubuntu 26.04

Stacks

• Dankserver Stack — RomM, Copyparty, Calibre, Calibre-Web, Caddy
• Dankclaw Stack — SearXNG (via Gluetun), ComfyUI, OpenWebUI, Hermes, Gitea, Grafana, Prometheus, Caddy

Architecture

• Network Architecture — Caddy reverse proxy, hostname routing, Gluetun VPN path
• Storage Policy — bind mounts, data locations, ownership
• Deployment Flow — service-scoped git deploy, target map, and health checks
• Testing Policy — the test seams and how to run them
• E2E Suite — the Playwright suite that drives the live guard chain
• Container Network Namespaces — which local services are addressable from each Podman network namespace on Dankclaw

Dankserver Storage

• Entropy Volume — command-line unlock and mount helper

Dankserver Services

• RomM — retro game manager
• RomM-Scraping — metadata providers, cover art, naming conventions
• Copyparty — file sharing and streaming
• Jellyfin — media server (movies, TV, music)
• Calibre — e-book library engine
• Calibre-Web — e-book web frontend
• ARR-Stack — automated media download overview
• sonarr — TV show management
• radarr — movie management
• lidarr — music management
• readarr — ebook/audiobook management
• prowlarr — indexer management
• qbittorrent — torrent download client
• Plex — media server on Dankserver (lscr.io/linuxserver/plex container via quadlet; CPU decode only — no GPU passthrough)
• Tautulli — Plex statistics and notifications (v2.18.1-ls242, quadlet unit)
• mariadb — RomM database backend
• redis — RomM cache/queue backend

Dankclaw Services

• SearXNG — privacy metasearch (VPN-routed)
• SearXNG Providers — unblocking Google & other upstream engines behind the VPN
• Gluetun — the VPN tunnel container
• Valkey — SearXNG cache and limiter store
• ComfyUI — node-based AI image generation (ROCm GPU, gfx1151 build)
• OpenWebUI — chat UI for local LLMs
• Hermes — the Nous Research agent
• Hermes-Dashboard — the Hermes web management UI (config, keys, sessions)
• Hermes-WebUI — the Hermex server (loopback API for the iPhone app, SSH-tunneled)
• Gitea — Git hosting (migrated)
• Postgres — Gitea database backend
• Seerr — unified *arr request manager (guard-chained; fronts FrankBook-Pro's stack)
• Marreta — content-cleaning proxy (guard-chained; shares SearXNG's Gluetun egress)

Infrastructure

• LAN-DNS — name resolution, Pi-hole, router DNS hand-off
• Pi-hole — the LAN DNS server (quadlet, records, web UI)
• Caddy — reverse proxy and TLS
• Anubis — bot challenge proxy fronting the guarded vhosts (chain, policy, gotchas)
• Authentik — the homelab's SSO / OIDC provider (forward_auth)
• authentik-postgres — Authentik database service
• authentik-server — Authentik server + Caddy outpost service
• authentik-worker — Authentik background worker service
• Homepage — password-protected service index
• Homepage Design Grilling — homepage decision log and open questions
• Observability — Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, node-exporter: the stack, its quadlet deployment, its exposure, and what is still unconfigured
• Grafana — dashboards (no datasource or dashboard configured yet)
• Prometheus — metrics collection (no alerting rules or Alertmanager)
• Node-Exporter — host metrics
• Loki — log storage
• Alloy — log shipping (replaces Promtail)
• FrankBook-Pro — Mac mini *arr + qBittorrent inside podman machine (gluetun-gated)

Research

• Service Research Brief — consolidated subagent research behind these pages
• ComfyUI ROCm and Vulkan — live-verified GPU path for ComfyUI on Strix Halo
• Lemonade and sd.cpp — the ggml-family image-generation alternative
• Llama Cpp Runtimes — mainline vs charlie12345/ROCmFPX vs ik_llama.cpp: quantization + server fit
• Llama Cpp Code Diff — code-level quantization diff of the three llama.cpp runtimes
• SGLang — the structured-generation serving engine (llama.cpp/vLLM comparison + our fit)
• Backblaze Integration — off-site backup plan (future)
• Jellyfin — media server research brief
• ARR-Stack — automated download stack research brief

LLM Fleet

The LLM inference fleet on the two hosts. Full index: serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.

