# vllm stack tunables. Copy this to `.env` on the server before deploying. # # cp .env.example .env # # edit .env with real values # docker compose up -d # Image version — PINNED. Do not put `latest` here: every service in this file # shares this one variable, so a bare `docker compose up -d` would silently # upgrade the whole stack's vLLM at once. Pinned 2026-08-20 to the version all # seats were already running (`latest` and `v0.24.0` were the same local image, # 4091d5593f77, so the pin changed nothing at runtime). Bump deliberately. VLLM_VERSION=v0.24.0 # Host ports (container always listens on 8000 internally) EMBED_PORT=8001 # 8013 — the reranker moved here 2026-08-20 when bge-v2-m3 (the R43 winner, which # had been running as a throwaway `docker run` on this port) was promoted into # this stack and the Qwen incumbent on :8002 was retired. RERANK_PORT=8013 REWARD_PORT=8003 # GPU assignment — all services share this GPU # (ana-ml2 has 0 and 1; default 1 keeps 0 free for heavy LLM work in llama-swap) GPU_ID=1 # Models — reference by full repo name in API requests EMBED_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B # bge-reranker-v2-m3 — the R43 bake-off winner, replacing Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B # (measured HARMING 80/90 fleet queries). Multilingual cross-encoder; needs no # --hf-overrides, unlike the Qwen reranker it displaced. RERANK_MODEL=BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 # Skywork is a local-path AWQ output, not from HF Hub. Bind-mounted into the # reward container at /local-models — see compose.yaml. No env var here for # the model path itself since it's hard-coded in the compose command. # GPU memory split — fractions are of TOTAL GPU memory, not free memory. # vLLM profiles each service independently, so each slice must be large enough # to fit that service's model + KV cache with no awareness of the others. # Setting any one too low causes that container to OOM on KV cache allocation # with `Available KV cache memory: -X.XX GiB`. # # Layout on a 48 GB Ada, RIGHT-SIZED 2026-06-05 to free room for the granite # summarizer's CUDA graphs + a LoRA hedge. The trio was wildly over-provisioned: # embed ran a 5.89x KV pool, reward 3.90x — pure waste for utility models that # need ~1.5x. Trimmed to free ~10 GB. (Utilization = fraction of TOTAL GPU mem; # each service profiles independently. Too low → that container OOMs on KV with # `Available KV cache memory: -X.XX GiB`.) # EMBED 0.07 (~3.4 GB) — 0.6B Qwen3 embed @8k; 1.1GB weights + ~2GB KV (~3x) # RERANK 0.07 (~3.4 GB) — 0.6B Qwen3 rerank @8k; comfortable # REWARD 0.18 (~8.6 GB) — 8B Skywork AWQ @16k; 4.4GB weights + ~3.5GB KV (~1.5x) # # RETUNED 2026-06-12 for the Ada->Blackwell swap (cards are now 96 GB, so the # Ada-era fractions reserved ~2x the bytes for the same models). Empirically # re-floored: util climbed in 0.01 steps until each service was stable under # 20x parallel inference. # embed/rerank 0.05 (~4.8 GB ea) — the load-floor for the 0.6B models (0.04 # OOMs on engine init; their footprint is fixed weights+context, not KV). # reward 0.10 (~9.6 GB) — the real over-provision was here (0.18 -> 0.10). # Net: ~11 GB freed on GPU 1. (Fractions are of TOTAL card VRAM — re-floor if # the cards change again.) # 0.03 each — REBALANCED 2026-06-14 (was 0.05): the 0.6B models sat at ~5.5 GB # each at 0.05 (mostly util-reservation waste); 0.03 (~3.6 GB) fits weights + # CUDA context with room, freeing ~4 GB back to granite. Recreate them ONE AT A # TIME — concurrent recreate races the memory-profiling assertion. EMBED_GPU_MEM_UTIL=0.03 RERANK_GPU_MEM_UTIL=0.03 REWARD_GPU_MEM_UTIL=0.10 # Context length caps — lower these if VRAM is tight. # Qwen3-Embedding supports up to 32k; reranker up to 32k. # Skywork capped at 16k server-side as defense-in-depth; JudgeClient also # enforces the cap at dispatch time per spec. EMBED_MAX_MODEL_LEN=8192 RERANK_MAX_MODEL_LEN=8192 REWARD_MAX_MODEL_LEN=16384 # Optional API key — leave blank for no auth (fine on the internal network). # If set, all three services require `Authorization: Bearer `. API_KEY= # HuggingFace token — only needed for gated models in the HF-Hub-loaded # services (embed/rerank). Reward is local-path, ignores this. HF_TOKEN= # === granite-4.1-8b — RETIRED 2026-08-12, vars removed 2026-08-20 === # Was the production summarizer. The `summarizer` / `classifier` gateway aliases # were repointed at the gen seat and the container stopped; the service block and # these tunables are now gone. See the tombstone in compose.yaml for the lesson # this cost us (nevermore stayed pinned to the dead `granite-4.1-8b` alias and # failed silently for 8 days). # Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B (BASE) — FIM code-completion seat for Zed editor inline # edit-predictions (deep-research pick 2026-07-27, Apache-2.0). GPU-1, alongside the # small-model trio + (phasing-out) granite. Reached via LiteLLM `coder-fast` alias # and the keyless zed-fim-proxy (stacks/zed-fim-proxy). util 0.06 (~5.7 GB) holds # the 1.5B fp16 + fp8 KV; 8192 ctx is ample for FIM (KV = 13.75x concurrency). CODER_PORT=8020 CODER_GPU_ID=1 CODER_MODEL=Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B CODER_SERVED_NAME=qwen2.5-coder-1.5b CODER_MAX_MODEL_LEN=8192 CODER_KV_CACHE_DTYPE=fp8 CODER_GPU_MEM_UTIL=0.06 CODER_MAX_NUM_SEQS=32 # === LFM2.5-2.6B — RETIRED PERMANENTLY 2026-08-20 (operator directive) === # Eval-only bake-off seat vs granite-4.1-8b that never got its production ruling; # its comparator was retired first, and it logged 0 calls in the 4 days before it # came down. Container removed, service block and tunables deleted, gateway alias # dropped. Weights remain in the shared HF cache.