* increase default context length to 4096
We lower the default numParallel from 4 to 2 and use these "savings" to
double the default context length from 2048 to 4096.
We're memory neutral in cases when we previously would've used
numParallel == 4, but we add the following mitigation to handle some
cases where we would have previously fallen back to 1x2048 due to low
VRAM: we decide between 2048 and 4096 using a runtime check, choosing
2048 if we're on a one GPU system with total VRAM of <= 4 GB. We
purposefully don't check the available VRAM because we don't want the
context window size to change unexpectedly based on the available VRAM.
We plan on making the default even larger, but this is a relatively
low-risk change we can make to quickly double it.
* fix tests
add an explicit context length so they don't get truncated. The code
that converts -1 from being a signal for doing a runtime check isn't
running as part of these tests.
* tweak small gpu message
* clarify context length default
also make it actually show up in `ollama serve --help`
Previously, the pull handler would send an error message in the Status
field, this prevented the client from using the message as a signal to
stop. In the case of the "run" command, it would follow the pull with a
"show" which would print a nearly identical "not found" message for
unresolved models.
Fixes#10307
This removes the extra flushProgress() at the end of handlePull. It is
unnecessary because final progress updates are flushed in all cases of
the main select loop.
The completed and received counters must work in tandem and the code
should better reflect that. Previously, the act of updating them was 2-3
lines of code duplicated in multiple places. This consolidates them into
a single update closure for easy reading and maintenance.
This also simplifies error handling in places where we can use a return
parameter and defer to handle the error case for updates.
Also, remove the old Layer field from the trackingReader struct.
This commit adds retry/backoff to the registry client for pull requests.
Also, revert progress indication to match original client's until we can
"get it right."
Also, make WithTrace wrap existing traces instead of clobbering them.
This allows clients to compose traces.
When ggml_backend_buffer_free() is called, the device memory
is released but not all backends consistently release the actual
ggml_backend_buffer_t in system RAM, causing a memory leak.
Bug #10040
For every forward pass through the model, we need to allocate input
tensors: tokens, images, positions, outputs and masks. These get
allocated in system memory.
However, when we close the context that the tensors were allocated
through, the metadata gets freed but the actual backend memory does
not. This results in a significant memory leak.
This makes it so that all the memory allocated through a context
gets freed when it is closed.
Fixes#10040
Allocating (and in particular, freeing) memory from CUDA host buffers
is expensive and can cause a significant performance hit if we do
it for every token. Using normal system memory avoids this issue
and also gives the OS more flexibility to manage it.
There is no performance impact from this patch directly (either
positive or negative) but it makes a difference once we start
freeing memory correctly.
Context is currently mixed between pointer and value receivers. Change
this to be all pointer receivers so don't have to reason about whether
the things we are updating in the struct will be retained.
Sometimes loading the GGUF file fails with:
panic: context canceled
This is probably a filesystem error but it doesn't provide any
information about what happened.
Currently, the KV cache and graph are lazily allocated as needed.
The cache is fully allocated on first use of the corresponding
layer whereas the graph grows with the size of the context.
This can be an issue if another application allocates more VRAM
after we do our calculations - Ollama will crash in the middle of
inference. If we instead allocate the maximum needed memory at
startup of the runner, we will either succeed or fail at that point
rather than at some surprising time in the future.
Currently, this only generates a worst case batch for text, which
means that vision models may get a partial allocation and continue
to lazily allocate the rest.
If there is a CUDA OOM, we currently don't check the return value
and will evetually segfault. This checks for the problem and generates
a Go error. At the moment, this will still result in a panic but having
the error is the first step to being able to handle it more gracefully.
improves model loading times on network-based filesystems
such as GCS fuse by creating a dedicated file descriptor for each
section of the file being read, reducing seeking
