prefill/decode separation in practice

[amberrunner]

Interesting, I hadn't tried that. That matches what I saw on A6000. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether

I'd approach it in a boring order. If you're on Ollama, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. Not glamorous advice, but repeatable baselines save a lot of time.

There are a few different conversations hiding inside this thread, so being explicit about the goal helps.