Equation 1 · Part 2 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Small and On-Device AI Deployments
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A device can report gigabytes of free memory and still kill the process that asks for a much smaller allocation, because the operating system’s out-of-memory killer does not care about total free memory — it cares about whether a single contiguous block large enough for the request exists. Large weight tensors and growing key-value caches on a constrained device fragment memory into scattered free regions faster than they fill it, and an allocation can fail against a device that is, in aggregate, nowhere near full. is the condition that actually governs whether an allocation succeeds, and it can fail even when holds comfortably — the requested…
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