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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 55.80s (prompt_tokens=48631)
session 2: cold TTFT 51.99s (prompt_tokens=46869)
session 3: cold TTFT 54.48s (prompt_tokens=48031)
session 4: cold TTFT 55.22s (prompt_tokens=48240)
session 5: cold TTFT 55.62s (prompt_tokens=47982)
session 6: cold TTFT 58.44s (prompt_tokens=49035)
session 7: cold TTFT 56.92s (prompt_tokens=47843)
session 8: cold TTFT 58.67s (prompt_tokens=48719)
inserted ~385350 tokens ~= 50.5 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 2.39s WARM retained
session 2: TTFT 2.05s WARM retained
session 3: TTFT 1.42s WARM retained
session 4: TTFT 1.71s WARM retained
session 5: TTFT 1.27s WARM retained
session 6: TTFT 3.04s WARM retained
session 7: TTFT 1.05s WARM retained
session 8: TTFT 2.50s 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.