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Tried to reproduce it just now. 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.
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subscribed, curious where this lands.
If you post your exact settings, people here can probably narrow it down pretty fast.
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Good point. The pattern around prefill/decode split has been pretty similar for me. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.
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Quote:[quote]Good point. The pattern around prefill/decode split has been pretty similar for me. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assu
Maybe, but I had the opposite result. I've seen people blame workstation thermals when the real issue was much more mundane.
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That matches what I was seeing. I ended up in about the same place using llama.cpp.
small models can still be good