Issues

• UD-Q5_K_XL shard 1 rejected: check_shards and UNSLOTH_BIG_SHARDS disagree on expected size

  Niko1221/Strata#2587 · Filter by author DrLove73 opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Report: UD-IQ4_XS and IQ3_XXS on RTX 3090 + Haswell-EP Xeon (AVX2, no AVX-512), NVMe vs HDD

  Niko1221/Strata#2585 · Filter by author basiceconomypublishing-create opened on Oct 15, 2026

• update: an engine binary without its BUILD.json is never updated, and nothing says why (follow-up to #2054)

  Niko1221/Strata#2579 · Filter by author qiuzan2001 opened on Oct 15, 2026

• setup: a build folder configured without the engine target fails twice with "unknown target 'strata'" and is not reconfigured (follow-up to #2054)

  Niko1221/Strata#2578 · Filter by author qiuzan2001 opened on Oct 15, 2026

• setup: a default g++ newer than the CUDA toolkit accepts stops the engine build; an installed older g++ is not tried (follow-up to #2054)

  Niko1221/Strata#2576 · Filter by author qiuzan2001 opened on Oct 15, 2026

• [Feature]: Skip low-rank missed experts on Metal when streaming from the SSD

  Niko1221/Strata#2541 · Filter by author qChauncey opened on Oct 15, 2026

• [Bug]: Metal: IQ2_XS (GSQ-RCO) fails to load — 6 IQ1_M expert tensors have no Metal path; oversized wrap exits instead of falling back to streaming

  Niko1221/Strata#2537 · Filter by author cuijs2026 opened on Oct 15, 2026

• the engine's logits became non-finite before the first token (#879); it dropped its cached state: sending the request again once

  Niko1221/Strata#2536 · Filter by author Arvintian opened on Oct 15, 2026

• [Bug]: Windows: a second NVIDIA GPU halves the largest pinned allocation, so the RAM-budget complement silently falls back to pageable memory (CUDA counterpart of #2485)

  Niko1221/Strata#2535 · Filter by author KLOP09 opened on Oct 15, 2026
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• Strata Deck — a web control panel add-on (Linux, battle-tested)

  Niko1221/Strata#2534 · Filter by author CamTechLinear opened on Oct 15, 2026

• STRATA_GR_V3=1 silently falls back to the default read path on gfx1100 (RX 7900 XTX)

  Niko1221/Strata#2524 · Filter by author bigbrid2023 opened on Oct 15, 2026

• RX 7900 XTX (gfx1100) on Windows, v0.1.44.1: --adapt-async +6.2%, STRATA_ROUTE_TAIL_SKIP=7 +8.5% (cumulative 64.8 → 79.2 tok/s)

  Niko1221/Strata#2523 · Filter by author bigbrid2023 opened on Oct 15, 2026
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• gfx1201 (R9700, HIP): the ! degeneration is #879 — GDN state overflow (max |x| 2.26e+32) at 16K–93K; 0.1.44.1's guard catches and recovers it on this box

  Niko1221/Strata#2519 · Filter by author aiworkeryuan-chuxi opened on Oct 15, 2026

• Concurrent requests break prefix cache

  Niko1221/Strata#2518 · Filter by author rriggs opened on Oct 15, 2026

• KV compaction and hot-swappable KV sessions (two proposals)

  Niko1221/Strata#2508 · Filter by author shahrokhzargarpour opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Per-slot expert budget and PCIe-idle prefetch: live per-device telemetry for a 2-GPU layer split

  Niko1221/Strata#2507 · Filter by author shahrokhzargarpour opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Metal: an MTP draft layer with Q4_0 experts stops the engine at the first request ("no function moe_gu_2_32_1_4")

  Niko1221/Strata#2504 · Filter by author joesinvestments opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Metal: a short side request drops the conversation cache (parking is refused, then "invalid checkpoint running-state payload")

  Niko1221/Strata#2502 · Filter by author joesinvestments opened on Oct 14, 2026

• Long generation ratchets to !×256 at the default 20,000 spin bound — 2× Arc Pro B60 (xe), 4,331 host-served experts, engine 0.1.44

  Niko1221/Strata#2500 · Filter by author MaineTim opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• [Bug]: BENCH.bat / strata_bench.py crashes on Windows with a non-UTF-8 locale (UnicodeDecodeError reading CMakeLists.txt)

  Niko1221/Strata#2499 · Filter by author hasifumi opened on Oct 14, 2026

• calibrate's --pcie-frac 0.00 recommendation wedges the served engine at boot on AMD gfx1201 (ROCm)

  Niko1221/Strata#2498 · Filter by author bhodgens opened on Oct 14, 2026

• [Bug]: serve drops the connection when the engine program cannot be started

  Niko1221/Strata#2496 · Filter by author devYRPauli opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• STRATA_ROUTE_TAIL_SKIP=7 vs 0 on an RTX 5080 16 GB (0.1.44, UD-IQ4_XS, 352K real conversation): +6% warm decode, prefill unchanged; the decode hit rate excludes skipped experts

  Niko1221/Strata#2482 · Filter by author enkynakamura opened on Oct 14, 2026
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• CPU prefill share stays unarmed on a 32 GB machine; forcing it gives 1.8-2.2× prompt speed with no failures

  Niko1221/Strata#2478 · Filter by author Dongli99 opened on Oct 14, 2026

• 8 GB card: setup's config leaves ~420 MiB of VRAM free, below the 512 MiB that serve warns about (#2065)

  Niko1221/Strata#2477 · Filter by author Dongli99 opened on Oct 14, 2026