A product change that increases context may create an infrastructure incident without changing request count.
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Context Length as a Reliability Variable
Longer contexts increase compute and memory pressure and can reduce the number of concurrent requests a serving stack can support.
A new conversation-memory feature doubles average prompt length and suddenly pushes KV cache utilization above 90%.
Are context-size distributions part of performance and capacity reviews?
REMEMBERContext length is workload size.
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