Ollama feels slow and laggy

Dev tooling2 posts from 2 people2d active+00 posts in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (fading)Unverified

Posts per day2 posts, Sep 15 to Oct 21

The posts behind it

2, newest first

RedditSep 29 The page opened in 1.1s, but my local agent spent 53.5s reading it.... The same 12 search results still came back.. So the model wasn't the bottleneck, and neither was the search engine. Most of the time was being spent on how the agent was reading the page.. Fixing that exposed another problem though.. The old snapshot process was so slow that...r/ollama · u/Stunning-Sherbet1853Open ↗GitHub issuesSep 15 [Bug]: Vulkan iGPU runner wedges after a cancelled large prefill — later requests hang silently until backend restart## Summary On an Intel Lunar Lake iGPU with the Vulkan backend, `llama-server` can end up in a state where it never processes another request: no output, no runner log lines, CPU idle, process parked in the DRM ioctl `drm_syncobj_array_wait_timeout`. The server meanwhile still...ollama/ollama · tom3k51 repliesOpen ↗

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About this problem

Evidence

2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 15 days. Mostly on ollama/ollama, r/ollama.

Frustration Frustration 3 of 3· Seen on GitHub issues, Reddit

How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "slow-tool" rule about Ollama. First post Sep 15, 2026, latest Sep 29, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method

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History

AddedOct 8, 2026Ollama feels slow and laggy (2 posts)