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[Docs] Fix ghost --kv-cache-memory flag in optimization guide - #55834

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[Docs] Fix ghost --kv-cache-memory flag in optimization guide#55834
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Summary

  • docs/configuration/optimization.md told users to pass --kv-cache-memory to skip memory profiling.
  • The live vllm serve CLI only registers --kv-cache-memory-bytes (vllm/engine/arg_utils.py); there is no --kv-cache-memory alias, so the documented flag is a ghost.
  • Update both references in that bullet to --kv-cache-memory-bytes.

Repro

  1. Docs (HEAD 782f36cd0c7951cc1fa3c4fb3eeb916cc31780ed): docs/configuration/optimization.md line ~24 uses `--kv-cache-memory` twice.
  2. Code: arg_utils.py registers only --kv-cache-memory-bytes for CacheConfig.kv_cache_memory_bytes.
  3. Passing --kv-cache-memory=... as written in the docs is not a valid CLI option.

Signed-off-by: ADou ikun3.1415927@gmail.com

docs/configuration/optimization.md referenced --kv-cache-memory, but the
live CLI only registers --kv-cache-memory-bytes.

Signed-off-by: ADou <ikun3.1415927@gmail.com>
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Documentation preview: https://vllm--55834.org.readthedocs.build/en/55834/

@mergify mergify Bot added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Sep 8, 2026
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