Serve a machine's models from one shared llama-server
A llama.cpp session had its own `llama-server`: two sessions on one model held two copies of it in memory, a model change bought a load only that session benefited from, and the process was a session's to end. A machine's models are now served by one `llama-server` in **router mode** -- no `-m`, a preset file naming models and their flags, a child server per model asked for, and each request routed by its `model` field. So one server per model with that model's own settings is what a machine runs, while this backend has one process, one port and one record per machine to keep track of. The record is the mechanism every other driver already uses, so a restart adopts it; a session records the same pid in its own directory as `Detail::Shared`, and `process::signal` refuses to signal one of those -- which is what keeps stopping, deleting or cleaning up after one session from unloading a model every other session is using. Nothing stops a router on its own. That is deliberate (a loaded model is minutes of disk) and it is why the machines tab now has a card per provider that opens its own screen: how each model is loaded, how many stay in memory, Unload, and Stop. How a model is *loaded* therefore belongs to the model on its machine rather than to a session -- context size, GPU layers, threads, slots, speculative decoding -- written into the preset as llama-server's own argument names. Saving them re-reads that file, which unloads the model; that is the change taking effect, and the dialog says so before you save. What stays a session's is everything that rides on a request, including which tools it offers: the router hosts one set for the machine and the choice is a filter applied here, so it costs no reload (2,181 tokens of prompt with all seven, 698 with none). Verified end to end against the scratch backend and the emulator: two sessions sharing one loaded model with one child process, a second session joining it with a 26ms prefill, a backend restart adopting the router and answering with the prompt cache intact, the same over ssh to this VM, a model's settings reaching the running server, Unload, and Stop leaving every session `exited` with no error line.
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@@ -174,7 +174,10 @@ same from the file directly, which is how to tell the two apart in a hurry.
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server loading a model while the 27B holds VRAM fails with `radv/amdgpu:
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Failed to allocate a buffer` / `MESA: error: buffer allocation failed` and
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exits mid-request. `-ngl 0` runs it on the 8 cores instead, which is the way
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to test the driver while something else holds the card.
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to test the driver while something else holds the card -- through the app, that
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is the model's "Layers on the GPU" set to 0 in the machines tab's provider
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view, and `--models-max` above 1 is how two models come to be loaded at once
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in the first place.
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**Testing tools and MCP without the app**: `llama-server --tools all` publishes
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its built-in tools at `GET /tools` and runs one at `POST /tools` with
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@@ -253,8 +256,10 @@ where it was instead of half-deleted.
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Draft acceptance is 0.53–0.73 in every case, so the head is working in all
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of them: what changes is that speculating against a KV cache split four ways
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is slower than not speculating. The driver passes `-np 1` always, so this is
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recorded for whoever next sees MTP look broken. `--spec-draft-n-max 2` was
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is slower than not speculating. A model's preset gets `parallel = 1` unless
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its settings say otherwise (the machines tab's provider view, since
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2026-09-19), so this is recorded for whoever next sees MTP look broken or
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next raises the slot count to answer two sessions at once. `--spec-draft-n-max 2` was
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worth another 7% in a single sample and is deliberately *not* passed — one
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sample on a virtualised GPU is not a number to hardcode.
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