Writeups

Benchmarks, failure notes, and the commands to reproduce them.

  1. Note A silent -ot downgrade under mmap, and a 9-line loader fix 5 min

    Why -ot ...=CUDA_Host did nothing on master, what my PR #28223 changes, and where the 8 minutes of load time went.

  2. Part 02 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2x3090 + DDR4, part 2: 25-29 to 37-41 t/s with UD-Q4_K_XL, the expert cache, and MTP 14 min

    A quant swap, MTP on top of the cache, a 4x faster load, a bug in the cache PR, and the discovery that my RAM had been thermal throttling the whole time.

  3. Part 01 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2x3090 + DDR4: 17 to 25-29 t/s decode with the expert cache PR 12 min

    All 48 expert layers in host RAM, an LRU cache of hot experts in VRAM, and the VRAM budget that made it pay.