Dialectic benchmark (8 hermes-fleet questions): Qwen3-4B answered in 2-12 s but often wrongly (invented facts, 'no information' on things memory holds); the 9B answered correctly. All Honcho dialectic levels now use the 9B (rift .env). Its VRAM goes to the 9B's KV pool: at 2 x 16k, concurrent deriver + dialectic hit 'failed to find free space in the KV cache'. 9B 6.3 GB + embed 2.2 GB = 8.4 GB. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
208 lines
8.8 KiB
Nix
208 lines
8.8 KiB
Nix
{ inputs, pkgs, lib, config, ... }:
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let
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# Unstable instantiated with unfree allowed: CUDA is unfree, and legacyPackages does not
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# inherit the host's nixpkgs.config (straylight's Vulkan build never hit this).
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pkgsUnstable = import inputs.nixpkgs-unstable {
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system = pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system;
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config = { allowUnfree = true; cudaSupport = true; };
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};
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# llama.cpp with the CUDA backend, from unstable to match straylight's build (same model
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# files, same router semantics). Built once on straylight and shipped with dixie-push
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# --closure, or pulled from the cache when Dixie's link allows.
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llama-cpp = pkgsUnstable.llama-cpp.override { cudaSupport = true; };
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modelsDir = "/var/lib/llama-server/models";
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# Dixie is the fleet's helper tier: everything that is latency-sensitive, small, and was
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# starving on straylight's CPU (2026-09-21). One RTX 3060 (12 GB) today; card 2 joins
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# when its fans are replaced.
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#
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# Router: the three models that must never be swapped out — approval guardian / Honcho
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# deriver (9B), Honcho dialectic (4B, non-thinking), Honcho embeddings — resident together:
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# 5.6 + 2.5 + 0.7 GB weights, ~3 GB left for KV. Vision does NOT go here: 5 GB + 1.2 GB
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# mmproj does not fit beside them, so it gets its own on-demand process below.
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llamaModelsIni = pkgs.writeText "llama-models.ini" ''
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version = 1
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[*]
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jinja = true
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flash-attn = on
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cache-type-k = q8_0
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cache-type-v = q8_0
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n-gpu-layers = 999
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; three resident models share 12 GB: keep contexts modest
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ctx-size = 16384
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parallel = 2
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; one KV pool per model shared by its slots, so a single long request can use all 16k
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; (split slots capped each at 8k: Honcho dialectic prompts of 11-17k all failed)
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kv-unified = true
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cache-ram = 512
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; Ornith 1.5 9B, refusal-ablated. Hermes auxiliary model (approval guardian, title,
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; web_extract) for all agents and Honcho's deriver/summary/dream model.
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[ornith-1.5-9b-uncensored]
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model = ${modelsDir}/ornith-1.5-9b-uncensored/Ornith-1.5-9B-uncensored.Q4_K_M.gguf
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; serves the deriver, all dialectic levels and three agents' approval guardians at once:
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; 4 slots over one 48k pool (at 2 x 16k, concurrent deriver + dialectic hit "failed to find
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; free space in the KV cache" and stalled)
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ctx-size = 49152
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parallel = 4
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; Runaway guard carried over from straylight: helper tasks need short answers.
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reasoning-budget = 2048
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n-predict = 4096
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; stock template raises on tool-loop requests with no plain user turn (Honcho dialectic)
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chat-template-file = ${./ornith-9b-chat-template.jinja}
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; Qwen thinking-mode sampling (llama-server's 0.8 default made the Honcho deriver drop
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; ~1 in 3 batches, measured 2026-09-22). Clients that send their own temperature win.
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temp = 0.6
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top-p = 0.95
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top-k = 20
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min-p = 0
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; honcho-dialectic (Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507) retired 2026-09-22: fast but often wrong in a
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; dialectic benchmark, where the 9B answered correctly. All dialectic levels use the 9B now;
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; the 4B's VRAM went to the 9B's KV pool. File stays on the stick under qwen3-4b-instruct-2507/.
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; Honcho embeddings (1024-dim; EMBEDDING_VECTOR_DIMENSIONS=1024 on rift).
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[honcho-embed]
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model = ${modelsDir}/qwen3-embedding-0.6b/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf
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embedding = true
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pooling = cls
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; A whole input must fit in one physical batch AND one slot (batch-size silently caps
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; ubatch; ctx is split across slots). Bigger batches cost compute buffers fast on a
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; shared 12 GB card: 8192/slot took 6.6 GB and 4096/slot did not fit beside the 9B and
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; dialectic. So 2048/slot here, and rift's EMBEDDING_MAX_INPUT_TOKENS=1536 makes Honcho
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; chunk below that (its token estimate is not Qwen's tokenizer, hence the margin).
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batch-size = 2048
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ubatch-size = 2048
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ctx-size = 4096
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parallel = 2
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'';
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# Vision (auxiliary.vision for all agents): its own server on :11433, loaded on first
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# request and dropped again after an idle hour so the router's three keep their VRAM.
