CPU memory intuition fails on inference servers. The scarce resource is KV-cache, requests arrive with unseen context lengths, and the fix is queue-depth scaling plus admission control, not bigger pods.
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CPU memory intuition fails on inference servers. The scarce resource is KV-cache, requests arrive with unseen context lengths, and the fix is queue-depth scaling plus admission control, not bigger pods.
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