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Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.
If you were starting from scratch today for this use case, what would you choose first and what would you ignore?
Simple and boring is a valid answer.
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worth checking the driver first.
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Quote:worth checking the driver first.
I tested this tonight. On Threadripper box with TensorRT-LLM, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.
context windows are not a product strategy
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Good point. That matches what I saw on mini PC.
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Ran a quick check on my box. 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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What worked for me was pretty simple. Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at tokens/sec. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.