fix: classify Ollama eviction as capacity warning

README.md

@@ -47,8 +47,11 @@ The Available downloads controls support:
 
 Popularity and date ordering use upstream metadata only; the plugin does not invent popularity, dates, RAM requirements, or token metrics.
 
-## Live model-loading telemetry
+## Ollama capacity warnings
 
+When Ollama accepts a load request but evicts one model while starting another, the dashboard displays an amber capacity warning rather than a red plugin error. On the verified host, Ollama logged that a 27.9 GiB runner would exceed available device memory with approximately 2.5 GiB GPU memory free. The T600 has 4 GiB VRAM, so two large multimodal models cannot be guaranteed resident simultaneously by the plugin. The actual resident set remains authoritative through `/api/ps`.
+
+## Live model-loading telemetry
 While Ollama is starting a runner, the highlighted runtime chart displays an animated **Loading into Ollama memory** state with the selected model names, current stage, and elapsed time. The runtime panel separately reports Ollama resident model-weight bytes and the estimated target weight bytes. This is separate from host `MemAvailable`: CPU-mapped model files may appear as Linux file cache rather than ordinary process RAM usage.
 
 ## Multi-model loading and resident state

dashboard/dist/index.js

@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
         if (endpoint === "/models/load") {
           var resident = Array.isArray(result.resident) ? result.resident : ((result.runtime && result.runtime.model_memory) || []).map(function (item) { return item.name; });
           var missing = Array.isArray(result.not_resident) ? result.not_resident : requested.filter(function (name) { return resident.indexOf(name) < 0; });
-          setNotice(missing.length ? { error: "Ollama resident check: " + resident.join(", ") + ". Not resident: " + missing.join(", ") + ". Ollama may have evicted models because of its scheduler or available memory." } : { ok: "Loaded and resident: " + resident.join(", ") });
+          setNotice(missing.length ? { warning: "Ollama kept resident: " + resident.join(", ") + ". Not resident: " + missing.join(", ") + ". This is an Ollama scheduler/capacity warning, not a plugin error." } : { ok: "Loaded and resident: " + resident.join(", ") });
         } else {
           setNotice({ ok: label + ": " + requested.join(", ") });
         }
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
         metrics && metrics.length > 0 && h("div", { className: "ollama-metrics-detail" }, (metrics.slice(-3)).map(function (item, index) { return h("span", { key: index }, item.model || "model", " · TTFT ", item.time_to_first_token_ms == null ? "n/a" : item.time_to_first_token_ms + " ms", " · ", item.eval_count == null ? "n/a" : item.eval_count + " output tokens", " · ", item.eval_tokens_per_second == null ? "n/a" : item.eval_tokens_per_second + " tok/s"); }))
       ),
       h(ModelPoolPanel, { models: models, loadedModels: loadedModels, selectedModels: selectedModels, poolSelection: poolSelection, busy: busy, onTogglePool: togglePoolModel, onToggleChat: toggleChatModel, onLoad: loadModel, onUnload: unloadModels }),
-      notice && h("div", { className: "ollama-notice " + (notice.error ? "error" : "ok") }, notice.error || notice.ok),
+      notice && h("div", { className: "ollama-notice " + (notice.error ? "error" : notice.warning ? "warning" : "ok") }, notice.error || notice.warning || notice.ok),
       thinking && h(ThinkingStatus, { stage: thinkingDetails && thinkingDetails.stage ? thinkingDetails.stage : (thinkingElapsed < 1 ? thinking.stage : "Ollama is generating the response"), elapsed: thinkingDetails && thinkingDetails.elapsed != null ? thinkingDetails.elapsed : thinkingElapsed, details: thinkingDetails, expanded: thinkingOpen, onToggle: function () { setThinkingOpen(!thinkingOpen); }, onStop: stop }),
       h(RuntimePanel, { runtime: runtime, samples: samples }),
       h("div", { className: "ollama-chat-layout" },
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
     var jobs = data && data.jobs ? data.jobs.filter(function (job) { return job.state === "running"; }) : [];
     return h("main", { className: "ollama-page" }, h("header", { className: "ollama-hero" }, h("div", null, h("div", { className: "ollama-eyebrow" }, "LOCAL MODEL OPERATIONS"), h("h1", null, "Ollama Models"), h("p", null, "Inspect, chat with, download, update, and remove models from the local Ollama runtime.")), h("div", { className: "ollama-health" }, h(Badge, { tone: data && data.ollama && data.ollama.available ? "live" : "danger" }, data && data.ollama && data.ollama.available ? "Ollama online" : "Ollama unavailable"), data && data.ollama && h("span", null, "v" + (data.ollama.version || "unknown")), h(Button, { disabled: busy === "catalog", onClick: refreshCatalog }, busy === "catalog" ? "Refreshing…" : "Refresh catalog")), h(ConnectionPanel, { data: data, reload: load })),
