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Running Qwen locally hits memory and speed limits

MLOps4 posts from 4 people2d active+33 posts in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (rising)

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Posts per day4 posts, Aug 31 to Sep 25

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Qwen 3.8-27 tips for my setup...LM Studio but have since switched to VS Code with Cline. Could you please offer some advice on optimal settings for this model and, if possible, tips on how to best configure VS Code with Cline? I’d like to switch to Ollama and move away from LM Studio (hoping for a smoother...r/LocalLLaMAu/Proof_Nothing_7711Sep 24yesterday
UkisAI Swift Series / 27B, Flash Next and Bonsai 2 + GSQ-RCO / -63.4% thinking, x1.95 speed with xhigh accuracy...a bug, but a simple matter of the Swift models not falling into overthinking loops and failing the task, rather pursuing it until the end, leading to higher average token usage. The token reduction still falls in the -38.7% range when compared apples-to-apples.. We also added a...r/LocalLLaMAu/Secure_Recording_472Sep 24yesterday
Qwen-3.8-27B is good enough that I stopped using API...Qwen-3.8 and I had a rocky start, because it thinks so much. Watching it working is painful, so you have to stop doing that. You have to let it work unsupervised. And that's okay, because it really is able to complete complex refactors on its own, making good decisions along the...r/LocalLLaMAu/Training-Respect8066Sep 24yesterday
Misc. bug: When KV is in RAM the MTP draft KV cache is also in RAM### Name and Version version: 0.3.0-dev (build 10675, commit 90c26fcd4) built with MSVC 19.44.35228.0 for Windows AMD64 I've been able to reproduce on a7cc83bba ### Operating systems Windows ### Which llama.cpp modules do you know to be affected? llama-server ### Command line...ggml-org/llama.cppjkSeriaAug 313 weeks ago

Companies and products named

Company or productPosts naming it
Qwen4
Ollama1
LM Studio1
VS Code1
Hugging Face1
Docker1
About this problem

Evidence

4 posts from 4 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 25 days. Mostly on r/LocalLLaMA, ggml-org/llama.cpp. Tools named alongside: Ollama, LM Studio, VS Code, Hugging Face.

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How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "local-llm" rule about Qwen. First post Aug 31, 2026, latest Sep 24, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

History

  • 2026-09-25 Added: Running Qwen locally hits memory and speed limits (4 posts)

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