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24GB is plenty if your engines take turns

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Briefings

Berth is a system service designed to manage GPU engines like Llama, Strata, and ComfyUI without manual intervention, automatically swapping between devices to prevent VRAM conflicts. The user reported that without Berth, a single node process could orphan and hold 500MB of VRAM, causing workflow interruptions. Berth v0.3 parks engines in system RAM instead of unloading them, which requires at least 64 GB of RAM for the user's setup. The project is currently open to testing on Windows with NVIDIA cards and Linux with AMD GPUs.

Key points

• Berth automatically manages GPU engines to prevent VRAM conflicts by swapping between devices without manual intervention.
• Berth v0.3 parks engines in system RAM rather than unloading them, requiring at least 64 GB of RAM for the user's setup.

Context

Berth is a system service that watches your card, swaps and loads whatever you want, whenever you want. It avoids manual swapping to prevent collisions and ensures VRAM is fully dedicated to each function while it's running.

Limitations

The user's workstation has 62 GB of RAM, which is insufficient to measure the exact VRAM parking sizes of Berth v0.3. The project is still open to testing on Windows with NVIDIA cards and Linux with AMD GPUs, and multi-GPU topologies are planned for future releases.

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