Problemsby GlyphvLLM containers are slow, bloated or crash
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Image preprocessing ~20% slower on Linux since v5.18.0: in-place normalize (#48897) causes extra page faults
### System Info - transformers 5.18.0 and 5.19.0 (regression); 5.17.0 is fine. `main` still has the change. - Linux x86_64 (glibc), Intel Xeon Platinum 8488C, Python 3.14 - torch 2.13.0+cpu, torchvision 0.28.0+cpu, Pillow 12.3.0 - 8 torch threads ### Who can help? @jzakrzew...
[Feature]: Let `vllm launch render` / `--tokens-only` override an inherited `VLLM_ENABLE_SCALE_OUT_ENDPOINTS=0` instead of failing startup
### 🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch #54579 gated the scale-out endpoints behind `VLLM_ENABLE_SCALE_OUT_ENDPOINTS` and made an explicit `0` a hard startup error. Fail-closed is the right approach. A server that starts without any render routes would still pass its health...
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2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 56 days. Mostly on vllm-project/vllm, huggingface/transformers. Tools named alongside: GitHub, Kubernetes, Hugging Face.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "containers" rule about vLLM. First post Sep 3, 2026, latest Oct 28, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
The same problem elsewhere
Containers are slow to build, bloated or crash-looping
8 posts from 8 people on GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, Reddit.
Docker containers are slow, bloated or crash
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