{ "id": "lab-sglang-l4-serving", "title": "Read an SGLang sweep on an L4", "kind": "lab", "summary": "Use real SGLang runs on an NVIDIA L4 to find the saturation point, the SLO limit, the FP8 gain and the effect of a smaller prefill chunk.", "difficulty": "medium", "tags": ["inference", "serving", "goodput", "benchmarking"], "lesson": "phases/17-infrastructure-and-production/08-inference-metrics-goodput", "cheatsheet": "sglang-serving", "minutes": 30, "entry": ["gains", "saturation_point", "largest_within", "pct_change", "ranges_overlap", "answers"], "collections": ["experiment-labs", "llm-inference"], "time_limit_s": 10, "mutants": { "absolute_gain": "Compares the absolute difference of throughput with min_gain, not the relative gain.", "median_ttft_for_slo": "Tests the SLO against the median TTFT, not the p99 TTFT.", "pct_over_new": "Divides the change by the new value, not by the old value.", "returns_next_level": "Returns the level after the low gain step, not the level before it.", "strict_limit": "Uses a strict less than, so a value equal to the limit fails the SLO.", "strict_overlap": "Uses strict comparisons, so ranges that touch at one point do not overlap." } }