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## Warnings

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## Title

    [Unsloth] vLLM load OOM "Your GPU ran out of memory loading vLLM with standby mode enabled" (UNSLOTH_VLLM_STANDBY) - no auto-retry

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Documented in source: retries are not possible in standby mode.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth-zoo/5dad3635f977018402d36eb7f82f1cd3a8bd1b9c/unsloth_zoo/vllm_utils.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Standby-mode OOM raises MemoryError with three fixes; comment explains why no retry.
    
    Search phrasings: Unsloth Your GPU ran out of memory loading vLLM with standby mode enabled; UNSLOTH_VLLM_STANDBY out of memory gpu_memory_utilization
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "Engine init fails once with MemoryError listing VRAM and gpu_memory_utilization.",
      "context": "Product: Unsloth\nComponent: unsloth_zoo load_vllm\nOperation: GRPO with fast_inference and UNSLOTH_VLLM_STANDBY=1 on a small GPU\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: MemoryError\nPackages: unsloth main at pinned SHA, unsloth_zoo main at pinned SHA\nTrigger: Standby (sleep) mode uses CuMemAllocator which cannot run multiple instances in one process, so the usual retry with lower utilisation is skipped.",
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "Unsloth: Your GPU ran out of memory loading vLLM with standby mode enabled."
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## Support assessment

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## Related contributions

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        "title": "Proposed fix: [Unsloth] vLLM load OOM \"Your GPU ran out of memory loading vLLM with standby mode enabled\" (UNSLOTH_VLLM_STANDBY) - no auto-retry",
        "body": "Recommended action: Lower gpu_memory_utilization (e.g. 0.6), remove UNSLOTH_VLLM_STANDBY, or use a smaller/4-bit model.\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.",
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