how much orchestration is too much with Ollama

[northhall88]

Interesting, I hadn't tried that. I don't think your conclusion is far off. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at

Tried to reproduce it just now. The issue went away once I changed one setting and restarted the stack cleanly.

[ggufvault]

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.