Drop the held-/reserve approach in favour of the framework's session
primitive (max_sessions=1 + /session/create). Sessions are excluded from
the autoscaler's queue-wait math and don't suffer the cur_perf=0
degradation that a long-held request did, so this naturally produces the
"one request comes in and you get a worker; release and it scales back
down" model we were hand-rolling.
Server side:
- max_sessions=1; framework auto-registers /session/* routes
- Drop custom /reserve handler, _active_reservation event, max_queue_
time=0.0, MAX_RESERVATION_SECONDS, _perf_heartbeat
- Trivial /ping handler exists only to satisfy the framework's
"at least one handler with BenchmarkConfig" requirement (and to give
clients an extension/keepalive route)
- /release on the internal control port is kept as a convenience for
queue consumers that don't carry session_auth — calls the framework's
__close_session via name-mangling, which bypasses the session_auth
check but is fine for a localhost-only endpoint
- Workload/perf back to 100 (conventional)
Client side:
- Uses endpoint.session(cost, lifetime) instead of POST /reserve
- async with the SDK Session; close on exit posts /session/end with
proper auth → 200 success in metrics
- Demo and single modes both ride the same reserve() helper
Sessions landed in vastai-sdk 0.4.2 (commit ec9ef59, 2026-01-20).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously the first release fired only 30s after the third reservation
started, so the autoscaler often hadn't even finished provisioning the
third worker yet. Default plateau to 300s so all three workers are
visibly running before scale-down begins; configurable via --plateau.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three reservations 30s apart, each with a 90s duration. They end one at
a time, also 30s apart, then the client exits. Each reservation ends
via its duration cap (200 success) rather than the previous "cancel one,
leave two open" pattern that left two 499s pending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three concurrent /reserve calls 30s apart, then cancel the first to show
the early-release path. The remaining two run until their duration cap.
Useful for watching scale-up/scale-down behaviour in the autoscaler
dashboard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A held reservation runs for up to MAX_RESERVATION_SECONDS (default 1h), so
queueing a second /reserve behind it makes no sense — the wait would dwarf
any sane timeout. Set max_queue_time=0.0 so the framework rejects 429 as
soon as another reservation is in flight, and serverless routes the request
to a free worker or scales a new one up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop the "autoscaler provisions a worker if none is free" phrasing in
favor of the simpler "request comes in and you get a worker; release and
it scales back down."
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The held /reserve now waits on an asyncio.Event and resolves when the local
queue consumer POSTs /release on the internal control port (127.0.0.1:18999
by default). This produces a 200 success in metrics instead of the 499
cancellation you got from disconnecting the client. The duration cap stays
as a safety net for stuck consumers.
The internal aiohttp server is now unconditional and hosts /release always;
the stub /health route is added only when BACKEND_HEALTH_URL is unset.
NULL_STUB_HEALTH_PORT is renamed to NULL_CONTROL_PORT to reflect the
broader role.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds an in-process aiohttp stub on 127.0.0.1:18999/health so the framework's
periodic healthcheck has something live to talk to. Operators can override
with BACKEND_HEALTH_URL to point at their queue consumer's /health
endpoint, so the autoscaler marks the worker errored if the consumer dies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A PyWorker that does not forward to any model server. POST /reserve holds
the worker busy until the client disconnects (or the duration cap elapses),
so users with their own job queue can drive Vast autoscaling without
exposing inbound model traffic on the instance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rob Ballantyne