llama.cpp Blows Up System Memory
cride20 · reddit · 2026-07-16
While running llama.cpp on a local AI machine, the author noticed it continuously consumed system memory until the PC crashed with an OOM error.
The post shares the current hardware configuration and launch parameters:
- Ryzen 3 4100, 8GB RAM, RTX 5060 Ti
- Primarily used for Vision OCR / RAG information extraction
- Models used include Qwen3.5-4B-UD-Q4KXL.gguf and Qwen3-Embedding-8B.Q4KM.gguf
The author is seeking advice on how to prevent llama.cpp from eating up all the RAM, making it a classic local inference resource management issue.
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