recipes for a good local stack with TensorRT-LLM

[mlxgarden]

Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.

I'm helping a small team set up a local workflow. We don't need a giant stack, but we do care about continuous batching.

I'm especially interested in mistakes worth avoiding.

[rasterbench]

same here on my side.

[rocmriley]

A couple things I'd check first. If you're on Ollama, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.

[thetaember38]

A couple things I'd check first. If you're on Ollama, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. A lot of

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

[edgeriver]

subscribed, curious where this lands.

[cacheline]

subscribed, curious where this lands.

Appreciate the detail. The pattern around VRAM headroom 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.