Agent traffic is a strange workload for an inference server. Each turn resends a long, nearly identical prefix (system prompt, tool schemas, history) and asks for a short tool call back. At DigitalOcean’s Open Intelligence Summit, Yifan Qiao of Inferact is giving a Serve track
Agent traffic strains inference servers with repeated prefixes
Rohan Paul notes agent turns resend long near-identical prefixes and request short tool calls; Inferact’s Yifan Qiao discussed this Serve topic at DigitalOcean’s summit.