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Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.
I'm not trying to build a perfect architecture diagram. I just want a sane starting point around SGLang and Threadripper box.
I'm especially interested in mistakes worth avoiding.
I care more about stability than squeezing the last possible tokens/sec out of it.
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My first guess would be this: If you're on vLLM, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious.
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Ran a quick check on my box. My result was mixed: first run looked bad, second run looked normal. The surprise was that memory pressure showed up before throughput collapsed.
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Interesting, I hadn't tried that. I don't think your conclusion is far off.
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That matches what I was seeing. I don't think your conclusion is far off.
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Thanks, that helps. That matches what I saw on 7900 XTX. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.