We tried removing "async" -- thinking it would force sequential processing -- but it unexpectedly seemed to cause parallel processing of requests, which caused CUDA memory errors.
Before removing "async", this is the weird behavior we observed:
* Hacker blasts 50-100 requests.
* Our ML model processes each request in normal time and sequentially.
* But instead of returning individual responses immediately, the server holds onto all responses -- sending responses only when the last request finishes (or a bunch of requests finish).
* Normally, request 1 should return in N seconds, request 2 in 2N seconds, but with this, all requests returned in about N50 seconds (assuming batch size of 50).
1. Any suggestions on this?
2. Mind clarifying how sync vs aync works? The FastAPI docs are unclear.