When the GPU is held by another workload (video job, concurrent load
racing request_model's free-VRAM check), the embedding load/encode hit
CUDA OOM and 500'd. Now both paths behave like other model loads: run
the manager's eviction (which frees idle models and waits for busy ones
to go idle) and retry once. No CPU fallback — the request participates
in the same VRAM queue as everything else.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014S8VtAvG499SsCbeESRK7V