How-toUpdated 2026-07-01 · 9 min read · by RTXsparks Lab

Serving DeepSeek V3 with SGLang on RTX Spark

Production SGLang deployment of DeepSeek V3 on RTX Spark. Configs, systemd, TLS, observability.

Install

Install SGLang via pip/docker/apt as appropriate. Verify GPU visibility with nvidia-smi.

  • # SGLang install
  • # see SGLang docs

Config

Optimized SGLang config for DeepSeek V3 at Q3_K_S: batch, KV cache dtype, and parallelism knobs.

Systemd unit

[Unit] Description=SGLang for DeepSeek V3 — [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/sglang serve deepseek-v3 --port 8000 — Restart=always.

nginx + TLS

Terminate TLS at nginx with a Let's Encrypt cert, rate-limit at 20 req/s per IP, and proxy to the local SGLang port.

Observability

Scrape SGLang Prometheus metrics into Grafana; watch tokens_per_second, batch_size, and kv_cache_usage.

Frequently asked questions

Is SGLang the fastest for DeepSeek V3?

It's the easiest, not always the fastest.

Can I run multiple models with one instance?

One process per model is standard.

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