--- # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Playbook: day2_qwen38_ctx128k_rollback.yml # Purpose: Roll back Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M ctx-size from 131072 back to 65536 # on astro-orbiter's production router (port 8002). # # What this playbook does: # 1. Renders the updated llama-server-router-preset.ini.j2 (now with # llm_router_qwen38_ctx_size: 65536) to # /opt/llama-server-router-preset.ini. # 2. Restarts llama-server-router.service. # 3. Verifies the router loads Qwen3.8-27B at ctx=65536 in status.args. # # Context: # - t_441470b9 (2026-08-16): ctx-size bumped 32768 -> 131072. Verified VRAM # at 131072 ctx with only Qwen3.8 + nomic-embed co-resident: ~20,282 MiB # + 558 MiB = ~20.8 GB on 24 GB RTX 3090. Comfortably safe. # - t_72646029 (2026-08-17): Phi-3.5mini moved to GPU (n-gpu-layers=99) # to enable concurrent residency with CPU-offloaded Coder-14B and # Llama-3.1-8B. This added ~2GB CUDA context buffers for Phi + shifted # Phi's model weights onto the GPU (~3.8GB). # - NEW steady-state VRAM: Qwen3.8 @ 131072 ctx (~20,282 MiB) + nomic-embed # (~558 MiB) + Llama CUDA ctx (~1,706 MiB) + Coder CUDA ctx (~1,390 MiB) # = ~24,004 MiB. Adding Phi-3.5 (~3,800 MiB weights + ~1.4 GB CUDA ctx) # pushes total to ~29,000+ MiB — exceeding the 24,576 MiB RTX 3090 limit. # Qwen3.8-27B-131072 now fails to load (HTTP 500, OOM before llama.cpp # reaches the model-loading phase). # - FIX: reduce Qwen3.8 ctx-size 131072 -> 65536. This reduces KV cache # from ~6GB to ~3GB, freeing ~3GB of VRAM. New estimated steady-state: # Qwen3.8 @ 65536 ctx (~17,068 MiB) + nomic (~558) + Llama ctx (~1,706) # + Coder ctx (~1,390) + Phi-3.5 (~3,800 + ~1,400 CUDA ctx) = ~25,922 MiB. # Still over 24,576 — see "Phase 2" below for the secondary fix. # # IMPORTANT: Rolling back ctx-size alone may NOT be sufficient. The # hardware reference (astro-orbiter-hardware.md line 166, t_72646029) # states steady-state ~24,004 MiB WITHOUT Phi on GPU. Adding Phi-3.5 back # to GPU tips it over. This playbook handles the context rollback; if Qwen3.8 # still fails to load after Phase R, Wong should escalate to Ryan for a # decision on either (a) offloading Phi-3.5mini to CPU (n-gpu-layers=0), # or (b) adding a second GPU. Document the Phase 2 finding as a separate # follow-up task if needed. # # The 64K floor from the 2026-08-12 cutover validation (t_cd0d5388, Gate 1) # still applies — ctx-size=65536 satisfies it. # # Run: # cd /home/hermes/git/homelab/ansible # env -u ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE ansible-playbook \ # -i inventory.yml \ # playbooks/day2_qwen38_ctx128k_rollback.yml # # Task reference: t_c9fed26c — War Machine benchmark, 2026-08-18 # Root cause: t_72646029 CPU-offload deployment added Phi-3.5 to GPU, # shifting total VRAM past the 24,576 MiB ceiling when Qwen3.8 runs at 128K. # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - name: Roll back Qwen3.8-27B ctx-size to 65536 on astro-orbiter hosts: astro-orbiter become: true vars: llm_router_preset_enabled: true llm_router_qwen38_ctx_size: 65536 roles: - role: llm-inference-multimodel tags: [preset, systemd, verify]