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by zozbot234 38 days ago
That's pretty nice actually, how much KV cache does that model require at full context? That tends to be the main limit to running concurrent requests locally, there's KV quantization but it has outsized negative impact on model quality.
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I have experimented with both q8 and q4 for KV cache. I can't find any difference between q8 and fp16, but q4 suffers more when the context grows. q8 seems like a good compromise and gives us enough ctx for about 6-8 concurrent, full context sessions. But we have not fully tested those limits yet, as the context windows rarely reach the limit.