FYI llamacpp server can hot swap models now-a-days in under 30sec

See this question at least a handful of times when browsing new and in the comments, llamacpp has one of the cleaner model hotswap apis now that just works with openwebui and hermes.

Bonus: the 2nd model gemma went derp as i was recording this, but the time spent swapping has gotten stupid fast... I remember starting a load and talking a walk while pytorch did its thing just a few months back

podman run -d \ --name llama-qwen36-router \ --device nvidia.com/gpu=all \ -v /data/models:/root/.cache/huggingface:ro \ -v /data/llama_presets:/presets:ro \ -p 8001:8080 \ --env NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all \ --env GGML_CUDA_P2P=1 \ --env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/app:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/nvidia/lib64:/usr/local/cuda/lib64 \ --ipc=host \ --restart=unless-stopped \ ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server-cuda13 \ --models-preset /presets/qwen36-models.ini \ --models-max 1 \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 8080 # Or if you build instead of container ./llama-server \ --models-preset /presets/qwen36-models.ini \ --models-max 1 \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 8080