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visionModelsIni = pkgs.writeText "llama-vision.ini" ''
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version = 1
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[*]
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jinja = true
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flash-attn = on
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n-gpu-layers = 999
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ctx-size = 16384
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parallel = 1
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sleep-idle-seconds = 3600
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[qwen3-vl-8b-abliterated]
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model = ${modelsDir}/qwen3-vl-8b-abliterated/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v2.0.Q4_K_M.gguf
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mmproj = ${modelsDir}/qwen3-vl-8b-abliterated/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-abliterated-v2.0.mmproj-f16.gguf
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'';
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llamaService = { description, port, preset, modelsMax }: {
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inherit description;
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wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
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after = [ "network-online.target" "var-lib-llama\\x2dserver-models.mount" ];
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wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
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environment.HOME = "/var/lib/llama-server";
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serviceConfig = {
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ExecStart = ''
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${llama-cpp}/bin/llama-server \
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--host 0.0.0.0 \
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--port ${toString port} \
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--models-preset ${preset} \
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--models-max ${toString modelsMax} \
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--timeout 7200
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'';
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User = "llama-server";
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Group = "llama-server";
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StateDirectory = "llama-server";
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WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/llama-server";
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SupplementaryGroups = [ "video" ];
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Restart = "on-failure";
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RestartSec = "10s";
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TimeoutStartSec = "600";
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};
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};
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in
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{
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imports = [
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./hardware-configuration.nix
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./disk-config.nix
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];
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config = {
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# Headless. The base configuration.nix has no desktop; nothing GUI is added here.
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boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true;
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boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true;
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# 6.12 LTS: mt7921u (the AX9L USB Wi-Fi) is in-tree from 5.18; avoids the 6.17/6.18
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# mt7921 monitor-mode regression for good measure.
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boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_6_12;
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# NVIDIA, compute only: no X, no modesetting needed for CUDA.
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hardware.graphics.enable = true;
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services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];
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hardware.nvidia = {
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open = false;
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modesetting.enable = false;
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nvidiaPersistenced = true;
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package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.production;
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};
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hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware = true;
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# Power cap for the 3060(s): thermal hour on 2026-09-21 held 75 °C at 140 W, case closed.
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systemd.services.nvidia-power-cap = {
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description = "Cap GPU power (thermals in the Aurora chassis)";
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wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
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after = [ "nvidia-persistenced.service" ];
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serviceConfig = {
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Type = "oneshot";
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RemainAfterExit = true;
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ExecStart = "${config.hardware.nvidia.package.bin}/bin/nvidia-smi -pl 140";
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};
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};
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# Headless and Wi-Fi only: there is no console to add a key from after install, so the
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# keys go in with the system. Same set the live ISO used (~/src/dixie-iso).
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users.users.kyle.openssh.authorizedKeys.keyFiles = [ ./authorized_keys.pub ];
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users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keyFiles = [ ./authorized_keys.pub ];
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users.users.llama-server = { isSystemUser = true; group = "llama-server"; home = "/var/lib/llama-server"; };
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users.groups.llama-server = { };
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# Model weights live on the USB cache stick (ext4, label dixie-cache), populated from
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# straylight with dixie-push. Both servers wait for the mount.
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fileSystems."/mnt/cache" = {
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device = "/dev/disk/by-label/dixie-cache";
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fsType = "ext4";
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options = [ "noatime" "nofail" "x-systemd.device-timeout=30s" ];
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};
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fileSystems."/var/lib/llama-server/models" = {
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device = "/mnt/cache/models";
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fsType = "none";
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options = [ "bind" "nofail" "x-systemd.requires=/mnt/cache" ];
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};
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systemd.services.llama-server = llamaService {
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description = "llama.cpp router: helper tier (9B guardian/deriver/dialectic, embeddings)";
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port = 11434; preset = llamaModelsIni; modelsMax = 2;
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};
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systemd.services.llama-vision = llamaService {
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description = "llama.cpp vision server (qwen3-vl-8b, on demand)";
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port = 11433; preset = visionModelsIni; modelsMax = 1;
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};
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# Wi-Fi only host. NetworkManager comes from the base config; the AX9L (mt7921u) becomes
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# the primary once plugged in and the internal CNVi radio stays as fallback. Connection
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# profiles are copied from the live-USB session at install time (see the install notes),
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# not stored in this repo.
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networking.networkmanager.wifi.backend = "wpa_supplicant";
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# Reachable only over the tailnet: 11434 (router) and 11433 (vision) on tailscale0, and
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# SSH from the LAN (base config opens 22) for bring-up.
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networking.firewall.interfaces.tailscale0.allowedTCPPorts = [ 11433 11434 ];
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environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
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llama-cpp
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pciutils usbutils lm_sensors dmidecode nvme-cli smartmontools ethtool iw wpa_supplicant
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htop tmux git jq curl rsync nvtopPackages.nvidia
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];
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};
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}
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