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mudler's LocalAI [bot] 01fca9c9b2 fix(distributed): scale the remote model-load deadline with checkpoint size (#11030)
The gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel call was a fixed 5m. It starts
only after the backend install and file staging have completed, so it
covers the worker's checkpoint read and pipeline init alone - work whose
duration is proportional to the bytes on disk. A fixed value is therefore
a model-size cliff, not a timeout.

Measured in production: a 70 GB video checkpoint (longcat-video-avatar-1.5)
on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor worker failed reproducibly with
"rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded" after 953.5s of wall clock. Backend
install plus staging consumed ~11m, then LoadModel got its 5m and expired.
The load never had a chance, and the operator saw only a generic
DeadlineExceeded with no hint that a config value was the cause.

Raising the constant does not fix this. It moves the cliff to the next
larger model - the cluster has to support 600 GB checkpoints - and it makes
a genuinely wedged SMALL model hang for the whole inflated duration before
anyone notices, which is a real regression in failure latency.

So derive the budget from the checkpoint size instead:

    budget = 5m + 20s/GiB, capped at 6h

2 GiB -> 5m40s, 70 GiB -> 28m20s, 600 GiB -> 3h25m. The per-GiB rate is
deliberately pessimistic (~54 MB/s of weight read) because the errors are
not symmetric: too long costs only failure latency on a load that was going
to fail anyway, too short is a guaranteed false failure on a healthy load.

The size is measured from the frontend's local model files, over the same
path set stageModelFiles uploads. When those files are not present locally -
a backend handed a bare HuggingFace repo id fetches its own weights on the
worker - there is nothing to measure and the budget stays at today's 5m.

An explicit LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT still wins outright, in both
directions: a shorter override is honoured, so an operator who wants fast
failure is not silently extended by the heuristic.

The cold-load hold needed widening to match. It extends on staging progress,
but LoadModel reports none, so once the last byte lands the hold expires a
stall window later and would cancel a load still well inside its own budget.
scheduleAndLoad now extends the hold by the load budget plus the staging
margin as it enters the load phase; ModelLoadCeilingFor stays the hold's
starting budget rather than its maximum.

Finally, a deadline that does expire now names the budget, the checkpoint
size it was derived from, and the knob that overrides it, instead of
surfacing a bare "context deadline exceeded".


Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-22 09:30:23 +02:00
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