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Alex b03a134925 Local: L1=30 vs L1=60 A/B — the RAM IS working (~1.6-2x faster warm reads)
Reconciles the earlier L2=0 finding. With L2 on (production shape), a 60 GB
L1 serves warm reads ~1.6x faster on average (~2x on the evicted half) than
a 30 GB L1 for a ~50 GB working set: older sessions that spill past a 30 GB
L1 fall to L2 disk (~3-5s) but stay in RAM at L1=60 (~1.3-2.4s).

Two-part model: L2 disk decides *whether* a read is warm (retention); L1 RAM
decides *how fast* (speed). L1 is a fast write-through front for L2, not a
standalone store — hence L2=0 gave 0/8 yet L2=1+L1=60 is fastest. Decision:
keep L1=60, it is not reclaimable headroom.

- Add SALT env to lmcache-retention-test.sh (fresh keys per A/B leg, no L2 collision)
- Add _local-lmcache-tuning/l1-ab-run.sh (two-leg orchestrator + comparison)
- Record result + reconciliation in HANDOFF.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-13 21:44:15 +02:00

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LMCache L1 retention probe -> http://localhost:8017 model=qwen3.6-27b
sessions=8 target_tokens/session~=48000 warm_threshold=8.0s kv=131KB/tok
Building calibrated haystacks (one /tokenize probe each)...
Round 1 - cold insert (fills L1):
session 1: cold TTFT 53.20s (prompt_tokens=47559)
session 2: cold TTFT 52.73s (prompt_tokens=47991)
session 3: cold TTFT 53.78s (prompt_tokens=48207)
session 4: cold TTFT 51.33s (prompt_tokens=46318)
session 5: cold TTFT 52.83s (prompt_tokens=47015)
session 6: cold TTFT 54.30s (prompt_tokens=47676)
session 7: cold TTFT 55.95s (prompt_tokens=48343)
session 8: cold TTFT 56.34s (prompt_tokens=48098)
inserted ~381207 tokens ~= 49.9 GB of L1
capacity lines: L1=30 -> ~229K tok (~30 GB), L1=60 -> ~458K tok (~60 GB)
Round 2 - retention read (same prefixes; warm = retained):
session 1: TTFT 3.32s WARM retained
session 2: TTFT 4.35s WARM retained
session 3: TTFT 4.16s WARM retained
session 4: TTFT 3.58s WARM retained
session 5: TTFT 5.09s WARM retained
session 6: TTFT 1.09s WARM retained
session 7: TTFT 1.87s WARM retained
session 8: TTFT 1.48s WARM retained
retained warm: 8/8
PASS - all sessions retained. L1 held the full working set;
this set would have evicted its earliest sessions at L1=30.