# voices-seat — one base carrier, N author LoRA adapters, hot-swappable. fv-ml1 GPU 0, :8027. # # NAMING: adapters are `lv-` — lv for lang-voice (operator, 2026-09-16, retiring the # `baby*` prefix: it read fine for one experiment and invites confusion across a family). # The adapter NAME is the request's `model` field, so this string is the public API of a voice. # # WHY LORA AND NOT MERGE (operator decision 2026-09-16, after measurement): the R49 line # produces a FAMILY of author voices — lv-bronte, lv-yarros (shipped), lv-hemingway (in # build) — and Skaldsong switches between them per request. Merging bakes each 264 MB adapter # into a fresh 7.6 GB model: # # 3 authors LoRA 7.6 GB + 3x264 MB ~ 8.4 GB merged ~23 GB # 6 authors LoRA 7.6 GB + 6x264 MB ~ 9.2 GB merged ~46 GB # # On a box where GPU 1 has 5.7 GB free, GPU 2 has 2.4 GB and GPU 3 is a held reserve, that # is the whole argument. A new author becomes a directory drop, not a VRAM negotiation. # # ⚠ SUPPORT WAS CHECKED, NOT ASSUMED. The training-throughput playbook records a LoRA refusal # on a Qwen3 *MoE* arch ("get_expert_mapping must be implemented") and its lesson is that # feature support is per-architecture, not per-family. Verified on the fleet's own engine # before committing: vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3.py:271 declares Qwen3ForCausalLM with # SupportsLoRA, plus packed_modules_mapping and embedding_modules. Dense Qwen3 is fine; do NOT # transplant this compose onto an MoE carrier without re-running that grep. # # ⚠ KV IS PINNED IN BYTES, deliberately, following gen-small-seat's note. On THIS box # `--gpu-memory-utilization` has been measured wrong in both directions — cyberprev at 0.40 # holds 47.1 GB (8 GB over its fraction), gen-small at 0.48 holds 36.9 (10 GB under) — so a # fraction cannot be used to place a seat beside live co-tenants. GPU 0 already carries # cyberprev, gen-small and the Parakeet STT seat; an explicit KV budget makes this seat's # footprint deterministic instead of negotiated. # # ⚠ ADAPTERS ARE MOUNTED READ-ONLY and named explicitly. A request selects a voice by putting # the adapter name in the `model` field — switching voices is a field, not a deployment. # # MEASURED on this seat, 2026-09-16, rather than taken from docs: # POST /v1/load_lora_adapter {"lora_name","lora_path"} -> 200 in 0.24 s # POST /v1/unload_lora_adapter {"lora_name"} -> 200 in 0.003 s # VRAM unchanged across the swap; container stayed healthy; no restart, no reload. # ⚠ Anything added that way is GONE on `compose up -d` unless it is ALSO listed in # --lora-modules below. Runtime load is for trying a voice; this list is what survives. # # MEASURED LORA COST on this seat (n=30 per arm, interleaved, A-vs-A floor 0.1%): # base median 143.0 tok/s # lv-yarros median 108.2 tok/s -> -24.3%, far outside the floor. # Accepted deliberately: the seat is for prose, not a latency path, and 24% buys every future # author for 264 MB instead of 7.6 GB. If a voice ever lands on a hot path, merge THAT one. # # MEASURED RESIDENCY: 10,740 MiB, against a requested 0.11 x 94.97 GiB = 10,700 MiB — a 40 MiB # miss on a box where the util fraction has been wrong by 8-10 GB in BOTH directions. Pinning # --kv-cache-memory in bytes is what makes the fraction predictive; do not remove it. name: voices-seat services: vllm-voices: image: ${VOICES_IMAGE:-vllm/vllm-openai:nightly-e9d1398d9edfd90fcc1cf783805240e3effec013} container_name: ${VOICES_CONTAINER_NAME:-vllm-voices} restart: unless-stopped ipc: host ports: - "${VOICES_PORT:-8027}:8000" volumes: - /tank/aimodels/huggingface:/hfcache - ${VOICES_MODEL:-/tank/aimodels/Qwen3-4B-Instruct}:/model:ro - /tank/aimodels/voice-adapters:/adapters:ro environment: - VLLM_API_KEY=${API_KEY:-} - VLLM_ALLOW_RUNTIME_LORA_UPDATING=${VOICES_RUNTIME_LORA:-1} command: - /model - --served-model-name - ${VOICES_SERVED_NAME:-voices-base} - --host - 0.0.0.0 - --port - "8000" - --gpu-memory-utilization - "${VOICES_GPU_MEM_UTIL:-0.12}" - --kv-cache-memory - "${VOICES_KV_CACHE_MEMORY:-2147483648}" - --max-model-len - "${VOICES_MAX_MODEL_LEN:-8192}" - --max-num-seqs - "${VOICES_MAX_NUM_SEQS:-8}" - --dtype - auto - --enable-prefix-caching - --enable-lora - --max-loras - "${VOICES_MAX_LORAS:-4}" - --max-lora-rank - "${VOICES_MAX_LORA_RANK:-32}" - --lora-modules - lv-yarros=/adapters/lv-yarros-4b-v1 deploy: resources: reservations: devices: - driver: nvidia device_ids: - "${VOICES_GPU_ID:-0}" capabilities: [gpu] healthcheck: test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -fsS http://localhost:8000/health || exit 1"] interval: 30s timeout: 5s retries: 20 start_period: 300s labels: - homepage.group=AI - Inference - homepage.name=Voices - homepage.icon=mdi-account-voice - homepage.description=Author voice adapters (LoRA) on Qwen3-4B - homepage.href=http://10.251.50.54:8027/docs networks: [tnet] networks: tnet: name: traefik-net external: true