Error3 reports
Fix DistBackendError
in vLLM
✅ Solution
DistBackendError in vLLM often arises from memory access issues, particularly with custom or quantized models, potentially due to misconfiguration with CUDA or incorrect tensor sizes. Resolve this by ensuring your model configuration aligns with your hardware, specifically checking the `max_num_batched_tokens` and CUDA versions, or adjusting tensor shapes to be compatible with the available memory and compute capabilities of your GPUs. If using custom models, verify that any quantization or custom kernels are correctly implemented and memory accesses are valid.
Related Issues
Real GitHub issues where developers encountered this error:
[Bug]: cudaErrorIllegalAddress crash when running zai-org/GLM-4.7-FP8 with `--max-num-batched-tokens` < default (e.g. 4K) under12h ago
[Bug]: cudaErrorIllegalAddress crash when enabling `--performance-mode throughput` for zai-org/GLM-4.7-FP8 under load15h ago
[Bug]:推理时报错,模型关闭了。部署的Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-FP8模型Mar 18, 2026
Timeline
First reported:Mar 18, 2026
Last reported:12h ago