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Operator-directed: raise context to the model's native maximum and take as much KV as the card safely allows, and expose the seat through LiteLLM as `gen-large`. max_model_len 131,072 -> 262,144 KV cache 8.76 -> 14.00 GiB (332,721 -> 560,654 tokens) concurrency 2.54x@128K -> 2.14x@262K ⚠ 16.00 GiB WAS TRIED FIRST AND IS TOO AGGRESSIVE. A 155,497-token non-repeating prefill drove GPU 2 to 97,074 of 97,887 MiB and the caching allocator logged "OOM on device 0 while trying to allocate 488636416 bytes (free: 422117376)" -- 466 MiB wanted against 403 MiB free. The request completed, so nothing failed visibly; that is one step before the shape that crashed stacks/mog-sec twice on 2026-09-10 (~1.04 GiB wanted, ~600 MB free). Backed off to 14.00 GiB, which re-probes clean: zero allocator warnings, a 155,557-token prefill in 14.2 s, and 2,085 MiB still free at peak. The reason the first estimate was wrong is worth keeping, because it is not obvious and it inverts the usual advice: --kv-cache-memory makes vLLM SKIP MEMORY PROFILING ENTIRELY and ignore --gpu-memory-utilization. The profiler was the thing accounting for deep-prefill activation, so pinning bytes switched off the protection that the pin was supposed to formalise. vLLM's own "--kv-cache-memory=18745235968 (17.46 GiB) to fully utilize gpu memory" line is computed from a profile measured at max-num-batched-tokens depth and sits 3.5 GiB above what a 150K-token request survives; open #54764 compounds it, since PLE short-conv prefill pads every request in a batch to the batch-MAX query length. max-num-batched-tokens stays at 8192 -- it is what bounds the activation peak, and doubling max_model_len left the profiled peak unchanged at 1.65 GiB precisely because the peak tracks chunk size, not context length. Gateway: `gen-large` added to the LiteLLM model_list, pointing at fv-ml1:8022. One alias on purpose -- a single alias cannot trip the shared-config enable_thinking mutation footgun, which needs two over the same (model, api_base). Sampling is the checkpoint's own declared set (temp 1.0 / top_p 0.95 / top_k 20); presence_penalty, min_p and repetition_penalty are left unset because the checkpoint declares no canonical value for them. Verified registered for both the infra-ops admin key and the shared all-agents key, since a new model behind a scoped allowlist 403s silently. Also adds services/flash-next-mtp-bench/ -- the MTP measurement campaign and its rationale. MTP stays off, but on "not yet measured here" rather than on vLLM's 4xH100 recipe number, which is a cross-harness comparison and not evidence about a TP=1 Blackwell seat.
eshpfi-management
Infrastructure management workspace for the PFI fleet (plus the ESH home-lab host). Tracks server state, canonical Docker Compose stacks, per-host configs, and the tooling that moves them around.
See CLAUDE.md for the full set of conventions and the rules Claude Code sessions follow when working here.
The fleet
Docker hosts:
| Host | IP | Site | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| fv-ml1 | 10.251.50.54 |
Fountain Valley (10.251.0.0/16) |
GPU / AI inference (bare metal, 4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q) |
| ana-docker | 10.250.50.70 |
Anaheim | General-purpose Docker + cross-site hubs (VM on pfi-pve) |
| nh3-docker | 10.100.50.40 |
NH3 (10.100.0.0/16) |
General-purpose Docker (VM on nh3-pve) |
| esh-docker-vm | 10.0.50.45 |
ESH home lab (esteban.net) |
Home-lab Docker (VM on esh-pve, non-PFI scope) |
| vm-esh-nas | 10.0.50.154 |
ESH home lab | NAS-adjacent Docker, NFS-mounted shares (VM on esh-pve-nas, non-PFI scope) |
Proxmox hypervisors (tracked for inventory; not Docker targets):
| Host | IP | Site | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| pfi-pve | 10.250.250.31 |
Anaheim | Proxmox VE (188 GB / Xeon Silver 4310) |
| nh3-pve | 10.100.250.60 |
NH3 | Proxmox VE (62 GB / i9-13900H) |
| esh-pve | 10.0.250.35 |
ESH home lab | Proxmox VE (62 GB / i9-13900H) |
| esh-pve-nas | 10.0.50.55 |
ESH home lab | Proxmox VE, storage-dedicated (125 GB / Xeon W-1250) |
Per-host snapshots of the running system live under servers/<host>/system-details.txt, refreshed via scripts/refresh-server-info.sh.
Layout
.
├── CLAUDE.md # conventions; loaded by Claude Code sessions
├── README.md # this file
├── scripts/ # workstation tooling
│ ├── server_inspect.sh # read-only diagnostic, runs on remote via stdin
│ ├── proxmox_inspect.sh # Proxmox-aware probe (VMs, LXCs, storage, backup coverage)
│ ├── refresh-server-info.sh # pull fresh system-details.txt for one/all hosts
│ ├── refresh-proxmox-info.sh # pull fresh proxmox-details.txt for one/all PVE nodes
│ ├── add-host.sh # register a new server (writes servers/<name>/ssh-target)
│ ├── sync-stacks.sh # pull /opt/docker/{compose,conf}/ → stacks-mirror/
│ ├── deploy-stack.sh # push stacks-mirror/<host>/<stack>/ with diff + prompt
│ ├── discover-fortigate.sh # DHCP lease list from a FortiGate via SSH
│ ├── discover-unifi.sh # client list from a UniFi Controller via REST
│ └── discover-gaps.sh # find IPs in discovery TSVs not tracked in servers/
├── servers/ # per-host notes + latest snapshot + ssh-target fallback
│ └── <host>/
│ ├── README.md
│ ├── system-details.txt # regenerate on demand
│ └── ssh-target # <ip> or <user>@<ip>, used when DNS fails
├── stacks/ # canonical compose files (source of truth)
│ └── <stack>/
│ ├── compose.yaml
│ ├── .env.example
│ └── README.md
├── stacks-mirror/ # gitignored — live mirror from sync-stacks.sh
├── configs/ # host-level config files that aren't docker-compose
│ ├── homepage/ # canonical config for the fleet dashboard (on esh-docker-vm)
│ └── restic/<host>/ # resticprofile configs + pre-backup hooks
└── docs/ # general reference (network, models, proxmox, etc.)
└── pfi/
Current stacks
GPU (fv-ml1):
llama-swap— GGUF model swapper via llama.cpp (port 9292)vllm— embeddings (8001) + reranker (8002) + Skywork reward classifier (8003) via vLLM
Anaheim non-GPU (ana-docker):
traefik,crowdsec,gitea,vaultwarden,synapse,seafile,searxng,openwebui,sillytavern,mailrise,rustdesk,dockge,it-tools- (
mattermostretired 2026-04-21 — compose dir may still linger, containers gone) - Notes / feeds:
miniflux(RSS, 8080),nevermore(twice-daily LLM-curated brief, 8181, multi-tenant — extracted to its own repo atvh/nevermore),memos(note server, 5230) - Assistant tooling:
task-board(MCP + dashboard for assistant task state, 7878) - Fleet services:
beszel(metrics hub, port 8090),dozzle-hub(log viewer, 8088),backrest(restic UI, 9898) - Backup target:
rest-server-anaon port 8000
GPU fv-ml1 (non-canonical for now):
comfyui,kokoro,parakeet,vibevoicealongside the canonicalllama-swap+vllm
NH3 (nh3-docker):
adguard,dockge, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents
NH3 (Synology 10.100.50.50):
rest-server-nh3— restic backup target (port 8000)
ESH home lab (esh-docker-vm):
adguard,homeassistant(macvlan),esphome,mosquitto,paperless-ngx,pgadmin,calibre-web-automated,drawio,traefik,homepage,uptime-kuma, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents
ESH home lab (vm-esh-nas):
filezilla(web UI on port 5800),dockge, plus Beszel/Dozzle agents. Mounts/mnt/{share,music,books,media}from the Debian NAS at 10.0.50.50.
