what changed after the inference shift for Qwen

[kernelmike]

A couple things I'd check first. Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at speculative decoding. Not

I'd approach it in a boring order. On A6000, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives. Not glamorous advice, but repeatable baselines save a lot of time.