1. Introduction to LMCache TTFT is the time from when a request is issued until the model generates its first token. Because the Prefill phase has to encode the input context into a KV Cache before generation can begin, producing that first token requires a large amount of computation, which makes TTFT high.

1. Installing the Driver Download the driver Go to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/ and select the corresponding driver version to download. 1 wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/580.76.05/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.76.05.run Install the driver 1 bash NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.76.05.run Check the GPUs 1 nvidia-smi 1 2 3 GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (UUID: GPU-92fcdc58-4754-73c7-af6c-56740936817d) GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (UUID:

1. What Ray Is In 2016, UC Berkeley’s RISELab released a new distributed computing framework called Ray. In 2017, after the Ray paper was published, it drew broad attention across the industry; in China it was mainly Ant Group that adopted and contributed to Ray. In 2020, Ray released version

1. Environment Preparation Download Miniforge 1 wget "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh" Install Miniforge 1 bash Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh 1 2 echo "export PATH=$HOME/miniforge3/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc Create the environment 1 conda create -n vllm python=3.12 vLLM currently requires Python 3.9+. Activate the environment 1 conda activate vllm Install dependencies 1 conda install

1. Building the Image To make testing convenient, the model files are packaged into the image here. Download the model 1 2 3 4 git clone https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat cd Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat && git lfs pull rm -rf .git cd .. Write the Dockerfile 1 2 3 4 5 cat <<EOF > Dockerfile