At 8 workers the GPU sat at ~5% util / <5GB VRAM — the pipeline is I/O-bound
(downloading + decoding images over HTTP), so the GPU starves until many workers
overlap that I/O. Raise MAX_CONCURRENCY 8→32 and make the UI worker control a
number input (reaching 32 by ±1 was tedious); the cap is reported via /status so
the UI clamps to it. Also size the shared requests pool (pool_maxsize=64) — the
default 10 would have throttled 32 workers + spammed "connection pool is full".
Verified by running; watch GPU util/VRAM climb as you dial up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ttrj5P7upUTueSfoJcxEqa
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