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Community tip: llama.cpp's fit setting was halving Qwen3.5 speed on a 16GB card

Citing @adsilva264, the account says llama.cpp's fit option treats context as a floor, pushing a 64K setting to the full 256K and leaving half the VRAM idle at 20–30 tokens per second. Turning fit off, pinning layers and cutting context to 128K raised...

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-04T01:40:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-04T10:24:17+00:00
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Citing @adsilva264, the account says llama.cpp's fit option treats context as a floor, pushing a 64K setting to the full 256K and leaving half the VRAM idle at 20–30 tokens per second. Turning fit off, pinning layers and cutting context to 128K raised...

Citing @adsilva264, the account says llama.cpp's fit option treats context as a floor, pushing a 64K setting to the full 256K and leaving half the VRAM idle at 20–30 tokens per second. Turning fit off, pinning layers and cutting context to 128K raised decoding to 74 tokens per second on an RTX 5080 (the author's...

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