Error10 reports
Fix EngineDeadError
in vLLM
✅ Solution
The "EngineDeadError" in vllm often indicates that the worker process managing the model has crashed or been terminated unexpectedly, usually due to CUDA errors, OOM, or assertion failures. To fix this, carefully examine the error logs for specific CUDA or assertion messages, then adjust resource allocation (e.g., reduce batch size, sequence length, or number of GPUs), retry initializing the engine, or address the reported code defects.
Related Issues
Real GitHub issues where developers encountered this error:
[CI Failure]: DeepSeek-R1-W8A8-longseq A3 multi-node run failed13h ago
[Bug]: vLLM crashed when load testing GLM 4.7 FP8 on H100Jan 10, 2026
[Bug]: [lm_eval crashed] lm eval accuracy test crashed using VLLM MAIN branch but v0.14.0rc0 worksJan 9, 2026
[Bug]: DeepSeek OCR Triton Error [CUDA] an illegal memory access on vLLM 0.11.2 on H100Jan 7, 2026
[Bug]: After upgrade to 0.11.2, vllm crashs with Qwen3.Jan 5, 2026
Timeline
First reported:Dec 23, 2025
Last reported:13h ago