[Bug]: Issue Running Whisper with vllm/vllm-openai:v0.10.2 (Works Fine on v0.10.1) #25318
Description
Your current environment
The output of python collect_env.py
/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py:63: FutureWarning: The pynvml package is deprecated. Please install nvidia-ml-py instead. If you did not install pynvml directly, please report this to the maintainers of the package that installed pynvml for you.
import pynvml # type: ignore[import]
Collecting environment information...
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System Info
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OS : Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (x86_64)
GCC version : (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Clang version : Could not collect
CMake version : version 4.1.0
Libc version : glibc-2.35
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PyTorch Info
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PyTorch version : 2.8.0+cu128
Is debug build : False
CUDA used to build PyTorch : 12.8
ROCM used to build PyTorch : N/A
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Python Environment
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Python version : 3.12.11 (main, Jun 4 2025, 08:56:18) [GCC 11.4.0] (64-bit runtime)
Python platform : Linux-5.15.0-141-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
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CUDA / GPU Info
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Is CUDA available : True
CUDA runtime version : 12.8.93
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING set to : LAZY
GPU models and configuration : GPU 0: NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB
Nvidia driver version : 560.35.03
cuDNN version : Could not collect
HIP runtime version : N/A
MIOpen runtime version : N/A
Is XNNPACK available : True
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CPU Info
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Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 45 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 32
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-31
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Model name: AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor
CPU family: 25
Model: 1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 32
Stepping: 1
BogoMIPS: 4899.99
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw topoext invpcid_single ibpb vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 invpcid rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero wbnoinvd arat umip pku ospke vaes vpclmulqdq rdpid overflow_recov succor
Hypervisor vendor: VMware
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 1 MiB (32 instances)
L1i cache: 1 MiB (32 instances)
L2 cache: 16 MiB (32 instances)
L3 cache: 1 GiB (32 instances)
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-31
Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Itlb multihit: Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf: Not affected
Vulnerability Mds: Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown: Not affected
Vulnerability Mmio stale data: Not affected
Vulnerability Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Retbleed: Not affected
Vulnerability Spec rstack overflow: Mitigation; safe RET
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Vulnerable
Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines; IBPB conditional; STIBP disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affected
Vulnerability Srbds: Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort: Not affected
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Versions of relevant libraries
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[pip3] flashinfer-python==0.3.0
[pip3] numpy==2.2.6
[pip3] nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.8.4.1
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.10.2.21
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-frontend==1.14.1
[pip3] nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.3.3.83
[pip3] nvidia-cufile-cu12==1.13.1.3
[pip3] nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.9.90
[pip3] nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.7.3.90
[pip3] nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.5.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-cusparselt-cu12==0.7.1
[pip3] nvidia-ml-py==13.580.82
[pip3] nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.27.3
[pip3] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.8.93
[pip3] nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.8.90
[pip3] pynvml==13.0.1
[pip3] pyzmq==27.1.0
[pip3] torch==2.8.0+cu128
[pip3] torchaudio==2.8.0+cu128
[pip3] torchvision==0.23.0+cu128
[pip3] transformers==4.56.1
[pip3] triton==3.4.0
[conda] Could not collect
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vLLM Info
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ROCM Version : Could not collect
vLLM Version : 0.10.2
vLLM Build Flags:
CUDA Archs: Not Set; ROCm: Disabled
GPU Topology:
GPU0 CPU Affinity NUMA Affinity GPU NUMA ID
GPU0 X 0-31 0 N/A
Legend:
X = Self
SYS = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the SMP interconnect between NUMA nodes (e.g., QPI/UPI)
NODE = Connection traversing PCIe as well as the interconnect between PCIe Host Bridges within a NUMA node
PHB = Connection traversing PCIe as well as a PCIe Host Bridge (typically the CPU)
PXB = Connection traversing multiple PCIe bridges (without traversing the PCIe Host Bridge)
PIX = Connection traversing at most a single PCIe bridge
NV# = Connection traversing a bonded set of # NVLinks
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Environment Variables
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NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
