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Server Arguments

  • To enable multi-GPU tensor parallelism, add --tp 2. If it reports the error "peer access is not supported between these two devices", add --enable-p2p-check to the server launch command.
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --tp 2
  • To enable multi-GPU data parallelism, add --dp 2. Data parallelism is better for throughput if there is enough memory. It can also be used together with tensor parallelism. The following command uses 4 GPUs in total.
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --dp 2 --tp 2
  • If you see out-of-memory errors during serving, try to reduce the memory usage of the KV cache pool by setting a smaller value of --mem-fraction-static. The default value is 0.9.
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --mem-fraction-static 0.7
  • See hyperparameter tuning on tuning hyperparameters for better performance.
  • If you see out-of-memory errors during prefill for long prompts, try to set a smaller chunked prefill size.
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --chunked-prefill-size 4096
  • To enable torch.compile acceleration, add --enable-torch-compile. It accelerates small models on small batch sizes. This does not work for FP8 currently.

  • To enable torchao quantization, add --torchao-config int4wo-128. It supports other quantization strategies (INT8/FP8) as well.

  • To enable fp8 weight quantization, add --quantization fp8 on a fp16 checkpoint or directly load a fp8 checkpoint without specifying any arguments.

  • To enable fp8 kv cache quantization, add --kv-cache-dtype fp8_e5m2.

  • If the model does not have a chat template in the Hugging Face tokenizer, you can specify a custom chat template.

  • To run tensor parallelism on multiple nodes, add --nnodes 2. If you have two nodes with two GPUs on each node and want to run TP=4, let sgl-dev-0 be the hostname of the first node and 50000 be an available port, you can use the following commands. If you meet deadlock, please try to add --disable-cuda-graph

# Node 0
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --tp 4 --nccl-init sgl-dev-0:50000 --nnodes 2 --node-rank 0

# Node 1
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct --tp 4 --nccl-init sgl-dev-0:50000 --nnodes 2 --node-rank 1

Use Models From ModelScope

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To use a model from ModelScope, set the environment variable SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE.

export SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE=true

Launch Qwen2-7B-Instruct Server

SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE=true python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path qwen/Qwen2-7B-Instruct --port 30000

Or start it by docker.

docker run --gpus all \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/modelscope:/root/.cache/modelscope \
    --env "SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE=true" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct --host 0.0.0.0 --port 30000

Example: Run Llama 3.1 405B

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# Run 405B (fp8) on a single node
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-FP8 --tp 8

# Run 405B (fp16) on two nodes
## on the first node, replace the `172.16.4.52:20000` with your own first node ip address and port
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct --tp 16 --nccl-init-addr 172.16.4.52:20000 --nnodes 2 --node-rank 0

## on the first node, replace the `172.16.4.52:20000` with your own first node ip address and port
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct --tp 16 --nccl-init-addr 172.16.4.52:20000 --nnodes 2 --node-rank 1