diff --git a/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py b/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
index 5b3f3b301593..5b6bd51754be 100644
--- a/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
+++ b/python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py
@@ -289,9 +289,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.enable_metrics_for_all_schedulers = (
             server_args.enable_metrics_for_all_schedulers
         )
-        self.enable_kv_cache_events = bool(
-            server_args.kv_events_config and tp_rank == 0
-        )
         self.enable_trace = server_args.enable_trace
         self.stream_interval = server_args.stream_interval
         self.spec_algorithm = SpeculativeAlgorithm.from_string(
@@ -313,6 +310,10 @@ def __init__(
             )
         )
 
+        self.enable_kv_cache_events = bool(
+            server_args.kv_events_config and self.attn_tp_rank == 0
+        )
+
         # Init model configs
         self.init_model_config()
 
diff --git a/test/manual/test_kv_events.py b/test/manual/test_kv_events.py
index 4693140e548f..0f657333c6f9 100644
--- a/test/manual/test_kv_events.py
+++ b/test/manual/test_kv_events.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 )
 from sglang.srt.utils import kill_process_tree
 from sglang.test.test_utils import (
+    DEFAULT_MLA_MODEL_NAME_FOR_TEST,
     DEFAULT_SMALL_MODEL_NAME_FOR_TEST,
     DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_FOR_SERVER_LAUNCH,
     DEFAULT_URL_FOR_TEST,
@@ -154,6 +155,8 @@ def test_kv_events_enabled(self):
                 pass
 
         finally:
+            sub.close()
+            context.term()
             kill_process_tree(process.pid)
 
     def test_kv_events_attn_dp(self):
@@ -175,7 +178,7 @@ def test_kv_events_attn_dp(self):
 
         # Launch sglang server with DP attention enabled
         process = popen_launch_server(
-            "silence09/DeepSeek-R1-Small-2layers",
+            DEFAULT_MLA_MODEL_NAME_FOR_TEST,
             DEFAULT_URL_FOR_TEST,
             timeout=DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_FOR_SERVER_LAUNCH,
             other_args=[