NVIDIA_REQUIRE_CUDA=cuda>=12.8 brand=unknown,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=grid,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=tesla,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=nvidia,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=quadro,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=quadrortx,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=nvidiartx,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=vapps,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=vpc,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=vcs,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=vws,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=cloudgaming,driver>=470,driver<471 brand=unknown,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=grid,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=tesla,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=nvidia,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=quadro,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=quadrortx,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=nvidiartx,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=vapps,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=vpc,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=vcs,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=vws,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=cloudgaming,driver>=535,driver<536 brand=unknown,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=grid,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=tesla,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=nvidia,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=quadro,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=quadrortx,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=nvidiartx,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=vapps,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=vpc,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=vcs,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=vws,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=cloudgaming,driver>=550,driver<551 brand=unknown,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=grid,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=tesla,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=nvidia,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=quadro,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=quadrortx,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=nvidiartx,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=vapps,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=vpc,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=vcs,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=vws,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=cloudgaming,driver>=560,driver<561 brand=unknown,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=grid,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=tesla,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=nvidia,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=quadro,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=quadrortx,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=nvidiartx,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=vapps,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=vpc,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=vcs,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=vws,driver>=565,driver<566 brand=cloudgaming,driver>=565,driver<566
NCCL_VERSION=2.25.1-1
NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,utility
NVIDIA_PRODUCT_NAME=CUDA
VLLM_USAGE_SOURCE=production-docker-image
CUDA_VERSION=12.8.1
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
PYTORCH_NVML_BASED_CUDA_CHECK=1
TORCHINDUCTOR_COMPILE_THREADS=1
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING=LAZY
🐛 Describe the bug
I tried serving the Whisper model, but whenever I send the following request, I encounter an error. Moreover, the request seems to bring the whole model down.
audio_file_path = file_path + "/../data/test_files/d6_10_20_17-625ddc96edfd375a7cbfa57189dfb064-2905E5.wav"
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://0.0.0.0:8000/v1"
client = OpenAI(api_key=openai_api_key, base_url=openai_api_base)
sync_openai(audio_file_path, client)
def sync_openai(audio_file_path: str, client: OpenAI):
t1 = time.time()
with open(audio_file_path, "rb") as f:
transcription = client.audio.transcriptions.create(
file=f,
model="whisper",
language="fa",
response_format="json",
temperature=0.0,
# Additional sampling params not provided by OpenAI API.
extra_body=dict(
seed=4419,
# repetition_penalty=1.3,
),
)
t2 = time.time()
print(t2-t1)
print("transcription result:", transcription.text)
In a way, this request acts like a "kill request" for the model.
I’m running Docker with the image vllm/vllm-openai:v0.10.2 and I serve the model using the following command:
vllm serve /app/data/asr/whisper \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.06 \
--dtype bfloat16 \
--block-size 16 \
--max-num-seqs 32 \
--served-model-name whisper \
--middleware src.timing_middleware.log_timing_middleware
The client throws the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
File "/home/username/myenvs/globalenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_utils/_utils.py", line 287, in wrapper
return func(*args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/username/myenvs/globalenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/resources/audio/transcriptions.py", line 333, in create
return self._post( # type: ignore[return-value]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/username/myenvs/globalenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1256, in post
return cast(ResponseT, self.request(cast_to, opts, stream=stream, stream_cls=stream_cls))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/username/myenvs/globalenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/_base_client.py", line 1044, in request
raise self._make_status_error_from_response(err.response) from None
openai.InternalServerError: Error code: 500 - {'error': {'message': 'EngineCore encountered an issue. See stack trace (above) for the root cause.', 'type': 'Internal Server Error', 'param': None, 'code': 500}}
Interestingly, when I switch back to vllm/vllm-openai:v0.10.1, everything works perfectly without any issues.
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