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Llama-server sleep mode bug causes request loss and crashes

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A bug in llama-server's sleep mode can cause requests to be lost or lead to server crashes. When the server enters its sleep state, a race condition can occur if a request arrives just before or during this transition. Requests arriving too close to the sleep initiation may not be processed, leading to a hang until a subsequent request wakes the server, or in some cases, a SIGSEGV crash within the tokenizer when it attempts to access vocabulary that has been unloaded. This issue has been observed with Gemma 3:1B models on llama.cpp version b11368 and has been reported upstream. AI

IMPACT This bug could impact the reliability of self-hosted LLM deployments using llama-server, potentially leading to dropped user requests or service interruptions.

RANK_REASON Bug report for a specific feature of an open-source LLM serving tool.

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Llama-server sleep mode bug causes request loss and crashes

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · The Homelab Postmortem ·

    llama-server's sleep mode loses or crashes on a request that arrives just before it sleeps

    <p><strong>TL;DR</strong>: <code>llama-server --sleep-idle-seconds N</code> unloads the model after N idle seconds and is documented to reload it for "any new incoming task". A request handler checks that the server is awake when it starts, then tokenizes the prompt, then queues …

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