#!/usr/bin/env bash # gpu_preload_check.sh — GPU residency guard (design DESIGN-a2a-agents.md sec 3b) # # Never-evict set on the 8GB GTX 1070: bge-m3 (embedder) + tei-reranker. # Evicting either silently breaks Hindsight recall (the memory plugin's # recall timeout just skips injection, no error surfaced) — the whole # reason this guard exists. # # Usage: gpu_preload_check.sh [gpu_index] # requested_mib — VRAM footprint (MiB) of the model/process about to load # gpu_index — nvidia-smi GPU index (default 0) # # Exit 0 — safe to proceed, never-evict set stays resident with headroom. # Exit 1 — reject: loading this would eat into or evict the never-evict set. # Exit 2 — reject: never-evict set isn't even currently resident (abort, # something is already wrong — don't compound it by loading more). # # This is a guard for callers (workers/scripts) that are about to pull a # model onto the shared GPU. It does NOT itself load or evict anything. set -euo pipefail REQUESTED_MIB="${1:?usage: gpu_preload_check.sh [gpu_index]}" GPU_INDEX="${2:-0}" # tei-reranker measured footprint (2026-07-26, jina-reranker-v2-base-multilingual # fp16 on CUDA torch): ~1690 MiB resident. bge-m3 measured ~882 MiB via ollama. # Keep these as a documented floor, not just "whatever's currently resident" — # a transient dip during another process's own load shouldn't false-negative us. RERANKER_FLOOR_MIB=1690 BGE_M3_FLOOR_MIB=882 NEVER_EVICT_FLOOR_MIB=$((RERANKER_FLOOR_MIB + BGE_M3_FLOOR_MIB)) log() { echo "[gpu_preload_check] $*" >&2; } # 1. Confirm the never-evict set is actually resident right now. reranker_up=0 if curl -fsS -m 3 "http://localhost:8014/info" >/dev/null 2>&1; then reranker_up=1 fi bge_m3_up=0 if docker exec ollama ollama ps 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^bge-m3'; then bge_m3_up=1 fi if [[ "$reranker_up" -ne 1 || "$bge_m3_up" -ne 1 ]]; then log "REJECT: never-evict set not fully resident (tei-reranker up=$reranker_up, bge-m3 up=$bge_m3_up)." log "Something is already wrong — fix that before loading anything else onto the GPU." exit 2 fi # 2. Check free VRAM and whether the requested load would eat into the # never-evict floor. free_mib=$(nvidia-smi --id="$GPU_INDEX" --query-gpu=memory.free --format=csv,noheader,nounits | tr -d ' ') if [[ -z "$free_mib" ]]; then log "REJECT: could not read nvidia-smi free memory for GPU $GPU_INDEX." exit 1 fi remaining_after_load=$((free_mib - REQUESTED_MIB)) log "free=${free_mib}MiB requested=${REQUESTED_MIB}MiB never_evict_floor=${NEVER_EVICT_FLOOR_MIB}MiB remaining_after_load=${remaining_after_load}MiB" if (( remaining_after_load < 0 )); then log "REJECT: requested load (${REQUESTED_MIB}MiB) exceeds current free VRAM (${free_mib}MiB)." log "The kernel driver would have to evict something to fit it — on this box that means" log "risking the never-evict set (bge-m3 + tei-reranker). Refusing." exit 1 fi log "OK: load fits in free VRAM without necessitating eviction of the never-evict set." exit 0