Inference Server

Starting the server

Always use the inference entry point — never vllm serve or python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server directly. The entry point runs setup_vllm_env() which configures environment variables (LoRA, multiprocessing) before vLLM is imported.

# With a TOML config
uv run inference @ path/to/config.toml

# With CLI overrides
uv run inference --model.name Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B --model.max_model_len 2048 --model.enforce_eager

# Combined
uv run inference @ path/to/config.toml --server.port 8001 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.5

SLURM scheduling