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mudler's LocalAI [bot] 1aa97381f3 perf(gallery): warm variant descriptions alongside VRAM estimates (#11297)
Follow-up to #11288, which warmed the VRAM estimate caches at startup and left
the variant picker paying its own way.

Describing an entry's variants probes the weight files of every build it
offers, so the first time a model is opened costs 1.2-1.9s against a cold
cache. That is the same cost as an estimate wearing a different hat, and it
lands in the same caches underneath, so it belongs in the same pass rather than
in a second mechanism.

The warm-up now describes variants for the entries it walks. Entries that
declare none cost nothing: the call is gated on HasVariants rather than
attempted and discarded. The host resolve env is derived once for the run,
since it describes the machine rather than the entry.

Failure handling matches the estimate half. An entry whose variants cannot be
described is logged at debug and skipped, and the estimate for that same entry
is unaffected, because neither half is allowed to fail the other.

Measured against a live instance with 1,595 models, first ever call to
/api/models/variants/:id after a cold boot:

  before   1.2-1.9s
  after    2ms

The warm-up's own cost barely moves: 3m0s to 3m19s for 300 entries, of which
40 declared variants. It stays bounded by the same knobs, and
LOCALAI_VRAM_WARM_LIMIT=0 still turns the whole thing off.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-08-02 19:42:54 +02:00
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LocalAI documentation website

Requirement

In this project, the Docsy theme component is pulled in as a Hugo module, together with other module dependencies:

$ hugo mod graph
hugo: collected modules in 566 ms
hugo: collected modules in 578 ms
github.com/google/docsy-example github.com/google/docsy@v0.5.1-0.20221017155306-99eacb09ffb0
github.com/google/docsy-example github.com/google/docsy/dependencies@v0.5.1-0.20221014161617-be5da07ecff1
github.com/google/docsy/dependencies@v0.5.1-0.20221014161617-be5da07ecff1 github.com/twbs/bootstrap@v4.6.2+incompatible
github.com/google/docsy/dependencies@v0.5.1-0.20221014161617-be5da07ecff1 github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome@v0.0.0-20220831210243-d3a7818c253f

If you want to do SCSS edits and want to publish these, you need to install PostCSS

npm install

Running the website locally

Building and running the site locally requires a recent extended version of Hugo. You can find out more about how to install Hugo for your environment in our Getting started guide.

From the LocalAI repository root, run:

make docs

The Hugo configuration lives in the docs directory. To invoke Hugo directly instead, run:

cd docs
hugo server

Running a container locally

You can run docsy-example inside a Docker container, the container runs with a volume bound to the docsy-example folder. This approach doesn't require you to install any dependencies other than Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac, and Docker Compose on Linux.

  1. Build the docker image

    docker-compose build
    
  2. Run the built image

    docker-compose up
    

    NOTE: You can run both commands at once with docker-compose up --build.

  3. Verify that the service is working.

    Open your web browser and type http://localhost:1313 in your navigation bar, This opens a local instance of the docsy-example homepage. You can now make changes to the docsy example and those changes will immediately show up in your browser after you save.

Cleanup

To stop Docker Compose, on your terminal window, press Ctrl + C.

To remove the produced images run:

docker-compose rm

For more information see the Docker Compose documentation.

Troubleshooting

As you run the website locally, you may run into the following error:

➜ hugo server

INFO 2021/01/21 21:07:55 Using config file: 
Building sites … INFO 2021/01/21 21:07:55 syncing static files to /
Built in 288 ms
Error: Error building site: TOCSS: failed to transform "scss/main.scss" (text/x-scss): resource "scss/scss/main.scss_9fadf33d895a46083cdd64396b57ef68" not found in file cache

This error occurs if you have not installed the extended version of Hugo. See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install Hugo.

Or you may encounter the following error:

➜ hugo server

Error: failed to download modules: binary with name "go" not found

This error occurs if you have not installed the go programming language on your system. See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install go.