What do you use instead?
If you need a GUI, Unsloth Studio and LM Studio are both great frontends for llama.cpp. If you don't need a GUI, llama.cpp is the business for single-user deployments. Easy to use, always gets new model support very quickly, built-in Hugging Face client/cache support, works on probably everything (Mac, ROCm, CUDA, Vulkan, etc.).
I use llama.cpp w/ llama-swap
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp https://github.com/mostlygeek/llama-swap
FYI, llama-server can now be run in router mode so llama-swap is probably only needed for more exotic scenarios.
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Thanks for the link to llama-swap. Didn’t know about it and will definitely install it.
try oMLX or vMLX - both great projects that offer some amazing performance optimizations for Apple Silicon that utilize UMA and NVME caching efficiently.
https://omlx.ai https://vmlx.net
That said, it's been a few weeks since I've looked so maybe llama.cpp has those features now... they really do move that quickly.
Jan is so much better.
The link in that discussion has a section about that
lm studio