Common tasks
Refresh one host's snapshot:
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh ana-docker
Refresh all hosts:
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh all
Refresh all Proxmox nodes (separate flow — captures VM/LXC/backup-coverage):
scripts/refresh-proxmox-info.sh all
Add a new host:
scripts/add-host.sh <name> <ip-or-user@ip>
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh <name>
Validate discovery (without hitting the network):
scripts/refresh-server-info.sh --validate-only all
Push a stack to a host (with diff + confirm):
scripts/deploy-stack.sh <host> <stack>
Pull every server's compose/conf trees into stacks-mirror/ (not committed — see .gitignore):
scripts/sync-stacks.sh all
Bootstrap a new fleet repo from this one:
scripts/fork-fleet.sh ~/development/<other-fleet>-management
# optional: override the fleet-name baked into the skeleton CLAUDE.md / README
scripts/fork-fleet.sh ~/development/<dest> <fleet-name>
Mirrors the reusable tooling (everything under scripts/, the
generic playbook templates, .gitignore, conventions section of
CLAUDE.md) into the destination dir, strips fleet-specific content
(servers/, stacks/, configs/, fleet-named playbooks
(deploy-*, decouple-*), docs/orientation.md, docs/runbooks/,
docs/pfi/, STATUS.md, host-pinned helper scripts), regenerates
skeleton CLAUDE.md / README.md / STATUS.md with the new fleet
name, and initializes a fresh git history with one "Initial commit".
The script does not create a gitea remote or push — namespace +
repo name are an explicit manual step. The "next steps" output prints
the exact tea repo create + git remote add + git push commands
to wire it up when ready.
Backup pipeline
Backups are driven by per-host resticprofile configs under configs/restic/<host>/, scheduled via systemd timers on each host:
- Writes: each host backs up to its site-local rest-server (
rest-server-anaorrest-server-nh3), over HTTP basic-auth. - Authentication: shared
.htpasswdfile on both rest-servers, one entry per host; credentials stored in/etc/restic/restic.envon each client host. - Encryption: per-host client-side passphrase in
/etc/restic/password(unique per repo; losing it = losing that host's backups). - Visibility: Backrest (
http://10.250.50.70:9898) shows every repo for browsing/restore. - Schedule: backup at 01:00 daily,
forgetat 03:00 daily, weeklycheck --read-data-subset 10%on Sundays. - Prune: manual ceremony (rest-server runs with
--append-only, which blocks destructive prune ops). - Off-site: cross-site rsync between the two rest-server data dirs is planned (not yet implemented).
Coverage status (as of 2026-04-29)
Goal: every Docker host + configs + every database covered, not just VM images.
| Layer | State |
|---|---|
| VM-level (Proxmox vzdump) | ✅ All running guests covered across pfi-pve / nh3-pve / esh-pve-nas; esh-pve has VMID 108 uncovered |
| ana-docker restic (host files + DBs) | ✅ configs/restic/ana-docker/ with pre-backup hooks for synapse / seafile / vaultwarden-pg / gitea (native dump) / openwebui |
| fv-ml1 restic | ✅ configs/restic/fv-ml1/ — bare-metal host files (no DB hooks needed) |
| nh3-docker restic | ✅ Light — no DB hooks needed |
| esh-docker-vm restic | ✅ With DB hooks for paperless-postgres (external), home-assistant + pgadmin + uptime-kuma (host-side sqlite3), calibre-web-automated (in-container sqlite3) |
| vm-esh-nas restic | ✅ Light — NFS mounts explicitly excluded |
| nh3-dev (workstation) restic | ✅ /home/lkraven + /etc with language-toolchain and build-output excludes |
| irv-ml1 restic | ✅ Cross-site to rest-server-nh3 via WireGuard |
| esh-vm-db restic | ✅ With pg_dumpall + mongodump pre-backup hooks |
| Cross-site redundancy | ✅ ana-nas → nh3-nas rsync at 04:00 daily; nh3-nas → ana-nas at 05:00 daily (configs/rsync/) |
| Prune ceremony | ✅ Quarterly manual ritual documented in docs/runbooks/nh3-prune-ritual.md (DSM-mediated --append-only toggle) |
| offen/docker-volume-backup sidecars on esh-docker-vm | ❌ Remove once restic proves itself (~1 week of clean runs) |
Authoritative vs. mirror
- Authoritative: files on each server under
/opt/docker/compose/<stack>/and/opt/docker/conf/<stack>/. - This workspace: source-of-truth copies under
stacks/<name>/(hand-curated), and a gitignored mirror understacks-mirror/pulled bysync-stacks.sh.
Edit in stacks/, push with deploy-stack.sh. Never commit stacks-mirror/ — it can contain embedded plaintext secrets from upstream compose files that haven't been audited yet.