configure adaptive batching for a bentoml runner or api endpoint
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Steps
Understand that adaptive batching is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled/configured on the relevant API or runner
Use the @bentoml.api decorator's batching configuration to control batch behavior for a given endpoint
For a Runnable/runner that supports batching, adaptive batching is enabled automatically once the runner declares batching support, dynamically grouping concurrent run() invocations from multiple processes into one batch execution
Configure traffic settings per runner, such as traffic.timeout (how long the runner waits for a model response before timing out) and traffic.max_concurrency (max concurrent requests accepted before erroring)
Load-test with concurrent client requests to confirm batches are actually being formed and that traffic.timeout/max_concurrency are sized correctly for your latency budget
Known gotchas
Adaptive batching is off by default — a runner that theoretically supports batching won't actually batch requests until it's configured on
traffic.max_concurrency rejects requests outright once exceeded rather than queuing them — undersizing it under real load causes client-visible errors rather than added latency
Batching groups requests from multiple separate client processes/workers in real time, so behavior under low concurrency looks very different from batch-focused load tests
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