01 / Chutes · One year of requests

One Year in LLM Serving

A year of production request traces metadata from Chutes, covering model usage, token counts, and prefix-cache reuse.

- 6.12Brequests

- 9,174models

- 1 yearof traffic

Research uses

- Benchmark batching and scheduling with recorded request arrivals and input/output token lengths.

- Reconstruct user sessions from request metadata to analyze usage patterns and behavior.

- Explore GPU colocation for low-traffic models using their busy and idle periods.

user_id values rotate every three months, so one person appears under different IDs across the year.

Findings

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Requests exhibit high temporal locality. 99% of repeat requests from the same user to the same model arrive within 15 minutes.

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LRU often matches or outperforms more complex cache eviction policies.

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Cache-aware routing raises the token hit ratio, with 5–7% load imbalance in simulation.