The Models tab was about this backend's own disk, which is the wrong disk
for every session that runs anywhere else: llama.cpp reads the file where
it runs. So the models of a machine live under that machine's llama.cpp
provider now, beside the settings deciding how each is loaded, and the
download that produces one happens there.
A download is a detached `curl` on that machine, started by a script this
server writes and never spoken to again. Its state is a file beside the
partial, so nothing about it is held here: it survives the app closing,
this backend restarting and a second device watching, and the progress is
`wc -c` of the partial against the size HuggingFace published rather than
anything remembered. A run whose process is gone is reported failed, since
`kill -0` is asked at each listing, and there is no "finished" state -- a
download that finished is a model, in the list beside the ones still
going. Resuming is guarded by the published sha256, which is also checked
before the file takes its real name.
Two other things the same screens wanted:
A provider is drawn as a card rather than as a line of text, bordered
against the machine card it sits in -- the tint it had was one step along
the surface ladder and rendered as one flat block -- with room to tap and
no chevron.
Nothing in a raw block wraps any more; the block scrolls sideways
instead, one offset for all its lines, so a diff or a column-aligned test
run still reads as one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
iris-aiandClaude Opus 5
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