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by vaxman 469 days ago
fun fact: M-series that are configured to use more than 75% of shared memory for GPU can make the system go boom...something to do with assumptions macOS makes that can be fixed by someone with a "private key" to access kernel mode (maybe not a hardware limit).
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I messed around with that setting on one of my Macs. I wanted to load a large LLM model and it needed more than 75% of shared memory.