local video generation really usable yet for Mistral

[sparrowkite53]

Ran a quick check on my box. I couldn't reproduce the slowdown until I pushed context much higher.

[vramarch]

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. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.

[edgeriver]

I tested this tonight. The issue went away once I changed one setting and restarted the stack cleanly. The surprise was that memory pressure showed up before throughput collapsed.

[visionforge]

Ran a quick check on my box. On A6000 with MLX, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.

[sparrowghost]

Ran a quick check on my box. On A6000 with MLX, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.

That matches what I was seeing. The pattern around continuous batching has been pretty similar for me. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.