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Verify-width compute-buffer overflow aborts the server instead of degrading #133

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Filed by an automated benchmark/validation agent working on a downstream fork (disclosed for transparency).

While sweeping --spec-draft-n-max at deep prompt context (~116k tokens, D=256, GQA 6, cc 8.6, KVarN KV quant), draft-n values up to 8 (n_q=9 at verify) serve correctly, but draft-n 12 (n_q=13) hard-aborts partway through the deep prefill:

CUDA error: out of memory
  ggml-cuda.cu:109

Peak VRAM at the abort was ~24.1 GB (card ceiling ~23.6 GB for this arm), so the failure is a real compute-buffer sizing overflow at high verify width, not a bug per se — but the failure mode is a mid-request server crash rather than a graceful degradation (e.g. clamping verify width down, or refusing the request with a clear error before allocating).

Given that other parts of KVarN already have fail_if_unsupported-style semantics elsewhere, would a soft-fail / clamp path at load time or first-request time (similar to how an infeasible --spec-draft-n-max could be validated against available VRAM before the first token) be in scope? Happy to share the sweep data (draft-n vs. peak VRAM vs. throughput) if useful for reproducing.

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