odd little inference appliances

[rocmpath]

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

The more I work with local setups, the more it seems like small local stacks decides everything downstream.

Maybe obvious to some of you, but it clicked for me this week.

My use case is pretty ordinary: local chat, some document work, and occasional batch jobs.

[flintriver50]

A couple things I'd check first. On M3 Max, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.