       targetDialog && h("div", { className: "ollama-target-modal" }, h("div", { className: "ollama-target-card" }, h("h3", null, "Where should " + targetDialog.name + " be downloaded?"), h("p", null, "Both local and remote Ollama instances are online. Choose the destination for this model."), targetDialog.targets.map(function (item) { return h(Button, { key: item.kind, onClick: function () { var chosen = targetDialog; setTargetDialog(null); action(chosen.kind, chosen.name, item.kind); } }, (item.kind || "local").toUpperCase(), " · ", item.url, " · v", item.version, " · ", item.models, " models"); }), h(Button, { className: "secondary", onClick: function () { setTargetDialog(null); } }, "Cancel"))),
-      notice && h("div", { className: "ollama-notice " + (notice.error ? "error" : "ok") }, notice.error || notice.ok),
+      notice && h("div", { className: "ollama-notice " + (notice.error ? "error" : notice.warning ? "warning" : "ok") }, notice.error || notice.warning || notice.ok),
       h("section", { className: "ollama-toolbar" }, h("div", { className: "ollama-tabs" }, h(Button, { className: tab === "chat" ? "selected" : "", onClick: function () { setTab("chat"); } }, "Ollama Chat"), h(Button, { className: tab === "installed" ? "selected" : "", onClick: function () { setTab("installed"); } }, "Installed (" + ((data && data.models) || []).length + ")"), h(Button, { className: tab === "popular" ? "selected" : "", onClick: function () { setTab("popular"); } }, "Top 20 popular (" + ((data && data.popular) || []).length + ")"), h(Button, { className: tab === "catalog" ? "selected" : "", onClick: function () { setTab("catalog"); } }, "Available downloads (" + ((data && data.catalog) || []).length + ")")), tab !== "chat" && h("input", { className: "ollama-search", value: query, placeholder: "Search models, capabilities, or strengths…", onChange: function (event) { setQuery(event.target.value); } }), tab === "catalog" && h("div", { className: "ollama-catalog-controls" }, h("label", null, "Type", h("select", { className: "ollama-catalog-select", value: catalogType, onChange: function (event) { setCatalogType(event.target.value); } }, h("option", { value: "all" }, "All types"), h("option", { value: "moe" }, "MoE only"), h("option", { value: "dense" }, "Dense only"))), h("label", null, "Ability", h("select", { className: "ollama-catalog-select", value: catalogCapability, onChange: function (event) { setCatalogCapability(event.target.value); } }, h("option", { value: "all" }, "All abilities"), catalogCapabilities.map(function (capability) { return h("option", { key: capability, value: capability }, capability); }))), h("label", null, "Organize", h("select", { className: "ollama-catalog-select", value: catalogSort, onChange: function (event) { setCatalogSort(event.target.value); } }, h("option", { value: "popularity" }, "Popularity"), h("option", { value: "newest" }, "Newest"), h("option", { value: "size_asc" }, "Size: smallest first"), h("option", { value: "size_desc" }, "Size: largest first"), h("option", { value: "name" }, "Name"))))),
       tab !== "chat" && h("div", { className: "ollama-info-strip" }, h("span", null, data && data.models ? data.models.filter(function (m) { return m.loaded; }).length + " currently loaded" : "Loading runtime state…"), h("span", null, "Catalog checked " + (data && data.catalog_updated_at ? fmtDate(data.catalog_updated_at) : "not yet")), h("span", null, "Next daily check " + (data && data.next_catalog_refresh ? fmtDate(data.next_catalog_refresh) : "01:00 Melbourne time") + " (1:00 AM Melbourne time)")),
       tab === "chat" && h(ChatPanel, { models: data && data.models ? data.models : [], refresh: load }),

dashboard/manifest.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "label": "Ollama Models",
   "description": "Inspect, manage, and chat with local Ollama models, including shared persistent conversations, performance metrics, images, PDFs, URLs, and live memory telemetry.",
   "icon": "Cpu",
-  "version": "1.5.13",
+  "version": "1.5.14",
   "tab": {"path": "/ollama-manager", "position": "after:models"},
   "entry": "dist/index.js",
   "css": "dist/style.css",

plugin.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: ollama-manager
-version: 1.5.13
+version: 1.5.14
 description: Native dashboard manager and chat interface for local Ollama models, attachments, URLs, shared persistent conversations, performance metrics, and live runtime telemetry.
 auto_install_dependencies: true
 python_dependencies: