Environment Variables

SGLang supports various environment variables that can be used to configure its runtime behavior. This document provides a comprehensive list and aims to stay updated over time.

Note: SGLang uses two prefixes for environment variables: SGL_ and SGLANG_. This is likely due to historical reasons. While both are currently supported for different settings, future versions might consolidate them.

General Configuration

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_USE_MODELSCOPE	Enable using models from ModelScope	false
SGLANG_HOST_IP	Host IP address for the server	0.0.0.0
SGLANG_PORT	Port for the server	auto-detected
SGLANG_LOGGING_CONFIG_PATH	Custom logging configuration path	Not set
SGLANG_DISABLE_REQUEST_LOGGING	Disable request logging	false
SGLANG_HEALTH_CHECK_TIMEOUT	Timeout for health check in seconds	20

Performance Tuning

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_ENABLE_TORCH_INFERENCE_MODE	Control whether to use torch.inference_mode	false
SGLANG_ENABLE_TORCH_COMPILE	Enable torch.compile	true
SGLANG_SET_CPU_AFFINITY	Enable CPU affinity setting (often set to 1 in Docker builds)	0
SGLANG_ALLOW_OVERWRITE_LONGER_CONTEXT_LEN	Allows the scheduler to overwrite longer context length requests (often set to 1 in Docker builds)	0
SGLANG_IS_FLASHINFER_AVAILABLE	Control FlashInfer availability check	true
SGLANG_SKIP_P2P_CHECK	Skip P2P (peer-to-peer) access check	false
SGL_CHUNKED_PREFIX_CACHE_THRESHOLD	Sets the threshold for enabling chunked prefix caching	8192
SGLANG_FUSED_MLA_ENABLE_ROPE_FUSION	Enable RoPE fusion in Fused Multi-Layer Attention	1

DeepGEMM Configuration (Advanced Optimization)

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGL_ENABLE_JIT_DEEPGEMM	Enable Just-In-Time compilation of DeepGEMM kernels	"true"
SGL_JIT_DEEPGEMM_PRECOMPILE	Enable precompilation of DeepGEMM kernels	"true"
SGL_JIT_DEEPGEMM_COMPILE_WORKERS	Number of workers for parallel DeepGEMM kernel compilation	4
SGL_IN_DEEPGEMM_PRECOMPILE_STAGE	Indicator flag used during the DeepGEMM precompile script	"false"
SGL_DG_CACHE_DIR	Directory for caching compiled DeepGEMM kernels	~/.cache/deep_gemm
SGL_DG_USE_NVRTC	Use NVRTC (instead of Triton) for JIT compilation (Experimental)	"0"
SGL_USE_DEEPGEMM_BMM	Use DeepGEMM for Batched Matrix Multiplication (BMM) operations	"false"

Memory Management

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_DEBUG_MEMORY_POOL	Enable memory pool debugging	false
SGLANG_CLIP_MAX_NEW_TOKENS_ESTIMATION	Clip max new tokens estimation for memory planning	Not set
SGLANG_DETOKENIZER_MAX_STATES	Maximum states for detokenizer	Default value based on system
SGL_DISABLE_TP_MEMORY_INBALANCE_CHECK	Disable checks for memory imbalance across Tensor Parallel ranks	Not set (defaults to enabled check)

Model-Specific Options

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_USE_AITER	Use AITER optimize implementation	false
SGLANG_INT4_WEIGHT	Enable INT4 weight quantization	false
SGLANG_MOE_PADDING	Enable MoE padding (sets padding size to 128 if value is 1, often set to 1 in Docker builds)	0
SGLANG_FORCE_FP8_MARLIN	Force using FP8 MARLIN kernels even if other FP8 kernels are available	false
SGLANG_ENABLE_FLASHINFER_GEMM	Use flashinfer kernels when running blockwise fp8 GEMM on Blackwell GPUs	false
SGLANG_SUPPORT_CUTLASS_BLOCK_FP8	Use Cutlass kernels when running blockwise fp8 GEMM on Hopper or Blackwell GPUs	false
SGLANG_CUTLASS_MOE	Use Cutlass FP8 MoE kernel on Blackwell GPUs	false

Distributed Computing

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_BLOCK_NONZERO_RANK_CHILDREN	Control blocking of non-zero rank children processes	1
SGL_IS_FIRST_RANK_ON_NODE	Indicates if the current process is the first rank on its node	"true"
SGLANG_PP_LAYER_PARTITION	Pipeline parallel layer partition specification	Not set

Testing & Debugging (Internal/CI)

These variables are primarily used for internal testing, continuous integration, or debugging.

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_IS_IN_CI	Indicates if running in CI environment	false
SGLANG_AMD_CI	Indicates running in AMD CI environment	0
SGLANG_TEST_RETRACT	Enable retract decode testing	false
SGLANG_RECORD_STEP_TIME	Record step time for profiling	false
SGLANG_TEST_REQUEST_TIME_STATS	Test request time statistics	false
SGLANG_CI_SMALL_KV_SIZE	Use small KV cache size in CI	Not set

Profiling & Benchmarking

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_TORCH_PROFILER_DIR	Directory for PyTorch profiler output	/tmp
SGLANG_PROFILE_WITH_STACK	Set with_stack option (bool) for PyTorch profiler (capture stack trace)	true

Storage & Caching

Environment Variable	Description	Default Value
SGLANG_DISABLE_OUTLINES_DISK_CACHE	Disable Outlines disk cache	true