Deployment and Topology

• deployment — unified deploy and update process for both servers
• frank-redo-2026-08-17 — the 2026-08-17 topology change
• frank-medium-rocmfpx — the ACTIVE frank-medium runbook: charlie12345/ROCmFPX llama.cpp serving kingjones777/ Qwen3.8-27B-ROCmFPX-Q8_0-AGENT-GGUF on Dankserver's 2x Radeon AI PRO R9700 (since 2026-09-15; replaced the FreeToken frank-small)
• freetoken-benchmark-sweep — KV pool vs decode speed sweep (bs1/bs3/bs4/bs6, 8k–700k KV) on the retired Dankserver RTX 3090
• kingjones-strix-mtp — the Qwen3.8-27B-Q6_0 ROCmFPX AGENT era with the standalone MTP draft (Dankclaw, 2026-08-25 → 2026-08-29; historical)
• agentionai-fast-imatrix — the retired frank-large runbook: agentionai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ROCmFP4-FAST-imatrix (87.06 GiB, Q4_0_ROCMFP4_FAST) + own MTP draft, build-qwen38 (retired 2026-08-30; rollback record)
• halogen-flash-server — the ACTIVE frank-large runbook since 2026-09-11: peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server 0.5.8 serving peonist-ai/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next (w4b) as a rootless Quadlet container on Dankclaw, port 7770 — flags, memory model, client contract
• dankclaw-iommu-translation-off — why Dankclaw boots with amd_iommu=off since 2026-09-11 (13-16 % prefill), what it cost (the NPU endpoint), and how to revert
• kingjones-strix-rocmfp4 — the PRIOR frank-large runbook (2026-08-30 → 2026-09-11) and the rollback target: kingjones777/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ROCmFP4-STRIX-GGUF on the card's pinned kingjones30/ROCmFPX build
• kingjones-q8agent-rocmfpx — the retired Q8_0-AGENT investigation and set_rows failure
• eemin-rocmi4-mtp — the former caf-eemin Qwen3.8-27B ROCmI4 embedded-MTP model on Dankclaw
• ciru-activefpx-promptforge — the RETIRED v3 CIRU PromptForge runtime on Dankclaw (superseded 2026-08-24)
• kingjones-strix-mtp — the kingjones Qwen3.8-27B ROCmFP4 STRIX MTP model on Dankclaw (active)
• dealign-ornith-crack — the retired Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B CRACK model on Dankserver (retired 2026-09-02)
• ikllama-ornith-dankserver — the retired ik_llama.cpp runtime for the old frank-small (q8_0 + Hadamard KV cache, split-mode none; 2026-08-26)
• freetoken-frank-small — RETIRED 2026-09-15: the FreeToken/CUDA frank-small runbook, retired with the RTX 3090
• kairic-edge — the retired Kairic Edge IU4 experiment (2026-08-22)
• dflash2-large-vulkan — the retired DFlash2 Vulkan deployment (2026-08-21)
• Dankserver System Specs — the 2x R9700 box hardware (frank-medium)
• Dankclaw System Specs — the Strix Halo gfx1151 box (frank-large)
• Dankclaw Improvements — host-level changes on the Strix Halo box
• Swap Configuration — the 64 GiB /swap.img host swapfile (raised from 8 GiB 2026-09-12): fstab-driven swap.img.swap unit, the safe resize ordering that drains the old file into fresh swap instead of into a host whose MemAvailable lies by the size of the model, and the swappiness caveat
• frank-npu — the RETIRED FLM NPU endpoint on Dankclaw (2026-09-11): Gemma4 E4B vision+audio pack on the XDNA2 NPU, port 7771; kept as the retirement record, including the IOMMU/SVA err=-19 root cause and where every dependent route moved

Benchmarks and Sizing

• frank-large-benchmark — backend/spec benchmark behind the old head
• ubatch-benchmark-large — active-model llama-bench ubatch sweep plan and results
• frank-small-benchmark — the small-model benchmark suite
• Running Qwen3.6 35B A3B FP8 on Dankserver — Qwen3.6-35B-A3B hardware notes
• Running Qwen3.6 27B FP8 on Dankclaw — Qwen3.6-27B sizing on the iGPU
• qwen3.8-strix-optimizations — Strix Halo tuning notes

Memory and Hardware

• RAM CPU Offloading in VLLM — KV cache swap between GPU VRAM and system RAM
• Hybrid CPU GPU Processing Dankserver — NVIDIA GPU compute with system RAM offload
• Shared Memory Architecture Dankclaw — AMD unified memory and ROCm configuration
• dankserver-vram-growth — VRAM/RAM growth behind the retired cuBLAS crash
• Quantization by Hardware Architecture — which quant format fits which GPU/CPU

Retired Topology and History

• Qwen3.8 PP Deployment — the retired pipeline-parallel head + worker
• qwen3.8-spec-matrix — Qwen3.8-27B spec history (superseded by FastMTP)
• FastFlowLM NPU Inference — the retired FastFlowLM NPU endpoint
• DFlash DSpark Speculative Decoding — retired DFlash/DSpark drafting
• ling-3.0-flash-trial — the Ling-3.0-Flash trial runbook
• ling-3.0-flash-vllm-plan — the Ling-3.0-Flash vLLM plan (retired)

vLLM Reference (historical)

• VLLM Overview — installation, CLI, API, architecture, quantization, parallelism
• VLLM Index — quick reference with commands, endpoints, and parameter table
• vllm_research_findings — research findings from the vLLM era

Pipeline Parallelism (archive)

• Ethernet Bandwidth Math — the bandwidth budget for the PP pair
• Expected Performance — expected PP throughput
• llama.cpp RPC — the RPC transport between head and worker
• Mixed-Vendor Experiments — cross-vendor PP experiments
• Qwen3.6 27B Spec Methods — spec-decoding methods for the 27B
• Sample Script Set — reference scripts for the PP pair
• vLLM Pipeline Parallelism — vLLM's PP implementation

Update Log

• log — chronological record of knowledge-base changes

See Also

• AGENTS.md — repository rules
• serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md — the LLM fleet knowledge base
• dankware Configuration Knowledgebase — the "root" level system knowlegebase